Maya Townsend
Doctoral Candidate
Antioch University
Related Research Interests
Maya Townsend, founder and lead consultant of Partnering Resources (http://partneringresources.
Maya has been a keynote presenter at Gartner and a main stage presenter at Inc. 500 | 5000. Her sessions at Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association and Society for HR Management conferences have been acclaimed “best in conference” by participants. For more information on Maya’s speaking engagements, see https://
Maya is co-editor of Handbook for Strategic HR: Best Practices in Organization Development from the OD Network (AMACOM, 11/2012). Her articles have been published in strategy+business, People & Strategy, Nonprofit Quarterly, CIO, and other online and print media. She wrote the chapter on “Organization Network Dynamics and Analysis” for The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change. She serves on the Editorial Review Board for OD Review, the premier organization development practitioner journal in the United States. Her most recent article is “The emerging concept of the human-centered organization: A review and synthesis of the literature,” which was published in Humanistic Management Journal (2024).
Maya is one of only three certified Lewis Method of Deep Democracy trainers in the United States (http://www.DeepDemocracyUSA.
Maya has been a keynote presenter at Gartner and a main stage presenter at Inc. 500 | 5000. Her sessions at Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association and Society for HR Management conferences have been acclaimed “best in conference” by participants. For more information on Maya’s speaking engagements, see https://
Maya is co-editor of Handbook for Strategic HR: Best Practices in Organization Development from the OD Network (AMACOM, 11/2012). Her articles have been published in strategy+business, People & Strategy, Nonprofit Quarterly, CIO, and other online and print media. She wrote the chapter on “Organization Network Dynamics and Analysis” for The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change. She serves on the Editorial Review Board for OD Review, the premier organization development practitioner journal in the United States. Her most recent article is “The emerging concept of the human-centered organization: A review and synthesis of the literature,” which was published in Humanistic Management Journal (2024).
Maya is one of only three certified Lewis Method of Deep Democracy trainers in the United States (http://www.DeepDemocracyUSA.
Related Publications
Townsend, M., & Romme, A. G. L. (2024). The emerging concept of the human-centered organization: A review and synthesis of the literature. Humanistic Management Journal, 9(1), 53–74. https://doi.org/10.
