Thomas G. Cummings
Thomas G. Cummings is Professor of Management and Organization at Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He received his B.S. and MBA from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. His major research and consulting interests include designing high-performing organizations and strategic change management. He has conducted several large-scale action-research projects and has consulted to a variety of private and public-sector organizations in the United States, Europe, Mexico and Scandinavia. He has authored over 85 articles and 25 books and was formerly President of the Western Academy of Management, Chair of the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management and Founding Editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry. He was the 61st President of the Academy of Management, the world’s largest professional association of management scholars and is listed in American Men and Women of Science and Who’s Who in America.
Christopher G. Worley
Christopher G. Worley is Research Professor of Management at the Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business. Prior to that, he was Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and the founding strategy director of the NEOMA Business School’s (France) Centre for Leadership and Effective Organizations and a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations (USC’s Marshall School of Business). He currently teaches in Pepperdine’s Master of Science in Organization Development (MSOD) program. He received his B.S. from Westminster College, master’s degrees from Colorado State University and Pepperdine University and his doctorate from the University of Southern California. He served as Chair of the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management, received the Luckman Teaching Fellowship at Pepperdine University and the Douglas McGregor Award for best paper in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. His most recent books are THE AGILITY FACTOR, HOW TO DO RELEVANT RESEARCH, BECOMING AGILE, MANAGEMENT RESET and BUILT TO CHANGE. His articles on agility and strategic organization design have appeared in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Organization Behavior, Sloan Management Review, Strategy+Business and Organizational Dynamics.
Paul Donovan
Paul Donovan is Senior Lecturer at the School of Business, Maynooth University, Ireland. Prior to this, he was Head of Management Development at the Irish Management Institute (IMI) in Dublin where he worked in senior management positions, including Registrar, for 17 years. Before joining IMI, he worked as a General Operations Manager for Bord na Móna, the Irish Peat Development Authority during its major transformation. While there, he participated in major change initiatives, including the introduction of self-managing teams in the production and transport functions. He has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Behaviour from Trinity College Dublin and graduated with a doctorate in human resources from Leicester University. He has considerable practitioner engagement experience and has delivered management development programmes in 15 countries over a period of 20 years. His research interests include the transfer of learning from training interventions back into the workplace, and effective teaching and learning in higher education. He has contributed articles to the Journal of Management Education, Management Teaching Review, and the Journal of European Industrial Training as well as several book chapters. He currently serves as Associate Editor with Management Teaching Review.
