Dana Kaminstein, PhD Fellow, Aresty Institute of Executive Education, Wharton School; Affiliated Faculty, Organizational Dynamics, School of Arts and Sciences The Aresty Institute of Executive Education - The Wharton School 255 S. 38th St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: 610-664-0906 Fax: 215-898-8934 E-mail: dkamin@wharton.upenn.edu Website: http://www.himd.co.jp/en/wh-emp/core_instructors.html

Biography

Dana Kaminstein, Ph.D., is a Fellow at the Aresty Institute of Executive Education in The Wharton School and Affiliated Faculty, 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.

Research

• 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.

Courses

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