Sherry Schiller

Sherry Schiller 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.

In 1985, Sherry launched the Schiller Center for Connective Change 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. This year, she is releasing a new book on connective change.

As President of the Center, Sherry has traveled the world, helping business, government, education, and nonprofit leaders understand, anticipate, and create change. Organizations as diverse as the U.S. Forest Service, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Booz|Allen|Hamilton, the Corporation for National Service, Vital Voices, and Bangkok Patana School have all benefited from Sherry's guidance and insight. 

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 national director of a juvenile delinquency prevention program that is still cited for its innovative partnerships in building 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. She has taught at leading universities throughout the United States.