Lewin Center Board of Directors

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President: Charles N. Seashore, Ph.D.
charles@lewincenter.org

With a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Charlie received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Social Psychology, as a student of Ronald Lippitt, one of the founders of the National Training Laboratories.

He served on the faculty of the University of Utah, and in 1962 joined the staff of the National Training Laboratories Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. In 1971, he developed his private consulting practice and began to teach in graduate school programs. He is currently full-time faculty member of the Ph.D. program in human organization development of the Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California; faculty emeritus of the Group Psychotherapy Training Program of the Washington School of Psychiatry; and an adjunct faculty in the American University Masters Program in Organization Development.

Since 1973, Dr. Seashore has been a part of the faculty of the Association for American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Management Education Programs, working with deans and department heads in the areas of management styles and organization development. His areas of concentration include personal growth and development, organization development, professional development, human relations training and applied research, and research utilization.

Dr. Seashore received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organization Development Network in October, 2004. His books include What Did You Say? The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback, written with Gerald Weinberg and Edith Whitfield Seashore, and Renewing Higher Education from Within, written with Walter Sikes and Larry Schlesinger.




Secretary: Argentine Saunders Craig, Ph.D.
argentine@lewincenter.org

Over the past forty-five years, Dr. Craig, Diversity and Organization Development Consultant, has worked as university professor, management consultant, Peace Corps trainer and human relations/diversity facilitator/consultant. She has been on the faculty of, and associated with, numerous universities and learning centers (including American University, The Fielding Graduate University, Harvard University, Morgan State University, NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, University of the West Indies/Trinidad, Vermont College of Norwich University).

Ms. Craig has advised governmental departments of the United States, Kuwait and Bermuda in human resources, graduate education and management training issues of racism, sexism and ageism. During an eight year period, Argentine served as Consultant/Facilitator in Human Relations/Diversity work in South Africa with the NTL Institute, Africare and the United Nations. In 2000, she was honored with the title of Faculty Emeritus of Human and Organization Development from the Fielding Graduate University.



Treasurer: Edith Seashore
edith@lewincenter.org

Edie Seashore has been consulting and teaching for over 40 years. She served as President of the NTL Institute and has been on the faculties of Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, American and McGill Universities. In 2001, Edie received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the OD Network. She is co-author of What Did You Say? The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback; co-editor of The Promise of Diversity, and in 2006, published Triple Impact Coaching: Use-of-Self in the Coaching Process with Beverly Patwell. Edie and Charlie have two daughters and five grandchildren.







Brenda B. Jones, MS
brenda@lewincenter.org

Brenda Jones is Principal of Brenda B. Jones Associates, Inc. based in Columbia, Maryland, USA. With more than 25 years in the field of social change and organization development, her work focuses on organization culture, strategy and change; executive coaching; leadership development and lead projects to build individual, group and organization capabilities. She consults with a broad range of clients inside and outside the United States.

Brenda serves on the faculty of American University/NTL graduate program in Organization Development, the Gestalt Organization and Systems Development (OSD) Center, the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and assists in the delivery of a course on Interpersonal Dynamics at the Stanford School of Business. She is coeditor of The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change published in 2006. Brenda is a member of the NTL Institute, OD Network, IODA, Academy of Management and past chair of the Board of Trustees and the OD Network and past president of the Chesapeake Bay OD Network.





LENNOX E. JOSEPH, Ph.D.
lennox@lewincenter.org

Dr. Lennox E. Joseph is the Advisor, Organizational Effectiveness/ Organizational Development at the World Bank Group headquartered in Washington, DC. Prior to this he served as the World Bank’s Senior Change Consultant. He was also the President and Chief Executive Officer of NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, its Chief Operating Officer and the President and Senior Consultant of the Inguz Group of Ohio.

Dr. Joseph is an expert in organizational development and change, specializing in strategy formulation, repositioning and implementation, organizational transformation and renewal, creation of executive, management and staff learning systems, and in integrating diversity values into strategic and operational plans. He has over twenty four years experience in the training, teaching and consulting fields and has consulted to Boards of Directors, executives and managers of numerous organizations with extensive experience working in Africa, Korea, China, Singapore, Brazil, Trinidad, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and England.

Adjunct professor at The American University (Washington, DC), Lennox has served on the Boards of the REAP Gallery for Creating and Managing Change (Seattle, WA), Path Setters (Santa Cruz, CA), Turtle Studios (Alexandria, VA) and the Editorial Board of the Diversity Factor (Philadelphia, PA). Dr. Joseph has appeared on government negotiation teams, is acclaimed as a public speaker at conferences and meetings, and is a qualified expert witness in discrimination cases for the Washington, D.C. Superior Court. In 2001, he was awarded the Herman Stein Award from his alma mater, Case Western Reserve University, for his contributions to International Social Change