The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
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Dr. David Szabla is a faculty member in the Department of Educational Leadership, Research and Technology, College of Education and Human Development, Western Michigan University where he leads and teaches in the MA and PHD Programs in Organizational Change Leadership. For over twenty years Dr. Szabla has been guiding managers and leaders working in not-for-profit, for-profit, education, government, and military organizations to reach increased levels of organizational performance. His consulting expertise centers on organizational design, mergers and acquisitions, and individual, group, and organizational development. Dr. Szabla’s research centers on leadership and organizational change. Research underway include projects that are exploring organizational change momentum, the structuring of resistance to organizational change, and leadership in the era of emerging technologies. Dr. Szabla is also developing and validating two survey instruments: one that assesses perception of change strategy as perceived by those undergoing an organizational change, and one that assesses receptivity to organizational change along cognitive, emotional, intentional, and behavioral dimensions. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of the Palgrave Macmillan Handbook titled, The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Information Age Publishing Book Series, Research in Management Consulting, and the Edward Elgar Handbook of Research Methods in Organizational Change. Dr. Szabla has been published in several journals including Human Resource Development Quarterly and Research on Organizational Change and Development. Dr. Szabla received his doctorate in Human and Organizational Studies from The George Washington University.