Dr. Jemima Neddy Organ is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Memphis's Fogelman College of Business and Economics, where she teaches Strategic Management and Global Strategic Management. She holds a PhD in Organizational Information and Learning Sciences from the University of New Mexico, with a focus on Organization Development, and brings over twenty-seven years of experience spanning counseling, training, and organizational leadership.
Original Scholarly Contribution, Motivational Interviewing & Servant Leadership: Jemima completed the first doctoral dissertation examining Motivational Interviewing as a tool for servant leadership, with doctoral study. Jemima was trained on Motivational Interviewing by Dr. William R. Miller, co-founder of Motivational Interviewing, at the University of New Mexico. Recognized as one of the first researchers to synthesize Motivational Interviewing and servant leadership frameworks, training practitioners and studying outcomes among program participants.
Her impact extends beyond the classroom. Dr. Organ conceived and led development of a national adolescent behavior-change curriculum adopted by the Kenyan Ministry of Education, reaching more than one million students, and initiated the legislation that established counseling as a regulated profession in Kenya. Earlier in her career, she was a featured guest and host on major Kenyan and international broadcast outlets, including the BBC, Nation Media Group, and Citizen TV, educating the public on childhood trauma, parenting, and mental health. She has published in the Journal of Servant Leadership and has co-author of the forthcoming book Bringing Servant-Leadership to Life with Motivational Interviewing, featuring a foreword by Dr. Miller, and recommended by Larry Spears.
Dr. Organ is a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate in Colorado and an Associate Licensed Professional Counselor in Tennessee.
Fredrik Eliasson, BS, brings over two decades of leadership experience in various government operations, including corrections, substance use disorder, and youth care. His passion lies in promoting the adoption and effective implementation of evidence-based practices in practical contexts.
As an independent consultant, Fredrik collaborates with organizations and companies both in Sweden and internationally, specializing in transformational leadership, organizational culture, Motivational Interviewing (MI), and implementation strategies.
Fredrik is the owner and CEO of Cultivate Kindness AB. A company dedicated to enhancing transformational leadership and evidence-based practices in companies and organisations. Cultivate Kindness works with both single consultancy sessions to large scale transformational processes within in large scale organisations across multiple sites and branches.
Fredrik is recognized as an expert in Motivational Interviewing and is a co-founder of MILO - MI in Leadership and Organizations, a platform dedicated to advancing the use of MI in diverse organizational settings.
