Dr. Sheila L. Margolis
Sheila Margolis--based in Atlanta, GA--helps leaders define organizational culture and manage organizational change. She holds a doctoral degree in Human Resource Development, teaches part-time at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University and is President of the Workplace Culture Institute. She specializes in workplace culture, organizational change and the strategic use of human resources. As an organizational development expert, Sheila is quoted in newspapers and magazines including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Dr. Margolis is the author of the culture and change management workbook for leaders--Building a Culture of Distinction: Activities and Tools to Lead Organizational Change (2008)--and the companion workbook for employees--Building a Culture of Distinction: Participant Workbook (2008). She is also co-author of There Is No Place Like Work: Seven Leadership Insights for Creating a Workplace to Call Home (2006). The principles in these books were derived from Margolis’ groundbreaking research that earned the 1998 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Human Resource Development Research. She has also written a workbook for job seekers to help people find a meaningful and fulfilling workplace by screening for culture fit.
Dr. Margolis conducts culture initiatives and strategic planning with a variety of organizations such as Shaw Industries, Cingular Wireless, Acuity Brands, Lotus Cars USA, Northside Hospital, American College of Rheumatology, Decision Sciences Institute, Cherokee Town and Country Club, and St. Jude’s Recovery Center. She has designed and delivered employee training programs to build high performance work teams for companies such as General Mills, Allied Signal, Tenneco, and Reliance Electric through the Quick Start Program.
Dr. Margolis is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and speaks regularly at corporate and professional meetings and conferences. She informs audiences on topics such as workplace culture, employee engagement, recruitment and retention, managing change, and the human side of mergers and acquisitions.
In the area of strategic business communications , she teaches business writing and presentation skills on the MBA level, works with companies to align their internal communications strategy with their organizational culture, and conducts internal communications audits. She has also worked as Communications Manager for Economic Develoment Programs for the state of Georgia. In that position, she managed external communications to promote economic development through workforce training.
Dr. Margolis has been published in the Human Resource Development Review, Performance Improvement Quarterly, Training Today magazine, Association Management magazine, AmericanVenture Magazine, Latitude, Internal Comms Hub, PerformanceXpress, Connections magazine and Atlanta magazine. She has written a chapter for the text The Cultural Context of Human Resource Development (2009).
Publications
Listed below are articles, chapters and books written by Sheila Margolis.
- Atlanta Magazine, June 2009, special issue on Jobs, page 63.
- The Cultural Context of Organizational Identity: How Belief Systems Can Frame the Practice and Role of Human Resource Development, chapter in The Cultural Context of Human Resource Development, Palgrave Publishers Ltd. (2009)
- Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility in Your Culture: Aligning Performance Using the Five Ps, PerformanceXpress, ISPI (December 2008)
- Align Communication with Your Work Culture, Internal Comms Hub (Volume 2, Issue 7, November 2008)
- A Culture of Engagement, Latitude magazine (Fall 2008)
- Building a Culture of Distinction: Activities and Tools to Lead Organizational Change (2008)
- Building a Culture of Distinction: Participant Workbook (2008)
- Use Training to Build Your Culture of Distinction, Sales and Marketing Training magazine (2007)
- Training to Build a Culture of Distinction, Training Today magazine (Fall 2007)
- There Is No Place Like Work: Job Seeker Manual (2007)
- There Is No Place Like Work: Seven Leadership Insights for Creating a Workplace to Call Home, Gibbs Smith, Publisher (2006)
- Understanding Culture: Unlocking Value in a Corporate Transaction, American VentureMagazine.com (February 2006)
- Corporate Culture Can Make or Break Your Company, Family Business Newsletter (2006)
- Visions to Guide Performance: A Typology of Multiple Future Organizational Images, Performance Improvement Quarterly (2003)
- Information: The Key to Retreats that Flourish, Association Management (2003)
- Housecalls at Work—column addressing employee and organizational issues in Connections, the quarterly magazine of the Georgia Society of Association Executives (2003-2006)
- A Model for Organizational Identity: Exploring the Path to Sustainability During a Merger, Human Resource Development Review (2002)
- Organizational Identity, Future Organizational Images, and the Construction of Organizational Identification in a Merger Environment, Doctoral Dissertation (1998)