2007 OD Network Award Recipients
Frederick A. Miller, Lifetime Achievement Award
Frederick A. Miller is CEO and Lead Client Strategist of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. (KJCG), which specializes in strategic culture change. A pioneer and leading authority on creating high-performing cultures of inclusion, he was noted in The Age of Heretics as one of the forerunners of corporate change. In his 30-plus years of experience, he has worked with many senior executives from companies such as Apple, FedEx Kinko’s, Mobil, and many others. Fred, who has published over 100 articles, was managing editor of the anthology The Promise of Diversity and co-author of The Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity. Fred served on the OD Network Board of Trustees 1986–1994.
Denny Gallagher, Service to the OD Network Award
Denny Gallagher, Ph.D., has been an external OD consultant since Herb Shepard recruited him two weeks into his program at the Case Western Reserve University Organizational Behavior program in 1965. He has worked in the private and public sectors, with for profit and nonprofit organizations, and with very small and very large organizations, sometimes working globally. Much of his work has been with highly technical organizations. Denny been an adjunct faculty member with several university programs. A member of the original board of trustees of the OD Network, he has served on several OD Network Conference program teams and has presented at numerous Conferences. With the help of Billie Alban, Denny brought the gODparents group to life and, in 2001, initiated the Dick Beckhard Mentoring Program, which he has managed ever since.
David Sibbet & The Grove Consultants International, Members’ Choice Award
David Sibbet is an organizational consultant and information designer who for 25 years has been supporting people in collaborating across group, organizational, and community boundaries. His explorations in graphic facilitation, action learning, strategic visioning, and collaborative process design, have been pioneering efforts in the field. An acknowledged master facilitator and expert on visual language, he works in both public and private sectors on projects in Europe, North America and Asia. David is founder and President of The Grove Consultants International, a full-service organization development consulting firm and publishing company based in the Thoreau Center for Sustainability in San Francisco’s Presidio.
United Religions Initiative, Global Work Award
The United Religions Initiative (URI) is an emerging global community dedicated to promoting enduring daily interfaith cooperation; ending religiously motivated violence; and creating cultures of peace, justice, and healing for the Earth and all living beings. Built using principles of Appreciative Inquiry and an innovative organizational design, URI is creating an unprecedented global infrastructure enabling people of different religions, spiritual expressions, and indigenous traditions to cooperate at the grassroots for positive change and to shape a better future. URI initiatives include pioneering efforts in interfaith urban mediation, interfaith dialogue, peace building in conflict zones, interfaith education, human rights, and ecological betterment.
Frances Beard, Sharing the Wealth Award
In her practice of organization development, Frances Beard brings a passion for seeing “wholes” and fostering learning communities. Frances’ primary OD interests include leadership development, large-scale change, organizations’ OD capacity, and assessing OD effectiveness. In past 10 years of her 15 in OD, Frances has been an internal OD consultant for the National Education Association. Highlights include leading a complex whole-system change process in a large NEA state affiliate, spearheading an ongoing NEA-NTL OD/Systems Change certificate program, and serving on the 2000 Board of Examiners for the U.S. Senate Productivity and Maryland (Malcolm Baldrige) Quality Awards process. Frances regards her nomination for this award as a tribute to the many OD practitioners whose work continually advances respect for the field.
Harrison Owen, Sharing the Wealth Award
In the middle 1960s, Harrison Owen left academe to work with a variety of organizations including small West African villages, urban community organizations, Peace Corps, National Institutes of Health, and Veterans Administration, discovering that his study of myth, ritual, and culture had direct application to these social systems. In 1977, he created H.H.Owen and Company to explore the culture of organizations in transformation. The originator of Open Space Technology, Harrison convened the First International Symposium on Organization Transformation. He is the author of many books including Riding the Tiger, Open Space Technology: A Users Guide, The Millennium Organization, The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform, and The Practice of Peace.