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Pamela Johnson

• B.A., Art and History, Willamette State University
• Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University

Pamela Johnson currently teaches Core Curriculum at LIOS, and also teaches students specializing in Consulting and Coaching in Organizatons. She has served as an internal consultant for an Oregon-based insurance company, and has consulted externally with a variety of clients in health care, utilities, aerospace, non-profits, and retail food industries.

Pam earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University in 1992, and her academic interests have included global social change initiatives, ecological sustainability as an emerging planetary paradigm, and appreciative inquiry as a transformative social change methodology. She has co-authored a textbook, Sustainability Perspectives for Resources and Business. She also co-authored a chapter entitled "Finding a path with heart: Global social change organizations and their challenge for the field of organizational development" from Research in organizational change and development, vol. 5, as well as other papers and articles related to the issue of ecological sustainability and planetary ethics.

Her current interests are inter-organizational development, and systemic approaches to working with paradox and polarity in human systems. Pam enjoys foreign travel and learning languages, and is seeking to unleash the artist within as she begins to explore drawing and watercolor painting.