An Interview with Roger Harrison

Roger Harrison was trained as a psychologist at the University of California (Berkeley). He spent four years as an internal consultant with Proctor & Gamble, at the conclusion of which he left, motivated partly by the desire to gain broader experience, and partly by a youthful and unrealistic impatience with the rate of change in a large organization. He next taught for six years in the Department of Industrial Administration at Yale University, where his deep involvement in outside organization development and sensitivity training activities interfered seriously with what had at first seemed a promising academic career. After leaving Yale, he was briefly with NTL, which he left in 1967 for independent practice. Since 1969, Roger Harrison has been the sole overseas representative of Development Research Associates, Inc., a group of applied behavioral scientists devoted to the creation and application of methods for releasing human potential in organizational, educational, and community systems. He lives in London where he currently divides his time-with difficulty-among the development of educational programs, the practice of organization development, and his family.