 Joseph
Mancini, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.S.O.D. (Organization
Development) is a professional coach and organization
consultant focusing on conflict resolution, leadership
development, organization change, team building and diversity.
He provides organization consultation, management training,
and public presentations on all the above topics.
In his work with leaders and teams, he is able to tap
both his organization skills and training as an organization
development consultant and his clinical skills as a
private-practice therapist to improve individual and
team effectiveness. His significant expertise as both
a facilitator of a wide range of teams and an instructor
in group dynamics has helped teams significantly improve
the effectiveness of their communication and decision-making
processes as well as their ability to manage internal
and external conflict. He is widely sought after as
a process consultant to help teams ameliorate the significant
challenges they experience which impede their work tasks.
Selected clients include Logicon, U.S. Department of
Commerce, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Public Welfare Foundation, and the
U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Currently, he is
a faculty member for the Accelerated MBA Program in
the School of Business at George Washington University
and teaches leadership and other courses for the Office
of Continuing and Extended Education at the Univ. of
MD.
His background and skills in group dynamics combined
with his doctoral training in and teaching of literature
(as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland
and several other institutions) led to his creation
of RoundTable Theatre (RTT). This creative modality,
a tool for personal, professional and corporate change,
combines fun with seriousness in an improvisational
format. With Dr. Elizabeth Berney,
he uses RTT to help individuals and groups get out of
stuck places by imagining and playing out new possibilities.
Dr. Mancini also facilitates a variety of training
programs on leadership and career development, using
stories, archetypal schemas, drawing, journaling, and
other creative arts. He is also exploring the use of
storytelling to create group cohesion, foster creativity,
promote conflict resolution, influence others, transform
rigid perspectives, and empower others.
He is particularly interested in training programs
that employ stories to help individuals and groups make
positive transitions. Recently, he conducted a training
module called “Creating the Future Through Storytelling”
for the International Personnel Managers Association
annual conference. He has also facilitated “Transforming
Your Inner Story,” a workshop employing narrative
therapy to help people change from their old story about
where and who they are to a new story facilitating change.
Even more recently, he effectively employed storytelling
in a week-long Transition Management Course to help
managers deal with survivor feelings and understand
the implications of the stories they told about themselves
as change agents and the nature of the organization.
In all of these change programs, he makes full use of
his expertise in creative thinking and also his skills
as a clinician who works with transition issues every
day.
He received a Master’s Degree in Organization
Development from the American University/National Training
Lab (where he wrote his Master’s Thesis on Change
Management), a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social
Work from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in
Literature from Harvard University. As a graduate student
at Harvard, he earned Special Recognition for Teaching
by the Harvard Crimson's Guide to Courses. He is currently
studying acting and movement at the Studio Theatre Acting
Conservatory in Washington, D.C.
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