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Mitchell Kusy
PhD, Organizational Consultant
Award-winning author and professor whose research shapes
how leaders build respectful, high-performing team cultures.
Biography
About Dr. Mitchell
As an organizational psychologist, Dr. Mitch Kusy brings 25 years of consulting and research on how toxic personalities erode the patient experience. His systems approach to addressing toxic personalities has become a benchmark worldwide for improving patient safety and satisfaction, as well as healthcare team performance. Mitch has consulted and been a keynote speaker with hundreds of organizations nationally and internationally, helping create healthcare cultures of “everyday civility” with demonstrated improvement in team and financial performance.
Dr. Kusy is the author of six business books and hundreds of professional articles. He is a professor in the PhD program in Leadership and Change at Antioch University. Previously, he directed organization development at HealthPartners and American Express. In 1998, he received the Minnesota Organization Development Practitioner of the Year Award, and was a 2005 Fulbright Scholar in Organization Development.
In 2018, Mitch joined the team at the Healthy Workforce Institute as a researcher, content expert, speaker, and consultant specializing in designing healthy workplace cultures and addressing disruptive behaviors to improve patient safety, team performance, and the bottom line. His three-year study with over 400 individuals became a benchmark for action and resulted in his two latest books, Toxic Workplace! and Why I Don’t Work Here Anymore. His numerous TV and radio appearances stem from his use of research evidence to help organizations understand how to deal with bullying and other toxic behaviors in the workplace.
Experience
25
years of organizational consulting & research
PUBLISHED
6
business books & hundreds of articles
honor
2005
Fulbright Scholar in Organization Development
Media Reel
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Speaking Topics
Bullying & Incivility in Healthcare
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Creating Healthy Workforce Cultures
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Emotional Intelligence
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Published Works
Books by Dr. Mitchell Kusy
Do No Harm Applies to Nurses Too!
Enough! Eradicate Bullying & Incivility in Healthcare, 2nd Edition
