Ronald Purser is Professor of Management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. Prior to this, he was Graduate Program Director at the Center for Organization Development at Loyola University of Chicago. Dr. Purser earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and his B.A. in Psychology from Sonoma State University. He is past Division Chair of the Organization Development and Change division of the Academy of Management.

He has published over fifty refereed journal articles and book chapters on high performance work systems, design of new product development organizations, environmental management, social creativity, and participative strategic planning. In addition, Dr. Purser is co-author and co-editor of five books including, The Search Conference (Jossey-Bass, 1996), Social Creativity, Volumes 1 & 2 (Hampton Press, 1999), and The Self-Managing Organization (The Free Press, 1998), and 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society (Stanford University Press, 2007).

I have been a student of Buddhists teachings since 1981. I have studied Tibetan Buddhism as well as Zen. My travels have taken me to India, Thailand, Nepal, Singapore, Malaysia. I am also a practitioner of Kum Nye (Tibetan Yoga), Qigong, and Tai Chi. Recently I have become interested in energetic modalities of therapy and healing, having been trained in the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Psych-K and Matrix Energetics.

I am also an aspiring lover of Blues music and I play electric guitar in the local blues jam scene in the Bay Area.