CONTENTS
Introduction, Anthony F. Buono, David W. Jamieson, Peter Sorensen, and Therese Yaeger. PART I: FRAMING THE CHANGE CHALLENGE. Consulting for Change: Creating Value through Client-Consultant Engagement, David W. Jamieson and Terry R. Armstrong. Competencies of Management Consultants: A Research Study of Senior Management Consultants, Léon de Caluwé and Elsbeth Reitsma. Whole System Consulting, Michael D. Mitchell. Whole System Transformation: The Consultant’s Role in Creating Sustainable Results, John J. Scherer, Gina Lavery, Roland Sullivan, Ginger Whitson and Elizabeth Vales. PART II: CHANGE FRAMEWORKS AND PERSPECTIVES. Intervention and Organizational Change: Building Organizational Change Capacity, Kenneth W. Kerber and Anthony F. Buono. The Use of Metaphor in Consulting for Organizational Change, Deborah Colwill. Peer Consulting in the Not-for-Profit Sector, Dalitso S. Sulamoyo. From Therapist to Executive Coach: Insight, Intervention, and Organizational Change, Judith A. Gebhardt. Using English as a Foreign Language in International and Multicultural Consulting: Asset or Hindrance?, Kathrin Kordon. PART III: REFLECTIONS ON CONSULTING FOR CHANGE. Consulting Processes for Change: A Belief System, Situation Centered, Sensemaking Perspective, Craig C. Lundberg. Consulting in the Fast Lane, W. Warner Burke. Into the Rabbit Hole: Variation on Traditional Approaches to Diagnosis and Discovery, Dale Ainsworth. Forgetting to Put on New Skin: Enabling Healthy Closure, Judith R. Benson. Kurt Lewin’s Promise: Implications for Organization Change Consultancy, Kurt Motamedi. About the Authors.