Thank you to our 2009 Sponsors & Exhibitors!
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Full Descriptions of 2009 Sponsors & Exhibitors!
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Platinum Sponsors
Plus Delta Consulting, LLC
At “Plus Delta Consulting”, we are dedicated to making a difference with organizations that are making a difference. We specialize in leading organization development and change initiatives to produce better business results. With our proven Positive ChangeSM approach, we can help you improve performance and navigate your transition efforts from enterprise-wide systems implementation, process redesign, and corporate restructuring initiatives to more targeted strategic planning and visioning programs. So whether you're a Fortune 100 corporation, not-for-profit organization, or government agency, we can help you Evolve, Innovate, and Succeed.
Gold Sponsors
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.
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
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 your results from change while at the same time building your organization's or client's change capabilities for the future.
Benedictine University
Benedictine University is dedicated to the education of students from diverse ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds and prepares students for a lifetime as active, informed and responsible citizens and leaders in the world community. The Benedictine OD Master's Program is the oldest in the US, dating back to the 1960s -- the Ph.D. program is one of the first Ph.D. programs in the field and designed for the working executive/consultant. At Benedictine we offer different OD programs: the traditional MSMOB, the Ph.D., 13-month Master's concentrating in OD delivered in a cohort design, as well as the new Accelerated Strategic HR.
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 2009 Princeton Review List of Best Business Schools.
Center for Right Relationship
The Center for Right Relationship (CRRGlobal) is a global training, coaching and consulting organization located in the San Francisco Bay Area that uses a systems approach to leverage Relationship Systems IntelligenceTM within organizations, teams and communities. Core curriculum focuses on training professionals in the most powerful tools and techniques to optimize sustainable performance throughout organizations and communities everywhere.
CRRGlobal is the only ICF-credentialed organization to present a cutting edge core curriculum in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC), followed by an in depth certification program in this discipline. Through Relationship Systems WorkTM, one key skill set is taught: the ability to create excellence in relationship.
With practitioners in more than 30 countries and affiliates and partners spanning the world, CRRGlobal brings content expertise of Relationship Systems to all market segments.
Fielding Graduate University
Fielding Graduate University's School of Human & Organizational Development offers a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems, a PhD in Human Development, and an MA in Organizational Management and Development. Shorter, graduate-level certificate programs include Evidence Based Coaching, Organizational 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 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 more information: http://www.fielding.edu.
Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
54 YEARS OF DISTINCTION.
Learn, explore and apply Gestalt Methods with our internationally recognized faculty. The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland was founded in 1954 with participation from the key founders of Gestalt Theory, Fritz Perls and Lore Perls. We then pioneered the application of Gestalt theory to work with groups and organizations. Today, we are 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 for Executive Coaching, Organizational Development, and Leadership Development. 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.
Lee Hecht Harrison
Lee Hecht Harrison offers talent management solutions throughout the entire employee life cycle to help companies and individuals maximize performance and achieve success. Established in 1974, Lee Hecht Harrison is a global talent management solutions company with over 240 offices worldwide providing expertise in Career Transition, Leadership Consulting and Workforce Solutions. Lee Hecht Harrison’s Leadership Consulting practice helps companies improve business performance through identifying, assessing, and developing leaders at all levels.
Lee Hecht Harrison is a part of Adecco Group, the world leader in workforce solutions with over 6,600 offices in over 70 countries and territories around the world. For more information, please visit LHH.com.
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.
Passages Consulting
With offices in Atlanta, Kansas City, San Francisco and Seattle, Passages Consulting is proud to be a premier resource in strategic organizational change and executive leadership development to some of the world’s leading corporations and brands. We have worked around the world with global and multi-national corporations pursuing growth and merger strategies to help them manage the complexities of globalization.
We generate large positive impact for our clients through the relationships we form with our clients, leveraging our world class practitioners and by deploying our time-tested approaches.
With a unique understanding of the systemic nature of creating sustainable high performance, our approach helps the organization achieve its stretch goals not just once, but consistently over time. We are passionate about seeing the CEO and their team thrive amidst chaotic and challenging business conditions.
Our proprietary methodology for organization assessment, our unique approach to multi-level transformation at the executive level and our results in building leadership capability, positions us as a highly valued resource to the CEO and senior executives.
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.
Plexus Institute
The Plexus Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the health of individuals, families, communities, organizations, and our natural environment by helping people use concepts emerging from the new science of complexity. Complexity science is an interdisciplinary field focused on understanding change. Plexus Institute conducts action research, convenes learning networks and connects with complexity scientists around the world to explore applications of the complexity framework to solving "wicked problems" in diverse fields including organization development, health care, education, economic development and the environment using diverse methodologies including social network mapping, positive deviance and other strategies for high engagement.
Royal Roads University
Royal Roads University is Canada’s university for working professionals. We combine the convenience of online learning with short, dynamic on-campus residencies so you can balance your education and continue to work. Our programs are developed in collaboration with industry experts and taught by faculty with academic credentials and practical experience.
The Centre for Applied Leadership and Management, at Royal Roads University, offers leading edge custom programs and Graduate Certificates in strategic human resources management, executive coaching, project management, professional communication management, health systems leadership, environmental practice and more.
Royal Roads University has a flexible admission policy that recognizes prior learning accomplishments. Contact an enrolment advisor to learn more about our programs and specific admission requirements.
Toll free 1-877-778-6227 learn.more@royalroads.ca/learnmore www.royalroads.ca
Victoria, B.C. Canada
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.
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.
Vangent, Inc.
Vangent's leadership and organizational development offerings enable clients to identify, develop, and retain key talent; make wise organizational development investments; and realize the performance potential of their organization.
Our Organizational Development Affiliate Network (ODAN) program enables Leadership and Organizational Development Consultants to leverage time-tested, best of breed assessment tools to extend their solution set, differentiate their practice, and generate recurring revenue.
Benefits of becoming a Vangent OD Affiliate:
- Gain access to well-known product line that instills client confidence and builds credibility
- Highly competitive commission structure
- Receive FREE/discounted training and certification
- Top-notch support
- Leverage Vangent brand to improve differentiation and increase visibility - Receive over 40% off list price of assessments
Exhibitors
Antioch University Seattle
Antioch University Seattle offers several master's programs that work well for people interested in organizational development as a profession. These include: Organizational Psychology, Management, Strategic Communication, Whole Systems Design, and Environment and Community.
Each of the master's programs feature a systems approach to learning, an emphasis on combining theory and practice and a focus on learning to create positive social change in organizations and communities.
The programs are offered through a cohort-based, low-residency model where students attend class one long weekend per month. The curriculum is designed for working adults who are looking for a program that values their experience and supports their individual learning goals.
CPP, Inc.
For 50 years, CPP has provided the most reliable and trusted assessments, training tools, and services available anywhere. As a leader in workforce development solutions, the company's hundreds of unique offerings have been used by millions of individuals in more than 100 countries, in more than 20 languages. Small-, medium-, and large-sized businesses, including the Fortune 500 and Global 1000, have relied on CPP to help their people and organizations grow by improving performance. CPP's world-renowned brands and services include the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(r) (MBTI(r)), Strong Interest Inventory(r), Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), FIRO-B(r), CPI 260(tm), and California Psychological Inventory(tm) (CPI(tm)) instruments and CPP Professional Services.
Gestalt International Study Center
The Gestalt International Study Center, founded by Sonia and Edwin Nevis, is a worldwide organization engaged in the development of extraordinary leaders and practitioners. Our diverse international faculty composed of leaders, consultants, and therapists create powerful learning experiences for individuals and organizations. We focus on advanced training for experienced professionals, enhancing skills of leadership and consulting intervention through developing the individual, through experiential training that is rigorous, applied, and profound. Our uniquely optimistic Cape Cod Model develops the ability to perceive team and organization behavior with greater clarity, and creates the ability to interact boldly and with confidence.
See our website at www.gisc.org.
Gestalt OSD Center
The Gestalt Organization & 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 individuals, 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.
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.
Supporting Sponsors
Case Western Reserve University-Weatherhead School of Management
The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University is one of the world’s top ranked schools in organizational behavior and change leadership. It is home to internationally, recognized thought leaders in emotional intelligence, appreciative inquiry, transformational leadership, and positive organization development and change.The MPOD learning experience fosters experiential opportunities for participants to become more self aware, to practice and experiment with new skills, and to give and receive coaching that can be life-changing. The program educates and develops leaders who will create enduring social systems that offer extraordinary value to all stakeholders, nourish the cooperative human spirit, and contribute to ecologically sustainable societies and global well-being. Learn more about our Masters of Science Program in Positive Organization Development and Change (MPOD) at weatherhead.case.edu/mpod; pxp36@case.edu; 216.368.4642
Pacific Northwest Organizational Development Network
The Pacific Northwest Organizational Development Network (PNODN) is the premiere learning and networking association for top-tier, mid-level, and emerging organizational change agents. Our vision: to develop partnerships that create a community of support to strengthen the professional capabilities of 21st century change agents. Our programming provides continuing professional development, networking opportunities, presentations on emerging OD techniques and organizational concepts, touching on both theory and application. We provide a convening space for OD practitioners at all stages of their careers and, with our members and partners, the support of a learning community.
TalentSmart
TalentSmart is the world's leading provider of emotional intelligence tests and training. Our solutions are trusted by more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies. Come by our booth and get our new book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0.