Thank you to our 2007 Sponsors & Exhibitors!
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Full Descriptions of 2007 Sponsors & Exhibitors!
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Gold Sponsors
Plus Delta Consulting, LLC
Change is inevitable. Neither you - nor your organization - can avoid it. But you can influence the outcome.
Plus Delta Consulting is an established management consulting firm that specializes in leading organization development and change initiatives. With our proven Positive Changesmapproach, we help client organizations ranging from small start-up operations to Fortune 100 corporations, including non-profit and government agencies, improve performance and navigate their transition efforts from systems implementation, process redesign, and corporate restructuring initiatives to strategic planning and visioning programs.
Our Improving Performance series of workshops also provide the tools and skills you need to be more effective in change management, virtual teaming, and leadership excellence.
Silver Sponsors
AU/NTL Program, American University
The AU/NTL Master of Science in Organization Development, at American University in Washington DC, is among the world's premier OD degrees. Founded in 1980, the program has over 1100 graduates. Our alums work as independent consultants, internal OD professionals, and organizational leaders. The AU/NTL education is distinguished by these emphases: experiential learning, cohort-based community, "use of self" in professional practice, scholar-practitioner orientation, and focus on diversity. Our new International OD residency begins with class 54. The AU/NTL faculty is drawn from NTL members and other distinguished OD practitioners and scholars. Contact us for information about this 2-year, 1 weekend/month curriculum designed for mid-career students.
Contact information for information/application:
www.american.edu/auntl
Telephone: 202 885 6206
Contact person: Michael Warner
Applied Learning Labs, Inc.
Applied Learning develops Knowledge Maps, a small group employee engagement that includes a large (3’x6’) visual, marketplace facts, collaborative questions, and action plan exercises. Our clients use Knowledge Maps to communicate strategy, align the organization, and drive improvements. Our clients include: Best Buy, Barnes and Noble, Dell, and Johnson & Johnson.
Our eLearning Visual Online Learning Tools (VOLTs) follow-up sessions and leverage Knowledge Map visual elements. Our VOLTs have extremely high user effectiveness ratings.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen's Strategic Communications capability helps clients engage key stakeholders to build understanding, facilitate buy-in, and inspire the ownership and action needed to achieve their business objectives. Pressures to reduce costs and improve customer service, for example, may require broad-reaching changes in a company’s strategy, organizational structure, operations, and technologies. If not managed strategically, these changes can profoundly impact human resources and negatively impact an organization’s performance. Booz Allen minimizes the impact of large-scale change by facilitating the client’s transition from a state of uncertainty to a state of readiness. We partner with our clients and their employees to successfully adapt to large-scale change. To learn more about the firm, visit the Booz Allen Web site at www.boozallen.com.
Bowling Green State University
Today’s competitive economy is forcing organizations to become significantly more adept at change. Faced with these demands, organizations are looking to educated and experienced leaders. The Bowling Green State University Executive Master of Organization Development can help you develop change leadership skills necessary for success in today’s global landscape. Students can earn a master’s degree in as little as 18 months. The blended program delivery incorporates online and in-person course delivery with students only required to be on-campus three weekends per semester. Class sizes are small with a supportive learning environment of experienced professionals. BGSU is AACSB-International Accredited and was named to the 2007 Princeton Review List of Best Business Schools.
Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University
Lead the way in organization development and human resources functions in your field. The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Organization Development and Strategic Human Resources degree and post-baccalaureate certificate programs offer a hands-on approach to developing people, managing change, and strategically planning for growth in your organization.
Choose from the MS in Organization Development and Strategic Human Resources— designed for expert practitioners or mid-level managers seeking to advance their careers—the Skilled Facilitator post-baccalaureate certificate, or the Graduate Certificate in Organization Development.
Visit carey.jhu.edu or call 800-GO-TO-JHU for more information.
Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy (http://www.constellation.com), a FORTUNE 200 company with 2006 revenues of $19.3 billion, is the nation's largest competitive supplier of electricity to large commercial and industrial customers and the nation's largest wholesale power seller. Constellation Energy also manages fuels and energy services on behalf of energy intensive industries and utilities. It owns a diversified fleet of 78 generating units located throughout the United States, totaling approximately 8,700 megawatts of generating capacity. The company delivers electricity and natural gas through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), its regulated utility in Central Maryland.
Fielding Graduate University
Fielding Graduate University's School of Human & Organization Development offers a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems, a PhD in Human Development, and an MA in Organization Management and Development. Shorter, graduate-level certificate programs include Evidence Based Coaching, Organization Management and Development, Integral Studies, and Dialogue and Deliberation. Fielding also partners with profit and nonprofit organizations to develop custom and corporate professional development programs.
Designed for mid-career adult learners, Fielding has developed an educational model that builds on your existing learning and professional experience. Collaborative, competency-based learning and assessment, combined with flexible scheduling, accommodate the many demands placed upon your time as a working professional.
Fielding is a nonprofit, WASC-accredited, global leader in networked and distributed learning for adults. For more information: http://www.fielding.edu.
HSD Institute
Patterns emerge when people work and play together in families, work teams, and communities. These patterns are complex; sometimes they are productive, stable, and adaptive. Too often they reflect conflict, confusion, and isolation. Human systems dynamics (HSD) helps you see and influence these patterns as they develop. Wherever you are in the system—consultant or manager, individual contributor or customer—HSD helps you generate new options and take adaptive action. HSD Institute offers a professional certification program, associate community of learners and practitioners, and books, webinars and other learning tools to facilitate the development of theory and practice in HSD. If you need to understand what drives change, respond effectively to uncertainty, find simple, adaptable, powerful solutions, and improve results for you and your clients, then you need Human Systems Dynamics. Contact us today to learn more!
866-HSD-INST, info@hsdinstitute.org, www.hsdinstitute.org
Implementation Institute
The Implementation Institute (II) is the leading institution dedicated exclusively to increasing organizations' capability to manage change and effectively implement initiatives. II integrates proven experience and cutting-edge research with innovative training, coaching, mentoring and assessment to positively impact leaders and organizations worldwide.
Implementation Institute has developed a data-driven methodology to guide organizations through a myriad of implementation initiatives, and products and services that include learning for individuals, tools, assessments and consultations.
NTL Institute
NTL Institute - NTL Institute is dedicated to understanding and developing solutions to facilitate productive change in every facet of personal, organizational and social life. For over 60 years, NTL has been at the vanguard of organization development with an unwavering conviction that human capital is our most valuable resource. NTL developed the T-Group (T is for Training) technology that is the most emulated method in the world for understanding human interaction. With extensive program options, unparalleled service and exceptional member-trainers, NTL fosters individual, group and organization effectiveness.
Pepperdine University: GSBM
The Master of Science in Organization Development program prepares individuals to lead and facilitate strategic organizational change. Emphasizing practical application and successful adaptation to globalization, rapid technological obsolescence, and increased competition the program’s unique learning process integrates professional/personal development, strategic leadership, and change management.
Basic practitioner skills, emotional intelligence, self-as-instrument of change, interpersonal competence, contracting, diagnosing, action planning, implementation, evaluation and large scale complex change constitute a core curriculum. Special attention is paid to organization vision mission and values, strategic analysis, strategic formulation, organization design, and global transorganizational development.
Eight week-long live-in sessions held at ten to twelve week intervals over two years allow students to maintain their full time employment. Conducted in both domestic and international settings, this learning environment permits immediate application to the student’s organization or clients.
SHL
Visit the SHL exhibit to learn how assessments can be applied to develop people and teams at all levels. By assessing ability, motivational drivers and work style preferences, you can more effectively match people with jobs, build succession plans, identify future leaders and retain top talent. With 15,500 clients operating in 40 countries and 30 languages, SHL can share proven success stories on how companies increase productivity and improve their bottom line by developing talent.
Offer for Consultants: Ask about the SHL Partner Network—designed to allow consultants access to SHL’s library of assessments to incorporate into their client engagements.
Seeing David in the Stone, Inc.
For 20 yrs., we searched for answers to these questions:
How did people find and seize the great opportunities of their times? What can we learn from them to help us find and seize great opportunities? How did innovative leaders help organizations find and seize great opportunities?
This book answers the questions from the successes and failures of Gates, Einstein, Michelangelo, Edison, Winfrey, Da Vinci, Curie, Smith, Galileo, etc.
Unforgettable messages ... changed my life ... will change yours
John Mariotti, Past Pres., Rubbermaid Office Products
Great insight ... roadmap to find and seize the great opportunities in your life.
John K. Solheim, VP of Eng., Ping Corporation
The Group for Organizational Effectiveness (gOE), Inc.
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As HR departments are increasingly asked to play a more strategic role, HR professionals need different skills and tools to succeed. The Group for Organizational Effectiveness (gOE) has worked with hundreds of organizations to enhance the internal consulting and business partner capabilities of their HR, OD, and training professionals by providing customized consulting services, skill-building workshops, and gOEbase, a web-based, award-winning internal consulting performance support system that provides real-time internal consulting and OD resources to thousands of HR professionals around the globe. Founded in 1987, gOE also offers consulting and research services in change management, leadership/employee development, knowledge management, team development, group facilitation, and evaluation/metrics.
The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.
One of the most respected boutique consulting firms specializing in strategic culture change, KJCG assists organizations to improve operational performance by unleashing the real power of an included and engaged workforce. Since 1970, KJCG has been partnering with Fortune 100 companies, entrepreneurial founder-led companies, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and governmental agencies.
We partner with organizations to develop work cultures that tap the knowledge, experience, and skills of all people to: achieve greater innovation; see beyond the horizon of current understanding; develop new approaches to sustaining organizational success; and establish mindsets to drive behaviors for sustainable operational performance.
University of St. Thomas
The University of St. Thomas Department of Organization Learning and Development offers programs for professionals dedicated to individual and organizational learning, leadership development and change management. Earn the Doctor of Education in Organization Development, Master of Arts in Human Resource and Change Leadership or certificates. St. Thomas prepares you to be a reflective practitioner—ready for challenges in the immediate and distant future. With a values-based tradition, we offer convenient scheduling for the working adult and learning for the real world that focuses on practice, based in theory. Bring positive change to organizations with an advanced degree from St. Thomas.
In-Kind Sponsors
AgoraNet, Inc
AgoraNet offers website design & hosting, logo design and software development. We customize your site so it reflects your organization's branding and feel then add the features you need such as password-protected areas, e-commerce and more. We work with organizations of all sizes so contact us to see how we can help with your next project. We have enjoyed a long-term working relationship with the OD Network and wish them well with Conference 2007!
For more information, please visit http://www.agora-net.com or call us at 302-224-2475.
Snippies
Snippies is a unique video production company with a worldwide network of video journalists in over 90 markets worldwide (60+ in the US). Snippies focuses on providing the highest-quality video and interview footage—without unnecessary travel costs.
Corporate communicators leverage Snippies’ network to conduct interviews with team members across multiple offices and locations. Snippies’ New York-based editing and production staff can then use this footage to create training materials, team introductions, conference presentations, compelling video HR initiatives, and much more. Snippies’ videos are ideal for large- or small-group meetings, PowerPoint presentation, or Intranet websites.
ULiveandLearn
ULiveandLearn™ is a leading Communications, Collaboration and eLearning solutions provider and consultant, offering services ranging from program development and strategic planning to managing fully integrated collaboration and community centers. ULiveandLearn's new learning center product LC3 is a package of essential tools that can be integrated into any environment for technology-enhanced education & training, collaboration, community-building and knowledge exchange. Within the parameters of the LC3 toolset, ULiveandLearn can integrate any number of programs and tools including webcasting, virtual classrooms/offices, course catalogs, event registration and proprietary database into your customized portal.
ULiveandLearn offers a range of services to serve organizations with a learning-related mission, including businesses, government, schools, universities, libraries, museums, associations, conference organizers, publishers and global organizations. Current clients include, WHYY (public television in Philadelphia), Training Media Worldwide, University of Maryland School of Business, Innovate (an international journal), Fight SMA (spinal muscular atrophy), C2D3 (Colorado statewide program), ODN (Organization Development Network), numerous companies and professional training providers. http://www.uliveandlearn.com/clients.cfm
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OD Network Awards Breakfast Sponsor
OD Network Board of Trustees
Student Papers & Presentation Program Sponsor
21st Century Organization Group
21st century business moves at exponential speed. Global competition, technology change and unpredictable economic and political events provide daily challenges to organizations.
The 21st Century Organization Group provides solutions and proven practices to improve strategic thinking and day–to–day operating effectiveness in a complex world.
Founders Victoria G. Axelrod, former senior vice president and head of global best practices of the American Management Association, and Jenny Ambrozek, former director, community development for the PRODIGY Service, bring decades of experience helping organizations create value by improving collaboration at, and across, all levels of the extended organization.
Contact them at www.21stcenturyorganization.com or http://c21org.typepad.com
Exhibitors
Assess Systems - a Bigby Havis Company
Add ASSESS to your OD practice -an integrated, practical, web-based tool kit to define success, develop excellence, and measure performance. We will train you to build new competency models or work with existing ones, design and customize personality and 360° surveys, and build a performance management system.
Talent management, succession planning, leadership development, talent audits, culture change, organizational design, and selection systems --all are enhanced by the ASSESS System. Designed and supported by licensed industrial/organizational psychologists, ASSESS will expand your tool kit and support your OD interventions.
Benedictine University
The Benedictine University OD Master’s Program is the oldest in the US, dating back 35 years to 1968. At Benedictine we offer three different graduate programs in OD: the traditional MSMOB, the Ph.D., and our newest, the Accelerated Master’s concentrating in OD, a one-year master’s program delivered in a cohort design. The Ph.D. program in OD is one of the first Ph.D. programs in the field and is designed for the working executive and consultant.
Cityhunt
City Hunt creates customized team building events and experiential marketing adventures, these events are usually based around a scavenger hunt theme. Our mission is to build adventures for organizations that are frustrated by generic, unproductive or boring events. All of our events are guaranteed fun or they're free.
Gestalt Center for OSD
The Gestalt Organizations & Systems Development (OSD) Center, established in 1974, is unique in applying Gestalt theory, concepts and methodology to change interventions at all levels of system in organizational contexts. We are dedicated to advancing and teaching the Gestalt OSD orientation to individual, groups and organizations. Our training programs enhance self mastery and use of self. Each program provides the greatest possible breadth and depth of differing perspectives. Our ultimate goal is to enable our students to walk into a room anywhere in the world, containing any number of people, and make a significant difference with their presence.
MHS
MHS is an internationally recognized publisher of evidence-based psychological assessments. The firm has specialized in Emotional Intelligence testing for a decade and boasts two world leading emotional intelligence assessments: the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i ®) and the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT ®). Our Emotional Intelligence assessments are used by thousands of trainers, consultants and HR Managers in hundreds of organizations around the world with the end goal of predicting and improving human performance.
TPG Rewards
TPG Rewards provides propietary marketing tools that our clients use within their marketing campaigns to motivate or reward a specific behavior from their consumers or employees. Our value-added rewards are in the entertainment and lifestyle categories and consists of free movie tickets, free DVD's, free books, free sporting goods, free gas and many other areas where your consumers and employees spend their time and money. Our rewards are relevant to your consumers and your employees and are very cost-efficient tools for the sponsoring client.
The Personality Compass
The Personality Compass is an international learning and development company that provides consultation and interactive workshops to clients such as USA Today, RadioShack Corporate Headquarters, Merck Pharmaceuticals and DeBeers Diamonds of South Africa, and others. Using their original model and book, The Personality Compass, co-founders and authors Diane Turner and Thelma Greco, as well as other Compass consultants in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, South Africa and elsewhere, work with companies to improve performance, efficiency, productivity, communication, teamwork, quality, motivation, morale and profits using the Compass. The Personality Compass book and related training programs, the Personality Compass Type Instrument (PCTI) that is available online, and global Compass Consultant opportunities will be exhibited.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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UMBC's Instructional Systems Development Master's and Certificates Program offers the credentials you need to succeed in the one of the nation's biggest industries -- training and development.
Our Master's and two of our three certificates can be taken completely online. We offer certificate programs in Instructional Systems Development, Instructional Technology and Distance Education.
Please stop by our booth to learn more about our special program features including high-touch career services.
World Institute of Action Learning
The World Institute of Action Learning provides education, training, certification, consulting, and research services in the field of action learning methods.
Specific examples of the Institute's services include:
- Educational programs to facilitate the spread of action learning usage within organizations
- Certification of Master Action Learning Coaches
- Training of internal and external action learning coaches
- Consulting in design and deployment of action learning methods as part of a leadership development program
- Research in best practices in the use of action learning for problem solving, leadership development and organization development
The Institute, located in the DC metropolitan area, has affiliates throughout the world. These affiliates provide the same services in their respective countries.
Supporting Sponsors
AvidWork, Inc.
AvidWork partners with organizations to accelerate results for strategic growth and innovation for business, nonprofit and education. AvidWork gives organizations the tools you need to assimilate change in a positive way—and make it stick. We focus on: Integrating new ideas programs, products, services, Restarting initiatives that did not meet initial objectives and Re-energizing projects that stall or slow down.
We collaborate with clients to revamp, retool, revitalize and grow—all by getting new initiatives to actually WORK, on schedule and on budget. AvidWork’s highly experienced and dedicated team specializes in high growth, turnaround, and fast-scale situations. From innovation planning to strategic action, AvidWork has the expertise and the insight to be a partner in your success. Contact Christi A. Olson, Ph.D., and Cindy Elkins, MBA, Managing Partners, 805.729.0800 or Christi@avidwork.com at www.avidwork.com
Case Western Reserve University-Weatherhead School of Management
The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University is unparalleled in the area of Organizational Behavior. The Organizational Behavior Department has been ranked best overall in the world five years in a row by the Financial Times (2003-2007). Individuals learn how to help organizations flourish through appreciative inquiry, leadership development, emotional intelligence, building sustainable enterprise and experiential learning. Degree programs offered: Master of Science in Positive Organizational Development and Change (MPOD) and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior. Non-degree/certificate programs: Appreciative Inquiry in Positive Business and Society Change, Developing Leadership through Emotional Intelligence, and Women in Leadership. weatherhead.case.edu/orbh; weatherhead@case.edu, 216.368.6413
Drexel University Online
Drexel University Online is proud to offer an online Master of Science in Human Resource Development. This program prepares graduates to become "strategic partners" to CEOs – or CEOs themselves. Using current research, best practices, software applications and database management systems, students will learn how to promote maximum employee performance in any organization. The Master of Science in Human Resource Development program is ideal for training and development professionals, career changers, managers and executives who want to better develop their employees, and anyone involved in assessing and responding to the development needs of employees and their organization. Apply online today.
Group Jazz
Group Jazz supports the work of groups, whether they meet face-to-face, online, or both and brings together the best tools, technologies, media, and people to produce great group experiences with powerful results. Group Jazz Founder and Executive Producer, Lisa Kimball, pioneered the use of online technologies to create virtual off-site meetings, professional conferences, and virtual team spaces of all kinds. Using a production process that includes social, management, and technical aspects, Group Jazz creates events that are both engaging and valuable for participants.
Monitor Executive Development
At Monitor Executive Development, we believe that executive development provides competitive advantage when it is deeply connected to organization strategy and culture. Leveraging the global resources of Monitor Group and its network of thought leaders, our development professionals partner with clients around the world on award-winning programs -- programs that improve the capacity of leaders and enable them to achieve their strategic aspirations. Monitor Executive Development weds the most innovative designs and learning methods with a deep understanding of strategy and organizations. Whether the solution is cutting-edge or tried-and-true, we bring together the right ideas, designs and resources for needs of our clients. For more information, visit: www.med.monitor.com.
Sophia Associates, Inc.
Sophia Associates, Inc. provides Organizational Executive Coaching, Leadership Development Programs, Assessments, Training and Interactive Computer Simulations. We partner with organizations to promote learning and transformation for organizations, teams and individuals. We leverage human touch and high technology to create high impact learning environments that accelerate learning and knowledge acquisition into action, generative practice and sustainable business results.
Strong Leader
Our Commitment - We believe that our success... is dependant on our clients’ success.
The firm’s principals are West Point graduates who believe the future belongs to organizations that embrace the challenge of global competition and are focused on developing the skills required for constant change and performance improvement. Our approach and team are built with complete clarity of purpose: Helping you improve your ability to Execute. Our goal is to give people the tools and perspective required to compete in the business world of the future.
The Foundation of Coaching
A non-profit independent resource for global collaboration, dialogue, information and research.
The Foundation of Coaching is dedicated to the development of coaching as a profession, and as a way of making a positive difference in the world through the lives of individuals.