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FRIENDS OF THE CENTER |
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The global network of individuals committed to a vision of the world aligned with that of B·A·W·B bring richness and diversity to the Center. The Friends of B·A·W·B each bring a unique level of expertise and support to the Center's work:
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Judy Rodgers served as an executive director of B·A·W·B from it's launch through 2006. For the past twenty years she has served as consultant and communication strategist who has worked extensively with thought leaders produce organizational transformation and support social innovation. The emphasis in Judy's work is on Appreciative Inquiry and the power of dialogue and narrative for individual, community-wide and system-wide change. In 1997 she founded the Communication Architecture Group as a vehicle for a range of related work: organizational consulting, dialogue design and facilitation, management of communication projects, coaching, and editorial consulting. She is a founding co-owner in Appreciative Inquiry Consulting. To contact Judy, please e-mail.
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Kim Cameron is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and Professor of Higher Education in its School of Education. Professor Cameron served as Dean and Albert J. Weatherhead Professor of Management in the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, as Associate Dean and Ford Motor Co/Richard E. Cook Professor in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, and as a department chair and director of several executive education programs at the University of Michigan prior to his current tenure. He has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ricks College and organized and directed the Organizational Studies Division of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Cameron's past research on organizational downsizing, effectiveness, quality culture, and the development of management leadership skills has been cited in more than 70 articles and seven books. His current research focuses on virtuousness in organizations including forgiveness, compassion, integrity and their relationships to organizational success.
Dr. Cameron received BS and MS degrees from Brigham Young University and MA and PhD degrees from Yale University. He served on the National Research Council, was president of Bay Asset Funding Corporation, and was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar. He is a graduate of the Leadership Cleveland Class of 2000 and a recipient of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society's Outstanding Educator Award. He is married to the former Melinda Cummings and has seven children. To contact Kim, please email.
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Duncan Coombe is currently working toward his PhD in Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. Duncan's research interests include topics of cooperation, calling, CSR and sustainability. Duncan has been a major contributor to B·A·W·B's projects relating the introduction and development of CSR in management education. Prior starting his PhD, he obtained an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, an LLB from the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Social Science (majors in Psychology and Economics) from the University of Cape Town. Previously he worked for Investec Asset Management and Procter & Gamble. To contact Duncan, please e-mail. |
Jane Dutton is a researcher at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on how organizational conditions enable human thriving. In particular, she studies how the quality of connection between people at work affects individual and organizational flourishing. Her research has explored compassion and organizations, resilience and organizations, as well as energy and organizations. This research stream is part of a growing domain of expertise at the University of Michigan called Positive Organizational Scholarship www.bus.umich.edu/positive. Her past research has explored processes of organizational adaptation, looking at how strategic issues are interpreted and managed in organizations, as well as issues of organizational identity and change. To contact Jane, please email.
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Darren Good is currently working toward his PhD in Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. He received his M.A. in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University and his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Darren focuses his research in the areas of mindfulness, attentional processing, interpersonal trust, personal values, and interorganizational collaboration. Darren worked previously in New York as an advertising executive for Saatchi & Saatchi, BCom3, and True North Communications. To contact Darren, please e-mail. |
Jim Ludema is a Professor of Organization Development at Benedictine University, an internationally recognized organizational consultant, and a Founding Owner of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, a global firm that includes several of the world's leading thinkers and practitioners on appreciative inquiry. Jim has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America and has served as consultant to a variety of organizations in the profit, non-profit, and government sectors including BP, McDonald's, John Deere, Ameritech, Northern Telecom, Square D Company, Essef Corporation, Bell and Howell, Kaiser Permanente, World Vision, the City of Minneapolis, and many local and international NGOs. Jim's areas of expertise include appreciative inquiry, organizational redesign and whole system change, large group interventions, the people side of mergers and acquisitions, human motivation, and organizational storytelling. To contact Jim, please email.
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Jane Nelson is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Director, Business Leadership and Strategy at the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum. Prior to joining the IBLF in 1993, Jane was a Vice President at Citibank and head of marketing for the bank's Worldwide Securities Services business in Asia Pacific. She has been a lecturer in agricultural economics at the University of Natal in South Africa, and worked in a consultancy capacity for the Business Council for Sustainable Development; the Foundation for Sustainable Development in Latin America; and the United Nations Environment Programme. With Ira Jackson, Jane co-authored Profits with Principles. She is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and currently sits on the councils of advisory boards of SustainAbility, Ltd., the ImagineNations Group, the 21st Century Trust, and the UK Environment Foundation.
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Mary Grace Neville is a student and teacher of business behaviors and relationships that create world benefit at Southwestern University, a leading liberal arts college in Texas. She explores business success as measured by the creation of well-being, environmental care, and organizations long-term financial stability. Dr. Neville was the B·A·W·B Executive Director during the World Inquiry's pilot and launch in 2002. Neville studies ways in which businesses, and individuals within business, act as agents of world benefit. On-going research includes positive change in business and society, the role of liberal arts in business, and well-being and interdependence as measures of individual and group value in business environments. Prior to her work at Southwestern, Neville was a manager in the strategic services practice of a global management consulting firm. Before consulting, she was on the start-up team for a $52 million public aquarium, and served as the executive director of a state level non-profit agency. Neville has a B.S. from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business concentrating in Business Strategy, and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Organizational Behavior. To contact Mary Grace, please email.
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Roberta Baskin is executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan investigative organization located in Washington, D.C. She previously served as the senior Washington correspondent for the PBS program "NOW with Bill Moyers" and has been a reporter and producer for the ABC and CBS television networks. Baskin has won more than 75 journalism honors including two George Foster Peabody awards and two DuPont Columbia University awards. Her diverse investigations have uncovered public corruption, health and safety violations, drug testing inequities and unfair labor conditions by American companies overseas. Baskin also served on the Board of Investigative Reporters and Editors.
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Barbara Krumsiek is President and CEO of Calvert, the nation's largest family of socially responsible mutual funds, since April, 1997. Calvert manages over $8.4 billion among both screened and non-screened portfolios. Barron's ranked Calvert the fourth best performing mutual fund family of 2001. Business Ethics magazine named the Calvert Social Investment Fund Equity Portfolio in its Fourth Annual Social Investing Awards survey. Calvert also compiles the Calvert Social IndexTM, a benchmark measuring the performance of large, U.S.-based socially responsible companies. In January 2002, Ms. Krumsiek was named to the Advisory Counsel to the United Nations Global Compact, an initiative of the Secretary General designed to promote responsible corporate citizenship in the international business community. In May, 2002 Ms. Krumsiek was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Georgetown University for her work in advancing the critical dialogue regarding the role of business in society.
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Hazel Henderson is founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series. Dr. Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. Her editorials appear in 27 languages and more than 400 newspapers syndicated by InterPress Service, Rome, New York, and Washington DC. Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals. Hazel sits on several editorial boards, including Futures Research Quarterly, The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (USA), Resurgence, Foresight and Futures (UK). She co-edited, with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul, The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives, Elsevier Scientific, UK 1995 (US edition, 1996). Additionally, she has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara), held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley), and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980. She holds Honorary Dr. of Science degrees from the University of San Francisco, Soka University (Tokyo) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts (USA). She is an active member of the National Press Club (Washington DC), the World Future Society (USA), a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and a member of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. Henderson has many awards and is listed in Who's Who, USA 2005, Who's Who in the World 2005, and Who's Who in Business and Finance 2005. She shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina.
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Chris Worley is Director of the Master of Science in Organization (MSOD) program and an Associate Professor of Business Strategy at Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management. He was awarded the Luckman Distinguished Teaching Fellowship in 1997. Prior to Pepperdine University, Chris taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of San Diego, University of Southern California, and Colorado State University. He is currently serving as Chair for the Academy of Management's Organization Development and Change Division.
He is also President of Monique Marketing and Management, a consulting firm specializing in strategic management. His consulting activities are complemented by more than fifteen years of management experience in academic, for-profit, and government organizations.
Chris is author of Integrated Strategic Change: How OD Builds Competitive Advantage in Addison-Wesley's OD Series. He is also co-author of Organization Development and Change, the leading textbook on organization development. His articles on strategic change and strategic organization design have appeared in a number of journals. Individually, and in collaboration with other firms, his consulting clients include organizations in high technology; health care; financial services; the public sector and manufacturing. Chris received his Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Southern California, an M.S. in organization development from Pepperdine University, an M.S. in environmental psychology from Colorado State University, and a B.S. from Westminster College. He is a member of the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of Management, and the Organization Development Network.
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Holly Harlan works with manufacturing executives, economic development leaders and entrepreneurs to incorporate sustainability principles into product, service, process and community designs. From the beginning of her career as an engineer with General Electric and John Deere, she has been trained as a change agent. Today she helps leaders discover the changes that will enhance their business's ability to thrive in a healthy environment, while maintaining or restoring the quality and quantity of natural resources remaining for future generations. After receiving a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and co-opting with John Deere, Holly spent the first 7 years of her career implementing new technologies at existing businesses or starting-up new operations for General Electric. Over the past 11 years, she has worked with three nationally recognized economic development organizations in Cleveland to help small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses thrive and to encourage and support new entrepreneurs. She has 20 years of experience helping business leaders at hundreds of manufacturing companies identify opportunities to improve their manufacturing operations and overall business performance. Working in the community, she has developed a peer-based learning process to facilitate the implementation of new technologies that encourage strategic growth and improve manufacturing excellence.
Holly is the founder of a Sustainability Journey Learners Group for manufacturing leaders at WIRE-Net (an economic development organization in Cleveland) and the Entrepreneurs for Sustainability, a non-profit organization based in Cleveland whose mission is to create and support a community of entrepreneurs who will implement sustainability principles in their new or existing businesses and encourage new ventures which capitalize on emerging opportunities in a sustainable economy.
When she is not applying her skills to inspiring leaders to embrace sustainability, Holly can often be found hiking in the neighborhoods and parks of Cleveland or the mountains of Colorado. She also enjoys creating clay sculptures and practicing yoga.
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Geri Unger joined Funder Forum on Environment and Education (F2E2) as co-director in August 2000. She has taught biology and environmental studies at both the high school and university level, and designed exhibits and curricula. She served as a program officer at the George Gund Foundation in Cleveland and, subsequently, as consultant to other foundations, non-profit organizations and government entities in both the U.S. and abroad.
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Bauback Yeganeh, Ph.D. completed his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University where after serving as Inquiry Community Manager and co-facilitating the birth of BAWB Brazil, he co-led research on mindfulness and experiential learning with leading experiential learning theorist, Professor David Kolb. He works as a scholar/practitioner of organizational change and has since founded B.Y. Consulting, an international organizational change and development firm. Highlights of Bauback’s post-BAWB work include co-facilitation of the United Nations ABS Dialogue at the Convention on Biological Diversity Conference in Curitiba, Brazil, ongoing strategic consultation with United Way, and leadership development consulting to multiple organizations seeking to develop the City of Cleveland. He is still producing music and writing /recording songs with his nylon string guitar. Bauback can be reached at by@byconsulting.org. |
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