Jane Seiling, PhD, is a retired organization behavior and organization development consultant. She is an award winning author of books and journal submissions, currently focusing on submissions for journals and book chapters on various topics. She is also an adjunct professor teaching masters' and PhD level courses in a regular, blended, and fully online format. In her teaching, she emphasizes theory and development as it is reflected in the real world workplace.

As well as the above, Jane's current activities include performing as a senior content editor of a book series for The Taos Institute, participation on committees for dissertations, and, with Jackie Stavros, offering workshops for PhD students, tenured professors, and others interested in writing dissertations, books, and other writing venues.

Jane brings to her interests and work 20+ years experience working inside organizations, a BA in Business and Human Resource Management, a masters in Organization Development, and a Phd in the Social Sciences (with an emphasis on responsibility and accountability in the workplace). Her current interests include sensemaking and sensemanaging in organizations, combination capability, study of various theories that explain workplace performance, and communication issues in the workplace that enhance relationships and performance. Her current research is on accountability in the workplace and the theory of minority influence (and their application in both the workplace and everyday life). An interest in nonprofit organizations has brought her to teaching leadership, membership, change, and capacity building in the nonprofit sector.

Jane’s studies and experiences inside organizations have brought forward a unique understandings of the real working world. Her thinking on leadership suggests that leaders must lead in ways that invite individual and group contribution to the enhancement of personal, group, and organizational achievement. She consulted in South Africa, working on issues regarding team conflict, advocacy issues, women’s issues in the workplace, and communication in high responsibility and high performance groups.

Jane’s belief that all members must actively contribute to and share in responsibility and accountability for organizational achievement, wherever they perform in the organization, has greatly influenced her work and writing. Her work is also oriented toward a social constructionist viewpoint of organizing. This viewpoint suggests organizations are co-constructed, placing responsibility and accountability for organizational achievement solidly in the minds and hands of each/every member. (Leaders are members too.) This makes it imperative that willing and effective partnerships occur across blurred lines within organizations.