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| James D. Ludema |
 James
D. Ludema (Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve
University) is Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Organization Development
at Benedictine University. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer and
Executive Director of the Social Innovations in Global Management
(SIGMA) Program at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western
Reserve University.
Jim is the author of over 20 articles, book chapters, and books, including best paper selections. His work has appeared in Human Relations, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Research in Organizational Change and Development, Handbook of Action Research, Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Organization Development Journal, among others. His most recent book is The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practitioner’s Guide for Leading Large Group Change with Diana Whitney, Bernard J. Mohr, and Thomas J. Griffin. Jim’s research focuses on appreciative inquiry, organization
change and design, positive organizational scholarship, business
as an agent of world benefit, and whole system methodologies for
strategic change. His work has been funded by various agencies
including the National Science Foundation. Jim is an active member
of the Academy of Management and sits on the editorial board of
the Action Research Journal. He was an invited distinguished scholar
to the first conference on Positive Organizational Scholarship
at the University of Michigan (2001) and the first conference
on Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western Reserve
University (2003). His practice focuses on the use of Appreciative Inquiry for large-scale
corporate change initiatives, including strategy development,
leadership development, core business redesign, culture change,
customer service, and mergers and acquisitions. He has worked
in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America with
organizations in the corporate, non-profit, and government sectors,
including Merck, BP, McDonald’s, John Deere, Ameritech,
US Cellular, Northern Telecom, Square D Company, Essef Corporation,
Bell and Howell, Kaiser Permanente, World Vision, the City of
Minneapolis, and many local and international non-governmental
organizations (NGOs). |
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