Tom Cummings

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About Tom Cummings

Dr. Thomas G. Cummings is a leading international scholar and consultant on designing high-performing organizations and strategic change. He is currently Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Dr. Cummings is also a senior member of the renowned Center for Effective Organizations at USC, a world leader in applied knowledge of high-involvement organizations, team-based work, innovative reward systems, and large-scale change. During the past 50 years, Dr. Cummings has served as a senior consultant to numerous Fortune 100 companies in designing high-performing organizations and managing strategic change. He also has conducted numerous in-house workshops and corporate retreats showing companies how to develop corporate strategies, how to design high-performing organizations, and how to devise change programs for implementing them. Dr. Cummings is widely recognized in both business and academic communities for his many contributions to knowledge about strategic change and high-performing organizations. He has authored over 80 articles and 25 books including the critically acclaimed: Self-Designing Organizations: Learning How to Create High Performance (with Susan Mohrman) and Organization Development and Change, 11th Edition (with Chris Worley). Dr. Cummings was formerly President of the Western Academy of Management, Chair of the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management, and Founding Editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry. Dr. Cummings was the 61st President of the Academy of Management, the largest professional association of management scholars in the world with a total membership of over He is listed in American Men and Women of Science and Who's Who in America.