Educator
Bridging the gap between knowledge and application

Bridging the gap between knowledge and application
Dr Barry Rogers is a pracademic. working to bridge the gap between theoretical ideas and practical use.
Interested in the highly problematic link between knowledge and application, Barry focuses on how time, in it's multiple forms, acts as a key ingredient in getting things done. Our experience of time, both linear and non-linear, is deeply linked to our identities, to different modes of being and our capacity to change. He brings these ideas to life in a creative, compelling and practical fashion.
Barry has degrees from Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the University of Cambridge. An ex-Investment Banker, he has been Visiting Professor at the LSE for close to 25 years and works with some of the worlds largest companies and institutions.
Barry is one of the world’s leading educators in the field of Customized Executive Education. Recognized for his excellence he works with some of the largest companies and institutions, designing and delivering both programs and processes on a global basis.
He has taught for over 20 years at the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Science (PBS), London School of Economics and Political Science.. He is Visiting Professor in the Practice of Organisatonal and Social Psychology (OSP) at PBS and founder of the OSP Pracademic Lab
Barry's research focuses on what happens after people move, in Donald Schon's words, from the Mountaintop to the Swamp. His work helps us understand how the complex experience of time enables (and usually constrains) the sustained practicing of change commitments.
For over 20 years Barry has worked with a cross-section of organizations in a variety of sectors including Shell, Prudential Insurance, Google, FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office UK), E&Y, News Corporation, L'Oreal, Linked-In, Deutsche Bank, QNB, J.P. Morgan, RMB, Swiss Reinsurance, J. Sainsbury, UBS, Five Ten Group and GAVI.
He has delivered projects in the UK, Ireland, Holland, Scandinavia, France, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Qatar, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kenya, South Africa, Brazil, Canada and The USA.
Barry provides three key roles. He designs and delivers customized programs, acts as an strategic advisor on program structure and shapes meaningful pre/post program processes. His overall approach to design and delivery is guided by the process of 'Deep Contextualisation ©'. Program evaluations and citations for Barry are available on request.
Prior to his current career Barry spent 15 years in front-line roles for Morgan Stanley, Nomura and J.P. Morgan.
Bridging Theory and Practice in the classroom
Barry has taught the half-unit option PB 424 (‘Organizational Life’) at the LSE since 2002. The structure of the course is distinctive in how it bridges the two-way relationship between theory and practice.
PB424 is consistently one of the most popular half-unit options at PBS. Through the combination of lectures, podcasts, alumni involvement and practice-led assignments, PB 424 is an immersive experience that actively engages students over 10 weeks. It employs a contextualization framework and a process methodology to allow students navigate the active transitioning between rigor and relevance. PB 424 achieved an overall satisfaction level of 4.95/5 from students in 2019/20. Barry was nominated for an LSE Teaching Award 2020/21.
Barry won a gold award at the 2019/20 Brandon Hall Global Human Capital Management Awards for Excellence. The Brandon Hall awards are regarded as the ‘Academy Awards’ for the Industry. Barry’s award, in the Best Results of a Learning Program category, achieved the perfect score in its category.
His research has produced a working coaching tool (and methodology) that visualizes the felt experiences of time via the format of an online calendar. The use of the tool and methodology facilitates the 'deep' contextuallisation of formal learning commitments in day-to-day practices. This provides the cornerstone capability for sustained change through the process of 'time-mining'.
Barry enjoys music, politics and road cycling. He has been a lay reviewer for the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a member of the Evaluation/Accreditation Committees (Quality Network for Eating Disorders – QED) of the Royal College. He is an active member of a number of campaigning charities
Barry has been a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufacturing and Science since 2006.