Dear Colleagues:
David W. Jamieson, Ph.D. has become Editor-in-Chief of the Organization Development Review. He is succeeding John Vogelsang, Ph.D., who has retired and we are grateful for his long and dedicated service. Over the past 51 years the original publication, OD Practitioner, and the newly named, OD Review, has become a high-quality scholar practitioner journal in the broad field of Organization Development and Change. We plan to continue that legacy and elevate the profile and reputation of this journal.
Dave has been in the field of OD & Change for over 50 years, with most of that time involved in organization consulting and teaching courses related to OD or directly in OD programs (about 12 years at Pepperdine, 12 years so far at American, 15 years so far at Benedictine, and more recently 10 years at St Thomas). He recently retired from his tenured full professorship at St Thomas. He now teaches in a few other programs including Cabrini, Bowling Green, and Assumption doctorates. He is also back part-time in consulting. He has written or edited 8 books, 17 chapters and dozens of articles. He has served in many professional leadership roles, including National President of ASTD (now ATD).
He has served on the Editorial Board for the old OD Practitioner and now the OD Review since 1993. He has co-edited 5 Special Issues of the OD Practitioner and one coming soon of the OD Review. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry and on the new Editorial Board for the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. He was past Chair of the OD Education Association, Division Chair of the Management Consulting Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) and Founding Chair of the Practice Theme Committee also of the AOM.
He has received the OD Network’s Lifetime Achievement (2012) and Sharing OD Knowledge (2019) Awards and the Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner (2015) and the Outstanding OD Educator Award (2019) from the AOM.
He is committed to continuing development and inclusion for new people in our field, supporting the next generation in creating the new breed of effective/healthy organizations we now need, and integrating our scholarship and practice.
We have some new intentions for the Journal, such as:
- Expanding the outreach for existing and new authors
- Restructuring and adding some new Review Board members
- We need to consider some new options for what we want to be, what we hope to contribute to our fields and what we want to stand for. We have all been happy with the quality ODP/R has achieved and the positive responses we get to what we publish and certainly want that to continue.
- We will need to position our Journal with a new purpose, charter, identity and brand; and in relation to the other major journals that serve our fields.
- We also need to enhance how we show up in searches and how we get represented in journal impacts and evaluations, in order to elevate the status of ODR.
- And finally, update the Journal’s website and hopefully access to article downloads and special collections from our vast legacy in the field.
We look forward to continuing our long tradition with this Journal. And, we hope to align with others contributing to this field, in our joint efforts to raise the profile and understanding of OD and Change.
Respectfully yours,
Gary L. Mangiofico, Ph.D. Chair, Board of Trustees
David Jamieson, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief OD Network OD Review
