Professor, Worcester Polytechnical Institute.

I have published on a range of topics including organizational change, classroom and organizational learning, dissent in organizations, high altitude mountaineering (the May ’96 Everest climbing disaster), discourse and narrative in environmental management and strategy, enterprise system implementation, and social entrepreneurship and innovation. Most recently, I have been engaged in research that focuses on social innovation and ethical sensemaking at food banks and other food-related enterprises; inequality in the industrial food system; sensemaking and identity in organizational change; social drama and institutional preservation work; and the role of place in social innovation and environmental management. In 2005, I was a Fulbright Senior Scholar to New Zealand and in 2010 cofounded and now direct (with Ingrid Shockey) the Wellington, New Zealand Project Center. In this role I have helped to develop sponsor relationships and projects that focus on climate change and flooding, sustainability, conservation education, human-wildlife interaction, earthquake and tsunami issues, museum studies, alternative energy innovations, and indigenous Māori concerns.

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