Todd Kelshaw

As a scholar of organizational communication, Dr. Todd Kelshaw's special concerns are for democratic environments in which members may share leadership, collaboratively create and problem-solve, and foster healthy relationships across cultural, moral, and attitudinal differences. In an organizational landscape that is increasingly characterized by democratization, globalization, and decentralized yet thoroughly networked interactivities—all of which are advanced through emerging communication technologies—issues of stakeholder empowerment are quickly becoming more important and sophisticated. If, as John Dewey observed, democracy is not so much a mechanism of governance as it is a moral ideal to be realized throughout the communicative contexts of our daily lives, such issues are inherent to all of our communities, spanning residential and civic settings, politics and governance, work, commerce, education, recreation, journalism, and so on.

Through his scholarship, Dr. Kelshaw aims to interrogate and celebrate notions of relational stakeholdership, and to develop and apply dialogic and deliberative communication competencies toward people’s mutual empowerment and organizational well-being.

Interrogate and celebrate notions of relational stakeholdership, and to develop and apply dialogic and deliberative communication competencies toward people’s mutual empowerment and organizational well-being.

Three topical categories, all of which pertain to my interests in democratic organizational environments. These categories are: deliberative democracy in civic contexts; digitally mediated democratic interaction; and democratic approaches to teaching and learning.