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Thank you to our 2008 Sponsors & Exhibitors!

Be sure to visit our Sponsors' and Exhibitors' websites to learn more about the tools, products and services that can make your job easier! If you'd like to join this list for Conference 2008, download our 2008 Sponsor & Exhibitor Prospectus, or contact Randi Rosenberg to learn what opportunties remain.

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Platinum Sponsors

Plus Delta Consulting, LLC

Gold Sponsors

NTL Institute Taleo

Silver Sponsors

AU/NTL Program, American University Being First
Benedictine University Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University
Center for Right Relationship Fielding Graduate University
Gestalt Center for OSD Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
HSD Institute Implementation Institute
Pepperdine University The Group for Organizational Effectiveness (gOE), Inc.
University of St. Thomas

Exhibitors

CAPT Culture-Strategy Fit, Inc.
Gestalt International Study Center Human Synergistics International
Marshall Goldsmith School of Management, Alliant International University World Institute of Action Learning

Supporting Sponsors

Case Western Reserve University-Weatherhead School of Management One World Music

Full Descriptions of 2008 Sponsors & Exhibitors!

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Platinum Sponsors

Plus Delta Consulting, LLC

Plus Delta Consulting, LLC Plus Delta Consulting is an established management consulting firm that specializes in leading organization development and change initiatives. With our proven Positive Changesm approach, we help client organizations improve performance and navigate their transition efforts from systems implementation, process redesign, and corporate restructuring initiatives to strategic planning and visioning programs.

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Gold Sponsors

NTL Institute

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.

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Taleo

Taleo Leading organizations worldwide use Taleo on demand talent management solutions to assess, acquire, develop and align their workforce for improved business performance. Taleo combines software, best practices, and services so organizations can increase process efficiency, improve quality of hire, reduce risk and return financial results. More than 3,400 organizations use Taleo to attract, hire, and retain top talent with 2,200,000 users processing more than 100 million candidates form 200 countries and territories in 25 languages. Requiring no capital investment, software as a service and on demand delivery offer 99.9% availability and 100% accountability.

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Silver Sponsors

AU/NTL Program, American University

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

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Being First

Being First Being First, Inc. is a preeminent change leadership development organization, specializing in transformational change consulting, training, and publishing. By helping executives succeed at change for thirty years, we are experts in designing change processes that work. Being First's collection of services provides a comprehensive integrated system of both training & development, and consulting & coaching for change leaders, consultants, change team members, and the executive sponsors of change. Our online resource: changeleadersroadmap.com is designed to maximize the results from change while at the same time building an organization's or client's change capabilities for the future.

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Benedictine University

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.

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Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University

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.

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Center for Right Relationship

Center for Right Relationship

At the Center for Right Relationship, we are the thought leaders and innovators who inspire and equip people who work with relationship systems. Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching offers the most powerful tools and techniques to optimize sustainable performance throughout organizations everywhere. This program synthesizes elements from Co-Active Coaching™, General Systems Theory, Process Work, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and even Quantum Physics. Unlock the potential of every team, every department, every group, and every partnership in every organization!

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Fielding Graduate University

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.

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Gestalt Center for OSD

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.

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Gestalt Institute of Cleveland

Gestalt Institute of Cleveland  54 YEARS OF DISTINCTION.

Learn, explore and apply Gestalt Methods with our internationally recognized faculty. The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (GIC) was founded in 1954 with participation from the key founders of Gestalt Theory, Fritz Perls and Laura Perls. We then pioneered the application of Gestalt theory to work with groups and organizations. Today, GIC is the world's largest institute for the study of Gestalt theory. Our Gestalt based training programs provide you with a wide range of invaluable concepts and tools within Executive coaching, Organization & System Development, and Conflict, Confrontation, & Negotiation. Your personal & professional presence will expand-bringing you greater effectiveness and opportunities to influence. We pride ourselves on enriching your capacity to thrive in the areas you deem most important to your personal success. Our goal is to expand your ability to contribute meaningfully through the integration of holistic solutions. Explore our programs and experience a new range of cutting edge competencies.

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HSD Institute

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

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Implementation Institute

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.

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Pepperdine University

Pepperdine University

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.

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The Group for Organizational Effectiveness (gOE), Inc.

The Group for Organizational Effectiveness (gOE), Inc.

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.

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University of St. Thomas

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.

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Exhibitors

CAPT

CAPT, founded in 1975 by Myers-Briggs® developer Isabel Myers, is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering understanding of human personality through training, publishing, and assessment. CAPT's newest online assessment tool is the Klein Group InstrumentTM, an unrestricted instrument designed to assess a comprehensive set of leadership and team participation skills. Results on four main dimensions (Leadership, Negotiation, Task Focus, and Interpersonal Focus) and nine subscales allow detailed feedback and provide a plan for effective follow-up action. The KGI is suitable for individual clients, who receive an Individual Profile, or entire teams; team participants receive an Individual Profile as well as a Group Profile.

Culture-Strategy Fit, Inc.


Gestalt International Study Center

Gestalt International Study Center Brochures, books, copies of our journal (Gestalt Review), and miscellaneous handout material related to the programs and services of Gestalt International Study Center.

Human Synergistics International

Human Synergistics International Since 1970, Human Synergistics International has developed and provided high-quality assessments and simulations to individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations to actualize their potential. We're probably best known for our Desert Survival SituationTM and Organizational Culture Inventory(R), (the world's most widely used culture survey), but our impact transcends that reputation. Our emphasis on measuring the relationship between human behaviors and performance has allowed us to help millions of individuals achieve self-knowledge and to help thousands of organizations understand their operating cultures, as well as how these cultures are related to outcomes such as profitability, employee satisfaction, quality of service, and teamwork.

Marshall Goldsmith School of Management, Alliant International University

Marshall Goldsmith School of Management, Alliant International University We offer graduate degrees in the fields of Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Organization Development. Designed for the working professional, our programs will allow you to maintain your current responsibilities (i.e., job, family, etc.) while preparing you for a career as an organizational change agent. These unique and challenging curriculums meet conveniently during weeknights or one weekend per month (varies by campus). If you enjoy a collaborative and participative learning environment with professionals from all types of organizations with varied educational and professional backgrounds, our programs may be a good fit for you.

World Institute of Action Learning

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 the following :

  • 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

Case Western Reserve University-Weatherhead School of Management

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

One World Music

One World Music

One World Music is a leading-edge experiential learning company that uses the performing arts to engage, enlighten, and transform organizations. Through strategic consulting and customized experiential programs, we get teams in synch, align people with strategy, inspire leadership, and catalyze innovation.

Our unique approach has brought creativity, collaboration, and leadership to a diverse community of clients: Bank of America, BP, Chevron, Cisco, Genentech, Harley-Davidson, Hampton Hotels, HP, Honda, Kaiser, Intel, Pixar, Starbucks, Walt Disney World, and Wells Fargo. Since 1987, these are just a few of the organizations that have used One World Music to bring people together, inspire breakthroughs, and achieve the extraordinary.

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