Concurrent Sessions Strand 3
Capitalizing on Globalism and Diversity
At the very heart of OD practice lies the core value of inclusivity. Today’s workplaces, especially global ones, are ill-prepared to deal with the mosaic of its stakeholders. Even fewer actually possess the tools to harness diversity and leverage it for maximum effectiveness. These sessions will provide you with perspectives you need to insure your clients maintain a truly inclusive and productive culture.
Session descriptions are condensed; for full descriptions, see the printed Conference brochure.
GD01: Generational Differences at Work: The Role of OD in Navigating Across Generations
Scott Wimer, Ph.D., Wimer Associates
Tracey Tapp, Consulting for Organizational Effectiveness
Dominic Cirincione,Ph.D., Organizational Fitness Associates
To effectively manage generational diversity, we must understand and appreciate that Traditionalists, Boomers, and Generations X and Y have differing expectations, values, psychological contracts, work ethics and assumed skills. Learn theory and practical strategies for using generational differences to an organization’s advantage, and examine the special challenges posed in family businesses.
GD02: Imagine a World without Racism: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Address Tough Issues
Janis Harvey, YWCA of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County
Eileen Conlon, Conlon Consulting Group & AIC
Wendy White, Continuum Consulting Services & AIC
Pamela Skyrme, YWCA - Southeast Region
Whether we are envisioning a world without racism, a company without sexism or a team without rankism, it may seem difficult or even unseemly to apply an appreciative model to something as negative and destructive as discrimination or oppression. At the YWCA-USA, a visionary internal team and a group of external consultants used AI to take the organization to a new level both internally and externally. Presenters will share what worked, lessons learned and important considerations to address when taking on these issues.
GD03: OD as Social Entrepreneurship: Interventions for Building Socio-Economic Justice
Warner Woodworth, Marriott School, Brigham Young University
Peter Sorenson, Agent of Change, Ginkgo Enterprises
This session will focus on the catalytic uses of OD for addressing global problems: poverty, hunger, disease, and other forms of human suffering. Presenters will report on OD methodologies they used in response to Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, earthquakes in El Salvador, and the Asian tsunami. Participants will explore how to adapt these cutting-edge tools to extend their professional practices into new frontiers of social and economic justice.
GD04: Systems, Social Justice and Quadrant Identities
Marcella Benson-Quaziena, Ph.D, The Benson-Quaziena Group
Cathy Royal, Ph.D., World Consulting Group and Anchor-Diversity Practitioner, Diversity Program, National Training Laboratories
This session will focus on the impact of race, gender and other key social identities on the development and presence of power differentials in cultures and systems. Participants will gain an understanding of how Quadrant Behavior Theory © can be used to analyze power and oppression in systems, cultures, groups and individuals. Learn how to identify the behaviors that continue to support oppression, exclusion and imbalance of access for many members of society.
GD05: Creating “Collective Intelligence”: A French Experience of OD
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Laurent Buratti, Vincent Lenhardt, and Sharon Williamson, Transformance
How does OD practice in Europe differ from that in the USA, and what can we learn from each other? This participative session explores a “holomorphic” OD approach developed in France based on the principle of “collective intelligence.” Executive coaching, strategic teambuilding and large scale mobilization are combined to create a shared vision structured on six levels from ambition to execution.
GD06: The World Bank's Journey from Diversity to Inclusion
Paul Cadario, Sr Manager for Trust Fund Quality Assurance and Compliance, and Julie Oyegun, Director of Diversity Programs, The World Bank Group
With over 10,000 staff from more than 120 countries and a board interested in “the numbers,” the World Bank Group faces special challenges in creating a diverse and inclusive work force. To move beyond “the numbers” to a conducive work climate in which managers make everyone a successful member of the teams engaging in the bank’s anti-poverty, pro-growth work requires action awareness, performance management and management succession.
GD07: Meet the Emerging Generations: Are You Ready for Them?
Mary Cornetta-Brown, Cornetta-Brown Associates
This session addresses the need for OD practitioners to understand the Emerging Generations’ approach to work, learning, leadership, management and even the world around them. Move from potential generational collision toward productive collaboration by learning the six things that differentiate the Emerging Generations from their predecessors and what kind of leaders the Emerging Generations will make; gain tools for assessing your organization’s readiness for this new leadership style.
GD08: Do You See What I See? A Diversity Tale for Retaining People of Color
Janice Fenn, Professional Resources Organization
Chandra Irvin, Irvin, Goforth & Irvin, LLC
Many organizations make recruiting people of color (POC) a priority, yet they fail to retain this talent. Why? It is because of the enormous gap between the way POC view their organizations and the way managers and leaders view these same organizations.This session offers insights that will help executives and managers understand what it takes to retain talented POC in a highly competitive marketplace.
GD09: Critical Issues in OD: Cutting-Edge Corporate Global OD Strategies at Abbott, Boeing and Motorola
Therese Yaeger, Director, Global Organization Development, Motorola
Deborah Pagel Sr. OE Consultant, Boeing
Peter Sorensen, Director of PhD Program, Benedictine University
Philip Anderson, Manager, Training & Organization Development,
Abbott Laboratories
Fenorris Pearson, VP HR, Global Organization Development, Motorola
The need for OD to become strategic and development of OD in response to global change are cutting-edge OD issues. This panel, representing three of the largest global corporations, will address these critical issues and share their cutting-edge activities. The panel will emphasize global strategies for implementing change and the role of OD as a key partner with top management.
GD10: What the Opt-Out Revolution Says about Organizational Culture & What OD Practitioners Can Do about It
Laura Shelton, WVUE Fox TV
Charlotte Shelton, Rockhurst University, WiseWork Consulting
Increasingly, Gen Xers are opting out of dysfunctional organizations. The session will present survey data from 1200 Xers that identifies the gap between their expectations and their work reality. We will provide suggestions for how OD practitioners can harness the disillusionment of this generation in positive and proactive ways, thus engaging Xers as co-conspirators of organizational change.
GD11: Transcending Dynamics of Power and Victimization in Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
Tina Rasmussen, Diversity Mosaic, LLC
Organizations rarely confront the underlying dynamics of power and victimization. These subjects have remained “taboo,” while at the same time holding the potential for tremendous breakthroughs. This session provides OD practitioners with tools to assist people with power to share it, and to assist people who have been oppressed to embrace empowerment.
GD12: The Seven Principles of Inclusion
Eric Ellis, Integrity Development Corporation
As organizations work to become more inclusive, they are creating environments where employees feel valued. Uncover the seven key principles that can help you establish a solid foundation for creating healthy and productive communities. Discover how you can adopt these principles to achieve a positive workplace where employees are more productive and apt to remain.
GD13: Leadership Development in India: An Experiential Perspective
Joseph George Anjilvelil and Ranjan Acharya, WIPRO, Ltd.
This session will share the presenters’ experience from a Leadership Development perspective. Participants will benefit from insights into a Leadership Development journey institutionalized by one of the most successful companies from India; perspectives for internal OD work in an Indian workforce that predominantly serves a client base across Europe, Japan and North America, and an understanding of dominant workforce cultures as a context for OD work.
GD14: Leveraging OD Practices to Enable Worldwide Product Development Collaboration
Donald McCormick, Mark James & Associates, Inc.
Don Haupt, Deployment Coordinator, Caterpillar, Inc.
This case study presents the story of how one of the largest and most geographically dispersed corporations is using OD practices to deploy new processes and technologies in over 30 business units amid unprecedented demand for product and employee resources.
GD15: OD IS Diversity: Differences Are at the Heart of the Field
Heather Berthoud & Bob Greene, Berthoud/Greene Consultants, LLC
This session is for practitioners who “don’t do diversity,” along with those who make it an intentional part of their practice. Participants will be introduced to the Diversity Diamond©, which makes clear the connection between organizational change and diversity.