Organization & Management - Organization Development Certificate

Edith Seashore - Organization Development Certificate Program - Organization & Management - Antioch University New England

Organization Development Program Faculty

Program faculty are highly experienced OD practitioners and graduate faculty members skilled in working with adult learners. Faculty are assigned as advisors and work closely with students throughout the program. The program also uses select guest lecturers.

Edith Whitfield Seashore has been consulting to industrial, military, educational and voluntary organizations for the past forty years. She is a social psychologist and organization development specialist concerned with organizational change, team building, strategic planning, and building multi-cultural organizations.

Her clients have included:

Mitel Corp. (1997-present)
Nortel Networks (1996-present)
Winterthur Museum and Garden—Wilmington, Delaware (1999-present)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1997-present)
The Smithsonian Institution Facilities Services (1993-present)
Franklin Square Hospital (1998-2000)
Hood College (1998-2000)
Defense Mapping Agency (1993-2000)
Chase Manhattan Bank (1997-2000)
The United States Naval Academy (1975-83)
The World Bank (1975-80)
Washington National Cathedral (1985-95)
The American Red Cross Blood Services (1993-95)
U.S. Catholic Conference—Missionary and Refugee Services (1992-94)
U.S. West (1980-1989)
Sun MicroSystems, Inc. (1991-93)

Along with her consulting practice, Edie Seashore served as President of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science from 1974 to 1979, a 55 year old human relations training and OD consulting organization. She is a Professional Member of the NTL Institute and a member of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues of the American Psychological Association. She is the recipient of the Organization Development Network Lifetime Achievement Award—November, 2001.

In addition to working with organizations, Edie Seashore has been teaching change management, organizational development, conflict resolution, and consulting skills at the Johns Hopkins, American, Georgetown and Concordia (Montreal, Canada) Universities. In 1979, she received the Citation of Merit for Outstanding Contribution to the Applied Behavioral Sciences from the University of Southern California, School of Public Administration. In 1979, along with her colleague Morley Segal, Edie founded the American University/NTL Master’s Program in Organizational Development. The 52nd class just began: two classes of 28 students go into the program yearly.

Edie Seashore has spoken extensively on organization development and change, multi-cultural organizations, leadership, group dynamics, and management development for executive groups in the public and private sectors and at various national conventions. She has conducted a number of Open Space Technology programs, including two for DMA, each with 450 people, and several Future Search Conferences, one most recently for the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and Antioch University’s McGregor School for Management with the faculty, students and all stakeholders. She also teaches these technologies to her university students. Edie Seashore is a certified Myers-Briggs trainer.

Among her publications are Breaking Sex Role Stereotypes: Power, Collusion, Intimacy & Sexuality, and Support in collaboration with Barbara B. Bunker, and she has co-authored the book What Did You Say—The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback with Charles Seashore and Jerry Weinberg (1992). She is a co-editor of The Promise of Diversity published in 1994.

She received her BA from Antioch College and her MA from Columbia University, and has been extensively trained by the NTL Institute. She is married to Charles Seashore, also a social psychologist and organization development consultant. They have two daughters (Becky, Yale ’88, and Kimberly, Harvard ’92).

Last Updated: 4/21/08