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Gold Sponsors
Disney Institute
Disney Institute's world-renowned programs have hosted over a million alumni from more than 35 countries and 40 industries. Learn how to engage and train employees, increase customer satisfaction, or even how to build a strong cultural foundation. Topics include Leadership, Quality Service, Creativity, Loyalty, People Management, and Teamwork. Formats include half-day workshops through multi-day experiences with options for both groups and individuals.
These in-depth and highly experiential programs showcase proven strategies and success formulas easily adaptable to any industry. Capitalize on the business philosophies that have set the benchmark for successful companies around the world. Visit www.disneyinstitute.com for more information.
ULiveandLearn
ULiveandLearn™ is a leading Communications, Collaboration and eLearning solutions provider and consultant, offering services ranging from program development and strategic planning to managing fully integrated collaboration and community centers. ULiveandLearn's new learning center product LC3 is a package of essential tools that can be integrated into any environment for technology-enhanced education & training, collaboration, community-building and knowledge exchange. Within the parameters of the LC3 toolset, ULiveandLearn can integrate any number of programs and tools including webcasting, virtual classrooms/offices, course catalogs, event registration and proprietary database into your customized portal.
ULiveandLearn offers a range of services to serve organizations with a learning-related mission, including businesses, government, schools, universities, libraries, museums, associations, conference organizers, publishers and global organizations. Current clients include, WHYY (public television in Philadelphia), Training Media Worldwide, University of Maryland School of Business, Innovate (an international journal), Fight SMA (spinal muscular atrophy), C2D3 (Colorado statewide program), ODN (Organization Development Network), numerous companies and professional training providers. http://www.uliveandlearn.com/clients.cfm
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Silver Sponsors
Alliant International University
Named for the world’s most successful executive coach, the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant International University is reinventing management education. Our graduate programs in Business and Management and Organizational Psychology focus on “the human side of business,” emphasizing:
• Leadership
• Organizational psychology and behavior
• Teambuilding and effective workforces
• Ethics and social responsibility
• Multicultural issues
• International business
• Strategy
• Human resources and the development of human capital
Study tours, projects and colloquia by experts – including Marshall Goldsmith and “Thought Leaders” such as Paul Hersey – give you the hands-on skills you need to succeed.
Marshall Goldsmith School of Management
at Alliant International University
http://marshallgoldsmith.alliant.edu
(866) 825-5426
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
Human Systems Dynamics Institute
Patterns emerge when people work and play together in teams, families, businesses, or communities. These patterns are always 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 the patterns in human systems as they develop. Wherever you are in the system—consultant or manager, individual contributor or customer, parent or spouse—HSD can help you generate new options and take adaptive action. The Human Systems Dynamics Institute supports research, teaching, consulting, and professional networking to facilitate the development of theory and practice in HSD and offers a certification training program for those who want to see and influence emergent patterns in human systems. Call us today to learn more!
866-HSD-INST, www.hsdinstitute.org
Monitor Group
Monitor Group is a family of professional service firms that brings an array of assets to the complex questions facing leaders today. Monitor offers client advisory services, as well as merchant banking resources and software solutions, through its 30 offices worldwide. Established 20 years ago by strategist Michael Porter, Monitor is now home to dozens of thought leaders, including Chris Argyris and David Kantor in the area of organization and leadership. Three companies anchor Monitor’s human assets practice: Lattice Partners, Global Business Network, and Monitor Executive Development. Each focuses on a different aspect of the competitive advantage that can be achieved through people and organization; together they offer Monitor clients an extraordinary resource.
Pepperdine University - GSBM
Pepperdine University offers the Master of Science in Organization Development (MSOD) and the Doctor of Education in Organization Change (EDOC). The MSOD program prepares individuals to lead and facilitate strategic change in organizations. The program’s unique learning process integrates professional and personal development, strategic leadership, and change management. The EDOC program focuses on the broad field of organization change. Taking a comprehensive view of the world’s changing external environments, this program emphasizes theory, research, and practice of change within, between and across organizations. For more information: http:/bschool.pepperdine.edu/programs/msod/
http://gsep.pepperdine.edu/academics/education/edd-orgchange/
Plus Delta Consulting, LLC
Plus Delta Consulting, LLC is an established management consulting firm that specializes in leading organization development and change initiatives. Our services include customizable solutions for Change Management, Process Improvement, Leadership Development, Talent Management, and Team Effectiveness, and Project Management. With a mission for improving performance through Positive ChangeSM, our seasoned consultants can help you manage the transition process related to systems implementation, process redesign, corporate restructuring, and strategic planning efforts. Our consultants can also help you improve individual and team performance through our targeted Custom Learning programs, including the Improving Performance series of workshops that deliver the tools and skills you need to be more effective in change management, virtual teaming, and leadership excellence.
For more information on how Plus Delta can help you improve performance through Positive ChangeSM, come visit us at our booth in the Exhibit Hall at Conference. You can also attend Plus Delta’s general conference session “OD and Technology: Managing the People Side of Technology Change” Tuesday afternoon to learn more about our methodology for managing systems implementation initiatives.
Seeing David in the Stone
For 20 yrs., we searched for answers to these questions:
How did people find and seize the great opportunities of their times?
What can we learn from them to help us find and seize great opportunities?
How did innovative leaders help organizations find and seize great opportunities?
This book answers the questions from the successes and failures of Gates, Einstein, Michelangelo, Edison, Winfrey, Da Vinci, Curie, Smith, Galileo, etc.
Unforgettable messages—changed my life… will change yours...
John Mariotti, Past Pres., Rubbermaid Office Products
Great insight… roadmap to find and seize the great opportunities in your life.
John K. Solheim, VP of Eng., Ping Corporation
University of San Francisco
The MSOD program at USF is characterized by excellence: small seminar classes, experienced instructors who are experts in OD, and a comprehensive curriculum meeting top national guidelines.
USF’s program is a 27-month, evening program for working professionals. Classes are offered one evening per week at our campuses in San Francisco, Cupertino, Sacramento, San Ramon, and Santa Rosa. Applications are accepted for both fall and spring semesters.
As leaders of change, USF graduates work effectively to diagnose, design, and implement organizational change, and to communicate the impact of OD in a business context.
For more information, please visit www.cps.usfca.edu/prospective/MSOD.html.
Bronze Sponsors
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.
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University’s Executive Master of Organization Development equips you with the skills necessary to help organizations thrive in an ever-changing world. Program focuses on both individual and organizational effectiveness. The use of online technologies means that students are only required to be on campus three weekends a semester. Students progress as a team, learning from and with other experienced professionals. A new cohort begins every January. For more information, visit www.modbgsu.com.
CoVision
CoVision provides a fast-feedback methodology for accelerating alignment in large group meetings and in dispersed work groups online. CoVision pioneered the use of networked laptop computers in large group meetings in the early 1990s. Since then, working as trusted partners, they have supported 3,500 meetings and hundreds of facilitators, carefully fitting the tools and processes to each client's special situations. CoVision's methodology has been used by numerous Fortune 500 corporations, government organizations, learning institutions, associations, and civic groups to support senior leadership meetings, change management initiatives, multi-stakeholder initiatives, strategic planning sessions, and citizen summits.
Evalcorp Research & Consulting
Evalcorp assists government agencies, international nonprofits, and global corporations in maximizing their effectiveness through:
- measuring what matters most;
- answering the right questions; and
- being certain about what works.
In addition to our methodological expertise, we are known for our pragmatic approach and ability to provide clients with actionable information. Our consultants employ customized data collection and measurement strategies to determine the impact of programs and initiatives, and gather critical information from stakeholders.
For more information about our services or to find out how we can assist your organization, please call 949.433.4103 or email us at info@evalcorp.com.
Fielding Graduate University
Fielding Graduate University is a nonprofit, WASC-accredited, world leader in distributed learning for adults. Its renowned School of Human and Organization Development offers doctoral degrees in Human Development or Human and Organizational Systems; a master's degree in Organization Management and Development, and a variety of innovative graduate certificates. Custom programs are also available for corporate, non-profit and government organizations.
Fielding has developed a distributed learning 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. To learn more, call (800)340-1099 or visit www.fielding.edu.
Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
We believe “you are your most valuable tool.” Who you are and how you show up is the foundation for effective innovation to support clients. Our programs are dedicated to helping individuals learn how to increase their effectiveness as they attempt to influence individuals, groups and organizations.
Our programs are design and crafted from our thirty years of experience of working consultants, CEOs, managers, supervisors and change agents from around the world. The Organization & Systems Development Center of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland provides outstanding training and consultation to support effective and efficient organizational change.
To learn more about our programs visit our website at www.gestaltcleveland.org or phone 216-421-0468.
Group for Organizational Effectiveness (gOE)
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.
Jossey-Bass
Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley, publishes books, periodicals, and other media to inform and inspire those interested in developing themselves, their organizations and their communities. Jossey-Bass' publications feature the work of some of the world's best-known authors in organizational development, leadership, business, education, nonprofit, public health and health administration, and conflict resolution.
www.josseybass.com
The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. (KJCG)
One of the most respected boutique consulting firms specializing in strategic culture change, KJCG assists organizations to improve operational performance by unleashing the real power of an included and engaged workforce. Since 1970, KJCG has been partnering with Fortune 100 companies, entrepreneurial founder-led companies, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and governmental agencies.
We partner with organizations to develop work cultures that tap the knowledge, experience, and skills of all people to: achieve greater innovation; see beyond the horizon of current understanding; develop new approaches to sustaining organizational success; and establish mindsets to drive behaviors for sustainable operational performance.
Language & Culture Worldwide
LCW is an intercultural consulting firm that helps organizations design, develop, and deliver training in the languages, locations, and cultures of their global workforce.
- We assist in the successful adaptation and delivery of trainings for international audiences,
- We provide coaching and training to develop cross-cultural skills and mindsets for short and long-term international assignments,
- We offer management consulting services to help ensure the success of your global corporate initiatives, including key areas such as Global Diversity.
Our clients have included Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and government agencies.
Louis Allen Worldwide
The mission of Louis Allen Worldwide is to help organizations achieve world-class execution and results by significantly improving management practices and processes.
We offer assessment survey tools, management development programs, and organization effectiveness consulting. Our survey tools use cost-effective internet technology that simplifies administration and reporting. Our development programs are practical and focused on execution and results. Our consulting brings all the pieces together to drive organization effectiveness.
We deliver services to clients as well as through a network of partner consulting firms in the United States and around the world who have been chosen for their world-class consulting capabilities.
MDA Leadership Consulting
Our motto says it best: Without great leadership, nothing works!™ We believe better leaders get better results. It's that simple. Since 1981, MDA Leadership Consulting has been helping leaders select the right talent to drive their strategy, create greater organizational alignment so systems are set up to succeed, and build the leadership capacity to create outstanding and sustainable results. From our headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, our client teams and executive coaches work with CEOs and senior leaders at some of the most successful public and private companies in the country. We invite you to learn more about our "no surprises" client philosophy by calling Paul Batz or Shelly Rushmeyer at 612-332-8182 or visiting us at www.mdaleadership.com. With great leadership, anything is possible!™
National Education Association (NEA)
The National Education Association (NEA) is the nation’s largest professional employee organization. The 3.2 million members of NEA are committed to advancing the cause of public education at every level, from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliate organizations in every state, as well as in more than 14,000 local communities across the United States. Members of NEA share a commitment to America’s students and public schools, working to improve the quality of teaching, increase student achievement and make schools safe, better places to learn. NEA believes that great public schools are a basic right for every student.
NTL Institute
NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science NTL Institute is dedicated to understanding and developing solutions to facilitate productive change in every facet of personal, organizational and social life. For over 50 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 is the premier source for transformational change.
PDI - Personnel Decisions International
Personnel Decisions International (PDI) is a global human resources consulting firm with distinctive expertise in building leadership talent that provides real competitive advantage. With over 725 team members in 28 offices around the globe, we partner with the world's leading organizations, enabling them to make consistently effective decisions about leaders.
Using field-tested strategies, systems, and tools that are unique in the industry, we help clients identify, develop, and deploy superior leaders. Our aim is simple, the well placed confidence that your current and future leaders are distinctively stronger than the competition, resulting in sustained, superior performance.
SFB Associates
SFB workshop participant Judy Dudziak, Senior Manager, Strategy and Innovation at General Mills says, "SFB Associates has created a gem of a think tank to foster cross-industry sharing in order to harvest the best approaches with respect to motivating scientists and creating new innovation capacity within an organization." Led by Fortune 500 consultant Steve Boehlke, SFB Associates is a proven resource to help decision makers and innovators drive strategic priorities, collaborate profitably, and lead with vision. SFB tailors its slate of dynamic talks, training workshops, and successful tools for your organization to generate breakthrough practices and accelerate the effectiveness of your leaders. www.sfbassociates.com - 763.476.1829
SHL
Through the innovative application of assessment and development solutions, SHL works with organizations of all types to maximize the performance of their people. With more than 5,500 clients operating in 40 countries and 30 languages, SHL can share proven success stories on how companies increase productivity and improve their bottom line by developing talent.
Visit the SHL exhibit to learn how SHL tools can be applied to develop people and teams at all levels.
Special offer! Ask about the SHL Partner Network— designed to allow consultants to easily access SHL’s library of assessments to incorporate into their client engagements.
University of St. Thomas
style="padding-right:10px;" The University of St. Thomas Department of Organization Learning and Development offers graduate programs for professionals dedicated to individual and organizational learning, leadership development and change management. Earn the doctorate degree in organization development, master's degree in human resource and change leadership or four 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.
Supporting Sponsors
AgoraNet, Inc.
AgoraNet offers professional website design, hosting and software development. We specialize in customizing your site so it works for you including graphic design, databases, e-commerce and much more. We've worked with small groups and large so contact us to see how we can help with your next project. We have enjoyed a long-term working relationship with OD Network and wish them well with Conference 2006!
For more information, please visit http://www.agora-net.com
AvidWork
AvidWork partners with organizations to accelerate results for strategic growth and innovation for business, nonprofit and education. AvidWork gives organizations the tools you need to assimilate change in a positive way—and make it stick. We focus on: Integrating new ideas programs, products, services, Restarting initiatives that did not meet initial objectives and Re-energizing projects that stall or slow down.
We collaborate with clients to revamp, retool, revitalize and grow—all by getting new initiatives to actually WORK, on schedule and on budget. AvidWork’s highly experienced and dedicated team specializes in high growth, turnaround, and fast-scale situations. From innovation planning to strategic action, AvidWork has the expertise and the insight to be a partner in your success. Contact Christi A. Olson, Ph.D., and Cindy Elkins, MBA, Managing Partners, 805.729.0800 or Christi@avidwork.com at www.avidwork.com
Bay Area OD Network
The Bay Area Organization Development Network (BAODN) is created and run by members supporting an organization development (OD) community of practice. With over 30 years history BAODN connects people who are dedicated to expanding their knowledge, skills and experience in the field of OD. Members share networking, professional development, learning events, communication and promotional channels. BAODN connects its members virtually and in addition hosts a number of networking activities, events, and conferences throughout the year in order to support membership needs.
For questions on joining, renewing or login information, please call the BAODN office at 415.674.4510 or email us at office@baodn.org
Berrett Koehler
Berrett-Koehler is an independent publisher dedicated to an ambitious mission: Creating a World that Works for All.
We believe that to truly create a better world, action is needed at all levels-individual, organizational, and societal. At the individual level, our publications help people align their lives and work with their deepest values. At the organizational level, our publications promote progressive leadership and management practices, socially responsible business, and humane and effective organizations. At the societal level, our publications advance social and economic justice, shared prosperity, sustainable development, and innovative solutions to national and global issues.
Visit us online at www.bkconnection.com
Dreamfish
Dreamfish acts as a feeder pond for social innovation. We advance life-affirming organization development by supporting changemakers with participatory arts and multimedia. As a changemaker, you will discover opportunities to be inspired, share, create and learn. Dreamfish creates interactive multimedia happenings, interactive performances, and participatory art projects. Visit Dreamfish.org in the near future to explore the changemaker blog, news and commentary, video and podcasts.
GroupJazz
Group Jazz supports the work of groups, whether they meet face-to-face, online, or both and brings together the best tools, technologies, media, and people to produce great group experiences with powerful results. Group Jazz Founder and Executive Producer, Lisa Kimball, pioneered the use of online technologies to create virtual off-site meetings, professional conferences, and virtual team spaces of all kinds. Using a production process that includes social, management, and technical aspects, Group Jazz creates events that are both engaging and valuable for participants.
International Association of Facilitators (IAF)
Facilitation is a profession rapidly taking its unique place alongside those of consulting and training.
The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) was formed by a group of professionals desiring an avenue for interchange, professional development, trend analysis and
peer networking.
A formal association was proposed and adopted at a networking conference in Alexandria, Virginia, in January, 1994. More than 70 people signed on as charter members. Since then, the IAF has grown to over 1300 members in more than 20 countries.
Learn more about IAF at www.iaf-world.org, and mark your calendar for the next IAF North American Conference, March 8-10, 2007, in Portland, Oregon.
One World Music
One World Music is a leading-edge experiential learning company that uses the performing arts to engage, enlighten, and transform organizations of all kinds. 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: ADP, Bank of America, BP, Charles Schwab, Chevron, Cisco, Genentech, Harley-Davidson, HP, Herbalife, Honda, Kaiser Permanente, Intel, Pixar, Starbucks, the University of California, 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.
Working-Arts
Working-Arts ® is a unique professional resource, invaluable to leaders who wish to develop a culture of innovation and passion within their organizations: CEOs, Creativity Directors, and innovation leaders in Organizational Development, Product Development and Marketing. Working-Arts assists you in developing a culture of innovation by helping you design and implement an Innovation Architecture for any level of your organization. Working-Arts assists you in developing a culture of passion by offering creative practices designed for the Artful Professional -- those individuals and workgroups at every level of your organization who wish to bring greater creativity and effectiveness to their work.
World Cafe
Based on living systems principles, The World Café is an innovative approach for fostering strategic dialogue, knowledge sharing, and new possibilities for action in groups of all sizes. The World Cafe uses “conversations around questions that matter” as a core process for accessing collective intelligence and creating positive futures. Now being used in business, education, government institutions and NGO's on all six continents, the World Cafe community has recently published a book on this work, The World Cafe: Shaping our Futures Through Conversations that Matter. Visit www.theworldcafe.com or contact info@theworldcafe.com to see how you can participate!
Other Supporters
Case Western Reserve University
The Weatherhead School is bold in idea generation, creative in thinking and nimble in adapting to the rapidly changing business environment. Weatherhead's teaching approach delivers a unique blend of functional competencies and interpersonal skills that organizations increasingly need. The input we ask for and receive from industry, corporate sponsors and alumni is critical to designing curricula that advance our graduates' careers and the objectives of their sponsoring organizations. As a result, the people we teach are ready to add immediate value to their organizations, their communities and the world. It is this approach that has earned the school a place in the top 10% of the world's business schools for decades.