Dr. Jamieson is President, of Jamieson Consulting Group, Inc. (providing consultation, leader and change agent coaching, & change leadership), and Professor Emeritus, Organization Development & Change from the University of St. Thomas. He has also been Distinguished Visiting Scholar in other graduate OD programs (Benedictine, USC, Bowling Green, American, Pepperdine, Fielding, Cabrini, and Sacred Heart). He has over 55 years of experience consulting with organizations on leadership, change, strategy, design, and human resource issues ranging from large corporations and smaller organizations, non-profits, and professional associations, and working with senior-level executives, contributors from all levels and departments, and frontline people. For 40 years, he has taught hundreds of people interested in organizational change, leadership, and organizational design.
His work has included strategic planning, organization diagnoses, organization design, team development, systemic change, design, processes, execution of all types of change, coaching leaders, and creating “learning” as part of change. This work has been conducted across most industries and sectors of organizations including Aerospace Corporation, American Management Association, Deloitte, Disney Parks & Resorts, Genentech/Roche, Host-Marriott Corporation, Los Angeles Times, Northrup–Grumman, Southern California Edison, Security Pacific National Bank (now Bank of America), Community Foundation of Greater Flint, MI, City of Culver City, CA, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Singapore Civil Service College, San Bernardino, CA Sheriff’s Department Los Angeles Unified School District, Concordia University, Irvine, CA, and US Department of Agriculture.
He has served as President of the National Training Laboratory-Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, Past National President of the American Society for Training and Development (now ATD), Past International President, International Federation of Training and Development Organizations, and Past Chair of the Management Consultation Division and Practice Theme Committee of the Academy of Management (AOM).
He has been honored with The Lifetime Achievement Award, Sharing OD Knowledge Award, and Service to the OD Network Award from the Organization Development Network (ODN), the Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Career Achievement Award and Distinguished OD Educator Award from the Academy of Management; and a past-Chair of the Organization Development Education Association.
He received his Ph.D. in Management from UCLA, majoring in Organization Design & Development, and a BS in Business Administration from Drexel University, with a Behavioral Science minor.
Dave is the co-author of 9 books, 17 chapters, and dozens of articles in journals and newsletters. He has published with leading publishers (e.g., Jossey-Bass, Palgrave MacMillan, AMACOM, Information Age Publishing, Pfieffer, and Sage) on organization development and change, consultation, facilitation, use of self in professional roles, integrating scholarship and practice, and strategic HR.
He is the current Editor of Organization Development Review, launching new global journal, OD 2.0 Global Review, an Assoc. Editor, Journal of Management Inquiry, and serves on the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science Editorial Review Board.