Chaos Management, Ltd. brings learning, collaboration, and empowerment through training and consulting to groups and organizations so they can achieve their goals in an increasingly diverse environment.

We call our firm “Chaos Management” because the rapid pace of change in the 21st century creates the need to balance productivity with creativity, continuity with change, control with delegation, and competition with collaboration. Successful organizations continue to be successful because they provide members with opportunities for challenge and growth while maintaining continuity in a perpetually evolving environment.

President

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it is president of Chaos Management, Ltd. and senior research faculty at the Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons School of Management. She specializes in collaborative approaches to organization change and social justice, and the intersections of race, gender, and class. Evangelina has consulted to a wide range of for-profit and non-profit organizations in areas such as developing a nationwide network of health change consultants in Nigeria, designing and implementing global and local diversity strategies, developing and conducting educational programs in conflict management, and facilitating strategic planning processes. Since 1979 she has worked in the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
 

Evangelina has a doctorate in organization development from the University of Massachusetts and has taught at the School for International Training, the University of Massachusetts, and at The American University/NTL Master’s program in human resource management. She is currently a member and previously served on the board of directors of the Boston Center of the A.K. Rice Institute and the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences. Evangelina is a founding member of Madrinas: A Latina Leaders Network, principal investigator of the research project Latinas at Work: Journeys to Leadership, and a member of the advisory boards of Working Mother Media Best Companies for Women of Color and the Diversity Factor.

James Cumming, EdD
Principal

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it is a principal of Chaos Management Ltd. and has over 25 years experience working as an international educator and consultant in technical, intercultural contexts within both public and private sectors in Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, and the United States. He brings extensive experience facilitating multicultural differences. He also specializes in creating effective conditions for dialogue, learning, and change in groups, organizations, and communities using approaches such as the Future Search Conference. James is the creator of the Problematic Moment Approach to finding underlying meaning in group dialogue.

He has master’s degrees in design engineering and international management, and a doctorate in international education from the University of Massachusetts. He is adjunct faculty at the School for International Training and a founding member of Future Search Network.