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Tojo
Thatchenkery Education Biography Dr. Thatchenkery's research has been funded by agencies such as the United States National Science Foundation and the U.S. National Security Agency. His recent books include Appreciative Inquiry and Knowledge Management: A Social Constructionist Perspective (2007), Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn (Harvard Business Review 2006 Reading List), and Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge: Leveraging Knowledge Management for Strategic Change (2005). He has also used the appreciative lens to study contemporary themes such as globalization and offshoring which has resulted in the release of another book (co-edited), Information Communication Technology and Economic Development: Learning from the Indian Experience (2006). Dr. Thatchenkery founded the Masters in New Professional Studies program at George Mason University (with Professor Hugh Sockett) and served as its director since its inception in 1995 until 2001. He also founded the Organizational Learning Laboratory at the George W. Johnson Learning Center and served as its director from 1995 to 2000. During this time the facility was featured as one of the leading laboratories for organizational learning and knowledge management by the Academy of Management and the Project Management Journal and served clients such as Fannie Mae. For more than fifteen years Dr. Thatchenkery has been researching, consulting, and teaching in two areas, appreciative organizational design and ethnic social capital. Examples of the former include Appreciative Inquiry which he has teaching to graduate students at George Mason University since 1993. He has written extensively on appreciative processes in organizations, which include his doctoral dissertation, numerous refereed publications, and books. His second line of research and consulting focuses on Asian Americans and organizational mobility. Starting with his (co-edited) special issue of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences in 1997 on this topic, he is one of the first researchers to analyze the human and social capital dynamics unique to Asian Americans in federal agencies and corporate America. Dr. Thatchenkery regularly consults and offers workshops to public and private sector organizations on this topic. Dr. Thatchenkery is on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences and the Journal of Organizational Change Management. He is also the book review editor of the Journal of Organizational Change Management and the past Program Chair of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management(http://aomonline.org). Dr. Thatchenkery has extensive consulting experience in change management, organizational design, and knowledge management. Past and current clients include IBM, Fannie Mae, Booz Allen Hamilton, PNC Bank, Lucent Technologies, General Mills, British Petroleum, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, United States Department of Agriculture, EPA, and the Tata Consulting Services. Tojo lives in Chantilly, Virginia with his wife and daughter and can be reached through thatchen@gmu.edu or www.appreciativeintelligence.com Areas of Expertise
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