Gilmore Crosby

Gilmore Crosby is an Organization Development (OD) practitioner and Professor of Applied Social Science at the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS). His career began in 1984, following in his father’s footsteps (whose own OD career had begun in 1953). He has published seven books. His latest, Leadership and the Frontline Workforce, teaches leadership and Lewinian change illuminated through interviews of frontline workers and others who have been there.

While embracing the past, Crosby experiments in the present, conducting T-group learning in organizations, on-line T-groups, and various uses of new technology and social media.

His mission is to help create a better future for humanity. He believes the most reliable means for doing so lies in the theories and methods of Kurt Lewin. Crosby’s credo is asserted in the title of his fourth book: Planned Change: Why Kurt Lewin’s Social Science is still best practice for Business Performance, Change Management & Human Progress. His sixth book, Diversity without Dogma, applies Lewin’s science to decreasing prejudice. Mr. Crosby is a father, a grandfather, and happily married to a Jamaican.