David Coghlan is an action research scholar and an adjunct professor at the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a Fellow Emeritus of the college. He specializes in organization development and action research and is active in both communities internationally. He has published over 80 articles and book chapters. Recent co-authored books include "Organizational Change and Strategy" (2006) and "Collaborative Strategic Improvement Through Network Action Learning "(2011). He is the co-editor of the four-volume set "Fundamentals of Organization Development" (SAGE, 2010) and the