Kenwyn K. Smith, PhD
ProfessorDirector, Nonprofit/NGO Leadership Program
3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building,
Room C17
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
215.898.1238 (phone);
215.573.2099 (fax)
kenwyns@sp2.upenn.edu
Dr. Smith is a Professor of Organiza-tional Behavior and the Director of Penn's Masters Program in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership. Dr. Smith teaches leadership, group and intergroup dynamics, organizational politics, change management in three of Penn’s schools: the School of Social Policy & Practice, the Wharton School and the Fels Institute of Government (Arts and Sciences).
- Dr. Smith is an international scholar in the fields of group and intergroup dynamics, organizational change and leadership. His research experience ranges from prisons to schools, from businesses to health care institutions, from state enterprises to social entrepreneurial activities, from oppressed black townships in South Africa to agencies creating sustainable livelihoods in rural India, from pharmaceuticals in Belgium to financial services in urban America, from the World Bank to a community in Philadelphia wrestling with the anguish of people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Dr. Smith’s most recent books are MANNA in the Wilderness of AIDS: Ten Lessons in Abundance (2002), Yearning for Home in Troubled Times (2003), and Freed to be Fathers: Lessons from Men Doing Time (2003), all published by Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, OH.
- Dr. Smith has founded a number of volunteer-based, nonprofit organizations and is about to launch several research initiatives that will be at the heart of Penn’s Center on Nonprofit Leadership.
Research | Books | Getting to Know Kenwyn Smith (pdf) | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)