Organization Development Network

Chris Venn, Vice-President, Center for Right Relationship

Throughout organizations and systems around the world, leaders are striving to create sustainable change. Visions are being created, programs are being initiated, action plans are being drafted - yet too frequently, the "cornerstones" of change just aren't working. There's something beyond just skills training. There's something beyond Emotional Intelligence. Discover the inherent resource that is overlooked in every organization - Relationship Intelligence™.

Facilitators: Nathan Mondragon, Ph.D., Senior IO Psychologist, Taleo Corporation and Thomas Rauzi, Ph.D., Sr. L&D Manager, Dell, Inc.

OD has always evolved by adapting our instruments and processes for a variety of needs. We are typically comfortable with the science or content side of our solutions, and now we are entering a new phase of evolution in our field - the convergence between enterprise software and talent management solutions. The session will be facilitated by talent management content and software experts with audience members participating in a lively discussion drawing from their own experiences.

Glenda Eoyang, Ph.D., Executive Director

What do you do when you can't see into the future? 

How do you intervene when information is unreliable or incomplete? 

What do you do when you don't know what to do?

Join Glenda Eoyang, Ph.D. for this highly engaging and informative session as she introduces six questions to help you cope with the surprises of complexity. You will learn to use the power of human systems dynamics to uncover the hidden patterns and possibilities that surround you and your clients.

Faculty and Program Chairs: Herb Stevenson, MA, CPC, CDP and Rick Maurer, MA, author of Beyond The Wall of Resistance, Why Don't You Want What I Want?, and Building Capacity for Change Sourcebook.

People enter coaching because they want something. Gestalt theory suggests that wants are accompanied by resistance. Coaches must know how to work with that dance between aspirations and fears. We will show you how our approach harnesses those forces in ways that energize and focus the client's work. And how this approach can help clients recognize more options for facing their challenges. This engaging and energy-infused session is ideal for OD professionals, OD consultants, coaches, change leaders, educators and business consultants.

Bill Baetz, Ph.D., Senior Director, The Group for Organizational Effectiveness, Inc.

Most organizations face a steady stream of OD needs related to change, team, talent, structure, process, and performance issues. Yet few employ enough OD specialists to meet all those needs. This session examines ways organizations are responding to this gap. It describes how companies are maximizing the contribution of their OD experts and developing OD capabilities throughout HR and the line. It highlights several common challenges and success factors for building OD capabilities and "making it work."

Richard R. Kilburg, Ph.D. Associate Professor & Director, MBAOD Program, Carey Business School, The Johns Hopkins University

This session will present and discuss a set of issues OD practitioners are facing in the increasingly competitive global consulting market. The rapid evolution of huge business enterprises with multi-national reach is forcing a reconsideration of the educational preparation and practice patterns in the change management industry. Participants can expect to obtain an improved understanding of the nature of many of these forces and current efforts to address them in new training approaches in organization development.

Don M. Frick, Ph.D., researcher and author of The 7 Pillars of Servant Leadership: Implementing the Wisdom of Leading by Serving, and Doug Hoxeng, Ph.D., Senior Manager, The Ken Blanchard Executive MBA Program

This session details how servant leadership is being successfully implemented in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, resulting in bottom-line benefits and transformed people and systems.   Organizational case examples and profiles of servant leaders will be presented and discussed in the session’s interactive format.  Each attendee will receive an autographed copy of The Business Case for Servant Leadership (Ken Blanchard Executive MBA Program, 2008).

Ann Feyerherm, Ph.D., MSOD Director

A future search conference was recently held for Chinese NGOs working on issues of water, in partnership with the MSOD program at Pepperdine University. This session will outline how the future search methodology was used, the joys of and learning about partnering across language/cultural differences, and what approaches can be used to address compelling social and environmental issues. Participants will learn more about future search, working in a network, and facilitation while working in another country.

Christi A. Olson, Ph.D., President and CEO

Our organizational life consists of working in groups-virtual groups, matrix groups, intact groups-across generations, cultures, time zones and customer differences. Join us in a lively dialogue on the evolution of groups in the workplace. What's so different about today's groups and their influence in the workplace? How can OD practitioners recognize and extend the capacity and performance of the group? Learn more about the radical shifts in group work and why the group is the new unit of work.

Pascal Pinck, IdeaDirector, BrainStore

Who says that change has to be all painful, all the time? In this interactive presentation, we'll explore techniques designed to jump-start innovation and transformation processes in a stimulating and enjoyable way. Topics of discussion will include creative and artistic exercises, strategies to engage participants kinetically, and techniques that can positively shape the emotional tone of a group encounter. Of course, we'll also roll up our sleeves and have some fun ourselves!

John D. Carter, Ph.D., President

What is "spirituality"? What role does spirituality play in our work as interveners in corporate America? Can we transcend ego-, ethnic-, and culture-centric orientations? For many years, John Carter has integrated his concept of 7th Degree with the Gestalt Center for Organization & Systems Development's body of knowledge (Gestalt OSD). Spirituality is a key component of every Gestalt OSD conceptual frame of reference. This session presents one of these Gestalt OSD theoretical frameworks, and we invite you to explore your own frames of reference through this lens.

Charles Seashore, Edith Seashore, Richard Woodman, Peter Sorensen

and Therese Yaeger

"With every passing year, McGregor's message becomes ever more relevant, more timely, and more important," said Peter Drucker. This symposium is dedicated to the exploration of Douglas McGregor's work for OD's past, present and future. The history and importance of McGregor's work for OD consulting today is provided. Scholars and practitioners who worked with, or were significantly influenced by McGregor's work (Seashore, Seashore, Woodman, Sorensen & Yaeger), will discuss the implications of McGregor's work as it applies to OD efforts.

Alla Heorhiadi, Ph.D., Ed.D., & John Conbere, Ed.D.

This session will introduce you to energetics, the growing field that integrates knowledge about quantum physics and ancient healing traditions. Energetics involves working with subtle energies to promote individual and organizational healing. Join us to learn about how the principles of energetics can be used to develop self, and to improve the effectiveness of OD interventions.

Katherine Farquhar, Ka Flewellen, David Jamieson, Abukamau Abdullah Al-Ibrahim

Much inherited knowledge in OD reflects values, research, and assumptions developed in Western Europe and North America. In this experiential workshop, we explore and test the cultural reach of OD's traditional core. At the end of this quick journey, you will have insights and tools to: continue developing your cultural competence; check cultural assumptions embedded in OD practice; translate key OD values and methods across cultures; and tailor approaches to change across multiple global locations.

Becky Sandifer, SPHR

Jeremy S. Lurey, Ph.D., CEO, and Samantha Lurey, MA, President

As today's organizations continue to undergo drastic changes, so do the requirements for managing a productive workforce. With focused attention to attracting, developing, and retaining your top talent, you can more effectively engage your employees and compete in today's competitive marketplace.

In this session, you will:

• Review best practices for improving performance
• Learn to use employee life-cycle events to your advantage
• Discuss several strategies for addressing your key business challenges

Carolyn Hendrickson, Ph.D., Senior Partner, Monitor Group

As the business environment changes at an increasingly fast pace, organizations must evolve, building new capabilities that enable them to respond to, and take advantage of, rapidly-changing environments. In many cases, building resilient and adaptive capabilities in a shifting world requires not just organizational change, but outright transformation. Carolyn will share the latest thoughts and practices on different types of organizational change and transformation and the adaptive capabilities that will increasingly be a differentiating source of competitive advantage in the future.

Deb Graham, Senior Consultant & John Schmidt, Senior Consultant

Congratulations. You've landed the contract... secured the position... been asked to lead change management for the new program. So now what? It's well known that over 70% of change initiatives fail. What can you do to make sure yours' succeeds? Regardless of your OD expertise, you can't do it alone. So who else matters? Where should you spend your scarce time? What should be done about resistance?

These are a few of the questions this session will explore. Join us as we discuss tools, techniques and underlying principles of effective implementations.

Linda Ackerman Anderson

Most organizations launch change efforts of different types and magnitudes with conflicting or inadequate change models. These efforts can create chaos, inefficiency, and poor results. Without understanding the enterprise-wide change agenda and ensuring adequate capacity and infrastructure for it, leaders are inadvertently setting their organizations up to fail. This session presents the Change Leader's Roadmap Methodology and explores how embedding a common change methodology helps executives, change leaders, and consultants achieve greater success with change.

Frank Barrett & Mike Manning, Professors, School of Human & Organizational Development, Doctoral Program Theory can be used to guide strategies for organizational change and development. Explore conceptual distinctions that provide general orientations to the change consulting process, including: theories that identify the factors that produce or explain change vs. those that emphasize how to bring about change; theories of planned change that emphasize the role of the change agent vs. perspectives on unplanned change that imply a different consulting orientation; and contrasting implications for change consulting from macro, middle and micro perspectives.