This document provides a summary of Gary Gemmill's professional experience and qualifications. It outlines his extensive experience as a professor of organizational behavior at Syracuse University, where he designed and taught several graduate courses. It also lists his work as a contributing faculty member at other universities and as an organizational consultant. Gemmill has published several books and articles on topics related to leadership, teams, and organizational dynamics. He has a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Michigan State University and additional training in fields like gestalt therapy and group relations.

1. GARY GEMMILL, Ph.D.
Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University
721 University Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244
USA
Telephone (315) 399 - 0237
garygemmill37@gmail.com
PROFESSIONALWORK EXPERIENCE:
Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
ProfessorEmeritus of Organizational Behavior
1997 to current
I have taught three graduate courses in the iMBA program: authority
and power dynamics in organizations, organizational process
consultation skills, and structured learning intervention for
organizational development. These are all intensive experiential
learning type courses that I personally designed. Additionally, for

2. exceptional students who complete the series there is an opportunity to
take part in a practicum. Additionally, during the last three years I have
been consulting with the Chair of the TV, Radio, and Film Department
of the Newhouse School of Public Communications on the
development of creative collaborative teamwork skills for students
involved in producing films and TV series. One of the TV series won a
college Emmy and 2 others won Tellie’s. I have also taught courses in
Creative Collaboration Team Dynamics for the departments of interior
and industrial design within the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
Additionally, for the past 3 years I have taught classes in the Public
Administration Department of the Maxwell School of Citizenship on
Smart Team Dynamics for Creative Collaboration to Mandela Fellows
in the Young African Leader Program initiated by President Obama. I
also designed and taught an intensive one-week coursein cross-cultural
leadership dynamics for iMBA student in Istanbul, Turkey.
Research Professorof Organizational Behavior
1995
ProfessorofOrganizational Behavior
1980
Associate Professorof Organizational Behavior
1972
Assistant Professorof Organizational Behavior
1966
Full-time position teaching graduate courses in leadership, group
development, authority and power dynamics in organizations,
organizational process consultation, organizational dynamics, and
organizational development. I have also taught in non-credit executive
development programs, the Executive MBA Program, international
management programs, independent study MBA program, and
programs Personal Growth in the Humanistic Studies Center.
Additionally, I taught for a semester in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
I also developed a Woman in Management course as well as a course
in Management for Nurses.

3. Walden University
Applied Management & Decision Sciences Division
Minneapolis, MN
Contributing Faculty
1995 – 2014
Involved as a Faculty Mentor to Doctoral Students in a distant learning
Ph.D. Program. I was instrumental in developing a specialization in
Leadership and Organization Change for Ph.D. students and have served as
the faculty coordinator for the specialization.
Ecole des sciences de la gestion
Universitie du Quebec a Montreal
315, rue Sainte-Catherine Est
Montreal(Quebec)
Visiting Faculty
1998 – 2014
I have designed and taught one-week intensive applied creative collaborative
team dynamics programs for an Executive MBA program in Real Estate.
Antioch University
Yellow Springs, Ohio
Visiting Faculty
October2009
I was a Professorfor an intensive weekend coursein the Perceptual
Dynamics of Interpersonal Relationships.
University of Fort Hare
Alice, South Africa
External Ph.D. reviewer of dissertations concerning significant social
conflicts and problems in Africa. 2011- current.
A CEU online course for Psychedu based on the book:“A View from the
Cosmic Mirror: Reflections of the Self in Everyday Life” 2010 to current.

4. Psycheduis approved by:
Board of Registered Nursing (#13620)
CAMFT - California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists - Course
meets the qualifications for continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs,
LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral
Sciences; (64946)
California Board of Behavioral Science - Our CE Provider Status with CA BBS
is valid through July 31, 2015. After that date, our CE Provider Approvals
through CAMFT, NASW, NBCC and APA will take over.
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Mental
Health Counseling (BAP 753 )
NAADAC - The Association for Addiction Professionals (#575)
National Board for Certified Counselors - www.psychceu.com is an NBCC-
Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP-TM) and may offer NBCC-
approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP
solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. (ACEP #6055)
Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (#1761)
The Texas Board of Social Work Examiners (#6246)
Organization Consultant
Organization consultant for team development, organization development
and leadership development. Clients have included banks, small
manufacturing companies, pharmaceutical firms, National Iranian
Radio/TV network where I trained instructional developer in Creative
Collaboration Skills the year before the revolution, several universities, a
federal government agency, a county health department, a police
department, a VA hospital, other hospitals, and camp associations for
inner-city children in Boston and NYC. Additionally, I have been a staff
member for intensive human relations programs focused on personal
growth and group processes for the Continuing Educational Center of
Princeton Theological Seminary. I was also a staff member for a 10-day
Gestalt Therapy Graduate Course at the University of Rhode Island for 4
years, and taught several weekend Graduate Gestalt Therapy Courses at
Southern Connecticut State College.
1966 - present

5. Personal Growth Consultant
I have done several weekend and week-long personal growth groups in
White Plains, New York, Stamford, Connecticut, Syracuse, NY, and
Provincetown, Cape Cod since 1976. Since 2010 I have been doing
weekend personal growth groups based on my co-authored book:A View
from the Cosmic Mirror: Reflections of the Self in Everyday Life. I have
done these groups in Yellow Springs, Ohio; Monterey, California, Walnut
Creek, California, Austin, Texas, Old Forge, NY, Provincetown, MA. and
Syracuse, NY.
Community Service
I have worked as a certified AVP trainer as a volunteer group facilitator for
3-day intensive programs in non-violent conflict management for inmates in
maximum-security prisons in New York State. The programs were offered
through the Alternatives to Violence Project which was started by Intimates.
The program is voluntary for the intimates and outside facilitators. The staff
for all programs is a combination of intimate facilitators and outside
facilitators. There are 3 basic programs which include a basic workshop,
advanced workshop, and trainer development workshop. I have also been a
consultant for the first trainer development program for Equality Circles
which focus on dealing constructively with community wide racial dynamics
in Auburn, NY.
1992 to 1996
EDUCATION:
Graduate Education
Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, Graduate Schoolof Business,
Michigan State University, 1966.
M.B.A., Graduate Schoolof Business, Michigan State University,
1962.

6. Post Graduate Education
Completion of 3 one-week courses in Accelerated Experiential
Dynamic Psychotherapy at the Cape Cod Summer Institute in
Eastham, MA. 2011 to 2013.
Completed certification program for administering and interpreting
the Myers/Briggs Type Indicator at the American Management
Association in New York City in September 2010.
Certified as a ProfessionalGroup Development Consultant by Certified
Consultants International (formerly the International Association of
Applied Social Scientists). 1977-1989. I also was for a time the Chair
of the North East Region handling certification and re-certification
processes for Laboratory Trainers, Group Development Trainers, and
Organizational Development Trainers.
Participated in four-week long group relations programs on leadership
and authority sponsored by the Washington/Baltimore Center of the A
K. Rice Institute. I also attended an advanced group process seminar,
focused on group consultation, held at the Washington School of
Psychiatry and sponsored by the Washington/Baltimore A.K. Rice
Center. The leaders for the seminar were Margaret Rioch, Ph.D. and
Marvin Geller, Ph.D. 1982-1987.
Postgraduate Diploma in Gestalt Therapy from the Gestalt Training
Center of San Diego, California, a three-month residential professional
training program for members of the helping professions led and
supervised by E. Polster, Ph.D. and M. Polster, Ph.D. 1976. In
conjunction with this training I did several therapist’s marathons with
Elizabeth Mintz, Ph.D. in and around New York City. 1974 –1979. She
is noted for her classic book “Marathon Groups: Reality and Symbol.
Additionally, Iattended somebodybased psychotherapyworkshops for
professionals in Bioenergetics and Psychomotor Therapy.
Recognized as both a Professional Personal Growth Consultant and a
Professional Group Development Consultant by the Association for
Creative Change in Religious and Other Social Systems. This was the

7. result of approximately 800 hours of supervised professional training
in the laboratory method of education primarily through the Laboratory
Trainer/Consultant Network under the Mentorship of K. A. Nakajima,
Ph.D. 1974 - 1978.
Certified byThe Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) as a facilitator
for 3-day intensive workshops on non-violent ways of resolving
conflict for state prison inmates. 1995.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
In process:A Roadmap for Creative Collaborationin Teams, (with
Michael Schoonmaker, Ph.D.)
In process:The Deathof the Leader: The Dynamics of Holacracy.
The View from the Cosmic Mirror: Reflections of the Self in
Everyday Life, (with George Kraus, Ph.D., AuthorHouse 2010.
TeamMirroring (with Marlene Rodenbaugh), HANDLEY Group,
Inc.: Doylestown, PA 2004.
Articles
Spirituality and Servant Leader Behavior: A Correlational Study (with
Debra Beazley) to be published in Journal of Management,Religion,
and Spirituality: An InternationalReferred Journal, 3, 3, 2006.
Leadership in the Shadow of 9/11, Ephemera, 2,1, 2002
Managing the Dynamics of Having ‘Nothing to Say’ in Small Groups,
in E. Biech (Ed.), The 2000 Annual:Volume2 Consulting, Jossey-
Bass, 2000.
Leadership: An Alienating Social Myth? (with J. Oakley) published in
K. Grint, Readingsin Leadership, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Originally published in Human Relations during 1992.

8. The Hidden Side of Leadership in Technical Team Management,
(with D. Wilemon), Research/TechnologyManagement (formerly
Research Management), 37, 6, November-December 1994.
FeedbackExchange: Managing Group Closure, (with Gary
Wagenheim), Journal of ManagementEducation,18, 2, May 1994.
Mirror, Mask, and Shadow: Psychodynamics Aspects of Intergroup
Relations, (with Michael Elmes) Journal of ManagementInquiry, 2,
1, 1993.
The Meaning of Boredom in Organizational Life, (with Judith
Oakley) Group and OrganizationalStudies, 17, 4, 1992. Reviewed in
Logo Therapy:Journal of Search for Meaning, 18, 2, 1995.
Leadership: An Alienating Social Myth? (with J. Oakley) Human
Relations, 45, 2, (113-129), 1992. This article is still listed as one of
the 50 most cited articles from this journal (2010). Additionally, it is
reprinted in S. Haslam & S. Reicher, PsychologyofLeadership,
Volume 2, 2014, Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks: CA.
Change in the Small Group:A Dissipate Structure Perspective, (with
C. Smith) Human Relations, 44, 7, (697-716), 1991.
The Psychodynamics of Female/Male Role Differentiation in Small
Groups, (with L. Schaible) Small Group Research, 22, 2, (220-239),
1991.
The Psychodynamics of Small Group Transformation, (with C.
Wynkoop) SmallGroup Research, 22, 1, (4-23), 1991.
Group Mirroring as a Means for Exploring the Group Shadow: A
Perspective for Organizational Consultation, (with M. Costello)
Consultation:An InternationalJournal, 9, 4, (277-291), 1990.
The Psychodynamics of the Client-Consultant Nexus in
Organizational Process Consultation, (with C. Wynkoop),
Consultation:An InternationalJournal, 9, 2, (129-140), 1990.

9. Idiosyncratic Effects of Implicit Theories of Leadership, (with G.
Kraus), Psychological Report, 66, (247-257), 1990.
The Psychodynamics of Group Mindlessness and Dissent in Small
Groups, (with M. Elmes), SmallGroup Research, 21, 1, (28-44),
1990.
The Dynamics of Scapegoating in Small Groups, SmallGroup
Behavior, 20, 4, (406-418), 1989.
Dynamics of Covert Role Analysis: Small Groups, (with G. Kraus),
SmallGroup Behavior, 19, 3, (299-311), 1988.
The Dynamics of the Group Shadow in Intergroup Relations, Small
Group Behavior, 17, 2, (229-240), 1986.
The Mythology of the Leader Role in Small Groups, SmallGroup
Behavior, 17, 1, (41-50), 1986.
A Dissipate Structure Model of Organization Transformation, (with C.
Smith), Human Relations, 38, 8, (751-766), 1985.
Conflict Management: Myth and Reality (with B. Aytek), in D. Cole
(Ed.) Conflict Resolution Technology, 1983.
Unconscious Psychological Processesin Conflict Management, (with
B. Aytek), METU:Studiesin Development, 9, 1, (75-86), 1982.
Executive and MBA Student Views of CorporatePromotion Practices,
A Structural Comparison, (with W. Heisler), Journalof the Academy
of Management,21, 4, (731-737), 1978.
Machiavellianism, Job Satisfaction, Job Strain, and Upward Mobility:
Some Cross-Organizational Evidence, (with W. Heisler),
Psychological Reports, 4, 9, (592-594), 1977.
Interpersonal Trust and Personal Effectiveness in the Work
Environment, (with C. Hollon), Psychological Reports, 40, 1, 1977.
Toward the Person-Centered Organization, in W. Heisler and J.

10. Houck (Eds.), A Matter of Dignity: Inquiries into the Humanization of
Work, University of Notre Dame Press (1977), 197-205. Abstracted in
the Philosopher's Index, 1980.
The Promotion Beliefs of Managers as a Factorin Upward Mobility:
An Exploratory Study, (with D. De Salvia), Sloan Management
Review, 18, 2, (75-82), 1977.
How Managers View Promotions, Advanced ManagementJournal,
(with D. De Salvia), 42, 3, (40-47), 1977.
A Comparison of Female and Male Professional Employees in
Academia on Perceived Participation in Decision-Making, Job-
Related Tension, Job Involvement, and Overall Job Satisfaction, (with
C. Hollon), EducationalAdministration Quarterly 2, 1, 1976.
L'Organization Humaniste, Revue Commerce, (with R. Chesser& R.
Sheitoyan), September, (9- 12), 1975.
L'Organization Socio-Technique et Le Processesd'Adaptationaux
Changements, Revue Commerce, (with R. Chesser & R. Sheitoyan),
October, (12-17), 1975.
La Personne et L'Organization: Conflict ou Integration, Revue
Commerce, (with R. Chesser & R. Sheitoyan), November, (13-17),
1975.
Influence Styles of Project Managers: Some Project Performance
Correlates, (with H. Thamhain), Journal of Academy of Management,
17, 2, ~216-224), 1974.
The Effectiveness of Project Managers' Power Styles in Gaining
Project Support, (with H. Thamhain), IEEE Transactions on
Engineering Management, 20, 2, (38-43), 1975. Also reprinted in the
Project ManagementQuarterly, 5, 1, (1974). Received a prize paper
award from the Engineering Management Society. Listed in ISMEC
Bulletin, August 1973.
The Venture Manager as a CorporateInnovator, (with D. Wilemon),
California ManagementReview, 16, 1, (49-56), 1973.

11. Persuasion: Turning Opponents into Allies, (with D. De Salvia),
Modern Materials Handling,28, 1, 1973.
Fatalism as a Factor in Managerial Job Strain, Job Satisfaction, and
Mobility, (with W. Heisler), Personnel Psychology, 25, 2, (241-250),
1972.
Machiavellianism as a Factorin Managerial Job Strain, Job
Satisfaction, and Mobility, (with W. Heisler), Journal of the Academy
of Management,15, 1, (51-64), 1972. Reprinted in J. Bartera,
Contemporary and ClassicalReadingsin Human Relations,
Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, Iowa, 1974.
Perceptual Accuracy and the Promotion Process, Southern Journalof
Business, 6, 2, 1972.
The ProductManager as an Influence Agent, (with D. Wilemon),
Journal of Marketing, January 1972, 36, 1, (26-30), 1970. Reprinted
in: Readingsin Marketing, Dushkin Publishing, Guilford, CT., 1973.
Interpersonal Power in Temporary Management Systems, (with D.
Wilemon), Journal of ManagementStudies, 8, 3, (315-328), 1971. It
is also excerpted in M. Badawy, Making it in Management, Van
Nostrand-Reinhold Co., New York, 1981.
An Exploratory Study of the Personal Value Systems of College
Students and Managers (with D. De Salvia), Journalof the Academy
of Management,14, 2, (227-238), 1971.
Interpersonal Barriers to Effective ProductManagement, (with D.
Wilemon, British Journal of Marketing, 4, 1, 1971.
The Power Spectrum in Project Management, (with D. Wilemon),
Sloan ManagementReview, 12, 1, (15-26), 1970.
Managing Upward Communications, Personnel Journal, 49, 2, (107-
110), 1970. A condensation appeared in the Management Review,
May 1970.

12. Reward Mapping and Upward Mobility, Managementof Personnel
Quarterly, 9, 4, (3-7), 1970.Managerial Role Mapping, The
Managementof Personnel Quarterly, 8, 3, (13-19), 1969.
The Autonomous Manager, Business and Economic Dimensions, 15,
7, (1-5), 1969.
How Managers Use Staff Advice, Personnel, September-October, 45,
5, (48-52), 1968. Reprinted in Readingsin Management, General
Learning Press, Morristown, N.J., 1972.
Experiential Learning Simulations
Symbols as a Mirror to See the Self, in E. Biech (Ed.), The2000
Consulting Annual:Volume2, Jossey-Bass, 2000.
FeedbackLetter: Achieving Closure (with Gary Wagenheim), The 1996
Annual:Volume 1: Training, Pfeiffer & Co.: San Diego, 1996.
Whirlybird: An Intergroup Simulation, in The 1992 Annual:Developing
Human Resources, University Associates: La Jolla, CA. (1992).
Team Development: A TORIModel, in J. Pfeiffer and J. Jones, A
Handbookof Structured Experiences for Human RelationsTraining,Vol.
VI, University Associates:La Jolla, CA. (1977).
Mirror Images: An Exercise in the Projective Nature of Interpersonal
Feedback, in Sourcebook of Structured Exercises: Interpersonal Skills,
Indiana State University Press, (1976).
An Omega Experience: An Exercise for Integrating Learnings,
Sourcebook of Structured Experiences: Interpersonal Skills, Indiana State
University Press, (1976).
An Alpha Experience: An Inclusion Exercise, Sourcebook of Structured
Experiences: Interpersonal Skills, Indiana State University Press. (1976).
Helpful and Hindering Group Membership Roles, (with D. Mace),

13. Participant and Instructor's Manual: Unit I of Working Together for
Action a Project in Self-Advocacy for the Aging, University College and
All-University Gerontology Center of Syracuse University, Summer,
(1976).
GPS:Group Problem Solving Techniques, (with D. Mace), Participant
and Instructor's Manual: Unit II of Working Together for Action. A
Project in Self-Advocacy for the Aging, Summer, (1976).
PLAN: Group Action Planning, (with D. Mace), Participant and
Instructor's Manual: Unit III of Working Together for Action: A
Project in Self-Advocacy for the Aging, summer, (1976).
Expressing Anger: A Self-Disclosure Exercise, in J. Pfeiffer and J.
Jones, A Handbookof Structured Experiences for Human Relations
Training, Vol. IV, University Associates:Iowa City, IA, (1973).
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
Quantum Team Management: TheWave of the Future, presented at
the Analytical Laboratory Managers Association's National
Conference in Morristown, NJ (1995).
The Invisible Sideof Leadership in TemporaryManagementSystems,
(with D. Wilemon), presented at the Conference on Temporary
Organizations and Project Management at the University of Umea in
Umea, Sweden, 1994.
Chair for caucus group on Emotions, Irrationality, and Covert
Processes in OrganizationalLife, Academy of Management Annual
Conference (Miami 1991).
The Psychodynamicsof Boredom in OrganizationalLife, (with J.
Oakley), presented at the National Meeting of the Association of
Management in Atlantic City, N.J. (August 1991).
Mirror, Mask, and Shadow:Psychodynamicsof Intergroup
Negotiations, (with M. Elmes), presented at the Fourth Annual
Conference of the International Association of Conflict Management

14. in Den Dolder, The Netherlands. (June 1991).
The Psychodynamicsof the Client-ConsultantNexus, (with C.
Wynkoop), presented at the National Meeting of the Association of
Management in Orlando, Florida. Received the Best Paper Award for
the Organizational Development Division, (August 1990).
Split Vision, Split Vitality: ThePsychodynamics of Female/MaleRole
Differentiation in Organizations, (with Lynn Schaible), presented at
the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management in San
Francisco, (August 1990).
The Vortex of Transformation. A ChaosModel of SmallGroup
Development, (with Cal Wynkoop), presented at the Annual
Conference of the Academy of Management in San Francisco,
(August 1990).
Ground in Organizations, (with D. De Salvia) presented at the Annual
Conference of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, (September 1988).
The LeaderMyth, presented at the First Cornell Symposium on the
Psychodynamics of Organizational Behavior and Experience at the
ILR Center, New York., N.Y. (October1986).
Product Managersand Job Satisfaction. A CasualModeling
Approach, (co-presenter), Annual National Meeting of the Academy
of Management, San Diego, CA. (August 1981).
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Faculty of the Year Award from the MBA Association in the
Whitman Schoolof Management at Syracuse University, 2009.
Faculty Mentor Award for Mentoring a Distinguished Dissertation at
Walden University, 2002.
Selected by the Graduate Student Association of the Schoolof
Management to be the Faculty Speaker as the 1992 Graduation
Convocation. May 1992

15. Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Schoolof Management,
Syracuse University. May 1991
Member of the Board of Editors and manuscript reviewer for Small
Group Research; reviewer for Human Relations;reviewer for Social
Science Quarterly; reviewer for the Journal of ManagementStudies;
and a bookreviewer for Administrative Science Quarterly. 1990 to
present
Chair of the Peer Review Panel of Region 1 (Northeast) of the
International Association of Applied Social Scientists. 1980 - 1982
REFERENCES
George Kraus, Ph.D. ABPP
3496 Buskirk Avenue, Suite 102
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Phone: 925 238-6466
Email: joy@georgekrausphd.com
Michael Schoonmaker, Ph.D.
Chair of the Television, Radio, and Film Dept.
Newhouse Schoolof Public Communications
215 University Place
Syracuse, NY 13244
Telephone: 315 443-9240
Email: msschoon@syr.edu
Cal Wynkoop, CEO
Wynkoop Consulting Group
59 Waln Street
Wellsboro, PA 16901
Phone: 607 426-4318
Email: cal@wynkoop.org