Dr Kenwyn Smith, a scholar-practitioner, is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Pennsylvania. In his educational role, he is focused on the leadership-followership phenomenon, relationships within and among groups, organisational politics, and change management. During his years at Penn he has directed the Center for Workplace Studies, functioned as Faculty Master of Ware College House, and created Penn’s Graduate Program in Nonprofit Leadership.

Dr Smith, an Australian citizen, has conducted research in a wide range of organisations and communities: 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.

Kenwyn has helped found a number of volunteer-based, nonprofit organizations, has worked on six continents, and has been involved in educating thousands of students from over 100 countries, both at U Penn and around the world.