Making the Invisible Visible

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 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.

Keimei Sugiyama is an experienced consultant at a large global management consulting company. She has served in various team lead functions for communications, training, stakeholder management, and organizational change work. Her previous experience in several different corporate Human Resource functions, as well as in conducting seminars on career management for Asian Americans, spurred her interest and subsequent research for the Asian American workforce topics covered in this book. She has her bachelor’s degree from Smith College where she conducted research on Japanese American Internment literature, and has her master’s degree from George Mason University in Organization Development and Knowledge Management. She also presented at the 2008 Academy of Management with Professor Thatchenkery.