User:Ronkoller/Kathleen Dannemiller

Kathleen "Kathie" Cosgrove Dannemiller (April 27, 1929-December 26, 2003) was the queen of large group interventions; the OD Practitioner called her an OD Pioneer & Legend.

Biography Kathie began studying Organizational Development under the auspices of Ronald Lippitt, while he was at the University of Michigan in the 1970s. She was a regular at the Lippitt cluster, a group that met frequently to discuss emerging issues in action research and organizational development in Ann Arbor, MI, on the campus of the University of Michigan. Ron asked Kathie to help him revive a laboratory method from NTL called Integrated Training with Consulting. It was an intensive 4-week course at NTL. Ron and Kathie decided to stretch it out over the course of almost a year and include team consultation with real clients. They named the new method the Planned Change Internship (PCI). From the 1980s until shortly before her death in 2003, Kathie taught hundreds of consultants OD consulting skills through PCI.

She was simply a great organizational development consultant who gave hope and love to thousands of students that she mentored right up until her passing in 2003. Many OD practitioners would not even be in the profession had it not been for Kathie. She had the type of impact on people where they would feel like they had just discovered chocolate for the first time ... all because she helped them see that there was hope for positive change in their organizations. In his revision of his classic book, Flawless Consulting, Peter Block chose to honor Kathie by naming her wisdom in a new chapter on engagement.

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References:

1 "Passing of an OD Pioneer and Legend: Kathleen (Kathie) Douglas Dannemiller April 27, 1929-December 26, 2003, The". Organization Development Journal. FindArticles.com. 13 Mar, 2010. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5427/is_200404/ai_n21354687/

Block, P. (2000). Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used. Second Edition. Jossey-Bass/Pfieffer. New York.

Dannemiller, K. & Jacobs, R. (1992). Changing the Way Organization Change: A Revolution of Common Sense, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 28(4).

Dannemiller Tyson Associates. (2000). Whole-Scale Change: Unleashing the Magic in Organizations. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.

Jacobs, R.W. (1994). Real Time Strategic Change. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

External Links:

http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~rouda/background.html

http://www.dannemillertyson.com/kathie.php