James D. Ludema, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Organization Development
Benedictine University
Lisle, IL 60532-0900
Office: Benedictine Hall 362
Email: jludema@ben.edu
Phone: (630) 829-6229
Fax: (630) 829-6231
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Biography
James D. Ludema is a Professor of Organization Development at Benedictine
University, an internationally recognized organizational consultant, and a Founding
Owner of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, a global firm that includes several
of the world's leading thinkers and practitioners on appreciative inquiry. Jim
has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America
and has served as consultant to a variety of organizations in the profit, non-profit,
and government sectors including BP, McDonald's, John Deere, Ameritech, Northern
Telecom, Square D Company, Essef Corporation, Bell and Howell, Kaiser Permanente,
World Vision, the City of Minneapolis, and many local and international NGOs.
Jim's areas of expertise include appreciative inquiry, organizational redesign
and whole system change, large group interventions, the people side of mergers
and acquisitions, human motivation, and organizational storytelling.
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Courses Taught
Informational Links
- The Academy of Management
- a leading professional association of scholars
dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations.
- Positive
Organizational Scholarship - focuses on the dynamics in organizations
that lead to the development of human strength, foster resiliency in individuals,
make possible healing and restoration, and cultivate extraordinary individual
and organizational performance.
- Business as an Agent
of World Benefit - a global dialogue project that engages business leaders,
thought leaders, and change agents in reflecting and convening around the
subject of how the business sector might put it extraordinary imagination,
capacity, and resources to work on behalf of world benefit.
- The Appreciative Inquiry Commons:
a worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and
practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline
of positive change.
- Appreciative Inquiry Consulting:
a worldwide organization of consultant-practitioners whose work focuses on
Appreciative Inquiry (AI).
- The Taos Institute: a community
of scholars and practitioners working to explore, extend and share the view
that through human relationships we construct our realities, moralities, and
aspirations.
- The Positive Psychology Research
Alliance: a not-for-profit organization located at the University of Pennsylvania
dedicated to research on all aspects of Positive Psychology.
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