The external environment is increasingly exerting influence on the internal operations of organizations. Organizations need to be able to continuously adapt and change, and organizational leaders and managers need to be aware of trends, crises, and evolutions in the environments in which they function. In response to these increasing demands, the field of change leadership has evolved beyond traditional theoretical perspectives to include chaos, nonlinear, and complex systems theories. This three-volume major work serves to outline the parameters of the field today and offer readers an understanding of the key philosophic and practical questions in change leadership.
Including a wide range of literature, the editors, Colette Dumas and Richard H. Beinecke, offer both breadth and depth of knowledge of effective change leadership theory and practice.
Volume I: Theoretical Foundations of Change Leadership
Volume II: Change Leadership: Research and Theory
Volume III: The Emerging Edge of Change Leadership
Dr. Colette Dumas is Full Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, and Founding Director of the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership at the Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Dumas is an international scholar in Change Leadership, Innovation, and Creativity. She has held visiting scholar and teaching appointments at McGill University, l’Universite du Quebec a Montreal, l’Universidad Autonomo de Guererro, Mexico, and the Warsaw School of Economics. She holds a PhD in Human and Organization Systems and a Masters Degree in Organizational Development from The Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California. During her career, Dr. Dumas has been awarded many research grants. She is the author of numerous scholarly journal publications, books, book chapters and conference papers. Dr. Dumas has served as a consultant and has trained personnel in leading banks and financial institutions, healthcare, and pharmaceutical companies, universities and not for profit organization. Dr. Dumas helps organizations to develop and implement effective change leadership programs, build their innovation capabilities and skill sets, and foster creative collaborations. She designs action learning initiatives that lead to highly effective engagement and sustainable results.
Dr. Richard H. Beinecke is Full Professor of the Institute for Public Service at the Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, where he has been for the past twenty years. Dr. Beinecke teaches the Department’s core Masters in Public Administration course, Leadership for an Interconnected World, as well as courses on United States and Global Health Policy. Dr. Beinecke is a clinical social worker, with a Masters degree from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. He has a Doctorate in Public Administration (D.P.A) from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He has held clinical, administrative, leadership, and consulting positions in public and private mental health and healthcare organizations at the local and Federal levels. Dr. Beinecke conducted extensive research on international leadership theory and competencies. Most recently, he has looked at the mental health response to the Boston bombings, the first time that mental health services have been fully implemented in response to a disaster in the United States.
