Gilmore Crosby
Gilmore Crosby is an author, father, Organization Development (OD) master practitioner, and engaging public speaker. His career dates to 1984, and he has been going strong ever since. Mr. Crosby’s methods are especially rooted in Kurt Lewin’s action research methods, and Edwin Friedman’s systems thinking. Gilmore is happily married to his wife Alecia, a Jamaican, and considers Jamaica his second home.
Biography
Gilmore Crosby and rock & roll were both born in the 1950s, and they suit each other. On the other hand, he spent his early childhood in segregated Nashville, and racism, sexism, and classism don’t suit Gilmore at all. With values deeply rooted in social justice, Gilmore has built a unique career helping people connect and treat each other with dignity and respect. He is an author, a father, an Organization Development (OD) master practitioner, and an engaging public speaker. His knowledge draws on his own 30+ years of experience, and that of his father, Robert P Crosby, who began his own OD career back in the 1950s. Gilmore jumped at the chance in 1984 to be his father's assistant on a bitterly contentious project for the city of Spokane, Washington, to decide the future of the main downtown park. He has been going strong ever since, with international experience in Egypt, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Poland, Canada, and Jamaica, as well as years spent at PECO Nuclear and as an IT Change Management Consultant with EDS.Gilmore is happily married to his wife Alecia, a Jamaican, and considers Jamaica his second home.
Gilmore's second book, "Leadership Can Be Learned: Clarity, Connection and Results" was published in November 2017. The third edition of his first book, "Fight, Flight, Freeze: Emotional Intelligence, Behavioral Science, Systems Theory & Leadership," was published by CrosbyOD Publishing in 2017 (the first edition was published in 2008).
Education
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MSW, University of Washington, 1984
BA, The Evergreen State College, 1982
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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While drawing from many sources, Mr. Crosby’s methods are especially rooted in Kurt Lewin’s action research methods, and Edwin Friedman’s systems thinking. Crosby’s application of Lewin’s T-group method provides a catalyst for deep and lasting individual and systemic change.
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My fourth Taylor & Francis title is out, Diversity without Dogma!
By: Gilmore Crosby
Subjects: Business & Management, Public Administration & Public Policy
Here is a descrition of my groundbreaking new book!
Social Scientist Kurt Lewin said, “No research without action, and no action without research.”
Too much of the current DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) approach is insight-based
instead of action-based. Even though institutional racism is identified as
the root problem, the change effort is focused on looking inward for bias instead
of taking action to eliminate institutional racism and other isms. A Lewinian approach, in contrast,
is balanced. What people think is important, but no more important than what
people do. If you bring people together to change things, this will change what
people think! We don’t need therapy nearly as much as we need action based on dialogue! Instead
of spending your energy soul-searching for evidence in your thoughts and behaviors
that you have unconscious biases, this book helps put your energy into doing
something practical about racism.
To get there, this book uses Lewin’s social science to build a framework for sorting through
the many approaches to and positions held on race, racism, diversity, and related topics. While
the framework is and must be applicable to any prejudice, systemic or individual, the bulk of
this exploration is focused on racism, which to a large degree has become the
primary social justice focus of our times. Painfully aware that conversations about race can easily
deteriorate into polarization, the author lays a path toward finding common ground.
Videos
Published: Nov 12, 2020
A brief video intro for my fantastic new book on Kurt Lewin's Planned Change! Don't practice OD or lead change without it!
Published: Mar 16, 2018
Gil Crosby describes his new book in front of one of his favorite Jamaican beaches.