Sherry Schiller, Ph.D. | About Sherry Schiller

Sherry Schiller, Ph.D.
President, Schiller Center

Sherry is an internationally acclaimed organizational strategist and expert on managing change. She is a confidant and coach to successful leaders who want to guide their organizations from what is to what can be. As a popular conference speaker, she shares proven strategies that help people in organizations work with greater purpose and harmony.

Sherry in Warsaw, working with the American School

In 1985, Sherry launched the Schiller Center as a nonprofit organization to help organizational leaders envision and realize better futures. She quickly gained a national reputation for challenging established assumptions and offering fresh solutions to organizational dilemmas. Her book, Dispelling the Megatrends Myth: A Leader's Guide to Managing Change, offers a dynamic model for collaborative, strategic leadership.

As President of the Schiller Center, Sherry has traveled the world, helping business, government, education and nonprofit leaders understand, anticipate, and create change. Organizations as diverse as the US Forest Service, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Booz|Allen|Hamilton, the Corporation for National Service, and the American School of Warsaw have benefited from Sherry's guidance. Leaders report that her guidance has resulted in more collaborative leadership, greater clarity on shared goals, better aligned systems and structures, and a stronger bottom line.

Enjoying a break in Santiago, Chile, during her work with the International School Nido de Aquilas

Prior to establishing the Schiller Center, Sherry conducted international research and training as Vice President of The American Center for the Quality of Work Life. Before that, she served as the first national director of a juvenile-delinquency prevention program that is still cited for its innovative partnerships to build community through service learning.

Sherry attended the University of Michigan, where she earned her doctorate in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in organizational change. Her dissertation, a study of large-scale innovation, received the university's highest scholarship award. She has taught at leading universities throughout the United States.