Tojo Thatchenkery is Professor and Director of M.S. in Organization Development and Knowledge Management at the School of Public Policy. He is also a member of the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science (www.ntl.org) and the Taos Institute (www.taosinstitute.net). Dr. Thatchenkery has over twenty years of experience in teaching at various Public Policy, MBA, Organization Development, and executive programs in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

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

• Appreciative Intelligence
• Ethnicity, Social Capital and Organizational Mobility
• Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Development of Southeast Asia
• Knowledge Management
• Organizational Change
• Organizational Learning and Development

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Education
Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio

M.A. in Organizational Psychology, University of Delhi, India

B.A. in Psychology, University of Delhi, India

Professional Experience
Professor of Organization Development, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Current.

Associate Professor of Organizational Learning, College of Arts and Sciences and School of Public Policy, George Mason University, 1997- 2006.

Faculty, Cultural Studies Doctoral Program, George Mason University, 1994 – Current.

Assistant Professor of Organizational Learning, Program on Social and Organizational Learning, College of Arts and Sciences, George Mason University, 1993 – 1997:

Lecturer, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi. India, 1983- 1987.

Research Associate, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India, 1982-1983

Visiting Professor, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland.

Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Management, Adelaide University, South Australia.

Books
Thatchenkery, T., B. S. Sahay, G. D. Sardana, eds. Handbook on Management Cases, New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2008.

Thatchenkery, T. and D. Chowdhry. Appreciative Inquiry and Knowledge Management: A Social Constructionist Perspective. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007.

Thatchenkery, T. and C. Metzker. Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oaks in the Acorn. San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler, 2006.
Korean, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Rumanian translations.

Thatchenkery, Tojo, and R. Stough, eds. Information Communication Technology and Economic Development. Learning from the Indian Experience. Cambridge, MA: Edward Elgar, 2006.

Thatchenkery, Tojo. Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge: Leveraging Knowledge Management for Strategic Change. Chagrin Falls, Ohio: Taos Institute Publishing, 2005.

Book Sections
Thatchenkery, T., and I. Firbida. “The Role of Appreciative Intelligence in Creating High Performing Organizations: A Case Study of Rocky Flats Nuclear Waste Cleanup.” In Handbook on Management Cases. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2008.

Thatchenkery, T. “Postmodernity”. In International Encyclopedia of Organizational Studies, edited by S. Clegg and J. Bailey. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2007.

Gergen, K. and Thatchenkery T. "Organizational Science and the Promises of Postmodernism." In Social Construction of Organizations. D. M. H. a. S. McNamee. Malmo, Sweden, Liber and Copenhagen Business School Press: 34-41, 2006.

Thatchenkery, T. "Organization Development in Asia: Globalization, Homogenization, and the End of Culture-specific Practices." The N.T.L. Handbook of Organization Development and Change: Principles, Practices, and Perspectives. B. J. a. M. Brazzel. San Francisco, Pfeiffer/Wiley: 387-403, 2006.

Editorships
Thatchenkery, T., ed. Journal of Organizational Change Management. Emerald Publishing, 2008.

Thatchenkery, T., and R. R. Stough, eds. Information Communication Technology and Economic Development. Learning from the Indian Experience. Cambridge, MA: Edward Elgar, 2005.

Journal Articles
Thatchenkery, T., R. Behara, C. Kenney. “Empathic Knowledge Management: Reverse Simulation Experiments in a Learning Laboratory.” International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 7, no. 3 (2008): 283-314.

Thatchenkery, T. "Applying Appreciative Intelligence at the Organizational Level." Public Sector Digest (2007): 57-62.

Thatchenkery, T. "Appreciative Intelligence, Public Sector Leadership and the Art of Transforming Opportunities into Realities." Public Sector Digest 6 (2007): 7-14.

Thatchenkery, T. "Developing Your Appreciative Intelligence for Professional Growth and Career Success." Kaustubham 3 (2007): 12-15.

Thatchenkery, T. a. C. M. "Appreciative Intelligence at Work." Organisations and People 13(4) (2006): 33-40.

Thatchenkery, T. a. C. M. "Developing Your Appreciative Intelligence." Transformations: Journal of the World Business Academy 20(14) (2006): 5-15.

Thatchenkery, T. a. C. M. "The Secret to highly Successful People." Ode 4(5) (2006): 64-67.

Presentations and Proceedings
Thatchenkery, T. “The Promise and Reality of Management Education. A World View.” Presentation at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, 2009.

Thatchenkery, T., and K. Sugiyama. “Missing in Mobility: An Analysis of Leadership Invisibility of Asian Americans in Organizations. Presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Anaheim, CA, 2008.

Thatchenkery, T., and J. Heineman-Pieper. “Game-Changing Questions: Seeking Futures Outside a ‘Development’ Paradigm.” Presented at the 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Anaheim, CA, 2008.

Thatchenkery, T., and K. McGee. “Organizational Improvement Through Appreciative Intelligence.” Presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, Anaheim, CA, 2008.

Thatchenkery, T. “Appreciative Intelligence, Opportunity Recognition, and Economic Development: Inventing – Innovating – Interpreting the BRIC Nations.” Presented at the Management of Meaning in Organizations International Conference, Poznan, Poland, OR, 2008.

Thatchenkery, T., and J. Heineman-Pieper. “Endogeny Within the Endogenous: The Role of Appreciative Intelligence in Regional Economic Development.” Presented at the International Workshop on Regional Endogenous Development, Brisbane, Australia, 2008.

Thatchenkery, T. “Innovation and Transformational Change.” Keynote presentation at the 30th International Organization Development Conference at Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, 2008.