Yabome Gilpin-Jackson
Associate Member, Management and Organization Studies
Email: y_gilpinjackson@sfu.ca
Biography
Dr. Yabome Gilpin-Jackson (she/her/hers) is a multi-award winning scholar-practitioner in human & organization development and leadership with research awards and professional recognitions in Canada, UK and the United States including in Canada, the Harry Jerome Professional Excellence Award in 2018, the 2021 runner-up Woman of the Year: Equity and Inclusion Champion by BCBusiness magazine and the 2022 Top 100 Black Women to Watch.
She is an executive leader, consultant and educator in academia and across the private, public and nonprofit sectors. In addition to being Founder and Principal at SLD consulting, she has served in Executive Leadership roles within the British Columbia Public Sector as chief people officer of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, executive director of organizational development for Fraser Health and regional lead of organization development for Vancouver Coastal Health and is Simon Fraser University’s first Vice-President, People, Equity and Inclusion.
Dr Gilpin-Jackson is an associate faculty member and a two-time Beedie School of Business graduate with a Bachelor in Management/Organization Studies and an MBA in Leadership and Organization Change. She also holds a Master of Arts in Human Development and a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University where she is a post-doctoral Institute for Social Innovation Fellow.
The author of several books, book chapters and journal articles, Gilpin-Jackson is a well-known presenter on equity, organization development and systems change, leadership and Black identity. Her publications include, Transformation After Trauma, The Power of Resonance, co-editor for the 2022 Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation, the We Will Lead Africa book series and short story collections about global African experiences: Identities, Ancestries, Destinies. She was the 2021 Chair and is the 2022 Co-Chair of the Organization Development Network. When asked about her work in the world, Yabome describes it as “developing our human capacity to be, think and do things differently and better.” If you ask what she is best known for, she will tell you, her wicked laugh!
Selected Publications
articles and reports
Welch, M. A., Saunders, A. A. P., Buergelt, P. T., Gilpin-Jackson, Y., Ferguson, J., & Marsick, V. J. (2020). Your story, our story: the transformative power of life narratives. Reflective Practice, 21(6), 861-876. http://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2020.1821633
Gilpin-Jackson, Y. (2017). Participant experiences of transformational change in large-scale organization development interventions (LODIs). Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 38(3), 419-432. http://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-12-2015-0284
Gilpin-Jackson, Y. (2016). Why Today's Global OD Practice is Local. Organization Development Review (Practitioner), 48(3), 31-36. https://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=aec913d6-a713-4bdd-bc60-934f7ea36bfb%40sessionmgr102
Gilpin-Jackson, Y. (2016). Why today's global OD practice is local: Lessons from transnational experience. Organization Development Review (Practitioner), 48(3), 31-36. https://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=e46cdec3-3c11-49e0-ab04-aa7ae907c015%40sdc-v-sessmgr05
Gilpin-Jackson, Y. (2014). Resonance as Transformative Learning Moment: The Key to Transformation in Sociocultural and Posttrauma Contexts. Journal of Transformative Education, 12(1), 95-119. http://doi.org/10.1177/1541344614541547
Gilpin-Jackson, Y. (2013). Practicing in the grey area between dialogic and diagnostic organization development lessons from a healthcare case study. Organization Development Review (Practitioner), 45(1), 60-66. https://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&sid=61fdc616-bdfd-462e-a45f-48ce9148b916%40sdc-v-sessmgr01
Gilpin-Jackson, Y., & Bushe, G. R. (2007). Leadership development training transfer: A case study of post-training determinants. Journal of Management Development, 26(10), 980-1004. http://doi.org/10.1108/02621710710833423
books chapters and monographs
Nicolaides, A., Eschenbacher, S., Buergelt, P. T., Gilpin-Jackson, Y., Welch, M., Misawa, M., & Misawa, M. (Eds.), (2022). The Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation. Palgrave Mamillian Switzerland. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84694-7
Gilpin-Jackson, Y. (2016). African leadership: Now and for the future. In Quist-Adade, C., & Royal, W. (Eds.), Re-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/re-engaging-the-african-diasporas
Related Teaching Material
Gilpin-Jackson, Y. (2020). Transformation after Trauma: The Power of Resonance. Peter Lang Inc.. http://doi.org/10.3726/b15932