Helping at NASA: Guidelines for using process consultation to develop impactful research

Management research has long been criticized for its perceived lack of relevance or impact beyond academia. How can we, as management scholars, create that is more relevant and impactful? I argue Edgar Schein's process consultation approach be part the answer. Process consultation's ultimate aim to help client organizations. Key aspects what now recognized engaged scholarship were fundamental even before was vocabulary. Based on my engagement with National Aeronautics Space Administration since 2013, trust fruitfully seen an outcome enabler productive long-term helping relationships scholarship; call pragmatic bricolage important in terms offering based client's needs they develop at different junctures; unexpected dilemmas such are inevitable, but ways forward found by applying key principles social systems. conclude outlining guidelines impactful disseminating wider audiences.