Fielding Graduate University

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Organization development and inspired organizational performance
• Transformational leadership theory and the Leadership Development Framework (LDF)
• Accelerating individual, interpersonal and systemic change
• Developmental action inquiry
• Expanding leadership development capacity of educational institutions, corporations and societal organizations and networks

Professional Memberships:

• Secretary, Board of Directors, Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (OBTS)
• Member, Academy of Management, Organizational Development and Change Division
• Reviewer, Journal of Management Education

Publications:

• Wallis, Nancy and Yammarino, Francis J. “Individualized Leadership and LMX: A qualitative study of senior executive leaders.” (invitation to revise and resubmit, Leadership Quarterly, 2009).
• Wallis, Nancy and Torbert, William R. “Exploring Action Inquiry: Experiments in 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd- person Research.” (work in progress). Partial funding from the Funds For Excellence, Graziadio School of Business & Management, Pepperdine University.
• “Transformational Teaching and Dependency Group Conflict: Quinn Meets Bion in the Leadership Classroom.” Published proceedings from the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Western Academy of Management, Oakland, California, March 29-31, 2008.
• “A Replication Study of Priorities and Attitudes of Two Nursing Programs’ Communities of Interest: An Appreciative Inquiry.” (with Marie Farrell and Marcy Tyler-Evans). Journal of Professional Nursing 23, 5 (2007): 267-277.
• “The Art of the Ai Question: Why the best answer is sometimes a great question!” (with Linda Denton) Professional Development Workshop at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 3, 2007.
• “Management Education in a Time of Dynamic Tensions.” (with Carol Sawyer). 2007 Annual Conference of the Organization Behavior Teaching Society, Malibu, California, June 15, 2007.
• “Essential Protocols: Active Learning in the OB Classroom” in “Using Appreciative Inquiry for Positive Scholarship in the Classroom,” Symposium (with Ann Feyerherm et al) at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Western Academy of Management, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2, 2005.
• “Management Education for the Whole Person: Using Henry Mintzberg’s Eight Basic Propositions.” 2005 Annual Conference of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, Scranton, Pennsylvania, June 15, 2005. ISBN 0974125938.
• Time Management, article in “ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DISTRIBUTED LEARNING, VOLUMES 1, 2 & 3,” edited by The Fielding Graduate Institute, 2003, Sage Publications.
  

Other Professional Activities:

• OD Consulting specializing in linking individual and senior leadership team development to improving organizational performance and delivering high-priority change initiatives in rapidly changing environments
• 25 years’ managerial and consulting experience in the practice of leadership in organizational settings with specific expertise in health care insurance operations and post-merger operations integration
• Full-time Faculty in the Department of Organization Theory and Management at the Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University (2004-2008)