The Taos Institute
Michael Elmes serves as a Professor of Organization Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute since 1990 and is an Associate at the Taos Institute from January 2011. Additionally, Michael Elmes holds the position of Adjunct Professor at Victoria University of Wellington's School of Management since July 2020, and previously was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the same university in 2005. Educational qualifications include a Ph.D. in Organization Studies from Syracuse University's Martin J. Whitman School of Management, attained between 1984 and 1989, an MA in Counseling from Colgate University, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology from Union College. Michael Elmes is also a certified Immunity to Change Coach, having completed training in 2012.
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The Taos Institute
The Taos Institute is a community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the social processes essential for the construction of reason, knowledge, and human value. We are a non-profit (501c3) organization committed to exploring, developing and disseminating ideas and practices that promote creative, appreciative and collaborative processes in families, communities and organizations around the world. Social constructionist theory and practice locates the source of meaning, value and action in the relational connection among people. It is through our social and relational processes that we construct the world. We achieve our educational ends through conferences, workshops, publications, a PhD program, certificate programs, distance learning programs, newsletters, and web-based offerings. We work at the interface between the scholarly community and societal practitioners from communities of mental health, social work, counseling, organizational change, education, community building, gerontology, healthcare and more. We develop and explore the ways in which scholarly research can enrich professional practices, and practices can stimulate scholarly inquiry.