Teaching Faculty & Visiting Scholars
Center for Organizational Dynamics
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Alan Barstow, PhD
Dr. Alan Barstow is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics and teaches courses on organizational effectiveness and organizational culture and learning in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. During his 18-year tenure at the University of Pennsylvania, he has also been a Faculty Research Associate at the Wharton School, and an affiliate faculty member for the Wharton Executive Education program. He is also an affiliate faculty member for the doctoral program at The Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, and the president of Barstow & Associates, a consulting firm that engages executives and professionals in rethinking strategic goals and action, and in learning effective ways to produce change. In 1986, with Russell Ackoff, Dr. Barstow co-founded The Institute for Interactive Management (INTERACT) and until 1993 served on its Board of Directors. He received a Fulbright Scholarship and earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University.
Jean-Marc Choukroun, PhD
Dr. Jean-Marc Choukroun is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics and teaches courses on strategic planning and strategic alliances in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. He is a principal in the strategy consulting firm Park/Mathieson Group, Inc. His recent work has focused on developing and implementing financial, marketing, and organizational strategies for major investment projects and on strategic planning and organizational redesign. His research interests include planning for human systems and the modeling of metropolitan systems. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Regional Science.
John Eldred, MS
John Eldred is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics and teaches courses on organization power and politics, and professional services in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. He is President of Transition One Associates, a consulting firm specializing in helping organizations and individuals facing major business transitions. He is also co-founder of the Wharton School's Family Business Program, which provides training and development for the founding generation of business owners as well as for the succeeding generations as lecturer at the Wharton School, he developed the first Wharton graduate-level courses in the change process: Managing Organizational Change and Managing Organizational Transition. He earned an M.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Social Systems Science.
John Fielder, PhD
Dr. John Fielder is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics, and teaches courses on leadership ethics and organizational integrity in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. His primary areas of interest are ethical, policy and leadership issues that arise in actual case studies, particularly those involving sophisticated technology and complex organizational dynamics. His research has resulted in books on the DC-10 case, the Ford Pinto case and the Challenger disaster, and a host of articles on topics including the Bjork-Shiley artificial heart valve, engineering ethics, and a range of bioethical and health care issues. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, where he writes a column, "Issues in Ethics”. He works as a consultant for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health at the federal Food and Drug Administration, and for clients in industry and law. He recently presented testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the U.S. House of Representatives on the reuse of single-use medical devices. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.
Steven Freeman, PhD
Dr. Steve Freeman is Visiting Scholar in the Center for Organizational Dynamics and teaches courses on organizational resilience and organizational innovation in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. Since 1998, he has been Professor of Management at INCAE (Central American Institute of Business Administration), Alajuela, Costa Rica, an international MBA program established by Harvard University. During 2002, he was Karel Steuer Chaired Professor in Entrepreneurship at Universidad de San Andreas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. His research interests include strategy, entrepreneurship, loss, change, and resilience. A recent paper (with Maltz and Hirschorn), "Moral Purpose and Organizational Resilience: Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P. in the Aftermath of September 11th", was chosen by the Academy of Management as 2003 Best Paper on Organizational Change and Development. He received his Ph.D. in Organization Studies from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Janet Greco, PhD
Dr. Janet Greco is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics, and teaches courses on effective communication and the use of anecdotes and stories in organizational life in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. She is Co-president of Transition One Associates, a consulting firm where she specializes in management and leadership development. She has been head of a marketing communications firm as well as one of the founders of the Philadelphia Writing Project. She is on the program faculty for Wharton Executive Education programs. She received her Ph.D. in human and organizational systems from the Fielding Institute.
Dana Kaminstein, PhD
Dr. Dana Kaminstein is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics, and teaches courses diagnostic and consulting procedures in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. He is a Fellow at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education. He also maintains a private practice in organizational consulting and research. He works with organizations at the group and systems level on topics of leadership, conflict, health, self-reflection, creating learning organizations, life-work balance, and change. For the last several years he has focused on designing senior level executive education programs for companies in the U.S., U.K. and South Africa. His recent research has focused on group-as-a-whole, life-work balance, parallel process and the consultant as container. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Andrew Lamas, JD
Andy Lamas is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics, and teaches courses on organization values and ownership in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. He also teaches in the Urban Studies Programs at the University of Pennsylvania. His study of organizations draws upon the fields of ethics, religion, literature, law, and political economy. For ten years, he served as Managing Director of PACE of Philadelphia, Inc., one of the nation's leading providers of technical assistance to employee-owned enterprises and community-based businesses. He has extensive consulting experience with employee-owned enterprises, community development corporations, labor unions, social service agencies, cultural organizations, universities, and alternative investment institutions. He received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
James Larkin, PhD
Dr. Jim Larkin is Adjunct Associate Professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and teaches courses on leadership and organizational experience in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. He has also taught middle and high school students and was a teacher/supervisor in the Jobs Corps at Edison, NJ, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the University of Maryland. In the summer of 1965 and 1966, he participated in the American History Institute at Princeton University in New Jersey. He has advised teachers' associations and consulted with school districts on a wide variety of educational issues here in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Arizona. His current research interests include teacher education programs in the U.S. And school reform efforts in Philadelphia and New Jersey, with particular interest in academic learning within schools and issues of equality and minority access to teaching in urban education. Dr. Larkin also served as Director of Teacher Education for 22 years at Penn and for ten years as Director of the Independent School Masters Program.
Stuart Smith, PhD
Dr. Stu Smith is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics and a frequent lecturer on organizational values and change processes in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. He received a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, M.P.H. in Health Planning & Evaluation, and M.S.W. in Group Dynamics/Interpersonal Relations all from University of Pittsburgh. He has over twenty-five years experience as a management consultant and senior human resources executive including as Senior Manager, Management Consulting Practice, Ernst & Young, and Executive Consultant, Internal Transformation Consulting, IBM Corporation. His areas of expertise and interest include strategic planning, process improvement, organization design and management systems, performance management and reward systems, group dynamics, capacity building (staffing, leadership/management development, executive coaching, succession planning), and change management-business integration.
Virginia Vanderslice, PhD
Dr. Ginny Vanderslice is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics, and teaches courses on organizational change, power and leadership in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. She is President of Praxis Consulting Group, which provides organizational development assistance to employee-owned companies, professional services firms and non-profit organizations. Her work focuses on the areas of planning, organizational culture change, and gender equity initiatives. She has taught in various executive development programs including the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Care Professionals and Wharton’s Aresty Institute, both at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also served as faculty for an Executive Development Program run by the London Business School. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in the social psychology of groups and organizations from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
William Wilkinsky, PhD
Dr. Bill Wilkinsky is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics, and teaches courses on individual and organizational coaching in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. He is founder and President of The Athyn Group one of the oldest consulting groups on the East coast. He is a recognized authority and frequent speaker on topics such as organizational culture, organizational change, and motivational, reward, and recognition systems. He is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. His particular interest is in organizational assessment and the design of interventions to assist organizations in changing their culture. He received his Ph.D. from Temple University.
Nancie Zane, PhD
Dr. Nancie Zane is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Organizational Dynamics, and teaches courses on organizational diagnosis and strategic leadership in the Organizational Dynamics graduate program. She is a social psychologist and a partner with Praxis Consulting Group, an organizational development consulting firm. Her work centers on building diverse leadership and staff teams. She also works with systems in transition to help them assess and re-align their organizational mission, culture and structure. She has taught at Haifa University and serves on the teaching staff at the Executive Development Program at Wharton's Aresty Institute. She is currently working on an article on Organizational Partnering to appear in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Winner of the MacGregor Award in 2001 from the Journal of Applied Social Sciences, she received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.