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Faculty Members
Organization and Systems Development Center
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Stephanie Backman, MSSA, LISW is a social worker in private practice specializing in intimate systems. She is an approved supervisor of AAMFT and a member of the American Family Therapy Academy. She has given workshops in the US, England, and Sweden. She co-edited On Intimate Ground: A Gestalt Approach to Working with Couples. |
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M. Frances Baldwin, PhD has more than 25 years' experience working at all levels of large and small systems in the public and private sectors. In addition to helping organizations address the demands of change, manage projects, and develop leadership, she is interested in executive coaching and mentoring. |
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Charles Bates, BFA is principal of 10th Dot Transformations®. He is an advisor in organization systems development with a focus on leadership coaching, systems intervention, and global and domestic diversity change strategies. He is on the faculty of the Bush Educators Program, University of Minnesota, and is a past member of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Mental Health and Retardation for the State of Minnesota. |
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Esther (Eti) Ben-Ziv, MA is an organizational consultant in Tel Aviv, and a faculty member of ISRAGIC. She has worked for more than 25 years in both large organizations (public and private) and small organizations, such as kibbutzim and factories. Her consulting practice focuses on organizational development through management development, team development, and embodied storytelling. |
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Marcella Benson-Quaziena, PhD is principal of The Benson-Quaziena Group. She consults for public and non-profit sectors in the areas of organization development, coaching, leadership, strategic planning, group process, group facilitation, and diversity. She is a faculty member at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, and adjunct faculty for the Master's Degree Program in Organization Development at the Fielding Graduate Institute. |
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Sandra A. Bergsten, MA is an educator and curriculum designer. She is the Curriculum Coach for the OSD International Gestalt Coaching Program and the Eleventh Grade Dean and Fine Arts Department Chair at Hathaway Brown School in Cleveland, Ohio. As a curriculum designer, she has experience writing curricula for schools and non-school settings. She has designed programs, projects, workshops, and seminars, and has done short- and long-range planning for organizations. She is investigating ways to implement Gestalt OSD methodology in secondary schools, and plans to launch a series of workshops for educators and school administrators. |
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Rosemary A. Bova, MS is passionate about women, leadership, and transforming the workplace. A highly skilled consultant and public speaker, she works with senior executives of Fortune 500 companies on how to be more effective leaders and team builders. She has extensive experience in the areas of organization design, restructuring, and talent pool development. She serves on the Board of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), the New York Women's Agenda (NYWA), and is a recent past President of NAWBO-NYC. She has spent the last 10 years studying the development of female leadership. |
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Cathe Carlson, MEd is a leadership and organization development consultant with 25 years' experience working with a broad range of executives in diverse businesses and industries in both public and private sectors, many of them Global 500 and Fortune 100 companies. Her primary focus is helping clients develop innovative solutions to complex issues while enhancing the quality of thinking and interacting in human systems. Current interests include personal and leadership coaching, development of consultants and other leaders, and transformational change strategies. Field theory, phenomenology, and dialogic existentialism are theoretical underpinnings of her work. She is currently a principal with an international consulting firm based in Houston specializing in building capabilities to support breakthrough performance. |
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John D. Carter, PhD is an international organizational consultant with 30 years' experience. He has served on the Executive Boards of GIC, NTL, and the Fielding Institute, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the OD Network. Themes in his work include managing complex systems change, merger integration, the management of professional organizations, and the personal and professional development of minorities. |
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Veronica Hopper Carter, PhD brings experience as a psychotherapist to her work as a trainer of organizational consultants, emphasizing all levels of system. With over 20 years' experience in the practice of Raj Yoga, she integrates spiritual principles, Gestalt theory and practice, and systems thinking into a base for her teaching. She is an associate of John D. Carter & Associates. |
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Duncan Coombe, MBA is an international organization development scholar and practitioner whose work is focused on supporting individuals and organizations to discover and realize their fullest potential. He consults and researches in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors, and has worked in Africa, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the US. He is a coach on leadership programs at IMD Business School in Switzerland and also at the Weatherhead School of Management in the US. Clients have included Unilever, Adidas, the Dutch Development Agency, and Halifax Bank of Scotland. His research covers a wide variety of topics under the umbrella of Positive Organizational Scholarship, with a current focus on the role of love in organizations. He is degreed in Psychology, Economics, Law, and Management, and is currently completing his PhD in Organizational Behavior. |
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Jennifer Corlett, PhD is Program Director for Ursuline Sophia Center, a wholistic spirituality and wellness center located in Pepper Pike, Ohio. She is the co-coordinator for the Sophia Center Healing Arts Clinic, and maintains a private practice in psychology. She has practiced mind-body healing for over 20 years, and has a special interest in integrative medicine. Her work integrates her experience and study in spirituality, body/mind methodologies, and human capacities development. |
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J. Rick Day, PhD, PsyD, MBA is an international organization and leadership development consultant. Previously, he was Vice President of Organization and Management Development at Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix. Before that, he was Vice President of Corporate Services in a behavioral health care organization, and a clinical psychologist. He has consulted to diverse industries in both public and private sectors throughout the world, including several international 500 companies. As a clinical psychologist, he has worked with adult individuals, couples, and groups. |
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Dost Can Deniz, MBA is an international executive coach and consultant based in Istanbul. He is the founder of MareFidelis Coaching & Consulting, the premier coaching and organizational consulting company in Turkey. He specializes in supporting top leaders and leadership teams, and has delivered several thousands of hours of coaching and training to C-Suite executive clients. He is the author of the best selling Cesur Sorular (Courageous Questions). He designs and delivers training programs to create coaching capacity and coaching-friendly cultures in organizations. Dost is a faculty member of the International Gestalt Coaching Program. |
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Seán Gaffney is a Gestalt therapist, OSD consultant, and university lecturer in cross-cultural management. His work in all areas is bilingual, multicultural, and international. He is on the faculties of the Gestalt Academy, Scandinavia; the Gestalt Trust, Scotland/North of Ireland; the GIC/IGOR International OSD Programme; the Institute of International Business at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; and The Masters Division, Universitá Bocconi (Milan, Italy). Irish by birth, culture, and conviction, he has lived in Sweden since 1975. |
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Jonno Hanafin, MBA has been an international organizational consultant for 30 years. His work in large organizations focuses on organizational architecture, executive transitions, senior team development, and change management in high-tech companies. He is interested in helping individuals think differently and act creatively, and in building organizations that benefit from both. He is co-chair of the Gestalt OSD/GISC International Program. |
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Sally Higginbotham, BA is a mediator and a mediation trainer and facilitator in private practice in Amesbury, MA. For over 12 years she has assisted individuals, groups, and organizations in resolving conflict. She sits on mediation panels for Boston Municipal Court, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution (provisional), United States Postal Service REDRESS program, and U.S. District Court (Boston). As a facilitator, she works primarily on organizational change initiatives. As a trainer, she has worked with attorneys, managers, consultants, and mental health professionals. She currently integrates Gestalt theory and methods in her practice. |
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Harold L. Hill, MBA is an independent organization development consultant. He provides services in the areas of strategic planning, change management, group process and facilitation, team building, and performance management. Experimental learning theory serves as the theoretical foundation of his work. He has over 15 years' corporate experience, and has consulted to such notable organizations as ComEd, the Illinois Facilities Fund, and the Chicago Youth Center. He is an OSD faculty member and a member of NTL. Currently, he is an internal consultant with Walt Disney World in Orlando. |
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Mary Ann Huckabay, PhD is a lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a member of NTL. She maintains a private practice in the San Francisco Bay area consulting to individuals, couples, groups, and organizations, and specializing in issues of interpersonal power and effectiveness. |
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Mwalimu Imara, DMin is professor emeritus of Ethics and Human Values, Morehouse School of Medicine. He is an Episcopal priest and pastoral counselor holding diplomate status with the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. Since the 1960s, he has practiced and taught in the areas of bereavement, death and dying, pastoral counseling, stress management, meditation, personal growth, staff development, psychotherapy and religion, and spirituality. His work with the terminally ill began as Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross's assistant and colleague in her initial death and dying seminars. |
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Frances Johnston, PhD is co-chair of the Teleos Leadership Institute, LLC. Her professional expertise spans leadership development, emotional intelligence, transformational change, and organizational renewal. The transfer of knowledge and skills in managing change and generating interest in growth is a central theme in her approach. She helps clients use development-oriented programs and practices, including executive coaching, action learning, and integrated organization development. Recent global clients have been Merck, Nike, Merrill Lynch, Unilever, and SE Johnson. A current project she has passion for is with the United Nations, focusing on mobilizing leadership in a response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. |
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Brenda B. Jones, MS is an organizational consultant based in Columbia, MD, with over 20 years' experience. Her national and international consulting work focuses on organization strategic and culture change, leadership development, individual and group effectiveness, the development of consultants, and managing culturally diverse organizations. She directs her energy towards integrating both the human and business sides of an organization, with applications at all levels of system. She is a past Board of Trustees member of the OD Network, and a member of NTL Institute and IODA. She is on the faculty of the American University/NTL Graduate Program for Organization Development. |
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Robert Kolodny, PhD is an organizational consultant working with a wide range of human systems in the US and abroad. He teaches organization behavior and development at the New School University in New York City, and is a professional member of NTL. He has a special interest in working with value-based organizations, and his guiding professional vision is to help people build more satisfying and effective workplace communities, and more just and democratic civic communities. |
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Ann S. Leonard, EdD has held various leadership positions in HR since 1997. Currently, she is worldwide human resources director and vice president of Entertainment Imaging, Eastman Kodak Company, in Rochester, New York. She works with all levels of the organization, particularly leadership levels, focusing on strategic human resource planning, leadership development, and organization development. Issues of organization and culture change, compensation, communications, organization structure, team and leadership development, and executive coaching are underpinnings of this work. Her doctorate is in education, specializing in learning strategies in special education. |
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Leta Letize, BSBA is an international organizational consultant. She has worked for over 20 years with individuals and groups within organizations undergoing complex change. She is managing partner of PDS, Inc., recognized internationally for its work in creating high-performance, team-based cultures. |
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Charlotte Lim is an Asia Pacific Training advisor for ExxonMobil and advisor to the Singapore Training and Development Association (STADA). She is junior faculty on the Gestalt OSD/GISC International OSD Training Program. |
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Ollie Malone, PhD, MBA is president and principal consultant of Olive Tree Associates. He has headed training and OD functions within Pennzoil-Quaker State, Sprint, and The Mead Corporation. In addition, he has worked as an external consultant with a number of Fortune 500 companies. His more than 20 years' corporate experience also include key roles in marketing, finance, and operations. |
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Margareta Marmgren of Sweden has conducted executive development programs with firms such as Volvo, AstraZeneca and Ericcsson, in Europe, the US and in the People's Republic of China. She is also co-chair of the GISC Leadership Development Program. |
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Shirley M. Ebel Meeker, PhD is an experienced strategic management and change consultant. She is a senior consultant with The Centre for Strategic Management, a consulting firm known for its work in Reinventing Strategic Planning. Her approach is driven by systems thinking and a Gestalt orientation. She is particularly skilled at designing and delivering programs and interventions that assist organizational members in developing new skills and ways of thinking that result in business strategy achievement. |
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Joseph Melnick, PhD is a clinical psychologist specializing in training and consultation to individuals, families, and larger organizations. He has a particular interest in the use of strategic and intimate approaches within organizations. He has published extensively, and is currently serving as editor of the quarterly journal, The Gestalt Review. |
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Diane S. Menendez, PhD, MCC has been coaching leaders and corporate professionals since 1988, when she became one of the first 50 coaches to be designated Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. She has coached more than 350 leaders, many of whom were in companies undergoing radical cultural shifts and industry changes. She is passionate about a focus on mastery for her clients: personal mastery and leadership mastery are key to her work. Her clients have included Cinergy, Convergys, LensCrafters, Sun Microsystems, Pennsylvania Power & Light, AT&T, Lucent, and Detroit Edison. |
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Monika K. Moss, MFA has dedicated her talents to helping hundreds of organizations and individuals in mapping their future for over 15 years. As a founder of MKM Management Consulting, she provides a full range of custom-designed services in capacity building, planning, meeting facilitation, and training to both private, public, and nonprofit organizations. |
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Edwin C. Nevis, PhD is president of the Gestalt International Study Center (GISC). He is a founder of the Cleveland OSD and the OSD International programs. He established the GICPress (now the GestaltPress) and, together with Joseph Melnick, is a founder of The Gestalt Review. Nevis is the author of Organizational Consulting: A Gestalt Approach and co-author of Intentional Revolutions: A Seven-Point Strategy for Transforming Organizations. |
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Sonia M. Nevis, PhD is director of the Center for the Study of Intimate Systems at the Gestalt International Study Center. Since 1977, she has been chair of the Cape Cod Couple and Family training program. She maintains private practices in Boston and in Cape Cod, working with individuals, couples, and families, and providing professional supervision. |
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John Nkum, MA is a freelance consultant and managing director of Nkum Associates, a firm of development planning and organization development consultants based in Accra, Ghana, and working internationally. He is on the faculty of the Gestalt OSD/GISC International Program. |
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Mauricio Puerta, LIC is an organizational development scholar and practitioner with over 15 years’ experience in the areas of organizational transformation, adult education, experiential learning, group facilitation, and coaching in Latin America, the US, and Europe. Through his work, he seeks to support organizations to become life-giving systems for their members and for the world at large. Some of the organizations he has worked with include the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Peruvian Ministry of Education, Unilever, and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He currently teaches at the Weatherhead School of Management and the AU/NTL Master Program in Organizational Development. |
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Michael Rynex, MA is an organization development consultant living in the Chicago area. His work has focused on senior team development, executive coaching, merger integration, and change management. Before working as an OD consultant, he worked as a psychotherapist specializing in work with men, families, and addictions. |
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Gary L. Saltus, DO FACOS completed his fellowship as cardiac surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in 1980. He was in private practice from 1980 to 1998, and is currently a certified executive coach/physician consultant from the Hudson Institute. As founder of Longevity Guide, he has experience facilitating programs for physicians, health care workers, and patient groups. His expertise includes managing transitions using Gestalt theory, concepts, and methods. |
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Dorothy E. Siminovitch, PhD, MCC an individual, team, and leadership development coach, integrating her knowledge of diverse coaching models with robust Gestalt theory in service of superior coaching practices. She is Chair of the ICF-accredited International Gestalt Coaching Program, which delivers training to consultants, human service providers, and business executives who wish to learn or improve their coaching skills. She is a faculty member of the Gestalt OSD Group Intensive Training Program. Her particular interest is to explore how learning and change are influenced by culture, gender, and positional and personal power. She seeks to integrate holistic theory and practice into her coaching, and believes that Gestalt theory and method embraces revolutionary theories of learning and change. She delivers workshops and coaching services in the United States, Canada, Turkey, and Israel. |
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Neil Sklarew, MS, MBA is a Senior Consultant for the Georgia Center for Nonprofits in Atlanta. His organization development consulting and management experience, as both internal and external consultant, spans 25 years with nonprofit and government agencies and in the private sector. His experience has included organization assessment, large system organization change, inter-organizational partnering and collaboration, strategic planning, leadership and executive coaching, conflict resolution, and group processes such as role negotiation, team building, and group facilitation. |
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Johnnie W. Smith, Jr., MBA is president of J. W. Smith & Associates, a leadership and organization consulting firm. Current themes in his work are executive coaching, team development, valuing diversity, shadow consulting, managing multi-directed energy, and the personal and professional development of consultants and managers. |
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Mary Ann Rainey Tolbert, PhD is principal associate of Rainey and Associates, an external management consulting firm. She is the former vice president of Organizational Effectiveness for Exelon Corporation of Chicago. Her work focuses on executive development, mergers and acquisitions, and cultural diversity. Experiential learning theory and principles of Gestalt psychology are the underpinnings of her work. She was a pioneer in the application of Appreciative Inquiry methodology as an OD intervention. She is a member of NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science and of the Academy of Management Association. |
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Ann M. Van Eron, PhD, MCC is principal and founder of Potentials. Ann is an experienced coach who specializes in supporting leaders in achieving challenging goals and actualizing their potential. She works with a wide range of leaders, teams and organizations all over the world. In addition to coaching and consulting, Ann conducts research, lectures, and publishes articles on transformational leadership, organization development, and workforce diversity. She develops and facilitates training programs on a wide range of topics, including effective interpersonal communication, coaching skills, management and leadership skills and diversity initiatives. She has over 20 years of coaching, organization development and management experience. Ann is on the faculty of the International Gestalt Coaching Program. She served on the Board for the Center for the New American Workforce, Queens College. She also facilitates the Human Resource Executive Forum, a networking and benchmark group for leaders responsible for diversity initiatives in major corporations. |
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Jeffry M. Voorhees, PhD is a consultant in assessment, coaching, team building, and planning to public and private organizations. He uses a whole-system perspective to help clients broaden their understanding of organizational dynamics, including individual, group, and organizational behavior. His theoretical background includes literature, psychology, management science, and Gestalt methodology. |
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Gwen Gibbs Wade, PhD is in private practice as an applied behavioral scientist and social/clinical psychologist. She applies a holistic perspective, integrating systems thinking, yoga, and Gestalt, Jungian, and body/mind methodologies. Her work involves managing complex system changes in health systems, governmental agencies, cross-cultural contacts, and international relations. |
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Isabel Wong, MS is an adult educator with experience working with corporate groups, executives, and university teachers and students in leadership and change programs. She is interested in coaching, group facilitation, organizational development, adult learning, and experiential education. She is a consultant for the Leadership Institute for Organizational Change of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. |
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Chantelle Wyley, MIS, Cert (Coaching) is a coach, facilitator, and trainer specializing in development project management training, facilitation training, and leadership development. She uses emotional intelligence and Gestalt OSD to coach and support mainly public sector leaders in the technical aspects of project/program management, leadership, personal development, and diversity, as well as in how to cultivate powerful personal presence and resonant relationships. She teaches in the Gestalt OSD/GISC International Program and in other Gestalt OSD programs in South Africa. Chantelle is co-chair of Baobab Consulting and Training, and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. |
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Laurie Zuckerman, MBA is an independent organization development consultant with 15 years' experience. She integrates conventional business processes, e.g., strategic and transition planning, with a Gestalt approach to support effective individual and group process skills. As part of her work, she coaches top executives and teams in developing clear direction and significantly improved communications and decision-making skills. |
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