Organization Development Network

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Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Exhibitors

	CoVision
	iSB Worldwide

Supporting Sponsors

	Results Coaching Systems
The Global Legacy Project

Full Descriptions of 2010 Sponsors & Exhibitors!

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Gold Sponsors

CPSB

The Creative Problem Solving Group (CPSB) specializes in helping organizations achieve higher levels of innovation, productivity, and growth. CPSB's expertise and approach is based on over 60 years of continuous research and development on innovation and change management. This foundation has enabled CPSB to contribute to the success of hundreds of organizations globally throughout the past 30 years.

CPSB consults, trains, and collaborates with organizations to:

• Assess and enhance the Organizational Climate for Innovation and Growth
• Bolster Leadership Skills to prepare for the "new normal"
• Facilitate Ideation and Strategy Sessions based on best-practices
• Increase Innovation and Creative Problem Solving Skills
• Strengthen Strategic Vision and Mission to enhance business alignment
• Provide personal Coaching for Change Leaders and Managers
• Build Higher Performing Teams
• Develop Products and Services tightly aligned with unmet customer needs

School of Human & Organizational Development

Fielding Graduate University's School of Human & Organizational Development offers a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems; a PhD in Human Development, an MA in Organizational Management and Development with optional concentrations in healthcare leadership, sustainability, integral studies, and evidence based coaching; graduate-level certificates, and online professional development courses. Designed for adult learners, our educational model 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.

Silver Sponsors

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 2010 Princeton Review List of Best Business Schools.

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.

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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

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

CoVision

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, practitioners and organizations. 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 by 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.

Human Synergistics International

Human Synergistics International (Visit us for our conference presentation on Global Leadership!) Home of the world’s most heavily researched and widely-used culture survey, the Organizational Culture Inventory®, and the ubiquitous Desert Survival Situation™, our products precede our company name. Human Synergistics is the pioneer in capturing and quantifying organization development concepts including organizational culture and diversity, management and leadership strategies and impact, team synergy, and individual behavioral and communication styles. Directed by Dr. Robert A. Cooke, and building on his work with Dr. J. Clayton Lafferty and colleagues, the company focuses on providing the highest quality assessments and simulations and making them accessible to practitioners. Featuring a highly visual, integrated system linked to performance, Human Synergistics International works with the majority of Fortune 500 Companies, Fast 50 Companies, and Ivy League Universities. Join us in Changing the World—One Organization at a Time®.

Magellan Change Consultants

Magellan Change Consultants, LLC is a consortium of practitioners who provide expertise to support the implemantation of change, and managing the implications of change. The firm is led by CEO, Althea Goodison-Orr. Ms. Goodison-Orr has successfully worked with clients in different industries around the world on a range of change initiatives. Services include: -- Planning & Implementation of Change initiatives -- Training Change Agents with methodology and tools for implementing change -- Leader Development & Coaching -- Start-up and Managing Team Effectiveness -- Meeting Design & Facilitation

McColl School of Business

The McColl School of Business educates students to become successful business and professional leaders who are competent, understand the importance of character and are committed to their communities. The McColl School of Business provides students the opportunity to develop business and management abilities. Those who take advantage of this opportunity are preparing for responsible positions of leadership in the world of commerce and practical affairs. The McColl School of Business offers the Master of Science in Organization Development (MS) and two distinct programs leading to the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree: the Professional MBA program and the Executive MBA program. The McColl School also offers a graduate Coaching Certificate Program and the undergraduate major in business administration with concentrations available in marketing, finance and entrepreneurship.

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 best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0.

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.

iSB Worldwide

iSB Worldwide is a training solutions company for leaders and their organizations. We excel at translating thought leadership into business results through our training programs.

Supporting Sponsors

Garth Fagan Dance

Now in its 40th season, Garth Fagan Dance is “unfailingly original” deemed The New York Times, which named the Company’s piece, Mudan 175/39, third of the top six dance watching moments of 2009. The Company has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, North and South America, New Zealand, Australia, and the West Indies. The Company was cited for its excellence with a New York Governor's Arts Award and has claimed five winners of "Bessie" Awards (NY Performance Awards). They have been featured on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno and three times on PBS’s "Great Performances."

Results Coaching Systems

The Global Legacy Project

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