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Michael Broom & Edie Seashore
Recognizing that many change management practitioners, both internal and external, needed an additional level of support if they were to maximize their expertise and success, Dr. Michael Broom founded the Center for Human Systems with the support and encouragement of Edith Whitfied Seashore. Edie is an organizational development sage and founder of several OD programs including the prestigious American University/NTL graduate program.
Experience As Educator, Coach And
Consultant
Michael
F. Broom, Ph.D. is an Organizational Psychologist who as
worked for over 30 years as an executive coach,
organizational facilitator, and
trainer. Throughout those 25 years he has also been very
involved in the
education of those interested in organizational and social change. At
Johns Hopkins
University, he has been a full-time (1978-83) and part-time (1983-2001)
faculty member of
the Graduate Program in Applied Behavioral Science. At Georgetown
University he has been
adjunct faculty for the Certificate Program in Organizational
Development. He was also
adjunct faculty in the American University/National Training Lab (NTL)
masters programs.
For NTL he has led a number of graduate programs including Personal and
Organizational
Power, and the Graduate Students Professional Development Program. He
was on the board of
directors of the NTL Institute in Applied Behavioral Science, and
chaired its
Transformative Social Change Committee. He is the author of two books: The
Infinite
Organization and Power, The Infinite Game
with Dr. Donald Klein.
Edith
Whitfield Seashore has been consulting to industrial, military,
educational and voluntary
organizations for the past forty years. She is a social psychologist
and organization
development specialist concerned with organizational change, team
building, strategic
planning, and building multicultural organizations. Along with her
consulting practice,
Edie served as President of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral
Science. She is the
recipient of the Organization Development Network Lifetime Achievement
Award. She has been
teaching change management, organizational development, conflict
resolution, and
consulting skills at the Johns Hopkins, American, Georgetown and
Concordia (Montreal,
Canada) Universities. In 1979, she received the Citation of Merit for
Outstanding
Contribution to the Applied Behavioral Sciences from the University of
Southern
California, School of Public Administration. In 1979, along with her
colleague Morley
Segal, Edie founded the American University/NTL Masters Program in
Organizational
Development. Among her publications are Triple Impact Coaching
in collaboration with
Beverly Patwell and she What Did You Say - The Art of Giving
and Receiving Feedback with
Charles Seashore and Jerry Weinberg. She is a co-editor of The
Promise of Diversity.