
Peter
F. Sorensen, Jr., Ph.D., is Professor and Director of the Ph.D.
and M.S. programs in Organization Development at Benedictine University.
He was instrumental in developing one of the first Masters Level
programs in OD in 1967, and one of the first Ph.D. programs in OD
in 1996.
He has authored more than 200 articles, papers and books. His
work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Group
and Organization Studies, Leadership and Organization Development
Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization and Administrative
Sciences, among others. In 1996, he was Guest Editor of a double
issue of the O.D. Practitioner on Appreciative Inquiry. He was
the invited Guest Editor for the first New Millennium issues for
both the OD Journal and the OD Practitioner. He is Past-Chair
of the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy
of Management.