John D. Vogelsang, PhD, is the Editor in Chief of the OD Practitioner, the quarterly journal of the OD Network www.odnetwork.org. He has been working for over 34 years in the areas of leadership capacity building, board development, strategic planning, organizational and leadership transitions, conflict transformation, and strategic restructuring. He serves as a coach for executive directors, senior management teams, and boards, and he has facilitated numerous board and staff retreats and executive director peer learning groups. His clients have included foundations, human service agencies, mental health agencies, community health centers, universities, professional associations, arts organizations, and advocacy groups. He is the Dialogue Project Director for the Queens College/CUNY Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the American University MS program in Organization Development. For two years, he was a visiting professor of nonprofit and NGO management and organizational conflict at the School for International Training Graduate Institute.