Barbara Lenkerd

Barbara Lenkerd is a psychological anthropologist whose work has focused on people’s adaptation to social and economic change in workplaces and families in the U.S. and in third world villages. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Project on Technology, Work and Character in Washington, DC.

Dr. Lenkerd consults with not-for-profit organizations and government agencies to help them create more effective programs and work processes.

She is currently a member of the team conducting the study/dialogue Leadership for Health Care in the Age of Learning, at the Project on Technology, Work and Character under a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The team is carrying out on-site participative studies of the changing organizational cultures and practices of exemplary health care organizations.

She is currently or has recently consulted with a Johns Hopkins University community development program for Washington, DC; The International Center for Research on Women; the Senior Seminar of the Foreign Service Institute (US Department of State) on issues of management and leadership; and the SIFO Management Group in Stockholm on growing unemployment in Sweden.

She is the author of Psychosocial Consequences of Unemployment (1995, Stockholm: University Press).

In the l980’s Dr. Lenkerd consulted on work improvement projects in a county health department, the public schools, US ACTION/Peace Corps, and the US Agency for International Development. Her published articles and reports on this work include Social Analysis of USAID Projects: A Review of the Experience (l981) and Good Management in ACTION/Peace Corps (l981).

In the mid 70's, Dr. Lenkerd participated in psychosocial studies of several villages and authored "Mexico" in Village Women: Their Changing Lives and Fertility (1977 Wash. DC: AAAS), which describes women’s fertility choices in the full context of their status, roles, and values in changing socioeconomic circumstances. She jointly edited Village Viability in Contemporary Society (1980 Boulder: Westview Press).

Throughout her career Dr. Lenkerd has been invited to speak and lead workshops on the psychosocial aspects of economic and organizational change. Recent invitations have included The World Future Society, SIFO Management Group (Stockholm), The Washington School of Psychiatry, The Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis, The College of William and Mary, and national and local anthropological societies.

Tel: 301-585-7748
Fax: 301-608-3405
5 Sunnyside Rd.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
e-mail: Blenkerd@aol.com

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