BIO
Dana Kaminstein
is a Fellow at the Aresty Institute of
Executive Education in The Wharton School and Affiliated Faculty, Center for Organizational Dynamics, in the School of Arts and Sciences. He also maintains a private practice in
organizational consulting and research. He works with organizations at the group
and systems level on topics of leadership, conflict, health, self-reflection,
creating learning organizations, life-work balance, and change. For the last
several years he has focused on designing senior level executive education
programs for companies in the U.S., U.K. and South Africa. His recent research
has focused on group-as-a-whole, life-work balance, parallel process and the
consultant as container. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania.
CLASSES
DYNM 619:
Practicum in Organization Diagnosis
(co-taught with Nancie Zane)
DYNM 628: Organizational
Diagnosis: Diagnostic Strategies for Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness
(co-taught with
Nancie Zane)
RESEARCH AND
PUBLICATIONS
2003 Smith, Kenwyn K., Dana S. Kaminstein. "Consultant as Container: Assisting Organizational Rebirth in Mandela's South Africa." The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 39(2), 145, 168.
2002
Smith, Kenwyn K., David L. Eldridge, Dana S. Kaminstein, and Paul D. Allison.
“Corporate health revisited: An update on illness and organizational
dynamics.” Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 38(2).
2000 Kaminstein, Dana S., Kenwyn K. Smith, David L. Eldridge, and
R. Miller. "Quiet Chaos: An Organizational consultation in Mandela's South
Africa." Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 52(1),
49-62.
1996 Kaminstein, Dana S. "Persuasion in a Toxic Community:
Rhetorical Aspects of Public Meetings." Human Organization 55(4):458-464.
1995 Smith, Kenwyn K., Dana Kaminstein, & Richard Makadok. "The Health
of the Corporate Body: Illness and Organizational Dynamics," Journal of
Applied Behavioral Science, 31 (3): 328-351.
1995 Kaminstein, Dana S. "A resource mobilization analysis of a failed
environmental protest." Journal of Community Practice 2(2): 5-32.
1988 Kaminstein, Dana. "Toxic Talk," Social Policy
(Fall 1988), 5-10.
LINKS
CONTACT
The Aresty Institute of Executive
Education
The Wharton School
255 S. 38th Street
Philadelphia PA 19104
Telephone:
610-664-0906
Fax: 215-898-8934
E-mail: dkamin@wharton.upenn.edu