about the authors
Dr. Carol Beatty
Carol Beatty is Director of the Industrial Relations Centre at Queen's
University at Kingston and associate professor in Queen’s School of
Business. Her writing has been featured in numerous professional
publications including Business Quarterly, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Relations Industrielles, and Human Relations.
She has received various research grants in the areas of employee
buyouts, high-performance teams, and industrial competitiveness.
Dr. Beatty has served as consultant to an impressive
roster of companies and industry associations. These include:
Bombardier Inc., Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Dubai
Aluminum, Barbados Light and Power, Peregrine Oshawa, MTS
Advanced, the Ontario Association of School Business Officers, and
Molson Breweries.
Dr. Beatty holds a Doctorate in Organizational Behaviour and a Master of Business Administration, both from the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario.
Harvey Schachter
Harvey Schachter is an award-winning freelance writer and former editor of The Kingston Whig-Standard. His Managing Books column can be found regularly in the Globe and Mail and he is also a contributing writer for a number of business magazines, including Canadian Business, Profit, and Advisor’s Edge.
Mr. Schachter is editor of Memos to the Prime Minister: What Canada Could Be in the 21st Century (John Wiley & Sons, 2001), an assembly of essays written by some of the country’s leading political, social, and business figures on how to build a new and better Canada.
March 22 - 24, 2004: Dr. Beatty will lead a seminar on Change Management for University of British Columbia.
March 29 to April 2, 2004: Dr. Beatty is part of the faculty team for the OD Foundations program, staged by Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre. Visit the Queen's IRC site for more information.
April 5 - 7, 2004: Dr. Beatty will lead a seminar on Change Management for the University of Alberta. Visit the site for more information.
April 27 - 29, 2004: Dr. Beatty will lead a seminar on Change Management at Warp Speed in Toronto. Visit the Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre site for more information.
May 11 - 13, 2004: Change Management at Warp Speed will reprise in Ottawa. Visit the Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre site for more information.
June 6 - 11, 2004: Dr. Beatty will lead a week long seminar on Change Management, held at the Four Points Sheraton hotel in historic downtown Kingston , Ontario. Visit the Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre site for more information.
