Notes on Contributors

Seth Allcorn has more than twenty years of executive experience working with physicians, hospitals, and academic medical centres including as a Vice President of a university. He has worked for more than thirty years as a part-time and full-time organisational consultant specialising in the management of change and strategic planning. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, many of them with Howard Stein.

Ulrike Beland holds a PhD in economics and sociology from the University of Cologne, Germany. She is trained as an organisational consultant and works professionally as director for economic policy in a non-governmental organisation in Berlin.

Giovanni Di Stefano, PhD, psychologist and psycho-socioanalyst, is assistant professor of work and organisational psychology at the University of Palermo, Italy. His research interests include the experiential training, the organisational well-being, and the attachment to the workplace. Formerly HR specialist for a public-benefit corporation, as HR consultant and trainer his consulting includes health care, education, and not-for-profit enterprises.

Seth Harkins is principal of Harkins Educational Consulting and Advocacy, LLC. He is retired from a forty-five-year career in educational leadership K-12 and higher education, where he served in a variety of executive leadership roles. He has been adjunct professor at National Louis University, Chicago, IL since 1983. Dr Harkins has been involved in group relations conferences since 1985. He is a member of the board of directors of the A. K. Rice Institute, an A. K. Rice Fellow, and an A. K. Rice training and certification mentor. He has been involved in group relations conferences in China since 2014. Most recently he served as associate director for research, e-China Group Relations Conference: Trust and Conflict During a Time of Crisis and Unstable Boundaries. His current research interests involve students with alternate abilities and inclusion, recovery from ad