
Dr. Matthew Dunn
Current Status: Professional Metamorphosis in Progress
What you read below documents who I was.
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I'm an organizational psychologist who spent twenty years asking the wrong question. I used to ask: "How do we create environments where people and systems thrive?"
Now I ask: "What are our symptoms trying to teach us?"
After two decades in boardrooms, factory floors, and locker rooms, I've discovered something that changes everything: organizational dysfunction isn't failure—it's intelligence. Every pattern of exhaustion, every exodus of talent, every breakdown that keeps reshaping itself despite our solutions... they're all trying to tell us something essential about how humans gather and why we've forgotten how to truly meet.
My work now lives in the space between what organizations think they need (solutions) and what they're actually seeking (recognition). I help leaders and systems read their symptoms as intelligence rather than problems to fix. Because when we stop trying to cure what's trying to teach, everything changes.
Yes, I have the credentials—PsyD in Organizational Leadership Psychology, systems psychodynamics training, Lean/Six Sigma background. Yes, I created frameworks and methodologies. But what really drives me now is witnessing the moment when leaders realize their breakdown is breakthrough in disguise.
I'm currently documenting my own practice's conscious transformation—composting what no longer serves to discover what wants to emerge. Because the future doesn't need more consultants with answers. It needs practitioners brave enough to admit that the symptoms know more than our strategies.
If you sense there's intelligence in what's breaking, if you're exhausted by solutions that solve nothing, if you're ready to discover what your organization is trying to become—we should talk.