Integral
Mitch Kusy and Elizabeth Holloway
The Toxic Workplace
Note: This interview begins with music by Cal Tjader.
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Dr. Mitchell Kusy, an international consultant, has worked internally in several organizations including American Express Financial Advisors as head of leadership development. He is a full professor in the Ph.D. Program in Leadership & Change at Antioch University, a 2005 Fulbright Scholar in International Organization Development, and the 1998 Minnesota Organization Development Practitioner of the Year. A visiting professor at the University of Auckland, School of Enterprise, he has written several books on leadership. One of them, Fast Forward Leadership, was the #3 best-selling business book in April, 2000. Based on his most recent book, Manager’s Desktop Consultant: Just-in-Time Solutions to the Top People Problems that Keep You Up at Night, he has been interviewed by such publications as the New York Times and Fortune.
Dr. Elizabeth Holloway is a full professor and psychologist with over 25 years experience as a practitioner, trainer, and consultant with leaders worldwide. She has held faculty appointments at the Universities of California, Utah, Oregon, Wisconsin, and currently at Antioch University, Ph.D. Program in Leadership & Change. In 1998, she was one of five faculty chosen for the prestigious Leadership Fellow program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has achieved the highest practitioner distinction for psychologists—Diplomat of the American Board of Professional Psychology and is a Fellow of Division 17, American Psychological Association. She has published extensively on research and training in supervisory practice. She consults internationally on organizational interventions that intersect mentoring, coaching, communities of practice, and toxic systems.
Together they have published Toxic Workplace! Managing Toxic Personalities and Their Systems of Power (Jossey-Bass, 2009).
