Organization Development Network

Concurrent Session: Leading through Identity: Radical Logic for 21st Century Management - Monday, October 19, 2009

Larry Ackerman is a leading authority on organizational and personal identity. He is the president and founder of The Identity Circle LLC, an identity research, education and consulting firm based in Westport, CT. The company specializes in helping organizations and individuals clarify and capitalize on their unique, value-creating capacities, in ways that drive performance, impact and reputation. Previously, Larry was group director at Siegel & Gale, a corporate brand consulting firm focused on business transformation.

In a professional career spanning nearly 30 years, Mr. Ackerman has helped meet some of the most complex challenges facing large organizations struggling to distinguish themselves in their fields. As a personal coach to senior executives, as well as consultant to their institutions, his insights have helped many leaders discover the keys not just to survive, but to flourish. His clients have included AARP, Aetna, The American Academy of Family Physicians, Baxter Healthcare, Boise Cascade, Dow Chemical, EDS, Fidelity Investments, Gates Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Maytag, National Australia Bank, Norsk Hydro, State Farm Insurance, Ernst & Young, and Westinghouse.

Larry has published two ground-breaking books on identity. In his first book, Identity Is Destiny: Leadership and the Roots of Value Creation (Berrett-Koehler, 2000), the author set forth a revolutionary view of the nature of identity and its impact on leadership and management. In his second book, The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World (Random House, 2006), Larry asserts that we “cannot be anything we want to be;” but rather, that long term fulfillment comes when we live by the ‘identity code’ that defines our unique value-creating potential.

Larry Ackerman has been a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Management, Wharton, Pepperdine University and UCLA’s Anderson School. Larry is a top-rated speaker for The Conference Board, and a regular keynote for leading organizations.

Sponsor Spotlight: The Ten Common Mistakes When Implementing Change - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Consulting to Your Organization’s Strategic Change Agenda - Monday, October 19, 2009

Linda Ackerman Anderson is Co-Founder and Vice President of Being First, Inc., a training and consulting firm specializing in leading conscious transformation in Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and non-profit organizations. During her 30-year career in change leadership she has created the renown 9-phase model; The Change Leader’s Roadmap™, co-written two books; Beyond Change Management and The Change Leader’s Roadmap, and has written numerous guidebooks, tools, resources, and over 50 articles. As a speaker, author, and consultant Linda specializes in enterprise-wide change strategies, and is passionate about developing women as leaders of change.

Concurrent Session: Social Technologies for Communicating, Collaborating, and Connecting - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Jackie Alcalde-Marr is the founder of Evolutions Consulting Group as well as the Director of Organization & Talent Development for Oracle, North America. She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of organization development with Fortune 100 companies. She has led leadership and professional development organizations, assisted leaders with talent management and strategic planning, and led change management consulting engagements for large information technology implementations. Jackie has worked with global leaders and teams throughout Europe, Latin America, and Asia. While living in England, she helped create a change management consulting practice for Oracle. Jackie is an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco where she teaches organization development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has presented at several national conferences, has been published in the Organization Development Journal and Sacramento Business Magazine. She has co-authored Social Media at Work: How Social Networking Tools Propel Organizational Performance, a book that focuses on using social media inside organizations of all kinds. Jackie is a member of the Social Media Club of Sacramento. She is an executive and personal coach and enjoys serving as a “Sacramento Area Success Team Leader,” helping community leaders and individuals clarify and achieve goals through planning, social networking, and coaching.

Jackie also holds a Masters in Human Resources & Organization Development from the University of San Francisco, a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Communications, and a minor in Spanish from California State University, Sacramento. She is certified in ODR’s Managing Organizational Change, Pritchett’s Change Management program, Buzan Centre’s Mind Mapping, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator®, and the PDI 360 assessment. In addition, she has training in Balanced Scorecard and ROI strategies.

One Day Workshop: Using Small-Scale 21st Century Towns meeting to Build Communities - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Diane joined the AmericaSpeaks Associates Network in 1999 and has worked in a variety of project roles in 20 AmericaSpeaks meetings across the country. Her work with AmericaSpeaks has included engaging young people in Washington DC for Mayor Anthony Williams' Youth Summit, convening New Yorkers around the future of the World Trade Center site after 9/11, involving New Orleans residents in creating the Unified New Orleans Plan after hurricane Katrina, and supporting health care discussions in California, Maine and other communities around the nation.
 
Diane is passionate about organization change as well as team and leadership development. She has 30 years of experience in health care and works primarily in the nonprofit sector. As a skilled facilitator and consultant, Diane works with nonprofit boards, leaders and teams on systems change, strategic planning, and local and regional health system improvements.
 
Diane also has an appointment as Adjunct Faculty to the Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Social Enterprise Management at Seattle University. She earned her Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Washington and her Ed.D. in OrganizationChange from Pepperdine University.

Concurrent Session: Honest Signals – Hard measures for Social Behavior - Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Concurrent Session: Leading in a Hyper-Connected Society—A Shift in Leadership Models - Monday, October 19, 2009

Dr.  Michael Arena is an adjunct faculty member of Queens University’s Master in Organization Development program. He is also a Senior Vice President of Leadership Development at Bank of America where he serves as an Executive in Residence within the Center for Future Banking, a partnership with MIT’s Media Lab to drive banking innovation. Dr. Arena has over 20 years of experience in driving strategic change and organizational development. Before joining Bank of America he served in multiple consulting roles working with such companies as BASF, General Motors, Bayer Corporation, CBS, and BF Goodrich.

Dr. Arena also serves on the board of the McColl Center’s Innovation Institute, an organization dedicated to integrating the arts with business innovation. His research findings on whole system change and complexity science have been published in multiple peer reviewed management journals. He holds a Doctorate in Organizational Development, with a concentration in Whole System Change from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati.

Other: Treasures of the NW Coast- An Intentional Learning Community - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Seattle-based Monika Aring has worked in 40 countries with Fortune 500 firms, Governments, NGO’s, and think tanks.  She is currently a Senior Advisor for the Conference Board in NY and Hong Kong, and CEO of her own company that helps employers partner with Governments and NGOs to grow jobs and workforce skills in fragile countries.

Concurrent Session: Use of Self: Leveraging Ourselves as Instruments of Change - Monday, October 19, 2009

Matthew Auron is a dynamic presenter, facilitator, and coach that helps individuals and groups achieve sustainable results. Base out of Los Angeles, California, he is currently working at DaVita, a Fortune 500- Kidney dialysis company as the Director of Wisdom. At DaVita, he is responsible for stewarding the culture through coaching, facilitation, training, and other forms of consultation that draw on his natural skills in working with people.

Prior to his work at DaVita, Matthew was an Organizational Effectiveness Consultant at Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP)- a Public benefit/Social Change organization designed to assist with early childhood education and development. At LAUP, he led a variety of change management efforts, redesigning a variety of processes including strategy making and network operations, and developing a large amount of learning and development materials including a full-scale leadership development program for the management team.

As an external consultant and coach, Matthew has designed and delivered his own life coaching model based on the theory of Ken Wilber as well as consulted with a variety of firms including international work in China and Mexico using tools such as Appreciative Inquiry and Future Search . His methods are grounded in the consulting process and Process Consultation - partnering with the client for maximum capacity development and knowledge transfer.

Matthew also works with men as he leads and facilitates intense, leadership and personal development trainings for the ManKind Project International as a certified Co-Leader. The certification process to lead these trainings which include Gestalt work, NLP, and other transformative methods was an intensive, 8-year process where the core body of training is self-transformation to assist others.

Matt holds a Master’s degree in Organization Development (MSOD) from Pepperdine University and is an active presenter, speaker, and author. He has several books due for submission in 2010, and was a past presenter at the 2008 ODN conference in Austin. 

Concurrent Session: Sustainable Globalization: Six Lenses for Every Organization - Monday, October 19, 2009

Victoria G. Axelrod, M.A. is an organization strategist and principal with Axelrod Becker Consulting developing innovation and growth strategies through the power of stakeholder networks. She is former executive director, organizational effectiveness and senior vice president and head of global best practices American Management Association. Her clients range from startups to Fortune 500s, nonprofits and government agencies.

Victoria co-authors the 21st Century Organization blog focused on emerging business practices for today’s complex, global environment. Recent articles for Inside Knowledge Magazine include: Broadcasting Innovation , Prediction Markets and Placing a Face on Knowledge based on a three month investigation of the use of Facebook for business. Effective Executive Journal, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts (ICFAI University) published her Open netWORKing Organizations for Innovation July 2008. Axelrod is author of chapters on Transorganizational Collaboration and Sustainable Networks and Sustainable Globalization in The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook and portal.

She is a frequent presenter to groups such as the U. S. National Security Agency (on "Aligning Human Systems and Business Strategy”), Bausch & Lomb, Baruch College MBA Program, New School, the Lawyers Alliance of New York, Human Resource Planning Society, IIRUSA, US Chamber Institute, Management Centre Europe, KM World & Intranets and World Research Group. Her BA is from the University of Michigan and an MA from Columbia University.

She is a board member of the Organization Development Network of Greater New York and advisor to eSight. You can reach her at www.axelrodbecker.com or vaxelrod@axelrodbecker.com.

Master Class: Kurt Lewin Master Class Series - Dick Axelrod - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Dick and Emily Axelrod Dick and Emily Axelrod talk about the theory and practice of creating engaged organizations. Dick and Emily created the Conference Model®, and together they helped pioneer the use of large groups to change organizations. Dick is core faculty for Columbia University's Principles and Practices in Organization Development, and Dick and Emily are faculty in the University of Chicago's Leadership Arts Program. He serves on the Board of Directors of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, and he authored “Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Organizations.” Dick and Emily co-authored “You Don't Have to Do It Alone: How to Involve Others to Get Things Done”, along with Julie Beedon and Robert Jacobs. Dick and Emily bring a combined sixty years of teaching and consulting experience to their work, with Dick's clients including Boeing, Coca-Cola, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett Packard, and the NHS, and Emily's recent clients including Calgary Healthcare Region, Thysenkrupp, Barrington Public School District 220, Fraser Health System, and the NHS.

Sponsor Spotlight: Managing Change in an Unpredictable and Rapidly Changing Environment - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Designing Your 3rd Act: For gODParents and Senior Practitioners. - Monday, October 19, 2009

Frances has been a consultant to organizations and groups for more than 30 years.  She was a corporate, internal consultant for 19 years.  Designed Wisdom has provided assistance on major change efforts and leadership development to a range of international, corporate and public sector clients since 1994.  Frances created "When Women Lead From Within" a learning event that has been presented in Nova Scotia and Scotland for women learning to bring their unique inner wisdom to the leadership landscape. As a keynoter at the 2008 ODN Conference Frances shared her insights into how the growing activism through conversational leadership can enliven the field of OD. 

Other: Treasures of the NW Coast- An Intentional Learning Community - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Dan Barr, Coach, VP, Tor Dahl & Associates: International Performance Improvement Consultants. Dan is a leader in the Productivity Revolution and especially enjoys helping organizations dramatically increase productivity and satisfaction in one day. His hobby has been to make the NW the healthiest, happiest, most productive, inclusive, creative, wise, artistic and sustainable region in the world: 'we know how to do each, let's do all!' He returns each Fall in some new amtruthian form from 4 months on the Bering and Salish Seas.

Concurrent Session: Images of the Future: The Dream Phase of Appreciative Inquiry - Monday, October 19, 2009

Sue Baughman has served as the Assistant Dean for Organizational Development for the University of Maryland (UM) Libraries since 2000. In this capacity as an internal consultant, she supports the development of staff and the organization in improving how they work together in building service excellence for faculty, staff and students. Through facilitation and coaching she works with individuals and teams on team-building, decision-making, problem solving and shared leadership. She joined the UM Libraries in 1996 and has served in several leadership positions. With over twenty years experience as a trainer and facilitator, Baughman as an external consultant, has worked with library staff in academic and public libraries.

New Views: Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Acheive Amazing Results - Monday, October 19, 2009
Master Class: Kurt Lewin Master Class Series - Geoff Bellman - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Geoff been consulting inside and outside large organizations since the mid-sixties. He has served as guest faculty for university graduate programs including Pepperdine, Fielding, Sonoma State, and Seattle University--OSR. Geoff was recogized by the Organization Development Network for his contributions to advancing the profession. And, he has been honored by the Whidbey Institute for his community work. Geoff is a charter member of the Woodlands Group which has been meeting quarterly for over thirty years, exploring individual, organizational, and societal change. And, he is a founder of the Community Consulting Partnership in Seattle.

Concurrent Session: Weaving Positive Deviance and Liberating Structures - Sunday, October 18, 2009
Concurrent Session: Leading in a Hyper-Connected Society—A Shift in Leadership Models - Monday, October 19, 2009

Sharon Benjamin, Ph.D., principal of Alchemy, a Washington, DC-based management consulting practice holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and earned her Masters degree in Public Administration. She has raised well over $100 million for charitable organizations. She provides management assistance and leadership development to a wide-range of government agencies, national and international NGOs, and healthcare organizations. As a board member of Plexus Institute, she helped pioneer the use of Positive Deviance in healthcare. Positive Deviance was included as one of the ideas identified by the New York Times magazine as an idea of the year in 2008. She serves as adjunct faculty in the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, where she teaches the capstone course in leadership for graduating Master of Public Service students. In addition, she is an adjunct at George Mason University in Public Administration. Long active in nonprofit organizations she currently chairs the governing board of BlueVoice.org and is a member of the Irish Wolfhound Club of America.

Sponsor Spotlight: Developing Leaders in Challenging Times for Competitive Advantage Tomorrow - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Reaping the Rewards of Positive and Dynamic Collaborations - Monday, October 19, 2009

John L. Bennett, Ph.D. is a Senior Vice President, Talent Solutions Director for Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), a global talent solutions firm focus on delivering career transition, workforce solution, and leadership consulting In addition, he is Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the McColl School of Business, Queens University of Charlotte where he teach in the MS OD program. Prior to joining LHH, John was an independent consultant and executive coach. His client work has impacted Amnesty International, Bank of America, SAIC, Sodexo, United Way of America, and Wachovia to name a few. He is author of numerous articles and two books. Look for his upcoming article in OD Practitioner about trends in organizational coaching. Recently he spoke at a Conference Board seminar on talent management and participated in a international forum hosted by Harvard University and the Harnisch Foundation concerning coaching-related research. John earned his Ph.D. in human and organizational systems from and the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation through the International Coach Federation. He is an active member of several professional associations including Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, OD Network, and the International Coach Federation.

Multi-Day Workshop: Becoming a Better Intervener: A Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development Workshop - Friday-Sunday, October 16-18, 2009

Marcella Benson-Quaziena, PhD,is Principle of The Benson~Quaziena Group. She consults to profit and non-profit sectors in the areas of organization development, leadership, group process, group facilitation, and diversity. She is chair of the OSD Gestalt training program and a faculty member of the Gestalt OSD Group Intensive Training Program. She is a member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, core faculty of NTL Diversity Practitioner Certificate Program and adjunct faculty for the Master's Degree Program in Organization Development at the Fielding Graduate University. The focus of her work is to assist executives and their teams to continue to improve the quality of their work lives, personal lives and organizational effectiveness through coaching, consultation and training. Her passion for embracing diversity is embedded in her belief in the "art of the possible" and her desire to take action for human equity and kind.

Concurrent Session: Leaders Building Leaders: Transforming Microsoft’s High Potential Development Experience - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Anita Bhasin founded Sage Ways, Inc in 2004 and has led successful consulting engagements primarily at Microsoft, with an emphasis on People and Organizational Capability. She has over twenty years experience in high tech companies, at organizations such as Wang, The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) and Microsoft. Twelve of those years were spent at Microsoft where she held a number of positions focused on different aspects of the business, including: Marketing, Customer and Partner Experience (CPE) and Business Management. The common theme to her work has been the underlying desire to drive change in ways that works. In her tenure at Microsoft, she has built a variety of experiences (Corporate and Field) which provide her with a great vantage point for driving large scale, complex initiatives. More recently, her passion has turned to optimizing the capability of people who work at Microsoft and their organizations by building a career model framework for the company. As a consultant, she has helped build a career model framework for Sales and Marketing, and she and her Sage Ways team are relied on for their ability to get things done in a way that resonates with Managers. Anita now focuses on tapping into the ‘sage ways’ that are inherent in the system and is available to help plan large scale change projects, to develop talent management programs or to design and facilitate personal development planning workshops, one on one coaching and learning circles. Anita has worked overseas in both EMEA and more recently, India. She holds a BA in Business Studies and a Master’s degree in Marketing from Manchester University, England. In 2009, she graduate with a Master’s in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University, where she was recognized with a George Award for her outstanding leadership. Her recent thesis topic was an Exploration of Adaptive Leadership Practices in Organization Effectiveness at a Global Non Profit. 

Concurrent Session: Student Research Colloquium - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Closing the Deal with Leaders: Winning OD Strategies for the First Meeting - Monday, October 19, 2009

Profile of Albert B. Blixt

Al Blixt is a senior partner of Dannemiller Tyson Associates (DTA) and a developer of the Whole-Scale^® method of organization change. The Whole-Scale^® approach uses proven, robust processes for uncovering and combining the wisdom, experience and aspirations of people to create more effective organizations.

Al is a former lawyer, business school professor and marketing professional who now focuses on helping people create more successful and sustainable organizations.   Al divides his time between business, government and nonprofit clients. For example, he has worked with Cadbury-Schewppes, British Petroleum, Baylor University College of Medicine, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Univeristy of Michigan, the Florida Education Association and the United States Air Force.  Al works both with leadership teams and in large group interventions. Al's practice is built on the principle that people support what they help to create.

Al's practice includes strategic planning and deployment, leadership team coaching and development. process and organizational redesign, culture change and non-profit capacity building.

Keynote: Keynote- Peter Block - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Concurrent Session: The Candor Imperative - Monday, October 19, 2009

Jim Bolton is a consultant, trainer, and executive coach dedicated to creating high-engagement organizations. He is the CEO of Ridge Associates, a training firm that helps leading companies realize the full value of customer and employee relationships through skillful communication. You can learn more about Ridge at www.ridge.com and learn more about Jim on twitter (jwbolton).

Master Class: Kurt Lewin Master Class Series - Michael Broom - Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Concurrent Session: Spreading the Wealth at Work: A Diversity Initiative at W.L. Gore & Associates - Monday, October 19, 2009

Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. is an Organizational Psychologist who as worked for over 30 years as an executive coach, organizational facilitator, and trainer. Throughout those 30 years he has also been very involved in the education of those interested in organizational and social change. At Johns Hopkins University, he has been a full-time and part-time faculty member of the Graduate Program in Applied Behavioral Science. At Georgetown University he has been adjunct faculty for the Certificate Program in Organizational Development. He was also adjunct faculty in the AU/NTL) masters program. For NTL he has led a number of graduate programs including Personal and Organizational Power, and the Graduate Students Professional Development Program. He was on the board of directors of the NTL Institute in Applied Behavioral Science, and chaired its Transformative Social Change Committee. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the OD Network.

With Edie Seashore he founded the Triple Impact Practitioners and Triple Impact Leadership Program that intensively and extensively focus of the practical perspectives and skills of managing change in organizations.

He is the author of two books: The Infinite Organization and Power, The Infinite Game with Dr. Donald Klein.

Concurrent Session: Legacy Leadership: Catalyzing the Future Today - Monday, October 19, 2009

PhD Performance Studies, University of Southern California: Organizational Development & Information Systems, University of Southern California (Applied Behavioral Science): Leadership & Consulting, Bastyr University/Leadership Institute of Seattle: Theater & Communication, University of Michigan: Education, Theater, English, & Anthropology, University of Michigan Dr. Burgess is Founder and President of Jazz, Inc., a leadership development and executive coaching firm, and Founder and Executive Director of The Lift Every Voice Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to intercultural leadership development for underrepresented K-12 youth and their teachers. An Associate Professor at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center/Leadership Institute of Seattle, she is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington’s College of Engineering. Jazz’s consulting clients include AT&T; Microsoft; Boeing; Qwest; Girls Scouts of America, Providence Medical Center; federal, state, and tribal human services organizations; diverse school districts, government, and civic organizations; and several private foundations throughout the United States. International clients include businesses, schools, and communities in Africa, Europe, Canada, and Australia. A seasoned leader, Dr. Burgess has held executive, senior management, and internal consulting positions in corporate, academic, and private philanthropic organizations, including Citicorp, Xerox, Honeywell, Adobe Systems, Casey Family Programs, University of Michigan, University Southern California, and University of Washington. Dr. Burgess’s life and work celebrates leadership, creative genius, and the indomitable power of the human spirit. In her work and by her presence, she embodies the universal wisdom that the world was not given to us by our parents; it was lent to us by our children. A sought-after speaker, educator, consultant, and coach, Dr. Burgess’s life and work focuses on legacy—engaging our hearts, spirits, and minds in the service of creating positive futures for our organizations, communities, families, and environment. A Distinguished Scholar in Performance Studies, Dr. Burgess is also an award-winning poet and author. Her latest book, endorsed by luminaries Peter Block, Dr. Warren Bennis, and Dr. Bernie Siegel, is Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2008).

One Day Workshop: How Do They Think? Influence Strategies Used by Successful OD Professionals - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Amery Burnham is the Director of Research and Programs in the U.S. office of Burnham Rosen Group. She develops research studies, culture change interventions, custom programs for Burnham Rosen Group clients and supporting materials for InterActive Leadership, InterActive Sales and InterActive Influence. Amery focuses on the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, learning, motivation and outcomes and is currently completing a graduate degree in Mind, Brain & Education in Howard Gardner and Kurt Fischer’s program at Harvard. Formerly the director of The Jacobson Group’s Teaming and Global Leadership Practice, Amery has worked with organizations in a broad variety of sectors to design and manage complex organizational change. Emphasizing strategy integration with leadership interventions and collaboration, Amery has provided training and training programs for global leaders, teams and networks. Areas of expertise include the development of learning and just-in-time knowledge systems, 360° feedback systems, integrated performance management / strategic alignment systems, collaborative activity value analysis and sales and marketing analysis integration. She specializes in working with senior leadership to design and implement strategic directives. Amery majored in Anthropology with a primary emphasis on mythopoesis at Vassar College. She is a former member of the Learning Network, the Virtual Teaming Alliance and is currently developing an InterActive Leaders daily journal for success orientation.

One Day Workshop: How Do They Think? Influence Strategies Used by Successful OD Professionals - Saturday, October 17, 2009

David Burnham is a partner at Burnham Rosen Group that specializes in strategic business planning, organizational change, and leadership development from its US and UK offices. Burnham Rosen is distinguished from its competitors by its "collaborative approach to business planning and its use of research and empirical data.”

David, together with his former business partner and Harvard professor the late David C. McClelland, pioneered the field of competency assessment and development through the use of the behavioral event interview in the 1970’s. Their work in competency assessment was initially conducted for a host of organizations including: The U.S. State Department; the United States Navy; the Dept. of Commerce: Office of Minority Business Enterprise; the Manpower Career and Development Administration, City of New York. Later as competency assessment and development became a validated and better known set of tools and concepts, David Burnham, then President and CEO of McBer and Company (now Hay-McBer, the leading behavioral science research firm of the 1970’s), extended the research and the methodology to American industry. The best known output of that period is the McKinsey award winning Harvard Business Review article by McClelland and Burnham, Power Is The Great Motivator, republished in Jan-Feb 2003 as an HBR Classic. That article reported on the competencies of successful American managers and created a wide spread surge of interest and experimentation in the field of competency assessment and development.

David has also continued to pursue his interest in leadership and leadership development. In the late 1980’s the competencies, which he and David McClelland had identified in the mid-1970’s as those distinguishing successful leaders from average leaders, were no longer predicting superior business performance. Accordingly, in 1992, he initiated a five year study in eight countries (Europe, Asia, the Americas), thirteen industries. He followed leaders delivering first quartile business performance and high employee morale in their industries and compared them to those delivering average performance.

This research has led to the development of Burnham Rosen’s workshop to develop the competencies his research identified, InterActive Leadership™; it also underlies Burnham Rosen Group’s executive coaching practice. The workshop, developed in 1999, is now being widely offered including: Fidelity Investments, BBDO, Lloyds, Pfizer, Accenture, Mitre Corp., Morgan Stanley, State Street, Boston Financial, Convergent Technologies, Parexel, SunLife, Harvard University, GNER (UK), Atomic Weapons Establishment (UK), the Benedictine Order, and the British Cabinet Office to name just a few.

David Burnham was also President and CEO of publicly-traded Intermedia Systems Corp. Intermedia (a producer of hardware and software for multi-media entertainment and educational presentations, owner of sound studios, an earning company and a film producer) was bankrupt when Burnham was hired to turn this Cambridge, MA-based firm around. Within one year the firm had regained both revenue growth and profitability.

David Burnham holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was the Willard Prescott Smith Fellow. He has taught at a number of Universities and Management Institutes including: Adjunct Professor, Harvard Business School, University of Hawaii, East-West Center, University of South Florida; Australian Institute of Management, Barbados Institute of Management, Institute for Unternehmensfuhrung (Vienna) and Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY where he taught a graduate course in Management of High Technology Organizations for Northrup Grumman leaders.

Concurrent Session: What’s New in OD: Dialogic Interventions - Monday, October 19, 2009

Gervase Bushe has been an OD scholar for over 30 years and has worked with corporations large and small as well as government and education in the areas of cultural change, organizational redesign, team development and leadership development.  He is known internationally for his theoretical and practical contributions to the development of appreciative inquiry.  His leadership development company, Clear Learning Ltd., has licensed over 100 trainers worldwide in his leadership development courses based on his bestselling book, Clear Leadership.

In the academic world, Gervase has published over 50 articles and book chapters and a couple of books, including one in the Addison-Wesley series in OD.  He has been on the editorial board of the OD Practitioner since a Board was first formed, and with the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science since 1992.  He has won five awards for his research, most recently the Douglas McGregor Award for the best paper published in 2007 in JABS. 

Gervase regularly gives keynote addresses and workshops to audiences around the world.

Concurrent Session: Developing Networks that Change People's Lives - Monday, October 19, 2009

Daniel Bustillo is currently Assistant Director, Field, at the 1199SEIU/League Labor Management Project, a division of the 1199SEIU Training and Employment Funds. Daniel presently leads organizational initiatives on grant funded workplace skills projects for healthcare employees through the facilitation of collaborative labor management partnerships. He has also assisted on the provision of job readiness workshops for Upper Manhattan community residents seeking healthcare related employment as well as a citywide campaign on reducing hospital acquired infections and improving patient safety and satisfaction. Previously, Daniel spent 6 years as a research worker at New York Presbyterian Hospital supervising data collection efforts of two nationwide, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded studies, designed to minimize the incidence of stroke and parvovirus in children with Sickle Cell Anemia. He also participated in conducting an in-depth needs assessment and examination of services available to trade union members, and union members on-site at the World Trade Center, post 9/11 and been involved in the strategic planning, design, implementation and evaluation/data analysis for an initiative designed to identify, document and resolve recurring problems experienced by NYC residents in the areas of public assistance, welfare reform and child welfare. aniel received his BS in Finance from Syracuse University and his MS in Social Work from Columbia University.

Concurrent Session: OD Education—The Future is Here - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Candace Cabbil is an external OD consultant who has worked with companies in Singapore, South Africa, and The Netherlands on an international team of consultants.  She spent seven years in private practice with a small clientele providing counseling on holistic nutrition and natural lifestyle choices. Candace graduated with a BS in Health Care Management from the University of Alabama, and an MS in Natural Health and Doctor of Naturopathy (ND) from Clayton College of Natural Health.  She holds certificates in Gestalt International Organization Systems Development (IOSD) and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) qualifying training.  She is currently completing a master’s degree in Organization Development from American University/National Training Laboratory in Washington, DC. Candace offers a dynamic intensity and holistic method as an integral approach to her practice. "I have the ability to exhort people by nurturing their strengths.  I do this through my genuine warmth, kindness, strength, and vulnerability.  I am a lateral thinker with a capacity to ‘dance in the moment,’ as stated by a colleague.  I cultivate passionate transformation!"

Concurrent Session: Simple Models for Systemic Change: Easy to Understand/Practical to Implement - Monday, October 19, 2009

Dr. Steven H. Cady is strongly committed to using cutting-edge approaches that inspire the passionate pursuit of dreams, and he is actively pursuing research and practice that unleashes potential at the individual and whole system levels.  Steve is a Graduate Faculty member at Bowling Green State University where he serves as Director of the Institute for Organizational Effectiveness.  He has also served as Director of the Master of Organization Development Program and the Chief Editor for the Organization Development Journal.  Steve publishes, teaches, and consults on topics of organizational behavior & psychology, change management, and organization development.  Some of his clients include DaimlerChrysler, The Tavistock Group, Dana Corporation, The Diocese of N.W. Ohio School System, The Area Office on Aging, Anne Grady Corporation, Alcoa, BGSU School of Art, and British Petroleum. Prior to receiving his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior with a support area in Research Methods and Psychology from Florida State University, Steve studied at the University of Central Florida where he obtained an MBA and a BSBA in Finance. 

Sponsor Spotlight: A Passion for OD: Unleashing Our Calling for Doing Great Work in the World - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Student Research Colloquium - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Multi-Day Workshop: Becoming a Better Intervener: A Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development Workshop - Friday-Sunday, October 16-18, 2009

John D. Carter, PhD, is a free-lance international organizational consultant with 30 years' experience. He received his PhD in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University, and is currently CEO/President of the Gestalt Center for Organization & Systems Development. He has served on the executive boards of GIC, National Training Laboratories (NTL), and the Fielding Graduate University. Themes in John's work include leadership of complex systems change, merger integration, the management of professional organizations, and the personal and professional development of individuals most oppressed by the social racial and sexual contracts.

Multi-Day Workshop: Becoming a Better Intervener: A Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development Workshop - Friday-Sunday, October 16-18, 2009

Veronica Hopper Carter, PhD brings experience as a psychotherapist to her work as a trainer of organizational consultants, emphasizing all levels of system. With over 20 years' experience in the practice of Raj Yoga, she integrates spiritual principles, Gestalt theory and practice, and systems thinking into a base for her teaching. She is an associate of John D. Carter & Associates.

Half Day Workshop: Bridging the Divide: Building Productive Relationships Between Generations - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Ron Carucci is a Founding Partner at Passages Consulting, LLC.  He is a seasoned consultant with more than 25 years of experience working with CEOs and senior executives of organizations ranging from Fortune 50 to start-up in pursuit of transformational change.  Ron has worked extensively in the health sciences, biotech, and healthcare provider sectors, and in the technology, financial services and retail food and beverage industries.  He has led work on numerous large-scale merger integrations and subsequent culture change initiatives, and enterprise level global organizational redesigns. 

Ron specializes in the areas of strategy formulation, global organization design, large-scale organization and culture change organizational change and executive leadership development, with a particular passion for developing emerging leaders within organizations.  He has helped CEO’s, their executive teams, and their enterprises re-design themselves, build appropriate talent strategies to ensure the current and next generation of leaders have the capabilities required by the organization, and help leaders and leadership teams architect and lead major transformations.  He has been chief architect of several major leadership development simulations for organizations, including The Leadership Crucible. 

Ron is a former faculty member at Fordham University Graduate School as an associate professor of organizational behavior.  He serves as Chief Operating Officer and Graduate Professor of Leadership at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, WA.  He has also served as an adjunct at the Center for Creative Leadership.  He is co-author of several books, including Relationships that Enable Enterprise Change (Jossey-Bass 2002), author of the best selling, Leadership Divided, What Emerging Leaders Need and What you Might be Missing (Jossey-Bass 2006) and, most recently Future in-Formation: Choosing a Generative Organizational Life (Outskirts, 2008).  He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on the issues of organizational change.  His clients have included CitiBank, MillerCoors, Corning, Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Amgen, Deutche Bank, Gates Corporation, ConAgra, TriHealth, OhioHealth, McDonald’s Corporation, Starbucks, Microsoft, Sojourners, National Asian Pacific Center on Aging, Kliener Perkins Caufield & Byers, Cadbury Adams, Hershey Corporation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, the US Patent & Trademark Office, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Johnson & Johnson, ADP, and The CIA. 

Sponsor Spotlight: Senior Internal Consulting University: Accelerating the Impact and Capability of Your OD Function - Monday, October 19, 2009

Keynote: Keynote- Denise Caruso - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Sponsor Spotlight: A Passion for OD: Unleashing Our Calling for Doing Great Work in the World - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

New Views: Power of Self: A Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery & Meaning - Monday, October 19, 2009

Marsha Clark is an independent consultant who founded her own company in 2000. As an Organization Development consultant, Marsha has led efforts in the area of change management, leadership development, performance management, executive coaching, meeting facilitation and keynote speaking. A partial list of her clients include Accenture, Aetna US Health Care; Bank of Oklahoma; Carreker Corporation; Celanese; Center for Nonprofit Management; City of Frisco; Corgan & Associates; Corning, Incorporated; EDS; Everest Group; Fidelity Investments; Frito Lay; Fujitsu Transaction Solutions; Hallmark; IBM; JP Morgan Chase; Korn Ferry Coaching, Leadership Texas; Lockton Insurance; Microsoft; Mission Foods; NCR, Nortel Networks; Pepsico; RTKL Architecture; Stagen Leadership Institute; Texas Instruments; and Women’s Foodservice Forum. Marsha Clark & Associates offers a wide variety of workshops targeted to enhance leadership, team, and individual development. Workshops include such topics as building and sustaining trust, interpersonal relationships, conflict management, courageous conversations, and developing partnerships in organizational systems. Marsha and her staff are certified and experienced in these crucial workplace issues and offer highly interactive learning experiences. She is also a key designer, developer and facilitator in a new Southern Methodist University’s Executive Education program entitled Advanced Leadership: High Potential, High Performance, which is being launched in June 2006. Marsha's passion is supporting women in their personal and professional development. She is currently delivering a series of offerings to enable women to explore, discover and optimize their potential. One of the offerings, a 12-month program called the POWER of Self, combines experiential learning and individual coaching, and provides an opportunity for women to gain greater personal clarity and a strategic framework for making more deliberate choices in all dimensions of their lives. Marsha has also co-authored a book with Dottie Gandy entitled Choose! The Role That Choice Plays in Shaping Women’s Lives (Brown Books 2004) and has been featured in several other publications regarding accomplished women. Prior to starting her own business in 2000, Marsha was a Corporate Vice President for EDS. During almost 21 years with EDS, she held a variety of roles with ever-increasing responsibility. In her last role she served as an assistant to the Chief Operating Officer working in the areas of strategic alliances, performance management, and account operations improvement. Just prior to that role, she had oversight for EDS' Employee Development function, including leadership development, sales development, technical development, compensation, staffing, and global diversity functions. Prior to assuming the Employee Development role, Marsha served as President of EDS' Health Care Unit. In this position, she directed business operations, sales and marketing, and technical support for 40 clients with responsibility for $400 million in revenue and over 2,000 employees. Previously, Marsha served as a Strategic Support Unit Director for Leadership Development. In this role, she defined and developed leadership selection and development programs to transform EDS' leaders, preparing them to compete aggressively in a competitive business environment. Marsha also served as EDS' Account Executive for Bank One, Texas. During her tenure, the bank grew from $10 billion to $19 billion in assets while undergoing more than 20 information systems conversions. Marsha also served as Transition Manager during EDS' acquisition of MTech, an information systems provider to the banking industry. In this role, she led all aspects of human resources, including the assimilation of more than 3,500 employees into EDS. Marsha serves on the non-profit boards of Journey of Hope, providing grief counseling to children and young adults, and Empowering Women as Leaders, providing college scholarships to non-traditional female students. She has a Masters of Science in Organization Development from American University in Washington, D.C. She is recently widowed with two wonderful sons, a terrific daughter-in-law, and two precious granddaughters.

New Views: Integrated Models for Transforming Public Education and Community Justice - Monday, October 19, 2009

Elyse Clawson is a national leader in rethinking criminal and juvenile justice. Her work over 30 years is marked by reform of state and county corrections systems that have become national models for their innovation, inclusiveness, and effectiveness in reducing recidivism. Today, as Executive Director of the non-profit Crime and Justice Institute, Ms. Clawson is at the forefront of an initiative with the National Institute of Corrections to the transform the nation’s community justice systems. The initiative combines organization development, community collaboration, and evidence-based practices in an integrated model that creates openness to change and sustained effort. Elyse consults on policy and practice in criminal/juvenile justice, and human services for state and local government, serves on numerous boards and commissions, and is sought after for her ability to distill complex system change into strategies that overcome social and political inertia.

Concurrent Session: Developing Networks that Change People's Lives - Monday, October 19, 2009

My perspective on employee/labor relations is rather unique. My career initially began as an Administrative Organizer for the Hospital Workers' Union(1199)in New York and later as a national healthcare organizer working in Michigan, Connecticut, Florida and New Jersey. After more than a decade as a trade unionist, I became the Director of Labor Relations in the Health and Hospitals Corporation for 10 years, and have served as the Director, and currently Vice President of The Mount Sinai Medical Center for the past 14 years. While my principle responsibilities have been contract negotiations and training management staff, my major focus has become changing the culture of the relationship between management and Mount Sinai's 5800 unionized employees.

Sponsor Spotlight: Navigating Cultural Differences in OD Consulting - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Complex Responsive Processes: Challenging Systems Thinking - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Bonnie Cooper is co-owner and  Managing Director, Sustainable Applications with Team Management Systems (Americas).  She is a management development professional with over 15 years experience in training, development and coaching in both the private and public sectors. Bonnie holds a Master of Business Administration from the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. She worked extensively with the General Electric ‘Work-Out!’ process prior to joining KPMG as a manager in their consulting practice in 1992. Since 1995, in her work as an independent consultant, the Team Management Systems tools quickly became a key component of the management and team development services provided by Bonnie and her TMS accredited colleagues.  She is a coauthor of ‘Breaking New Ground: Venturing into Social Enterprise’, Thames River Publishing, 2001

Sponsor Spotlight: Using Prescriptive-Based Coaching to Improve Leadership Development - Monday, October 19, 2009

Other: Treasures of the NW Coast- An Intentional Learning Community - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Using World Café© Methodology to Achieve - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Carla Dancy Smith is an Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton in Rockville, MD. She works with primarily with healthcare sector clients to increase organization effectiveness and teamwork capacity by changing human behavior, as well as policies, processes and procedures. She combines her keen understanding about how organizations function with her passion for people to help manage complex change issues within systems at the group, interpersonal and individual levels. Ms. Smith holds a Master's of Science degree in Organization Development (MSOD) from the American University/National Training Laboratory (AU/NTL) located in Washington, DC; and a Bachelor of Science: Business Administration, from Rockhurst Jesuit College in Kansas City, Missouri. Carla has written and published articles, given speeches, and is a member of many professional organizations – and prides herself on being a life-long learner. Carla teaches diversity courses as an adjunct instructor; is skilled in moderating focus groups having completed the Research in Values and Attitudes (RIVA) Introduction to Moderating training; and is a qualified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment administrator and is certified in the Kirkpatrick Four Levels of Evaluation. Carla’s passion is in helping organizations, teams and individuals manage through transitions. As an African American female she understands the importance of presence and power and how important it is to “show up with purpose” in all situations. Carla has held positions of varying level so responsibility over 25 years in the corporate world - working across borders and boundaries. She has worked in client delivery on an account, overseas in a field office, and in corporate headquarters, building a well-rounded perspective on successful business operations. She has served in both externally and internally focused corporate positions allowing her to outreach and influence foreign dignitaries, Members of Congress and other political, non-governmental, and non-profit audiences. She has worked with all types of individuals including C-Suite members and line staff. She volunteers and often facilitates events in her community, Montgomery County Maryland public schools, Girl Scouts and other organizations.

Concurrent Session: Sustainable Globalization: Six Lenses for Every Organization - Monday, October 19, 2009

Karen J. Davis, M.A., New York, NY, USA.

Karen J.Davis has consulted with organizations globally for over 35 years. Her life’s work is in the spirit of earth wisdom, and her values and practices are grounded in multiple ways of knowing.

Karen is dedicated to building a global community and sustainability by working and learning with colleagues and groups worldwide. She is on the postgraduate faculty in Organizational Behavior and Development at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. She is a board member of Open Space Institute and is active in the International Organization Development Association. Karen is on the design team for the 2010 World OD Summit in Hungary. She has been a Trustee of the Organization Development Network and is a recipient of the ODN Service Award. Karen serves on the board of a large health-care company and on boards of various community and cultural organizations.

Karen’s educational background includes specializations in chemistry, counseling psychology, and social psychology. Her music training and experience are significant influences in her work and life. When not traveling or working around the world, she lives in New York City, returning regularly to her native Arizona. Summers, she is on her farm in rural Quebec, Canada, with her virtual office. Karen describes herself as a “global citizen and gardener.” The earth is her playground and lifelong teacher.

Concurrent Session: Change Strategies That Push Us Beyond Single Organizations into Complex Regional Systems - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

José DelaCerda is a scholar-practitioner in the field of organizational change with expertise in large-scale organizational redesign, business process reengineering, strategic change & quality management systems, and managerial development.  He has executive and consulting experience in several industries such as higher education, manufacturing and government. His cases are located mostly in Mexico and eventually in other countries of Latin America. Dr. DelaCerda has published several books and articles about management, business strategy and organizational change in Latin American countries.  He has a PhD in OD from Benedictine University and a master’s degree in industrial and labor relations from Michigan State University.

Concurrent Session: Applying Power Equity Group Theory in a Self-Directed Team of OD Professionals - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Lisa DeSanti provides organizational development consulting and professional coaching for DoD contractor/employer, Brandes Associates Inc., as well as for the enterprise team she supports within the Navy, P3R (People, Process, Product Resource). She designs and facilitates events such as strategic planning, change management, interpersonal and leadership development for a predominantly scientific-and-technical customer base. Lisa has a Masters in Organizational Management, an Evidence-Based Coaching certificate from Fielding Graduate University, and is pursuing a doctorate in Human & Organizational Development from Fielding.

Concurrent Session: Team Performance: Taking it to the Next Level by Using Group Methods - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Tom has over 30 years of experience in large-scale change, high-performance teams, group-based strategic planning, and process improvement on five continents. Prior to starting his own firm Tom held leadership positions at Accenture (then Andersen Consulting), Tosco Corporation, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (then Coopers & Lybrand). Tom has served a variety of clients in different industries including electronics manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, government, biotech, and data mining. Tom is the author of Integrating Lean Six Sigma and High-Performance Organizations and is the co-author and co-editor of The Change Handbook. He is also the author of numerous hard copy and on-line articles, and has been quoted by magazines such as Executive Excellence and Industry Week. Additional information can be found on Tom’s website at www.tomdevane.com

Concurrent Session: Vital Signs in the ER: Promoting A Change of Heart - Sunday, October 18, 2009

SUSANNE DIGGS-WILBORN joined WellStar as the Manager of Leadership and Organization Development Consultant in 2007.  She comes from Kaiser Permanente where she was an Organization Development Consultant in both Atlanta and Southern California.  She has worked as an Organization and Management Development Specialist at Philip Morris USA, Director of Organizational Development for the City University of New York, and as an Executive Recruiter in the pharmaceutical industry.  She has over 15 years of experience in organizational behavior as a consultant and educator. Susanne holds a Doctorate in Organizational Psychology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Spelman College.

Concurrent Session: Developing Networks that Change People's Lives - Monday, October 19, 2009

Ms. Doyle is currently an Executive Vice President of 1199UHE/SEIU. She has been a member of her Union for 35 years and an elected officer since 1986. She was a medical research associate at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY from 1974-1986. She co-published in several Journals of Immunology during this time. From 1971-1974 she worked as a research assistant at the Boyce Thompson Institute, currently located at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. She is a member of many professional and community organizations including LCLAA, AFRAM and the Bronx County Democratic Party. She is one of the founders of the Mt. Sinai/1199SEIU Labor Management Project at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in the New York City. She can be contacted at Angelad@1199.org.

Concurrent Session: The Changing Dynamics of Workplace Spirituality - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Introduction to the Work of Anitah Draimon Throughout her career both within and outside a corporate structure, Anitah has successfully reinvented herself and the arenas in which she operates. With her seasoned talents, humor, and unique perspective, she offers creatively-customized options to clients pursuing their own mastery. Five commonalities are evidenced in every expression of her work. Anitah: 1. works from a systems perspective whether she is engaging with complex global corporations, smaller boutique organizations, or individuals. Her ability to diagnose current state and offer grounded, workable solutions for systems and individuals is a hallmark of her practice. 2. is a change agent. She helps systems and individuals optimize their possibilities and outcomes without creating unforeseen "bow wakes" that are counterproductive and disruptive. 3. has an unusually developed facility for both verbal and written communications within a systems context. 4. has a drive for service. Her greatest satisfaction is derived from facilitating personal and organizational growth and real-world results. 5. has consistently been recognized and awarded for her work by external marketing and communications industry groups. Anitah operated in the corporate arena for almost twenty-five years. As a senior executive for various financial institutions on both coasts, she headed, at various times, human resources, employee relations, organization development, talent management, training, employee communications, and corporate marketing functions. For the last six years of her corporate career, Anitah focused on executive development and retention for a global financial company while managing budgets up to $20 million. While developing an in-house corporate university, she focused extensively on executive coaching with both seasoned and newly-appointed executives. Anitah has a Masters degree in counseling with a concentration in group process and design. She was licensed in Pennsylvania for private practice which she offered on a part-time basis for a number of years. Given her interest and background in personal growth and her proven business competence, her current work of coaching individuals and her systems-based consulting work are particularly effective. In addition to her writing, Anitah recently released a five-CD series called "Job Loss/ Personal Gain" that has been very well received. Anitah's website, www.craftingtransitions.com, provides links to her businesses and offers greater detail about her background and work accomplishments.

Concurrent Session: Organizational ADD: How to Coach ADD Leaders and Consult to the Frenetic Organization - Monday, October 19, 2009

John Dupre is the Director of Organization Development at Mattel, Inc. This is an internal consulting position in Leadership Development, a part of Human Resources at Mattel. His primary focus is on designing innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. He had been an outside consultant for the past 20 years before joining Mattel 8 years ago. He had his own consulting firm, Dupre and Associates for 5 years and before that, was President of Block Petrella Weisbord, Inc., one of the leading organization development consulting firms in the United States. John previously spent 6 years with Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto, where he was a Manufacturing Manager and a Training and Development Manager. He holds a BA degree from Beloit College in Wisconsin and an MBA from UCLA.

Concurrent Session: Three Keys to Establishing the Value of OD - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Robert Ebers has been a performance consultant for more than 25 years. He has trained and consulted to service, information and manufacturing businesses of all sizes, from start-ups to Fortune 50's. Robert has extensive experience successfully navigating the complexity of cross-functional teams, partnerships and family businesses. Whether on the platform presenting to a group of hundreds, or facilitating a business planning session with CEOs and leadership teams, or coaching 'close-in', he has a talent to quickly guide clients to the root problem and practical solutions. He is a recognized expert in taking underperforming teams or conflicted businesses and re-energizing them for higher achievement and measurable results.

Robert's work has involved accelerating businesses through the change process, combining his skills as a vision/strategy champion and professional facilitator to assist individuals and teams with performance measures, conflict resolution and implementation support. He is highly skilled as an executive coach, believing that organizations transform only to the extent that the individuals within them embrace their own learning. Bob's firm, yet supportive style has helped many clients achieve higher levels of learning and measurable business outcomes.

Among his clients are Apple Computer, ADP, Citicorp Diners Club, Estée Lauder, Inc., Simon and Schuster, General Electric Corporation, GE Capital, GE Nuclear, Island Acoustics, Macmillan McGraw-Hill, Hewlett Packard, Parke-Davis Pharmaceuticals, the New York City Board of Education and several major urban and suburban school districts across the country.
Robert received degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has completed advanced study in organizational development at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City and is a member of the A. K. Rice Institute, Society for Human Resources Management, and is founder and past President of Organization Development Network Long Island. He is an active manager of several professional groups on LinkedIn, including Organization Development, Learning & Development and Organization Performance Improvement. He blogs at Hardwiring Accountability and also writes for trade journals in the areas of performance management and change acceleration with articles appearing in Long Island Business News and Insurance Journal-National.

Concurrent Session: Using Appreciative Inquiry in the Mexican Culture - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Hector´s calling is to renew and strengthen human potential and people´s hope so they can lead the changes they aspire to make in themselves and their organizations. He holds a Doctorate on Organization Change from Pepperdine University. and currently teaches at the University of Guanajuato and University of Monterrey in their Masters program on Organizational Development. He has been the director of the Workteams conference in Mexico for the last 12 years. In his private practice he serves as a consultant, group facilitator, trainner and excecutive coach Volkswagende México, Pepsico, General Motors México, Coca Cola México, Texas Instruments México,Continental Teves, Kellogg´s, Micronet, Cemex, Bader

Concurrent Session: Why Sustainability is an Imperative in OD: the ChoicesWeMake - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: The Obama Tipping Point: Developing Human Systems Beyond Recession to Renewal - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Saul Eisen, Ph.D. is an external consultant with an international practice integrating strategic planning, whole system redesign, and organization development. He works in partnership with clients to develop empowered individuals, high performing teams, competitive organizations, and thriving communities.

Saul’s work has been widely published in professional journals and books about organization development, and he is a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences. His current research is on the emerging shift in organizational, national and global cultures, in the context of new collaborative leadership paradigms. He is a founder of the Masters Program in OD at Sonoma State University.

Saul is the 2006 recipient of the OD Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He holds an MBA from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case-Western Reserve University, where Bob Tannenbaum and Herb Shepard became his cherished friends and mentors.

He speaks fluent Spanish, likes to write, and to mentor new consultants. Visit his blog at human-systems.blogspot.com .

Half Day Workshop: Bridging the Divide: Building Productive Relationships Between Generations - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Josh Epperson is a Consultant at Passages Consulting, LLC where he works with both small community-based NGOs and large multi-national corporations in a variety of industries.  His work consists of large-scale organization and culture change, organization architecture, and leadership development.  Some of his clients have included: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, McDonalds, Phase 2 Consulting, Gates Corporation, Cadbury Schweppes, Golden Key, Starbucks Coffee Company, TriHealth, Everett Washington USA, Microsoft, The CIA, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and MillerCoors. Josh helps create and facilitate major simulation-based leadership interventions such as The Leadership Crucible (www.theleadershipcrucible.com).  This is a 3-day in-depth immersion where participants, by assuming the leadership roles in several fictitious organizations in a fictitious city, are able to try on new leadership behaviors in a low-risk environment and get feedback on their styles of relating and leadership performance. Josh holds an MS in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management.  His current research is focused on an organization’s ability to create systemic interdependence and how to leverage that interdependence toward greater performance. Josh enjoys working in organizations, communities, and other groups that find themselves highly fragmented, stuck, and needing to create a common path forward.  Future in-Formation: Choosing a Generative Organizational Life (Outskirts, 2008) is his first co-authored book in which his beliefs about organizations and interdependence can be further explored. Josh also holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, WA, and an MA in Christian Studies.  Previously he worked as a therapist helping clients with severe mental health disorders.  His work and study in the field of behavioral sciences has greatly contributed to his life and profession in pursuit of individual and systemic transformation.   

Sponsor Spotlight: Sunrise Seminar at High Noon: Using the Applied Behavioral Sciences in Transformational Change - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Getting New Executives to Work: Strategies to Facilitate Successful Leadership Transitions - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Katherine Farquhar is Director of the AU/NTL MS in Organization Development program at American University in Washington DC and a tenured Associate Professor of Public Administration.   Dr. Farquhar's research interests are in interim leadership, nonroutine executive departure, OD education, and organizational conflict.   She has published in journals ranging from Business Horizons and the OD Practitioner to the Public Administration Review and Human Resource Management.   A social psychologist, Dr. Farquhar was a student of OD pioneer Robert Chin at Boston University.  She teaches courses in Leadership, OD, Interventions and Consultation Skills.  She is a member of the NTL Institute.  Katherine lives in Brookeville Maryland.

Sponsor Spotlight: The Dynamics of Appreciative Inquiry:Water Quality in China - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Master Class: Kurt Lewin Master Class Series - Ann Feyerherm - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Ann Feyerherm talks about the "self as instrument" as foundational to her work and the work of an OD practitioner. She will share her continuing journey on how to "show up fully" to do the work and how that takes courageous acts, surrendering, and continued work on one’s own consciousness. She is a Professor of Organization Theory and Management at Pepperdine University, serves as the Department Chair of Management and has recently been the Director of the MSOD Program. As a contribution to the OD field, she serves as the incoming Chair of the ODC Division of the Academy of Management and is on several editorial and advisory boards. She teaches, advises students, consults, publishes and presents at conferences while trying to juggle a personal life, too. 

One Day Workshop: Using Small-Scale 21st Century Towns meeting to Build Communities - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Janet D. Fiero, Ph.D. is a Senior Associate of AmericaSpeaks (www.americaspeaks.org).  She has performed key roles in major projects, including

• Voices and Choices, an unprecedented civic initiative involving tens of thousands of citizens and leaders across Northeast Ohio in creating a shared action agenda to revitalize the region’s economy. Advance Ohio (http://www.advancenortheastohio.org) is an outgrowth of Voices & Choices.
• The New Orleans Project brought together 2500 residents in 5 cities in order to include the voices of the displaced.
• CaliforniaSpeaks (www.californiaspeaks.org) was a state-wide conversation on health care reform bringing 3500 residents together via satellite for an all day deliberation.
• The We-the-People Town meeting (www.wethepeopletownmeeting) mobilized the small community of Owensboro-Daviess County, Kentucky to develop plans and priorities for the future.

Dr. Fiero has over thirty years experience in management and consulting in the corporate world before transitioning in 2001 to applying her group and organizational skills to the public engagement sphere as an associate with AmericaSpeaks.

She is honored to have been selected four times to serve as an examiner for Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the U.S. Department of Commerce. She was a member of the Governor’s task force that created the Arizona Quality Awards in the 1993.

Janet holds a Bachelor's of Science in Biochemistry, a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Organization Development and a Doctor of Philosophy in Human and Organizational Systems. Dr. Fiero has also earned two multi-year certificates in Organization and System Development from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. She completed the Leadership Program sponsored by the Big Horn Center for Public Policy in Denver in 2002 and is a roster member at the U.S. Institute of Environmental Conflict Resolution.

Multi-Day Workshop: Gathering Clear Evidence (I): How to Measure Change and Quantify the Impact of OD Interventions - Friday-Sunday, October 16-18, 2009

Jeff Frakes, Ph.D., serves as CEO of Performance Innovations, Inc., a company that provides coaching and conferencing in the Human and Organization Development fields. This includes Internet based online conferencing for OD professionals throughout the world as well as management coaching, training and assessments. He is a Field faculty member for the Organizational Management program at Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Frakes has over 30 years experience as a Human Resources Executive and OD practitioner in manufacturing and service industries. He has an extensive background in value-added approaches at the corporate and plant levels resulting in substantial, demonstrated cost savings. Jeff also has experience in start-ups, implementing growth cycles and managing organizational change. Dr. Frakes has also contributed extensively to the use of Statistical Process Control in the administration and monitoring of drug dosages for those with neurological diseases. He very much enjoys finding ways to implement useful practices in areas other than those in which they were originally intended. Dr. Frakes holds a Ph.D. with an emphasis in Organizational Development from the University of Cincinnati as well as a Masters Degree in the same field. He earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin.

Jeff Frakes, Ph.D., serves as CEO of Performance Innovations, Inc., a company that provides coaching and conferencing in the Human and Organization Development fields. This includes Internet based online conferencing for OD professionals throughout the world as well as management coaching, training and assessments. He is a Field faculty member for the Organizational Management program at Fielding Graduate University and assists in their business development efforts as well.

Dr. Frakes has over 20 years experience as a Human Resources Executive and OD practitioner in manufacturing and service industries. He has an extensive background in value-added approaches at the corporate and plant levels resulting in substantial, demonstrated cost savings. Jeff also has experience in start-ups, implementing growth cycles and managing organizational change.

Dr. Frakes has also contributed extensively to the use of Statistical Process Control in the administration and monitoring of drug dosages for those with neurological diseases. He very much enjoys finding ways to implement useful practices in areas other than those in which they were originally intended.

Dr. Frakes holds a Ph.D. with an emphasis in Organizational Development from the University of Cincinnati as well as a Masters Degree in the same field.  He earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin.

One Day Workshop: The Sustainability Myth: Addressing the Real Needs of the Present-day Organizational System - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Marita is Co-CEO and President of The Center for Right Relationship. She maintains an international mentor coaching practice for practitioners in the Relationship Systems field, is a consultant to several large organizations, and is a faculty member of the Coaches Training Institute. She designs and leads Relationship Systems training programs for coaches, executives, and teams. This work comes from an extensive background of Clinical Social Work, Community Development, Process Work, Family Systems Therapy, Consulting, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Her primary focus in coaching is on systemic change, leveraging diversity, creative communication, deep democracy, and the development of Learning Organizations.

One Day Workshop: The Sustainability Myth: Addressing the Real Needs of the Present-day Organizational System - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Faith is Co-CEO and President of The Center for Right Relationship. She is a psychologist, experienced trainer and coach, with over 17 years of experience in working with organizations, couples and communities. Faith takes a systems approach to coaching, namely that all aspects of the system need to be addressed in order for effective change to occur. Her particular skill is empowering powerful, productive and joyous relationships in couples, partnerships and teams. She also has a background in consultation, team building, conflict resolution and community crisis intervention.

Concurrent Session: Transforming How We Do Business: Integral Inclusive Leadership - Monday, October 19, 2009

Placida Gallegos, PhD, has spent her career in academia and organizations working to create healthier, more inclusive cultures where people can thrive and achieve their fullest potential. She is a principle of the ICW Consulting Group, and a Professor at Fielding Graduate University in the Human and Organizational Development Program.  She has conducted research in the areas of transformational leadership, career development of women and people of color and creating inclusive organizations. She is also an organizational consultant for the past twenty years with a wide range of corporate clients across the country including manufacturing, insurance, financial, and educational institutions

Concurrent Session: Assessing Diversity and Inclusion Efforts through Social Network Analysis. - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Dr. Stephen Garcia is an Associate Partner at Philosophy IB, a management consulting firm specializing in strategy implementation (www.philosophyib.com).  At Philosophy IB, Stephen partners with Fortune-500 companies, smaller enterprises, and non-profits to design and implement organizational change and learning solutions that facilitate growth and drive business performance. 

Prior to joining Philosophy IB Stephen led the Marketing team for Nortel Networks’ $850 million voice-over-IP and multimedia communications portfolio. In this role, he doubled the rate of customer adoption, displacing the competition and achieving the #1 position in the strategic voice-over-IP marketplace.

Stephen earned his BA and MBA at The University of Virginia and his Ed.D in Adult Learning at NC State University where his research focused on using social network analysis to assess the impact of whole-system change interventions.  Stephen is a member of the Academy of Human Resource Development, The American Society for Training and Development, the OD Network, and the International Network for Social Network Analysis.

Concurrent Session: ROI Survival Guide: A Dollars—and Sense—Approach to OD Value - Monday, October 19, 2009

With over 20 years experience Julia Geisman, Chief Provocateur of Millennium Learning, Inc. helps companies enhance individual, team and organizational performance that produce bottom line results. Her expertise includes career management, staff development workshops, executive coaching, group facilitation, strategic planning for employee development, organizational readiness, emotional intelligence, and conflict resolution. She is an advocate for measuring the financial impact of learning and organizational interventions and has developed models for capturing and tracking the return on these investments. Clients include global organizations such as Comcast, Goldman Sachs, NCR, Sun Microsystems, Safeway Inc., Qwest Communications, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson and Lucent Technologies. US-based organizations include Boston Market, Endeca, Quizno’s Classic Subs, Vanu and the US Postal Service. Julia has published articles in a variety of professional journals regarding the use of online learning and measuring its effectiveness. Her articles have appeared in ASTD's Learning Circuits, Computers in Personnel, and she was a contributor to Prentice Hall's Human Resources Yearbook. Additionally, she has authored two white papers: "The Art of Resolution: Transforming Conflict Into Opportunity", "The Power of Generational Differences: What Generational Differences Mean For The Field Of OD and OD Practitioners" and "The Correlation Between Emotional Intelligence and Ethical Decision-making" for her masters thesis. She has conducted numerous presentations for the organizations such as American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), the OD Network, Massachusetts Bankers Association, Northeast Human Resources Association, as well as several international conferences held in Europe. Julia holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Management and Development from Fielding Graduate University. As an adjunct lecturer at Boston University’s Graduate School of Management, Julia teaches classes in career management and organizational behavior. Additional, she is a guest lecturer at Bentley College.

Julia Geisman, MA, founded Millennium Learning, Inc. in 1987. She, along with her network of OD and learning professionals, specializes in human performance and organizational effectiveness processes. Her experience in the design, development, and implementation of online learning and performance support tools over the last 20 years, gives Julia a unique understanding of the issues surrounding large-scale system change and implementation. Her knowledge is applied to the areas of: strategic planning for employee development, organizational readiness, staff development workshops, coaching, leadership development, conflict resolution, and models for measuring ROI. As a strong proponent of measuring the effectiveness of organizational and learning interventions, she has developed an easy-to-use methodology for capturing and tracking the financial return on these types of investments.

Ms. Geisman received her masters degree in Organizational Management and Development from Fielding Graduate University and teaches Organizational Behavior to first-year MBA students at Boston University. She has conducted numeroud presentations for organizations such as the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), the Red Rocks Institute, WebCT User Conference, as well as several international conferences held in Europe. She has also presented public seminars on the use of online learning and performance support tools as well as webinars on ROI several of which were sponsored by the OD Network.

Concurrent Session: Complex Responsive Processes: Challenging Systems Thinking - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Tom Gibbons is co-owner and Managing Director, Sustainable Development with Team Management Systems (Americas).  For over 30 years and in a variety of positions in the manufacturing, human resource and internal consulting environments he has worked toward seeing greater potential realized within organizations.   A graduate of the University of Western Ontario, Tom has worked with Innovation Associates, the Center for Creative Leadership and the Center for Accelerated Learning to bring world class ideas to the forum of developing individual and team performance.  He is author of ‘10 Good Reasons to Hate Work Teams’, P&C Publishing, 1999.

Concurrent Session: Transformation through Conversation - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Donna Kipps Glanvill is Intervention Development and Quality Assurance Director of WorldsView™ Consulting.

An accomplished consultant, facilitator and coach in leadership development and organisational transformation, Donna was formerly Consulting Director of WorldsView™ Consulting. That role included management of the successful delivery of transformational consulting interventions on leadership, strategy, culture change, and employee engagement. Donna is an author and Master Trainer of the WorldsView Nine Conversations in Leadership™ and Purposeful Teams™ interventions.

Her articles on leadership and organisational development have featured in publications such as the IPM’s People Dynamics 50th Anniversary Edition, HR Future, Business Day, and Management Today. She has made numerous presentations at conferences and business schools and lectures in Oganisational Design and Development, and Organisational Theory, at a leading South African business school. Prior to joining WorldsView™ Consulting in 2005, Donna completed her MBA (cum laude) at Wits Business School in 2004.

Concurrent Session: Getting Culture Change off the Ground at American Airlines - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Sarah Glass is a Director of Consulting Services with Assess Systems, a Bigby Havis Company and holds a Master of Arts in Clinical/ Counseling Psychology from Southern Methodist University.  Ms. Glass has over 14 years of experience in consulting with Fortune 500 companies in the areas of designing and delivering development programs, employee selection practices and procedures, and validating assessments for use in succession planning, selection & development.  She is directly involved in the international work of Assess Systems in adapting assessment tools for use in international marketplace and global HR consulting. Glass has presented at national, regional and client conferences on the topics of employee selection, person-job fit, leadership growth & development, succession planning and performance improvement.

New Views: Power of Self: A Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery & Meaning - Monday, October 19, 2009

CAROL PIERCE GOGLIA – Brand Marketer with experience building and re-positioning billion-dollar brands like Cheetos and Doritos, launching new products, developing corporate strategy and creating intriguing shopper experiences. Personally passionate about organization design, change management and leadership development.

Concurrent Session: Using World Café© Methodology to Achieve - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Ms. Gohal is a Senior Consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. She is a distinguished graduate and Segal-Seashore award fellow in the field of Organization Development. She has over six years of experience in Organization Development, Leadership Development and Communications. Ms. Gohal’s consulting experience includes providing leadership development and organization development (OD) services to Federal Agencies as well as large and small non-profit organizations. Ms. Gohal is also an avid volunteer for The Art of Living Foundation (AOLF) and International Association for Human Values (IAHV) for the past seven years. She chaired the first Women’s Leadership Conference in the U.S. sponsored by these two organizations in the fall of 2009. In addition to OD, Ms. Gohal has done extensive communications work with key congressional figures on Capital hill for health care reform. Ms. Gohal has presented at the Annual National Organization Development Conference, the local Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network and at the Annual Health Action Conference in Washington D.C. in the past.

Concurrent Session: Texas Instruments’ - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Ms. Gomez is the Talent Development Manager for Texas Instruments’ Worldwide Sales & Marketing organization. Her scope of responsibility includes defining and driving the talent management strategy for TI’s global sales organization to include high potential, new college graduate, critical role, organizational, workforce and technical development. Prior to this role, Ms. Gomez led a group of leadership development professionals focused on the design and implementation of custom leadership development programs targeted towards growing high potential leaders in targeted business units. She also served as senior consultant on the global design and execution of a mid-level manager and new supervisor transitional development program. In other roles at Texas Instruments, Ms. Gomez managed the training operations for four wafer fabrication facilities. During this time, she was responsible for defining the strategy and development of all training/development activities including new employee orientation, professional development programs, manufacturing certification programs and engineering/technician development. Ms. Gomez is an experienced facilitator and trainer, having delivered workshops and train-the-trainer sessions in the US, Europe and across Asia.

Sponsor Spotlight: A Passion for OD: Unleashing Our Calling for Doing Great Work in the World - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

New Views: Power of Self: A Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery & Meaning - Monday, October 19, 2009

Lucy Gonzalez is the Vice President of Sustainability for Mission Foods, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Lucy holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master in Business Administration from University of Dallas. Lucy has 25 years of experience in the Food Industry. Her primary responsibility is to lead to the effort so Mission Foods can become a Sustainable or quality through the organization and to support people to discover the joy of working with passion to save our Planet. As a member of the Executive Team Lucy plays an important role on supporting top management in Mission Foods to develop the strategy to sell Mission Foods products throughout the world.

New Views: Integrated Models for Transforming Public Education and Community Justice - Monday, October 19, 2009

John I. Goodlad is perhaps the world's best-known advocate for educational renewal. He has authored, co-authored, or edited over 30 books, written chapters in more than 100 others, and has more than 200 articles in professional journals. In addition to a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, John holds honorary doctorates from twenty colleges and universities. He has held professorships at Agnes Scott College, Emory University, the University of Chicago, UCLA, and the University of Washington. He is president of the Institute for Educational Inquiry, founder of the National Network for Educational Renewal, dean emeritus of the UCLA Graduate School of Education, and professor emeritus of education of the Center for Educational Renewal at the University of Washington in Seattle. For the past quarter century, Goodlad has been involved in an array of educational renewal programs and projects including large-scale studies of educational change, schooling, and teacher education.

Concurrent Session: Sustainablity and OD Meet in the 21st Century - Monday, October 19, 2009

Travis Green is a independent consultant designing organizations and communities to thrive in the 21st Century. For over a decade he has provided change leadership and strategic focus across business, academic and non-profit sectors. Travis consultants with organizations and communities that wish to integrate sustainable principles and practices. To make this happen, he focuses on leadership development, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning and implementation. His work within the sustainability community includes the collaborative design and facilitation of a Sustainability Confluence, which brought together sustainability leaders to create collaborative action. Additionally, Travis is a charter organizer and a lead facilitator of Seattle’s Legacy Leadership Institute on Environmental Stewardship. Most recently, he has co-designed and co-facilitated both “Sustainability in Action”, a three-day workshop, and “Climate Action Labs”, a neighborhood engagement initiative. Travis sits on the Board of Directors for both the Community Consulting Partnership and Sustainable Seattle.

Concurrent Session: Generating Value: Regional OD Programs - Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Concurrent Session: Why Sustainability is an Imperative in OD: the ChoicesWeMake - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

New Views: Making Friends with Marketing: A Fresh Approach to Marketing Your OD Practice - Monday, October 19, 2009

Chris Grindem is currently the Executive Director of Marketing and a Senior Lecturer at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

Chris has more than 30 years experience in branding, marketing and advertising at firms including Leo Burnett, Doner, J Walter Thompson and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. He has worked with and in 40 different industries including consumer packaged goods, consumer services, consumer durables, high tech, retail, cultural and not-for-profit organizations.

Chris has been published eight times in marketing, advertising and retail publications and spoken more than 20 times at conferences and universities throughout North America and Europe.

Chris has also worked as a branding and marketing adviser to firms, practices and professionals in the fields of accounting, law, medical services and insurance. And importantly, he was a co-founder of the Optimization Group, a marketing measurement services firm, and has experienced the unique realities of a start-up firm.

Together with Keystone Media and Annie Wolock, Chris has also worked with the OD Network for the past 18 months, giving him a contemporary appreciation for the branding, marketing and business development issues . 

Other: Treasures of the NW Coast- An Intentional Learning Community - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Bertus Groot (born 1948 in the Netherlands) career was led and inspired by three essential questions:

-How do businesses behave, survive and thrive in their business environments? 

-How do individuals do the same within their lives and work?

-What makes them all tick and succeed?

A long time client and by now good friend nails him down as:

"A tall, Dutch, hawkeyed, sensitive, analytic, humorist and serendipitist (business) shrink; ,seasoned in the enlightenment and beaconing of individuals, organizations and their leaders. He helps them to "home in" on their own inspiring, authentic and energizing pathways and being…………"

He started his professional odyssey as an Aeronautical Engineer at Fairchild Republic Aviation, Long Island N.Y. From there on he grew trough the ranks with positions in the Micro Electronics Industry (Philips),  the Oil & Gas industry and with Lear/Siegler on Integrated Manufacturing Systems.

His working experience and a wide variety of additional education on HBS, NTL and ODN enlarged his insights on both fields of Strategy and Social Behaviour. It facilitated the start of his own consultancy firm combining Strategy & Implementation Processes It proved effective in the marketplace. The firm has since then worked in a great variety of businesses.

Nowadays he is a sole practitioner based in the Netherlands. He works in private sessions with organizational leaders. He counsels and mentors individuals and teams on both their own  "being and effectiveness" and on the "being and effectiveness" of their particular organizations.

By working and intervening simultaneously at  "the heart and the helm " of the organization  he contributes directly to the operational effectivity of the leaders and their organizations. He empowers his clients by his seasoned insights, his analytic skill and his down to earth practical approach.

Sponsor Spotlight: Senior Internal Consulting University: Accelerating the Impact and Capability of Your OD Function - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Contemporary Issues Facing OD in Healthcare: An Open Space on Current Practice and Future Possibility - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Other: Healthcare in OD Affinity Group - Monday, October 19, 2009

Other: Treasures of the NW Coast- An Intentional Learning Community - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Master Class: Kurt Lewin Master Class- Roger Harrison - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Roger Harrison, Ph.D. began his consulting career in 1956 at Procter & Gamble, where he was active in early applications of survey feedback methods; later he taught at Yale University. He then followed his heart, and has been an independent consultant since 1967. He has been active in most of the developments and applications of OD from its beginnings in T groups and team development, to culture change in large systems and organizational learning In addition to his many articles for fellow OD professionals, Roger is the author of ground-breaking work about the design of self-directed learning experiences, innovative cross-cultural training, and training in personal power and influence (The Positive Power & Influence Program, co-authored with David Berlew). Much of this body of work has been published in The Collected Papers of Roger Harrison and in Roger’s autobiography, Consultant's Journey: A Dance of Work and Spirit (Jossey-Bass, 1995, since republished by Authenticity Press. Roger has lived and worked on both coasts of the U.S., and for eight years in the UK and Europe, where he distinguished himself in training consultants, and by his seminal work on organization startup. He has had more clients than he can count, mostly multi-national organizations characterized by a focus on science, research and engineering. The dominant value motivating his practice is to foster authenticity and open heartedness in organizations. Roger continues to teach and consult, and also to coach OD consultants from his home in Freeland, Washington (Whidbey Island). He retains a passion for professional issues to do with teaching and learning, especially the art and practice of designing experience-based learning processes, whether at the individual, small group or organizational levels. His most recent articles concern bringing one’s spiritual practice into one’s work, and accessing the power of love in organizations.

Concurrent Session: Evidence-Based Coaching, or Flying By the Seat of Your Pants: Which Do Your Clients Want? - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Laura Hauser, MSOD, PCC, founded Leadership Strategies International in 1993 after working 18 years internally for large corporations. Her rich and diversified background has established her as an expert consultant, author, and conference speaker. She has authored numerous articles in the areas of strategic change, team innovation, and leadership. She integrates methodologies from her certifications in Gestalt, NLP, Evidence-Based Coaching and her degree in O.D. Laura serves as adjunct faculty for Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management where she received her Master of Science degree in Organization Development. She trains coaches through Fielding Graduate University's graduate-level Evidence-Based Coaching program where she is earning her Ph.D. Feel free to contact Laura at laura@leadership-strategies.com.

Sponsor Spotlight: Navigating Cultural Differences in OD Consulting - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Developing Supervisory Skills in India: The Challenges of Cultural Differences - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Sylvie Marie Héroux, MA, MBA, PMP is a Learning and Development Consultant with IC FORMATION, a Montreal-based training and organizational development consulting firm. She is responsible for the workplace coaching practice and also facilitates training for leaders and trainers. She has 10 years of experience in a variety of roles in learning and development and has facilitated leadership development workshops around the world. Since her years in graduate school in sociology in the early 90s, she has had an insatiable thirst for understanding how individuals and groups function and change. She greatly enjoys discovering the world through travel, reading, and food.

Sylvie Marie Héroux, MBA, PMP is currently completing a contract as Senior Analyst, IT Change Adoption Services at McKesson Canada. She has 8 years of experience in a variety of roles in learning and development. She previously was a learning technology manager and leadership training facilitator with Invensys. Since her years in graduate school in sociology in the early 90s, she has had an insatiable thirst for understanding how individuals and groups function and change.

Concurrent Session: Using a Peer Review Process to Evaluate OD Performance - Monday, October 19, 2009

Rob Hessler provides internal Organizational Development consulting to Boeing leaders and teams.  His previous 28 years with Boeing include 18 years of management experience in areas such as safety, health, and environmental affairs, organizational development, human resources development & training, employee involvement initiatives, career counseling, public relations, community services, wellness/recreation programs, and government contract administration.  He has extensive experience as a team leader for organization-wide projects addressing training, coaching, mentoring, career counseling, compensation, and Total Quality initiatives as well as experience working with executive and line management as a process facilitator.  Management positions have involved frequent customer interaction with NASA and corporate management at all levels. 

Rob's education includes MA in Management and Human Resources Development, BA in Sociology and Anthropology, and Certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), Birkman consultant, and Achieve Global Genuine Leadership facilitator. 

Concurrent Session: Developing Networks that Change People's Lives - Monday, October 19, 2009

Yahshaanyah L. Hill has worked in the fields of economic development and workforce development for over ten (10) years. She is currently the Manager of Workforce Development at the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (“UMEZ”). As a private, not-for-profit organization, UMEZ seeks to revitalize distressed communities by using public funds and tax incentives as catalysts for private investment. The mission of UMEZ is to sustain the economic revitalization of all communities of Upper Manhattan through job creation, corporate alliances, strategic investments and small business assistance. In her role as Manager of Workforce Development at UMEZ, Yahshaanyah is entrusted with the strategic development of demand-driven and sector-based workforce development initiatives that are focused on the utilization of workforce development as a catalyst to support broader community revitalization. Yahshaanyah provides the management and vision that is necessary to ensure that UMEZ’s workforce development initiatives are geared towards the development of effective strategies to create employment and career advancement opportunities for low-skilled, unemployed, under-employed and economically disadvantaged Upper Manhattan residents. She is profoundly proud of being the gatekeeper of the UMEZ workforce development strategy that is designed to propel a greater number of Upper Manhattan residents towards educational and career-oriented goals through the following strategies: 1) methods to create systems change through the creation of partnerships with employers, key industry stakeholders, economic development organizations and labor management organizations by eliminating structural obstacles that prevent Upper Manhattan residents from accessing training, employment and career advancement opportunities; 2) the creation of linkages between workforce development providers and economic developers that adequately creates opportunities for Upper Manhattan residents to receive the skills that are necessary for new development opportunities that generate new jobs; and 3) the implementation of the workforce intermediary approach, utilizing the capacity of experienced workforce leaders to help Upper Manhattan community-based organizations transform their workforce development practices to market driven workforce development practices creating greater outcomes for Upper Manhattan residents. Prior to her current role as Manager of Workforce Development at UMEZ, Yahshaanyah worked for the New York City Department of Small Business Services (“SBS”), wherein she managed a portfolio of business/workforce partnership projects in high growth and high priority sectors identified by the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development and Rebuilding and the New York City Workforce Investment Board. At SBS, she also worked on a portfolio of New York City financing incentive programs for business clients. Yahshaanyah has also worked at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where she managed a Mayoral Initiative, the “Printers Relocation Fund”, focused on assisting commercial printers and graphic arts firms with their relocation needs in redevelopment areas, while evaluating programs that impacted industrial policies. She has worked on significant special projects and is a member of several professional affiliations. Yahshaanyah is a 2009 graduate of the Sector Strategies Practicum, which is designed to assist organizations with the development and/or enhancement of program plans in strengthening sector employment programs through partnerships. Yahshaanyah is a member of the business associations Net Impact, whose mission is to inspire, educate and equip individuals to use business to create a more socially conscious world, in addition to the Forte Foundation, a forum that brings together female business leaders and professionals to share their ideas about professional development and work life balance. Under Mayor Bloomberg’s Commission for Economic Opportunity, Yahshaanyah served on two (2) Work Group Committees that were created to provide recommendations to the Mayor regarding economic opportunities and poverty in New York City. She served on both the Job Growth Work Group Committee and the Sector-based Strategies Work Group Committee. Yahshaanyah received a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from Fisk University and is currently pursuing her MBA with the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. She is proud that her experiences have afforded her the opportunity to align her personal values with her professional goals to enthusiastically serve people by using workforce development as a tool to create social and economic benefits for low-income people in under-served neighborhoods.

Biography pending

New Views: Weaving Smart Networks: Building Capacity for Positive Change in Organizations - Monday, October 19, 2009

June Holley provides consulting, training and mentoring to a wide range of organizations around the world who are interested in creating healthier communities and organizations through a better understanding of networks, collaboration, innovation and learning. She is a leader in the field of social network mapping and analysis.  For more than 20 years, June was the President/CEO of the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet), a regional entrepreneurship organization in southeastern Ohio committed to building a healthy and sustainable regional economy based on economic justice, self-determination, and respect for diversity. With the ACEnet staff, she pioneered in the implementation of many innovative economic development strategies including business networks, sectoral incubators, a regional youth entrepreneurship initiative, technology based workforce development programs and a regional entrepreneurship network. In 1991, she was selected by Governor Voinovich to be inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame. An avid researcher on complexity and organizations, she has co-authored over 30 papers, articles, and books on various aspects of economic and community networking. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Ohio Magazine, Entrepreneur, In Business and many other publications.

Concurrent Session: Simple Models for Systemic Change: Easy to Understand/Practical to Implement - Monday, October 19, 2009

Mel Hudson-Nowak is the Director of Internal Audit and Advisory Services at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), a position she has held since 2006. In addition to her core responsibilities, Mel was appointed to co-Chair the BGSU strategic planning readiness team in 2008, an engagement effort which earned her the University Community Fellowship Award. Prior to joining BGSU, Mel was a member of the Finance organization at Ford Motor Company, holding positions in internal audit, product development and Volvo Cars in Gothenburg, Sweden. An atypical auditor, Mel received her BA in English Language and Literature from Smith College and her MBA in Finance and Marketing from Michigan State University.

Concurrent Session: The Changing Dynamics of Workplace Spirituality - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

BILL J. HUFFAKER, PhD PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Bill Huffaker is Co-Head of Global Talent Planning at Visa Inc. in San Francisco. Here, he instituted global talent planning architecture to support the company’s global integration following the completion of its IPO. He conducted the first global talent review to identify successors for the top 125 positions worldwide by assessing 600+ leaders. In addition to his work on global mobility and strategic workforce planning, he implemented a global talent management application to automate performance management, development planning, talent reviews, and succession planning processes. Prior to Visa, Bill was re-recruited by the executive management of Providian Financial, one of the leading U.S. credit card issuers, to head up talent management, training, recruiting, and organization development. Bill was instrumental in integrating core human resources functions following Washington Mutual’s acquisition of Providian. As the Senior Vice President of Talent Acquisition and Organizational Capability and 1st Vice President of Human Resources for Card Services, Bill led efforts to facilitate the integration of corporate cultures and change management strategies. Bill was also Senior Director of Human Resources for Cerus Corporation, a biotechnology company. Before joining Cerus, Bill spent 6 years with Providian Financial as Vice President of Development. He began his career at State Farm Insurance Companies in the employee survey and selection test unit. Bill earned a doctorate from Fielding Graduate University in Human and Organizational Systems. He also holds a Masters’ degrees in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. He is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and a member of the Society for Human Resources Management, the Organizational Development Network, and the American Psychological Association.

Half Day Workshop: Gracious Space as a Context for Change - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Pat Hughes is a leadership development consultant and sustainability educator. For the past 18 years Pat has helped individuals, communities and organizations build leadership capacity and develop systemic approaches for meeting their goals. She founded Trillium Leadership Consulting in Seattle to offer customized leadership program design, systemic integrity and sustainability integration to organizations. 

Pat also serves as a Senior Affiliate at the Center for Ethical Leadership, and is the author of Gracious Space: A Practical Guide to Working Better Together. She previously directed the Leadership Institute in Redmond, Washington, where she earned the Preceptor Award from the International Leadership Association for innovative leadership program design.

She holds an M.A. in Whole Systems Design from Antioch University, a certificate in Organization Systems Renewal, and a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from the University of New Hampshire. She is certified by the Institute for Cultural Affairs as a Technology of Participation Facilitator.

Concurrent Session: Use of Self: Leveraging Ourselves as Instruments of Change - Monday, October 19, 2009

David W. Jamieson is President of Jamieson Consulting Group, Inc. (JCG). Prior to forming JCG, he was a partner with MRG Associates, a management consulting firm. Dr. Jamieson has been consulting since 1971, with a generalist orientation and an emphasis in organization strategy, design and change.  Prior to his consulting career, Dr. Jamieson worked in production and methods management with Schramm, Inc., an air compressor manufacturer, in industrial engineering with Lukens Steel Company and as Assistant to the Dean, Office of Student Affairs at Drexel University.

He combines an in-depth knowledge base with practical experience in: formulating strategy; designing organizations; evolving desired cultures; creating and facilitating change strategies; managing for high performance, quality and service; creating diversity-friendly organizations, building effective teams; and developing leaders for the future.  He has consulted widely with organizations of varying sizes, across varying industries, in public and private sectors, and at different levels. His client variety is represented by: Deloitte, Los Angeles Times, Magma Metals, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Aerospace Corporation, Disneyland, Southern California Edison, Northrup-Grumman, American Management Association, Phoenix Memorial Hospital, Farmers Insurance, The Gap Stores, Getty Oil, Port of Los Angeles, Host-Marriott Corporation, City of Culver City, Community Foundation of Greater Flint, San Bernardino Sheriffs Department, US Department of Agriculture, Anaheim Union High School District, Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles Community College District, Arizona Department of Education, Hispanic Leadership Development Program.

He is an Adjunct Professor in the Graziadio School of Business and Management and Graduate School of Education & Psychology at Pepperdine University, where he teaches in the Master of Science in Organization Development (MSOD) and Doctoral Program in OrganizationChange. He is also an adjunct faculty member for the AU/NTL MSOD Program (Washington, DC), where he serves as Practicum Director; an adjunct professor for the Doctor of Management Program at Colorado Tech (Colorado Springs) and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar for the Benedictine Ph.D. Program in OD (Chicago). Dave previously served as co-director of the MSOD Program (Pepperdine), founding Academic Director of the Doctoral program in OrganizationChange (Pepperdine) and in various adjunct faculty roles for UCLA, USC, Fielding Institute and Union Graduate School.  He holds a Ph.D. in Management from UCLA and a B.S. in Business Administration from Drexel University.

Dr. Jamieson is a respected author, with numerous publications.  He is co-author of the best-selling book Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage (Jossey-Bass, 1991) and co-author of The Complete Guide to Facilitation: Enabling Groups to Succeed (HRD Press, 1998; 2^nd Ed. forthcoming) and The Facilitator’s Fieldbook (AMACOM, 1999; 2^nd Ed., 2006).  In addition he has published other works of varying lengths on organization alignment, organization development, managing workforce diversity, developing teams and team-based organizations, and consultation. Dave is also a prominent national speaker with hundreds of presentations to management groups and professional associations.

He has long been active in his profession and community serving in numerous roles. Dave is a Past National President of The American Society for Training and Development, Past President of The International Federation of Training and Development Organizations, and Past Chair of the Managerial Consultation Division and Practice Theme Committee of the Academy of Management. He served on the Boards of the Center for Non-Profit Management, Voluntary Action Center and the Kellogg Training Center of United Way in Los Angeles. He continues to serve as a Faculty Member for the California Command College; and on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, and the Organization Development Practitioner. Dr. Jamieson recently became Editor of Practicing OD, an on-line journal of the Organization Development Network.

Today, Dr. Jamieson is focused on advancing our understanding of organizationchange and consultation.  He is dividing his time between consulting in organizationchange, educating executives and practitioners of change, and writing to bridge knowledge and practice.

Master Class: Kurt Lewin Master Class Series - Sandra Janoff - Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Other: Learning from the Legends of OD: Moving the Essence Forward - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Concurrent Session: Texas Instruments’ - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Dr. Jenkins is a Director of Consulting Services with Assess Systems. For over 12 years, Carol Jenkins has been integrally involved in the design and validation of selection and development processes for numerous organizations.  She has extensive experience in managing large-scale competency-based initiatives.  She has international consulting experience and has worked on projects in a variety of countries (China, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Malaysia). Dr. Jenkins’ areas of specialization are: Competency Modeling, Psychological Assessment, Test Development and Validation, Leadership, Coaching and Development Programs, and Selection Process Design. Carol Jenkins received her Doctor of Philosophy, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2001. She is a licensed psychologist in the State of Texas.

Concurrent Session: Images of the Future: The Dream Phase of Appreciative Inquiry - Monday, October 19, 2009

Elaine Jennerich has served as the Organization Development and Training Director and, before that, as the Coordinator for Staff Development and Training for a total of thirteen years. As an internal consultant she focuses primarily on four areas in the organization: enhancing communication; fostering more effective and transparent decision-making; improving management and leadership skills; and, building community. A pioneer in developing the verbal and nonverbal skills needed to conduct the in-person reference interview, she transfers that knowledge into successful coaching, facilitating and training interactions.

Concurrent Session: Transition Towns: Creating Tomorrow’s Communities Today - Monday, October 19, 2009

Biography: After studying for an undergraduate degree in Computer Science I set off for a few years of travel. It was during this time that I bumped into, almost literally, Tibetan Buddhism. On my return to the UK I became involved with a Tibetan Buddhist sangha and moved to their Retreat Centre in South Wales. Six years later I moved next door to a piece of land that I had purchased and built an ecological house. This house won a number of awards. In 2006 I graduated with a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Psychology with a concentration in Ecopsychology from Naropa University, Boulder, CO. I have recently moved to Portland, Oregon, where I have helped establish a Transition Initiative following working with the founder of the movement, Rob Hopkins, and others who have helped him in the UK.

One Day Workshop: Stages of Leadership Development: Exploring a New Frontier in OD Coaching - Wednesday-Thursday, October 21-22, 2009

Bill Joiner, President of ChangeWise, is a seasoned OD consultant with 30 years of experience completing successful projects with companies based in the US, Canada, and Europe. His areas of expertise include leadership development, team development, and organizational change. He speaks about leadership agility, provides leadership workshops, trains leadership coaches, and helps companies design action learning programs that foster new levels of leadership. Bill also co-designed the Leadership Agility 360, the first research-based feedback instrument to assess levels of leadership agility. He has an MBA from SMU, and a Doctorate in Organization Development from Harvard University. Some of his better-known clients include: Aetna, AOL, Astra, Corning, Digitas, EMC, Harvard Business School, Healthways, IBM, MIT, MITRE, McKinsey, Partners Healthcare, PepsiCo, Polaroid, State Street, Sun Microsystems, Sunoco, T. Rowe Price, Travelers, Wyeth Biotech, and various US and Canadian federal agencies.

Other: People of Color Caucus: The Job-Person-Enviroment Assessment - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Kenneth Jones is a nationally respected keynote speaker, symposium leader, and OD consultant.  He is currently a member of the OD Network Board of Trustees.  Over a  30-year career dedicated to OD in both the public and private sectors, he has focused on uniting people to create a common vision of the future for themselves and their organizations, and assisting them on the journey to realize that future.   Kenneth is a former Associate with Dannemiller Tyson Associates and a former Program Officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Currently, as the Principal in Kenneth Jones Associates, Kenneth continues to assist organizations adapt to the challenges of our changing global economy.

Multi-Day Workshop: Becoming a Better Intervener: A Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development Workshop - Friday-Sunday, October 16-18, 2009

Brenda B. Jones, MS, is an organizational consultant based in Columbia, MD, with over 20 years' experience. Her national and international consulting work focuses on organization strategic and culture change, leadership development, individual and group effectiveness, the development of consultants, and managing culturally diverse organizations. She directs her energy towards integrating both the human and business sides of an organization, with applications at all levels of system. She is a past Board of Trustees member of the OD Network, and a member of NTL Institute and IODA. She is on the faculty of the American University/NTL Graduate Program for Organization Development.

Concurrent Session: Social Technologies for Communicating, Collaborating, and Connecting - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Arthur L. Jue, D.M., CCD is a director of global organization and talent development for Oracle. He has extensive senior management experience in technology companies, such as IBM and Hyperion. He also serves on the board of directors for nonprofit, educational, and financial services organizations, such as the Boy Scouts of America Santa Clara County Council, SJSU Business Alumni Network, Meriwest Credit Union, Tongan Leadership Academy, and International Leadership Association. Arthur holds a doctor of management in organizational leadership and an M.B.A. with emphasis in technology management. He attended BYU and earned a B.S. in marketing with a music minor from SJSU, where he was selected as the university's outstanding graduating senior. In addition, he has participated in executive programs at the London Business School, Harvard, and Oxford. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion (JMSR), and is on the Academy of Management’s MSR executive board. Dr. Jue is a faculty member in the graduate schools of business for Northcentral University and the University of Phoenix. In addition, he is a member of the international faculty and advisory board of the Center for Leadership, Innovation, and Change at the Indian School of Business. Arthur has been a missionary in New Zealand, is an Eagle Scout, and enjoys playing the violin.

One Day Workshop: Facilitating Complex, Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration: Advanced Facilitation Skills - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Sam Kaner Ph.D., has been named as “one of the world's leading experts in collaboration” (Sandor Schuman, Ph.D., founding editor of Journal of Group Facilitation, and co-founder of International Association of Facilitators.)  Sam’s classic bestseller, Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making (Jossey Bass), has gone through 16 printings and is now in its 2nd edition.  Sam has been a featured speaker at more than 40 professional conferences, and he has delivered keynote addresses on collaboration and group decision-making at the annual World Congress of Quality, the annual Asia Facilitators’ Conference, the annual world conference of the International Facilitators’ Association, The Association of Quality & Participation, and the annual Best in the West conference of the Organization Development Network.  In 2005, AmericaWest Airlines named Sam as one of America's Best Consultants.  Since 1987 he has been Executive Director of Community At Work, a San Francisco-based consulting firm that specializes in designing and facilitating collaborative approaches to complex system change.

Concurrent Session: Social Technologies for Communicating, Collaborating, and Connecting - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Mary Ellen Kassotakis, Ed.D. currently serves as the Director of the Leadership Center of Excellence at Oracle. She has extensive experience in leadership development and coaching, strategic planning, change management, diversity and virtual teams in the high technology industry across the globe. Recently, Mary Ellen co-authored a book on social media entitled: Social Media at Work: How Social Networking Tools Propel Organizational Performance. Mary Ellen holds a Doctorate from the University of Southern California, an MBA from San Francisco State University, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley. She is affiliated with several professional organizations, including the Organization Development Network and the International Coach Federation. In addition, she has earned and maintains a designation as a Certified Co-Active Coach (from The Coaches Training Institute), and Certified Performance Technologist (from the International Society for Performance and Instruction). In the Change Management specialty, Mary Ellen is certified in William Bridge’s Managing Transitions, Conner Partner’s Managing Organizational Change, and Pritchett’s High-Velocity Culture Change. Additional certifications include multiple 360 assessments (Booth Company and Personnel Decisions International) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. She is a fundraiser for Shriners Hospital for Children in Northern California (Sacramento) and when time permits, she is a recreational golfer.

Master Class: Kurt Lewin Master Class Series- Judith Katz - Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Concurrent Session: Building Connected Organizations: How to AchieveBreakthrough Performance Through Inclusive Mindsets and Behaviors - Monday, October 19, 2009

Judith H. Katz, an OD practitioner and consultant for more than 30 years, shares her wisdom and experience on OD and how practitioners can make big organizational impacts by implementing strategic culture change efforts to leverage diversity and build cultures of inclusion. As Executive Vice President of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group since 1985 and a guest lecturer at several colleges and universities, Judith has had the opportunity to bring her experience to numerous for-profit and nonprofit organizations and educational institutions throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. She is the author of two books, including the landmark White Awareness, and co-author of The Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity and Be BIG: Step Up, Step Out, Be Bold. Judith has been a member of the OD Practitioner Editorial Board since 1993.

Concurrent Session: Student Research Colloquium - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Concurrent Session: OD Interventions Work—and We’ve Got the Numbers to Prove It! - Monday, October 19, 2009

Pat is an Organizational Development Consultant in Organizational Effectiveness, a unit of UI Human Resources at The University of Iowa.  She also has responsibility for the POET program, the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) program, the Employee Discount Program, and the UI SMART employee suggestion program at The University of Iowa.  Pat has more than 15 years experience working with quality improvement, then as an internal organizational consult as well as consulting with private and nonprofit external organizations.  Pat has a Master’s Degree in Education in Instructional Design and Technology with a focus on Organizational Development.  She is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and has earned the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designation. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Iowa Quality Center and has been a past chair.  She has also held management positions in the travel industry.

Other: OD Consultants and Power: How we use it, how we don’t, and why we need to talk about it An Intimate Conversation With The Conference Community - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Lisa Kimball, along with Nedra Weinstein and Trish Silber have participated in their own learning group for over 10 years. They have sought to explore new ground, create their own leading edge, and expand their impact with their clients. They have written about their learnings in articles and a book chapter and have presented on some of their new thinking at several conferences. Most recently, they have been exploring the power of using questions that have the ability to allow people to think differently, gain new perspectives and in essence reshape their lives. Lisa is President, Plexus Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to making ideas emerging from the new science of complexity available to practitioners. She combines her extensive knowledge of organization design, executive development, and learning with experience using the latest media and technology to leverage key processes and systems. Plexus projects include efforts to combat medication resistant infections in hospitals by using an innovative change process called Positive Deviance, applying change approaches to low performing schools and using Social Network Analysis and Mapping to support large scale change efforts. Lisa also serves on the Board of the OD Network.

Sponsor Spotlight: Exploring Positive Deviance - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Leading in a Hyper-Connected Society—A Shift in Leadership Models - Monday, October 19, 2009

William Kirkwood, Ph.D., FACHE is a healthcare executive with 25 years of experience in developing management systems and facilitating change initiatives in healthcare organizations. His research in nursing and leadership development provides a unique perspective to change strategies. Dr. Kirkwood is principal of William Kirkwood & Associates, LLC., a healthcare consulting firm focused on assisting leadership teams in creating robust creative cultures. Dr. Kirkwood received a Doctorate in Organizational Behavior and a Masters in Healthcare Administration from The Union Institute & University. He was inducted into the school’s Circle of Scholars for his research on the crisis in nursing. He has presented at numerous conferences including The Association of Health Care Administrators (Developing a Performance Management System), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Rapid Cycle Change), American Society for Quality Solving Intractable Problems using Positive Deviance), Massachusetts Southshore Nursing Symposium (Exploring 21st Century Nursing from a Difference Perspective).

Concurrent Session: OD Interventions Work—and We’ve Got the Numbers to Prove It! - Monday, October 19, 2009

Teresa is the director of Organizational Development and assistant director of UI Human Resources.  She has responsibility for UI Learning and Development, UI LEAD, Business Process Improvement and Organizational Development, the Behavior Risk Management Team and is co-leading the current effort to development a Threat Assessment Team at The UI. Teresa has 27 years of experience working with employee assistance programs, quality improvement service providers and consulting with organizations large and small, private and for profit. This has afforded her the opportunity to work with employees, supervisors and administrators on issues such as healthy workforce, team building, workplace violence, training leaders to build positive work environments, leadership at all levels, and developing and maintaining respectful work relationships. Teresa has a Master’s Degree in Social Work and has completed certificate programs from Linkage and DePaul University on Advanced Organizational Consulting and Bottom Line OD: A Structured Approach for Return on Investment.

Concurrent Session: Student Research Colloquium - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Concurrent Session: Enhancing Senior Leadership Team Effectiveness at Microsoft - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Sue has spent her entire career in high tech where she thrives on the fast pace and ever changing landscape. She joined Microsoft in December of 2000 as an organizational consultant where she guided senior leaders and their teams through prioritization of strategies, alignment of organization design, and leadership of change. In May 2006 she joined the corporate Leadership Development Group (LDG) where she designs and delivers capability building solutions for senior leaders and executives at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft Sue spent 14 years at Great Plains Software where  she managed the corporate Learning and Development function, engaged in acquisition integration and even had a stint as a technical product trainer for customers and partners. Her background and education are in business and organization development where she earned a master’s of science degree in Organization Development (MSOD) from Pepperdine University.

Concurrent Session: Building a Successful, Transformative OD Consulting Practice - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Gina Lavery, MSOD, has spent 20 years creating environments that unleash the human spirit and produce breakthrough results. She brings a broad, real world perspective to clients as a result of her experience as a business leader with a Fortune 100 health care giant, and a global view with study and work in over 35 countries around the globe. Using a variety of transformative methods, she facilitates leaders to discover unforeseen possibilities and create breakthrough strategies, aligned teamwork, and effective relationships. Gina holds a Master’s degree in Organization Development from Pepperdine University and is a contributing author to both the third edition of Practicing Organization Development (October, 2009) and the best-selling book Awakening the Workplace (May, 2006). In the words of one of her clients, Gina is a creative, resourceful catalyst for what’s possible at work.

Concurrent Session: OD Education—The Future is Here - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Svenja Leggewie has introduced and helped define the design strategy practice in several creative agencies. She now works in-house as Design Strategy Director for the global beauty business unit in Johnson & Johnson's Global Strategic Design Office, rethinking brands through qualitative and quantitative consumer and market insight. She started her career as a Niketown designer where she helped define how the company retails to women. Her later work as a strategic creative consultant spanned global brand, product, and digital strategies for clients such as Audi, The Coca Cola Company, Club Med, McDonald's, Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble, Sprint, Sunbeam, and Timberland. Svenja will graduate from AU/NTL's MSOD program in 2010. She is looking to combine her decade of experience in design research and strategy with the processes and principles of OD to facilitate sustainable workplace transformation for clients interested in deploying design thinking in their strategy and practices.

Half Day Workshop: Gracious Space as a Context for Change - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Dr. Jeff Leinaweaver offers coaching, facilitation and organizational consulting for individuals and groups interested in cultivating their highest potential in an era of environmental crisis and global transition. Through evidence-based practices, he works from a communication approach to develop 21st Century competencies that maximize dialogue skills, systems thinking and intercultural development.  In addition, he is a sustainability educator and facilitator with Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects Facilitator Network, The Natural Step Network and the Pachamama Alliance.

Jeff is the founder and principal of Global Zen Coaching and OD Consulting. Jeff founded Global Zen after a multifaceted career in international human resources, journalism, teaching and the performing arts. Jeff Leinaweaver is a certified coach and global professional in human resources (GPHR). He holds a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems. He has worked and lived abroad in Europe, Asia and Latin America and traveled extensively to many other countries. 

Concurrent Session: Simple Models for Systemic Change: Easy to Understand/Practical to Implement - Monday, October 19, 2009

Emily Lewis has a background in human resources, training, career counseling, and organization development consulting. Emily’s primary goal is to ensure that people are engaged with their work and each other in order to help organizations rise to their full potential. The combination of Emily’s educational background, experience and passion for organization development will leave you feeling confident that your company is in good hands. Emily has a great amount of energy and enthusiasm for revealing strengths and for helping leaders improve the very essence of an organization and the people within it. She has her masters in Organization Development from Bowling Green State University and has experience in 360° assessment, executive coaching, team building and strategic planning. Her solid business acumen coupled with her pursuit of what lies beyond the surface of organizational issues will serve as a catalyst that is sure to bring any organization closer to its strategic goals, leading to bottom line results.

Concurrent Session: Weaving Positive Deviance and Liberating Structures - Sunday, October 18, 2009

A founder of the Plexus Institute and Chairman of the Board. Retired in 1998 after a 30 years career at Merck, from Managing Director in Finland to President of the Intercontinental Region and Japan (all countries outside of the US and Western Europe) and a member of Management Committee. Henri is French and resides in the US and France. Henri is engaged in spreading Liberating Structures in the US, Latin America, Africa, Asia and, Europe. He served as coach in a multi-center Positive Deviance initiative to prevent the spread of MRSA infections in the US.

Concurrent Session: With Friends Like These: Women’s Relationships in the Workplace - Monday, October 19, 2009

Anne works with public and private organizations in the areas of executive coaching, leadership development, change mangement, teaming across global cultures, and cultural competency.  Her clients have included:  Siemens; Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; Parsons; Accenture; EDS; Hasbro; Health Care for All; and The Union of Concerned Scientists.

She has been an internal and external consultant, executive coach, and trainer for more than 30 years in a wide variety of organizations in the U.S.A., Europe, India, Africa, Canada, Mexico, People's Republic of China, Burma, Singapore and Malaysia. Anne recently completed her PhD at the Fielding Graduate University.  Her dissertation is entitled, “Shadow and Light: A Study of Patterns of Relationship Among Women in the Workplace.”

Anne is a member of the NTL Institute and the Organization Development Network.  She is co-author of the book, Coaching for the Edge (in press), along with numerous journal articles.

Concurrent Session: Transition Towns: Creating Tomorrow’s Communities Today - Monday, October 19, 2009

Jeanne Longley, PhD, has been an OD practitioner for 30 years.  Her first job was with Cummins Engine Company, helping to develop the concept of self-directed work teams in the 80's.    After leaving Cummins, she headed up a Training Function with a medical supply company (SSI), then moved to external consulting, affiliated with the Rummler-Brache Group, pioneers in Process Management.  Now semi-retired, she has turned her talents to Transition Initiatives, co-founding Transition Portland Metro and heading up Transition Neighborhoods, aspiring to help all 95 Portland neighborhoods develop resilient futures.  Jeanne has twice been chair of Oregon OD Network and both chaired the Portland Harbor Superfund Community Advisory Group and served on the Portland Peak Oil Task Force, the first in the nation.  She enjoys living in progressive Portland, hiking in the beautiful Columbia Gorge, and seeing her grown children and small grandson as often as possible.

*  Note:  Since I am semi-retired, I do not have any current clients to ask for a referral.  However, my graduate advisor, Barbara Bunker, will be happy to vouch for me.  As you may know, she has authored one of the definitive books on Large Group Interventions and is an icon at ODN.

Concurrent Session: How Vital and Joyful is your Organization? - Wednesday, October 21, 2009
New Views: The OD World Summit 2010: Co-creating a New World of Organizations & Communities Through Dialogue & Action - Monday, October 19, 2009

Imre Lövey, Ph.D., is the managing partner of Concordia Organization and Management Development Ltd., one of the premier consulting companies in Hungary, which he founded in 1984.  In 1986, he also launched and was the first president of the Hungarian Organization Development Society.  One of the pioneers of OD and experiential learning in Hungary, he was also a visiting professor at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at University of California-Los Angeles, 1990-1997, and his international experience has included consulting engagements, culture change projects, lectures, or visiting professorships in India, Peru, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, South Africa, Ghana, and Slovakia.  In addition to a number of articles in professional journals, he is the author of two books: The Joyful Organization: Understanding Organizational Health, Diseases, and Joy (2003), and How Healthy is Your Organization? (2007), co-authored with M.S. Nadkarni with Eszter Erdélyi.  In 2007 he received the Richard Beckhard Award from of the International Organization Development Association for his outstanding contribution in developing the profession internationally.  Dr. Lövey is the chair of the organizing committee of the OD World Summit 2010.

Keynote: Keynote- Carolyn Lukensmeyer - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Half Day Workshop: Taking Off: Maintaining a Thriving OD Consulting Practice in a Down Economy - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Ms. Samantha Lurey is the President of Plus Delta Consulting, LLC. Ms. Lurey specializes in managing large-scale change initiatives and offers a variety of workplace solutions to clients ranging from small start-up companies to Fortune 100 corporations as well as both local and federal government agencies. With more than 12 years experience as an organizational consultant, she has particular expertise in change management, talent management, organizational redesign, culture change, and technology implementation. Ms. Lurey holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from San Diego State University. She also serves as a guest lecturer at the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management and presents at various conferences and to client work groups engaged in large-scale change efforts. Prior to joining Plus Delta, Ms. Lurey held internal consulting positions with Sempra Energy as well as the County and Port of San Diego.

Half Day Workshop: Taking Off: Maintaining a Thriving OD Consulting Practice in a Down Economy - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Dr. Jeremy S. Lurey is the Chief Executive Officer of Plus Delta Consulting, LLC. Dr. Lurey specializes in leadership and organization development, and he works with senior executives and business leaders to improve performance and implement positive changes in their organizations. He has particular expertise in strategic planning, executive and management development, change management, business process improvement, and team effectiveness. With more than 15 years experience as a management consultant, Dr. Lurey has supported clients ranging from small start-up organizations to multi-national corporations, including several not-for-profit and government agencies. He holds MS and PhD degrees in Organizational Psychology from the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management and is certified as a Master Instructor. In addition to his role as a consultant, Dr. Lurey serves as an Adjunct Faculty member at Pepperdine University and has authored several publications, including a book chapter, on organization development, change management, leadership excellence, and virtual team effectiveness. Before establishing Plus Delta, he worked at both PricewaterhouseCoopers and Andersen Consulting.

Sponsor Spotlight: A Passion for OD: Unleashing Our Calling for Doing Great Work in the World - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Sponsor Spotlight: Delivering Leadership ExcellenceSM in a Box - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Facing Tough Times with Wisdom and Courage - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Sam Magill, MBA, MCC, is regarded by clients and colleagues as a unique contributor to their individual and professional lives. He is seen as a courageous and immensely skillful OD practitioner and a highly effective personal coach with the ability to be at once very comforting and very challenging, to be global in his perspective and immediate in his application. Sam is a published poet and exhibited photographer. He has just finished a sabbatical year in the south of France where he made presentations on OD and coaching and participated in a dialogue on the future of OD in Europe. His OD experience includes industry, government, education, and health care, and he teaches regularly in graduate OD programs. .

Sam is currently studying supervision of coaches and consultants in London, England.

Concurrent Session: Change Strategies That Push Us Beyond Single Organizations into Complex Regional Systems - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Michael R. Manning is professor of Management, New Mexico State University and a faculty member at Fielding Graduate University. He has lectured and consulted throughout the US and internationally in Mexico, Europe, and Asia. His research and publications focus on topics related to the emotions of change, whole systems change using larger group interventions, organizational stress and well-being, and processes of collective action. He is an active member of the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management, recently serving as Division Chair, 2007-2008.

Concurrent Session: Vital Signs in the ER: Promoting A Change of Heart - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Diana Marino, is the Sr. Consultant of Leadership and Organization Development for WellStar Health Systems. Since 2002 she has worked as an  OD Consultant with non-profit health care organizations in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. After ten years as President of The Nova Group, an Atlanta- based consulting firm, Diana, joined Corporate Insights and Development as the Senior HR/OD Consultant. In Diana's 22 years of consulting , her list of clients include 75 of the Fortune 500's and numerous private companies and public non-profit organizations. Diana holds a Bachelors Degree from New York University and has done post -graduate work at Syracuse University and the University of Denver.

Concurrent Session: What’s New in OD: Dialogic Interventions - Monday, October 19, 2009

Bob Marshak has worked for over 30 years as a consultant and executive with global corporations and government agencies to plan and manage change, develop new strategies and structures, challenge limiting mindsets, work cross culturally, and build more effective teamwork. He is noted for his strategic and incisive thinking, skill at reading organizational dynamics in multi-dimensional ways, and ability to cut to the core of situations and issues.

In the world of scholarship, Dr. Marshak is known for his cutting edge thinking about the field of organization development and the dynamics of organizational change. He is internationally recognized for his expertise on covert processes in organizations, as well as how to use the hidden power of language and symbolic meaning to facilitate change in organizations. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and has written more than 50 articles about organizational consulting and change, including several that are considered classics in the field. Bob has also worked with thousands of participants in OD and change leadership programs at NTL Institute, American University, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, University of Texas at Dallas, Korea University, and the Singapore Training and Development Association. He has been a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College, University of London, and is currently Scholar-in-Residence for the AU/NTL Masters in Organization Development Program at the School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C.

Bob has served on the Boards of NTL Institute and the OD Network, and was Acting Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Among his many awards, he received the OD Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of organization development as a consultant, educator, and author. He has a BA from Duke University, and MPA and Ph.D. degrees from American University.

One Day Workshop: Using Discoveries in the Neurosciences to Develop Mature Leaders - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Lisa J. Marshall> is a nationally recognized expert, trainer, and speaker on leadership maturity and organizational development, and president of her executive coaching firm, Smart Work LLC. A best-selling business author, Marshall 's newest title is Speak the Truth and Point to Hope: The Leader's Journey to Maturity (Kendall/Hunt, $25.95), which presents to readers for the first time her critically acclaimed leadership-development approach. It includes powerful interviews with leaders from many fields, from Joe Dyer, former Vice-Admiral of Naval Aviation, Barbara Waugh, former Director of Personnel for HP Labs for 17 years and Bill Strickland, CEO of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild/Bidwell Training Center.

Marshall founded The Smart Work Company to help leaders develop critical communication and collaboration skills. For twenty years, her seminars and trainings have offered executives a creative way to become more self-aware and tap into their potential through the power of story. When smart people view themselves as protagonists in a living story, Marshall explains, they begin to recognize the deeper implications behind their professional journeys.

One of this country's most sought-after experts on the subject of leadership maturity, Marshall has spoken before numerous audiences at conferences throughout North America . Her Leadership Maturity Conversations, along with The Leadership Story™, a developmental training tool she authored for creating compelling individual and organizational stories, are widely regarded as groundbreaking contributions to the field of executive coaching. Lisa Marshall has coached executives and teams at Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and international corporations, including Intel, EDS, NASA, the USDA, DOE and Taiwan Semiconductor, among others.

Marshall co-wrote the business bestseller, Smart Work: The Syntax Guide for Mutual Understanding , a practical guide to collaboration in technical environments. She contributed a chapter called “Why Smart Organizations Don't Learn” to Productivity Press's best-selling book Learning Organizations: Creating Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace as well as a forthcoming chapter called “Where Are the Grownups?” for the 2006 Pfeiffer Annual: Training.

A graduate of Bennington College, Marshall is certified as a Master Coach by the International Coaching Federation, and she has received additional certification in Conversation-Based Assessment™, Syntax's Communication Modeling, Newfield's Ontological Coaching, and William Bridge 's Transition Management.

Prior to entering the business world, Marshall spent twelve years working as an award-winning documentary filmmaker, both in public television and as an independent film-maker. It is from that background that her fascination with story, and its power to transform lives, took hold. A mother and a stepmother, she lives in the mountains of central Pennsylvania with her husband and their dog.

Other: Treasures of the NW Coast- An Intentional Learning Community - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Reinventing Democracy in Our Organizations, Communities, and Society - Monday, October 19, 2009

DeAnna is facilitates and trains others how to facilitate "choice-creating" conversations. She is nonprofit director of the Center for Wise Democracy. She has more than twelve years experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Her background includes mediation and conflict resolution as a volunteer with the local Dispute Resolution Center and as a Lead Trainer with the Alternatives to Violence Project at Washington State prisons; organizational development consulting with government agencies; and community organizing and advocacy work with nonprofit organizations like the Youth Volunteer Corps, American Diabetes Association, Foundation for Global Community, and at Seattle University. She is awed and inspired by the human capacity to solve complex problems and grow in co-intelligence.

Concurrent Session: Introduction to Gestalt Field Theory in Organizations - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Rick Maurer is a consultant who specializes in organizational change. He has served on faculty at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland since 1996 and teaches in the Becoming an Effective Organizational Intervener program. He is also an editor of The Gestalt Review. Two of his books, Beyond the Wall of Resistance and Why Don’t You Want What I Want, were heavily influenced by Gestalt theory and practice. His own clients include Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and non-profits.

Sponsor Spotlight: Gestalt Coaching & Resistance - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Influencer: The Power to Change Anything - Monday, October 19, 2009

Drawing from extensive academic and corporate experience, David delivers topics that are grounded in solid research and application. Speaking in front of more than 500 audiences ranging in size from small retreats to large keynote events, David has been featured at prestigious venues including Stanford and Georgetown Universities, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the National Association of Children’s Hospitals. With an unrivaled ability to connect to his audience through engaging stories and captivating examples, David brings concepts to life—motivating listeners to put their newly found skills and knowledge to immediate use.

Currently, David is the vice president of research at VitalSmarts, an innovative corporate training company that teaches skills which deliver significant improvements to the results companies care about most. In the past thirty years, the VitalSmarts team has helped thousands of organizations, including more than three hundred of the Fortune 500, realize widespread and lasting results through its award-winning training programs.

At VitalSmarts, David has led a series of research projects on the role crucial conversations play in the healthcare industry and how they affect medical errors, employee retention, and patient satisfaction. David’s latest research project, called Silence Fails, explores how the ongoing failure rate within enterprise projects is consistently linked to the avoidance of a few
key crucial conversations.

David is the coauthor of The New York Times bestseller Influencer: The Power to Change Anything. A respected academic, David has taught at Stanford University and the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. Other awards David has received include Motorola University’s Distinguished Teaching Award and Stanford University’s Dean’s Award for Innovative Industrial Education.

For more than twenty years, David Maxfield has helped companies by leading research projects involving dialogue skills, performance improvement, and conflict management. David’s career began with his doctoral work in psychology at Stanford University; His impact on organizational performance has been wide reaching as he’s helped clients such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, Ford Motor Company, Covenant Healthcare, and VISA increase
organizational effectiveness and become measurably more vital.

Concurrent Session: Lean and Green - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Jeff McAuliffe has spent over twenty years consulting with organizations - from small community based non-profits to major corporations.  He pioneered action learning and Toyota Production System ("lean") improvement methods at Swedish Medical Center to increase management bench strength, improve patient safety and organizational outcomes, enhance cross-functional collaboration and effectively engage employees.  Jeff's passion is coaching leaders, mentoring change agents and supporting teams to create breakthrough levels of improvement.  He is also a faculty member of the Leadership Institute of Seattle, a graduate program affiliated with Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. 

Concurrent Session: Weaving Positive Deviance and Liberating Structures - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Keith McCandless helps people innovate and manage complexity by working with groups to discover opportunities and build on momentum. A founding partner of the Social Invention Group, his eclectic skills are grounded in organizational development and complexity science.  He describes himself as a structured improvisationalist. A broad range of clients include health, education, and technology firms in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Latin America. He has served on the governing boards of the Plexus Institute (the Board of Directors and Science Advisory Board) and has a Masters degree from the Heller School for Advance Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University in Boston.  Born in Cincinnati Ohio, attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington, and lives in Seattle Washington. 

New Views: Integrated Models for Transforming Public Education and Community Justice - Monday, October 19, 2009

Robert McCarthy is a writer, teacher, and consultant specializing in policy and change strategy for businesses and social sector organizations. During 30 years of practice he has guided more than a 100 strategic change efforts in complex systems. Partnering with the leaders in healthcare, government, education and criminal justice, many of these efforts have become national models. Bob’s work is about candor, trust, and common purpose as the basis for collaboration to align leadership and the organization. He assists the process of change by delineating strategic issues, identifying new alternatives, and establishing a climate in which people with differing views can work together. His present focus is writing, coaching, and supporting HR and OD practitioners. Bob holds a M.S. in organization development from Pepperdine, and is a member of the City Club of Portland which provides him opportunities to contribute to the life of the community. McCarthy's forthcoming book, Rebuilding Trust is to be publishing, spring 2010.

Concurrent Session: Using Career Paths To Integrate Talent Management and Change: Career Models at Microsoft - Monday, October 19, 2009

Katy Jo Meyer is a Talent Management Consultant at Microsoft, where she has been for 10 years.  As a part of the Professional Capability & Development team for the last 5 years, Katy Jo has partnered with business and HR leaders to build and launch career models across the company.  The career model is Microsoft’s integrated worldwide platform for managing and developing people and aligning strategic change with HR practice.  Prior to working with the career models, Katy Jo spent her first 5 years at Microsoft within the Staffing organization. 

Outside of working at Microsoft, Katy Jo is very involved with her family, the community and athletics.  She was born and raised in Seattle and received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Sociology from Carroll College in Helena, Montana.  She is currently pursuing her graduate degree in Organization Systems Renewal at Seattle University.

Concurrent Session: Building Connected Organizations: How to AchieveBreakthrough Performance Through Inclusive Mindsets and Behaviors - Monday, October 19, 2009

Frederick A. Miller is the CEO and Lead Client Strategist of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc. In his 30-plus years of experience, he has specialized in turning around organizations through his inclusion work and has developed and implemented strategies that increase engagement, team and individual performance and culture alignment with organizations’ marketplace needs. Frederick was recognized for his work when he was named one of 40 Pioneers of Diversity by Profiles in Diversity Journal (August/September 2007). He also was noted as one of the forerunners of corporate change in The Age of Heretics(Currency Doubleday, 1996). In 2007, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organization Development Network. He is the co-founder of the Institute for Inclusion and the co-author with Judith H. Katz of Be BIG: Step Up, Step Out, Be Bold(Berrett-Koehler, 2008) and The Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity (Berrett-Koehler, 2002). He is managing editor of The Promise of Diversity (Irwin/NTL, 1994).

Concurrent Session: Change Strategies That Push Us Beyond Single Organizations into Complex Regional Systems - Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sponsor Spotlight: Working on the Hyphen: The Reflective Scholar-Practitioner - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Dr. Barbara P. Mink is a Professor, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA, where she supervises doctoral students in organizational change and leadership and is the Director of the Community College Leadership Concentration. Dr. Mink’s honors include serving on the Board of Directors, Human Resource Planning Society and Board of Directors, Envision Central Texas. She has over 35 years of international consulting experience designing and implementing organizational change. In addition, she was publicly elected to the Austin Community College District (Texas) Board of Trustees in 2000 and re-elected in 2006.

Other: Healthcare in OD Affinity Group - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Contemporary Issues Facing OD in Healthcare: An Open Space on Current Practice and Future Possibility - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Mark Moir is OD Manager for Sanford Health System in Sioux Falls, SD.  Mark leads the OD strategy for the comprehensive, integrated system that includes more than 10,000 employees and nearly 440 providers in 128 clinics and 23 hospitals in a four-state region.

Concurrent Session: Applying Power Equity Group Theory in a Self-Directed Team of OD Professionals - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Rianna Moore is an OD & diversity/inclusion consultant and coach with 35+ years experience working primarily in corporate and government sectors. She applies Power Equity Group Theory in her work with non-hierarchical, flat-structured groups. Other specialties include relational and communication skills; learning event design and facilitation; process consultation and development of internal HR/OD and diversity specialists. Rianna holds a Masters in OD and is a candidate for the PhD in Human & Organization Development from Fielding Graduate University.

One Day Workshop: Pricing Professional Services for Profitability and Growth - Wednesday-Thursday, October 21-22, 2009

Anthony "Tony" Moore is Vice President and CFO of Annapolis Professional Resources, Inc. (APR). an organization development firm in the Baltimore-Washington area. He has 25 years experience in budgeting, capital programming, financial analysis and accounting in private industry, and state and local government enterprise funds. In addition, Tony has 20 years experience providing consultation in the area of small business accounting, financial management, tax planning and preparation, business planning, and report writing. As an owner and CFO of the firm, he is integrally involved in developing billing rates, determining pricing, developing pricing models, and developing price/cost proposals for comprehensive bid packages. He has played a principal role in developing and implementing pricing strategies for APR, resulting in multi-year contracts with values as high as $11 million. He co-presented "Pricing Professional Services for Profitability and Growth" at the OD Network Conference 2008, and twice co-developed and present the webinar session of the same title for OD Network's Building Business Acumen Program. Tony is a Certified Public Accountant in Maryland, and holds an M.B.A. degree from the University of Baltimore. He is a member of the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants (MACPA).

Concurrent Session: Getting Culture Change off the Ground at American Airlines - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Alejandro currently works for American Airlines as a Talent Management Strategist.  He is responsible for the development of competency and personality driven strategies for the selection, performance evaluation and development of management and non management employees.  Alejandro also works as a strategic consultant to a variety of departments on the development and implementation of selections systems, assessment strategies and employee development programs. During his career, Alejandro has worked for and/or consulted organizations in industries, including software development, financial services, and professional services.  Alejandro holds a masters degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Louisiana Tech University.

Concurrent Session: Making Measurable Progress: Project Management Methodology and Change Initiatives - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Education:
B.A. English (minor Communication), Stanford University
Project Management Certification, U.C. Berkeley Extension
MSOD, Pepperdine University

Denise’s passion is building capacity in organizations to anticipate and thrive in change. She believes in co-creating culture-specific solutions with people in the organization: developing new or existing capabilities by transferring knowledge and skills, leveraging employee leadership and participation, and fostering diversity and inclusion. Her work focuses primarily on change implementation and program design. Denise’s consulting experience ranges across industries, sectors, and countries.

Denise has an extensive background in operations, project management, and internal communications: her management career began in multimedia and Web services, with a progression to consulting with philanthropy and non-profits; technology, utility, and manufacturing companies; and public agencies. Recent change projects include designing leadership development programs, succession planning, and culture/climate assessments. She also specializes in group facilitation, team building, training, and knowledge management.

Concurrent Session: Getting Culture Change off the Ground at American Airlines - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Leah is currently in Human Resources working as a Consultant to the Tech Ops functions in the Leadership Planning and Performance department.  She recently rejoined American after spending 2 years at Pizza Hut in Dallas, leading their Succession Planning, Organization Development and Recognition efforts for over 5000 domestic restaurants.    Leah’s sees her primary role as helping leaders be better, promote up, or achieve their professional goals.  She also has a personal mission to help minorities and women get promoted and help them prepare for leadership positions through training and development.  In her 10+ years with American, Leah has worked in 5 different jobs and been promoted 4 times.  She has worked with all groups of employees doing training, mentoring, coaching, and personality assessment interpretations.  She works with managers, directors and officers on restructuring, reorganizations, performance management and other organization-wide initiatives.  Prior to American, Leah worked in the high tech industry for 8 years in several small software firms doing training and development for computer software installations.  She holds bachelors and masters degrees in Organizational Communication and Behavior from Texas A&M University and a post-Graduate Certificate in Organizational Development from Georgetown University.  Outside of the work world, Leah is involved with the DFW Mid-Cities chapter of Jack and Jill of America, teaches Children’s Liturgy at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Keller and volunteers with the Greater Keller Women’s Club. 

Concurrent Session: 10,000 Girl Scouts Use Their Voices : Conversation and Stories in Large-scale Culture Change - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Julie Murphy is the Senior Director of Strategy for Girl Scouts of the USA.  Former lawyer turned Girl Scout executive, she is responsible for overseeing and championing the execution of the Core Business Strategy, the goal of which is to "transform the Girl Scout Movement. Julie is helping the Girl Scout organization undergo a huge transformation in practically all areas, while keeping the focus on top strategic priorities in the areas of funding, program, brand, volunteerism, organizational structure, governance, and culture. Julie is responsible for the successful coordination of the implementation of the Core Business Strategy across the national organization and the Girl Scout Movement. She is also managing the rollout of an innovative approach to strategy development and implementation called Strategic Learning to Girl Scout councils. She thinks of her job as "holding the whole" of Girl Scouts. Julie and Christine Whitney Sanchez collaborated to bring Open Space, Strategy Cafes, Appreciative Inquiry and StoryWeaving to the 2005 and 2008 Girl Scout National Conventions. Julie holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. She lives in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Concurrent Session: Student Research Colloquium - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Sponsor Spotlight: Sunrise Seminar at High Noon: Using the Applied Behavioral Sciences in Transformational Change - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Getting New Executives to Work: Strategies to Facilitate Successful Leadership Transitions - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Among many executive and consulting assignments, Fred Nader has served as an executive at the American Management Association, President of the NTL Institute in the late 1980's, and as an independent OD consultant.  He has recently cut back his OD practice to serve as Interim President of the NTL Institute in Arlington, VA.  A long-time member of NTL,  Fred has been an OD practitioner for 40 years, beginning with his work at the Boston University Institute for Human Relations in the 1960's.  He studied and worked with early OD leaders including Ken Benne and Robert Chin.  An Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University, Fred teaches a wide range of courses in the AU/NTL MSOD program and was lead faculty for the International Residency in Ottawa, CA.   Fred's home is in Naples, Florida.

Concurrent Session: The Long Happy Life of Organization Theory: When Nothing Changes, Yet Everything Is Different - Monday, October 19, 2009

Edwin C. Nevis, PhD, is Co-Founder (1979) of the Gestalt International Study Center (GISC), an educational organization that conducts workshops, conferences, and training programs for executives and helping professionals from all parts of the world.  He has practiced OD consulting since 1953 and has ben involved in training consultants for almost 35 years.  He co-created the highly successful OSD and International OSD Programs.  He spent 17 years at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he taught courses in organization change and consulting skills, and also served as a faculty member and Director of the Program for Senior Executives.

Concurrent Session: Transition Towns: Creating Tomorrow’s Communities Today - Monday, October 19, 2009

 Biography: Born Sheridan, Wyoming, 1935. AB, Princeton University 1957, MA Columbia University (East Asian Studies) 1966, Ph.D.Stanford, 1976 (Public Administration and International Politics), MA Antioch Organizational Systems Renewal 1996. US Foreign Service Officer, Management Systems Reform, Executive Assistant to Ambassador (China); Iowa State University Assistant Professor International Relations; US-China Trade Consultant; Executive Director Washington State Recycling Association; Sustainability and Management Strategy Consultant using whole-systems interventions to enroll employee teams in profitable environmental programs, attain certifications such as LEED and Green Seal. Married, 3 children, 5 grandchildren, living and practicing in Portland, Oregon.

Half Day Workshop: Gathering Clear Evidence (II): How Contracting Conversations Can Clarify Our Accountability and Demonstrate Our Value - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Peter Norlin, currently the Executive Director of the Organization Development Network, has spent almost 30 years in the field of organization development, working first as an internal OD consultant-leader for USF&G Insurance and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maryland, and then as an external consultant, managing his own practice, GreenLeaf Associates. As an external consultant, he served a wide variety of customers, in corporate, government, and not-for-profit settings; from two-person partnerships to Fortune 100 companies; and in manufacturing, health care, education, retail, hospitality, legal, financial services, entertainment, and professional services sectors.A graduate of The Johns Hopkins University Masters Degree Program in Applied Behavioral Science/Organization Development, he also has an M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University and a certificate in family therapy from the Center for Study of Human Systems; his teaching experience includes faculty appointments at Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he is also a professional member of the NTL Institute.

Sponsor Spotlight: Developing Leaders in Challenging Times for Competitive Advantage Tomorrow - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Master Class: Kurt Lewin Master Class Series - Barry Oshry - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Barry Oshry is a distinguished educator and a pioneer in the field of human systems thinking. Barry’s area of research, writing and teaching has been the human systems dynamics arising when people are in top, middle, bottom, and customer relationships with one another. He's been exploring with special interest the issue of "middles" in organizations for over 35 years, and he's written extensively on the subject. His research has also led him to investigate the dynamics at play when dominant cultures interact with “other” cultures. Barry is the author of the highly acclaimed Seeing Systems: Unlocking The Mysteries of Organizational Life as well as Leading Systems and In The Middle. Barry is also a playwright whose recent stage productions include “What A Way To Make A Living,” “Get Carter” and “Peace.” Since 1975 he’s been President of Power+ Systems, Inc. in Boston, which he founded with his wife and partner, Karen Ellis Oshry.

Concurrent Session: Evolutionary Management: Learning from Nature and Evolution for OD - Monday, October 19, 2009

Dr. Klaus-Stephan Otto, born May 12, 1949, has been active in the field of Organization Development of medium-sized and large companies for the past twenty-five years. He is the CEO of Dr. Otto Training & Consulting (Consultancy for Organization Development), which is headquartered in Berlin.

Dr. Otto holds a PhD in Psychology from the Technical University of Berlin. In addition to his studies in Germany, he continued his education in OD in the US, the UK, and Japan. Dr. Otto is dedicated to a holistic approach to OD. His company’s mission statement emphasizes the connection between effective work performance and the improvement of human relations without loosing sight of the individual interest of every employee.

Dr. Otto Training and Consulting mainly focuses on the following fields: the support of complex change processes in companies, public sector, and the non-profit-sector; steering and monitoring of large and complex projects; team development; innovation development; conflict management; and, last but not least, Evolutionary Management.

Samples of his previous work include the elaboration of a strategy for the DaimlerChrysler plant in Bremen, supporting a product development project for a development department of Volkswagen, leading a mission statement process for the Federal Office of Radiation Protection (BfS), and consultancy and coaching of a change management process for the Research and Development department of ‘Sennheiser Electronic’.

In 2009 he organized the conference "Darwin meets business" on Evolutionary Management in cooperation with the Free University Berlin.

In 2007, Dr. Otto published the book “Evolutionsmanagement” (Hanser Verlag).

Concurrent Session: Using a Peer Review Process to Evaluate OD Performance - Monday, October 19, 2009

Deborah Pagel brings over 18 years of strategic business experience, specializing in organization transformation, union-management partnerships, start-ups, turnarounds, mergers, leadership, and international business consulting. Her passion is strategic large scale transformation interventions which produce business results. Her experience encompasses aerospace, energy utilities, high tech, facility maintenance, healthcare, non profit and federal government agencies. She has published over a dozen articles with focus in organization development, human resources, culture change, and nuclear energy. Most recently, her latest co-authored article, Unleashing Passion and Potential at Boeing: A Rally Cry for Customer Service was presented at the 2005 OD Network Meeting and featured in the OD Practitioner. The featured project received the 2006 Outstanding OD Project of the Year Award by the OD Institute. Deborah is a senior OD Advisor (international) at The Boeing Company.

Other: Treasures of the NW Coast- An Intentional Learning Community - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Other: Early Morning Yoga - Monday, October 19, 2009

Shannon Patterson, a recent graduate from Pepperdine's MSOD program, is applying her OD expertise to her work as a Transportation Planning consultant. Most recently, she has been working on the SR 520 bridge replacement project, which will replace the world's longest floating bridge and transform the greater Seattle area. Shannon also has a 10 year history of practicing and teaching yoga in the Anusara tradition. The Anusara tradition holds authenticity, joy, self-examination, discovery, receptivity to new ideas, creativity, and community as foundational to growth and transformation - a perfect fit for OD practitioners!

Sponsor Spotlight: Delivering Leadership ExcellenceSM in a Box - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Honest Signals – Hard measures for Social Behavior - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Professor Alex (“Sandy”) Pentland is a pioneer in organizational engineering, mobile information systems, and computational social science. Sandy's focus is the development of human-centered technology, and the creation of ventures that take this technology into the real world.

He directs the Digital Life Consortium, a group of more than twenty multinational corporations exploring new ways to innovate, and oversees the Next Billion Network, established to support aspiring entrepreneurs in emerging markets, and the EPROMentrepreneurship program in Africa. He is among the most-cited computer scientists in the world, and in 1997 Newsweek magazine named him one of the 100 Americans likely to shape this century.

Other: People of Color Caucus: The Job-Person-Enviroment Assessment - Sunday, October 18, 2009

John J. Perry, founder and president of Human Productivity Systems, is a consultant specializing in assessing, harnessing, and focusing human energy. He helps people make more informed choices about creating the future of their choice and has served many organi­zations in both the public and private sectors.  For more than 22 years prior to becoming an independent consultant, NASA employed him in several disci­plines, from aerospace engi­neering to internal manage­ment systems consulting.  John has a BS degree in Mathematics from Florida A&M Uni­versity and an MBA degree in Management Decision Systems from the University of Southern Califor­nia.

Concurrent Session: Why Sustainability is an Imperative in OD: the ChoicesWeMake - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Why Sustainability is an Imperative in OD: the ChoicesWeMake - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Libba Pinchot is a co-founder of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, after a career as a coach and facilitator of leadership development. Her current passions are co-creating learning communities for sustainability change agents, and bringing participative action learning to workplaces and schools. She is also an Organizational Systems PhD student at Saybrook University.

New Views: Power of Self: A Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery & Meaning - Monday, October 19, 2009

CHRISTINA PITTS - Consulting/Coaching for 20+ years, leveraging experience as an educator, lawyer, business executive to optimize organization/individual success. Writer: novel, and recently co-authored Discover Your Inner Strength, with Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Brian Tracy.

Other: Treasures of the NW Coast- An Intentional Learning Community - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Honest Signals – Hard measures for Social Behavior - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

David D. Price is a Senior Vice President at Bank of America, and executive-in-residence at the Center for Future Banking. Previously, he was the Customer Experience Executive of the Deposits Contact Centers (DCC), where he was responsible for driving the overall experience of customers contacting DCC. These responsibilities included customer treatment by associates, as well as process improvement through problem tracking/trending and associate feedback portals. Under his leadership, Price helped implement the Feedback and Problem Management Portal; redesigned the DCC associate monitoring and coaching form; and removed AHT (average handle time) as a metric from associates' scorecards, allowing them to focus on completely servicing customer requests rather than on length of the call.

Price joined Bank of America in 1995 as a Customer Service Representative; he led the Six Sigma Process Team and was responsible for process improvement efforts in the Northwest. In 2006, he was promoted to Site Leader of Tri-Cities Contact Center; later that year he transitioned into a role as the Business Support Executive for DCC Consumer West, followed by the Customer Experience role in 2007. David has studied Six Sigma at Bank of America, and is a certified Green Belt, Black Belt, and has completed Master Black Belt training.

Multi-Day Workshop: Becoming a Better Intervener: A Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development Workshop - Friday-Sunday, October 16-18, 2009

Mauricio Puerta, PhD,  is an organizational development scholar and practitioner with over 15 years’ experience in the areas of organizational transformation, adult education, experiential learning, group facilitation, and coaching in Latin America, the US, and Europe. Through his work, he seeks to support organizations to become life-giving systems for their members and for the world at large. Some of the organizations he has worked with include the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Peruvian Ministry of Education, Unilever,  Adidas USA, and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He is currently core faculty at the Master of Organization System Renewal at Seattle University, and assistant profressor at the Universidad ESAN in Lima Peru.

Concurrent Session: Mining the Wisdom of the Group: Discovery and Action Dialogues - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Barbara Rosen,

Senior Organization Development Practitioner

Organization and Staff Development

Albert Einstein Healthcare Organization

5501 Old York Road

Philadelphia, PA  19141

For over 25 years, Barbara has worked in the human interaction and organization development field, including 6 years managing the function corporately, as well as running her own consulting firm, Dillon Road Consulting. Her skills include needs assessment (discovering what individuals, teams, and systems need to perform optimally);  large group change efforts; developmental coaching of leaders, teams, and individual contributors; designing, developing and facilitating leadership, team, and professional development training; mentoring; and facilitating group process. 

In her current role at Einstein, Barbara has responsibility for leading cultural and transformational efforts in the organization.  Her interests lie in understanding how dialog and conversation can transform an organization, as well as learning how people develop confidence, excellence and joy, bringing passion to their daily work. 

Barbara has a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Psychology from Albright College and is expected to receive her Masters of Science degree in Organization Development and Leadership from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine July 2010.

Concurrent Session: Spreading the Wealth at Work: A Diversity Initiative at W.L. Gore & Associates - Monday, October 19, 2009

The Gore culture is world-renowned for the very special work environment it creates and the stellar business results that stem from this environment. Jane joined Gore as their Diversity Leader in 2005 and began driving a process that has created a unique, relevant focus for Diversity at Gore: quite simply, that diversity and inclusion are critical ingredients for sustaining the Gore culture. Jane works to help associates at W.L. Gore understand the dynamics of “difference”.  In building an enterprise-wide strategy for Diversity, Jane is focused on creating more individual and team capability for using differences productively.  Prior to Gore, Jane spent 11 years at J.P. Morgan Chase. As part of the Corporate Diversity team, she had leadership responsibility for the employee engagement and diversity communication strategy.  

Concurrent Session: Reinventing Democracy in Our Organizations, Communities, and Society - Monday, October 19, 2009

Jim Rough is a consultant, author, speaker and social innovator. He originated Dynamic Facilitation and has been presenting public and private seminars on it since 1990. (See www.DynamicFacilitation.com) Jim also originated the Wisdom Council, which is now being implemented in organizations and cities around the world. He is author of the book, Society's Breakthrough! Releasing the Essential Wisdom and Virtue of All the People and is co-founder of the non profit organization, The Center for Wise Democracy (www.WiseDemocracy.org). He consults with corporations, government agencies and is eight years host of "The Jim Rough Show" on community access television.

Sponsor Spotlight: Strategic Change and Organizational Evaluation: An Integrated Framework - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Generating Value: Regional OD Programs - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

New Views: B Corporations: Organizations Where Private Interests and Social Responsibility Converge - Monday, October 19, 2009

Stephanie Ryan has been consulting in organizational learning for over twenty years; six years at Innovation Associates, co- founder, Peter Senge, author of best seller, The Fifth Discipline. The heart of her work is cultivating the capacity for systems sensing, an embodied awareness of our relationship to whole systems. Stephanie also works part-time with B Lab, a non-profit that certifies triple bottom line companies as B Corporations. She believes the emerging sector of private companies for public benefit is a key leverage point for today’s economic and social challenges. She’s published articles on collaborative learning practices and creating learning communities. She is also the Co-Executive Producer of BeComing, a documentary featuring a cross-generational and ethnically diverse circle of ten women engaged in the deeper questions of their lives.

New Views: Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Acheive Amazing Results - Monday, October 19, 2009

KATHLEEN D. RYAN

Kathleen D. Ryan is known for her work in turning fear-based organizations into ones where collaboration and trust are the keyes to high performance.  She is a principal of The Orion Partnership, a consulting firm based near Seattle, Washington.   Ryan has been identified as "an organizational consultant with an instinct for translating complex human behavior into practical concepts."   As such, she provides assistance to clients with whole sytem culture change, organizational assessments, executive feedback and development consultation, and senior level team development.  She is particularly skilled at helping individuals and groups address the difficult-to-talk-about, underlying issues that frequently block high performance. 

Her first book, Driving Fear Out of the Workplace:  Creating the High-Trust, High-Performance Organization, was co-authored with Daniel K. Oestreich.  First published by Jossey-Bass in 1991, it received the Society for Human Resource Management's 1992 Book Award; a second edition was published in 1998. Continuing her work with the issues of fear and trust, her second book, co-authored with Daniel Oestreich and George Orr, is entitled The Courageous Messenger:  How to Successfully Speak Up at Work (Jossey-Bass, 1996).  She is currently working on a third book co-authored with Geoffrey Bellman, with the working title of “Extraordinary Groups:  Results that Amaze and Transform.  To be published by Jossey-Bass, this book will be available in August of 2009.

In addition to her consulting work, Ryan has served as both a member and director of the Organization Development Professional Practice Area for the American Society for Training and Development.  She is a founding member of The Community Consulting Partnership, a Seattle-based effort that helps volunteers improve their organization consulting skills while they provide service to a local non-profit organization (www.ccpseattle.org).  Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors for Seattle University’s Master’s program in Organizational Design and Renewal.  Ryan received her BA degree (1969) from the University of California at Berkeley and her Masters in Public Administration (1978) from the University of Southern California.  Along with her writing on fear in the workplace, she has published on the topics of accountability, collaboration, organizational transformation, resistance to change, group process facilitation, sexual harassment, and peer pressure.  Her list of clients includes many well-known corporations, healthcare systems, and public sector organizations.  

Multi-Day Workshop: Becoming a Better Intervener: A Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development Workshop - Friday-Sunday, October 16-18, 2009

Michael Rynex, MA, is President of Rynex & Associates. He consults to profit and not-for-profit organizations using appreciative inquiry (AI) and other dialogue base leadership development methods. Previously he served as a Sr. Organization Development Manager at Sappi Fine Paper. His work has focused on senior team development, executive coaching, merger integration, human resource development and change management. Before working as an OD consultant, he worked as a psychotherapist specializing in work with men, families, and addictions. He is a father and husband living in Duluth, MN

Other: Icons, Influencers & Interventions: Reflecting on the Evolution and History of OD - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Ed Schein is the Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.  He received his PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard in 1952, worked at the Walter Reed Institute of Research for four years and then joined MIT where he taught until 2005.  He has published extensively in Organizational Psychology, 3d Ed. (1980), Process Consultation Revisited (1999), career dynamics (Career Anchors, 3d ed., 2006), organizational culture texts (Organizational Culture and Leadership, 3d Ed., 2004; The Corporate Culture Survival Guide, 2d Ed., 2009),  and analyses of Singapore's economic miracle (Strategic Pragmatism, 1996), and Digital Equipment Corp.'s rise and fall (DEC is Dead; Long Live DEC, 2003). He continues to consult and recently has published a book on the general theory and practice of giving and receiving help ( Helping, 2009).  He is the 2009 recipient of the Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award of the Academy of Management.

Other: Icons, Influencers & Interventions: Reflecting on the Evolution and History of OD - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Edith Whitfield Seashore has been consulting to industrial, military, educational and voluntary organizations for the past forty years. She is a social psychologist and organization development specialist concerned with organizational change, team building, strategic planning, and building multi-cultural organizations. Along with her consulting practice, Edie Seashore served as President of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science from 1974 to 1979, a human relations training and OD consulting organization. She is a Professional Member of the NTL Institute and a member of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues of the American Psychological Association. She is the recipient of the Organization Development Network Lifetime Achievement Award 2001.

Other: Icons, Influencers & Interventions: Reflecting on the Evolution and History of OD - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Dr. Peter F. Sorensen, Jr. is Professor and Director of the Ph.D. and M.S. programs in Organization Development and Organizational Behavior at Benedictine University. He was instrumental in developing one of the first Masters Level programs in OD in 1967, and one of the first Ph.D. programs in OD in 1996. He is Past Chair of the ODC Division of the Academy of Management, with extensive work in International Organization Development. In 2008, Sorensen received the OD Network’s Sharing the Wealth Award with Therese Yaeger.

Concurrent Session: Awakening the Dreamer: New Possibilities for Community Development - Monday, October 19, 2009

Dr. Anita Sanchez is a consultant in organization development and societal change for non-profit, business, government, education, local, national and international organizations.  Since 1976, her work has specialized in large systems change, strategic planning, executive-level coaching, leadership development and team building, global diversity workplace strategies and initiatives, corporate entrepreneurship, appreciative inquiry, Polarity Management™ and conflict management.  Anita is renowned for her strategic insights, creative intervention designs and delivery, as well as her skill at bringing together the wisdom in the heads and the hearts of individuals and their organizations.

Anita is a member of the National Training Laboratory (NTL).  Also, she is a certified member of Associated Consultants International, where she conducts peer review panels to determine the competency of organization development consultants in the Rocky Mountain region.  Anita is a lead facilitator and trainer for the global Awakening the Dreamer initiative of the Pachamama Alliance, working to inspire action worldwide on social justice, environmental sustainability and healthy human spirit.  Anita has served two terms as a United States Delegate to the World Council of YWCAs.  In her World Council role, Anita facilitated visioning the future, peace and development, conflict management programs and training sessions for women from 83 different countries.  Anita also served as a member and Chair of the Colorado State Board of Community Colleges and Occupational Education. 

A sample of Anita's most recent clients includes Ford Foundation, National Association of Independent Schools, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Graland School, DuPont, Northwest Province of Jesuits, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, Hewlett-Packard, Moss-Adams, AGILENT, AT&T, Xerox, Bank Boston (Fleet Bank), Corporate Express, IBM, National Security Agency, Johns Hopkins University, Procter & Gamble, the Bocconi University of Milan, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Storage Tek, J.C. Penney, Meridian Bancorp, Procter and Gamble, Public Service of Colorado (Excel), and Southern California Edison.

Anita's masters in policy analysis and financial administration and her doctorate in organization development are from the University of Colorado.  Her dissertation and subsequent publications investigated culture, gender, and personality contributions to visionary leadership in 40 countries and the use of appreciative inquiry for large-scale change.  Her most recent publication (2004) is "U.S. Experience in Managing Diversity: A Consulting View" in Diversity Management e Societa Multiculturale: Teorie e Prassi, Milan, Italy:  FrancoAngeli.  Anita is of Mexican American and American Indian descent.  She lives in the mountains outside of Boulder, Colorado with her husband and two sons.

Concurrent Session: Three Keys to Establishing the Value of OD - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Eric Sanders is an OD economist, an external OD consultant specializing in achieving measurable business results through organization development. He holds an MA in economics, an MBA in international business and a Certificate in OD (the latter from Benedictine University). He has twenty years of sales and sales management experience, and for the past several years has worked as both an internal and an external OD practitioner. He has taught leadership, career development and economics at several universities, and has presented on the measurement and evaluation of OD in conferences and trade group meetings of ASTD, ODN, and ODN/Chicago. He is also currently the President of ODN/Chicago.

Concurrent Session: Enhancing Senior Leadership Team Effectiveness at Microsoft - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Rob Schmieder is currently a director of organizational development with Microsoft. He leads a team of internal organizational consultants that drive the talent management and organizational effectiveness strategy for Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business. Through more than 15 years as an internal and external practitioner, he has gained extensive experience in organization development, leadership assessment and coaching, training and development, and talent management. Prior to his current position at Microsoft, Rob owned his own firm, was a regional director for Personnel Decisions International (PDI), was a director of organizational development at Getty Images, and was a member of an internal research group at IBM. Rob completed his doctoral studies in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Bowling Green State University.

One Day Workshop: The Skilled Facilitator Approach for OD Practitioners - Saturday, October 17, 2009

Roger Schwarz is an organizational psychologist and president of Roger Schwarz & Associates. He is the author of The Skilled Facilitator, considered a standard reference in the field, coauthor of The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook, and author of the forthcoming The Facilitative Leader. He teaches, consults, and writes about facilitation, leadership, managing change and conflict, and developing effective teams. For more than twenty five years, Roger has helped people in organizations change the way they think so they can build better relationships and results. He was formerly an associate professor of public management at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Concurrent Session: Using Improv Theater Techniques for Systems Thinking in Teams and Organizations - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Yael Schy, MSW is a leader in using expressive arts in organizational learning and development. She is principal of Dramatic Strides® Consulting, specializing in leadership development, communication skills, teambuilding and creative decision-making techniques that help people and organizations move forward together. Ms. Schy also serves as a faculty member at the American Management Association and at City College of San Francisco, and is a Certified Somatic Coach. Yael brings a unique perspective by combining 20 years of management experience with her background in improvisational theater and dance, to create dynamic interpersonal skills training, coaching, and consulting in the workplace. She helps people in organizations get out of their heads and into their bodies, in order to connect with their true passion and creativity and produce extraordinary results.

Yael’s unique Teamwork Tango® workshop, which teaches leadership and teambuilding skills through the metaphor of partner dancing, has been presented at numerous professional conferences and organizations in the United States and abroad. She is co-author of the business book, Teamwork Tools: A Revolutionary Approach for Managers and Trainers (Kagan Publishing, 2008). Yael is also co-author of the children’s book, Where in the Wild? Camouflaged Creatures Concealed...and Revealed (Tricycle Press, 2007), which has been awarded the 2008 Science Books and Films Prize for Excellence in Science Books, as the best children's science picture book of the year, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Concurrent Session: Designing Your 3rd Act: For gODParents and Senior Practitioners. - Monday, October 19, 2009

Bev Scott

Bev is a consultant to organizations with over 35 years of experience as both and internal and external consultant.   She served for fifteen years as the Director of Organization and Management Development for McKesson Corporation.  She is the author of "Consulting on the Inside:  An Internal Consultant’s Guide to Living and Working Inside Organizations".  Her current consulting work includes leadership coaching of non-profit executives and coaching and development of internal consultants. She offers workshops and coaching for mid-life men and women called The 3rd Act. She served as faculty in Organization Psychology at John F. Kennedy University and as chair of the ODN Board of Trustees.  She is currently co-chair of the Board of the Horizon Foundation, a community foundation for the LGBT community of the Bay Area.

Other: Learning from the Legends of OD: Moving the Essence Forward - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Charles has been a scholar, teacher and practitioner of OD for over 40 years.  He is currently a professor in in Fielding Graduate University.  He and Edie have mentored multitudes of graduate students in OD in their various teaching roles at The American University, Johns Hopkins and other universities.  He received the lifetime achievement award from ODN in 2004.

Concurrent Session: Building a Successful, Transformative OD Consulting Practice - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Edie Seashore Edith Whitfield Seashore, M.A., has more than forty years of experience in successfully training and consulting with governments and corporations in organization development and behavior.  She is a past president of the NTL Institute and the co-founder of the American University/NTL Institute Master’s Program in Organization Development and continues as a faculty member in that program.  She has co-edited The Promise of Diversity as well as the book What Did You Say?  The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback.  Her most recent book is Triple Impact Coaching – The Use of Self in the Coaching Process, co-authored with Beverley Patwell.  Edie’s empowering and inspiring approach serves to enhance consulting practices, deepen skills and relationships and teach new ways to think about our work.  She and Charlie Seashore, her life partner for over 40 years, both founding members of the practice of organization development, are a  compelling, inspiring force in our field.

Sponsor Spotlight: The Power of Data –How You Can Use Quantitative Data to Align Organization Development Interventions,Maximize Their Impact, and Drive Successful System-Wide Change - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Use of Self: Leveraging Ourselves as Instruments of Change - Monday, October 19, 2009

David is a Sales Career Development Consultant and founder of Tru Progress Consulting, based in Los Angeles. His consulting experience includes work with companies in the financial services, automotive, professional services, travel & hospitality, and telecommunications industries.

David's work has included helping sales organizations recruit successful talent, manage career sales development, and support sales manager success. His expertise has been developed through a combination of practical experience with prominent and successful career sales organizations, academic study and research, and a strong personal commitment to self-improvement and excellence.

He has taught in a number of academic environments as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer on the topics of Strategy and Organization Consulting and Organizational Change and Development.  He has recently worked at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and the California State University at Northridge College of Business and Economics.

David is a graduate of Pepperdine's Master in Science in Organization Development program. 

Concurrent Session: OD Education—The Future is Here - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Christine Sherman is an Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Supply Chain and Logistics Group headquartered in McLean, Virginia. She is currently working with the U.S. Army Installation Management Command’s Logistics Division in the plans and operations branch. Lessons learned at American University in the OD master’s program are put to real-world use as Christine assists the Army with its worldwide institutional transformation (organizational change) execution. She has served the U.S. Army as a Russian linguist, an intelligence analyst, a logistics officer, and a contractor for 27 years. She is an experienced military leader, strategic and operational logistics planner and executor, educator, and human resources developer.

Concurrent Session: Assessing Diversity and Inclusion Efforts through Social Network Analysis. - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Edward is a senior consultant at Philosophy IB where he applies social network analysis on training and development, change management and process design projects. Edward’s interest in network analysis grew out of his undergraduate work in Molecular Biology at Princeton, where he explored the networks of genetic interactions in stem cells.

Concurrent Session: Presence-Based Intervening: Developing and Extending Your Signature Presence - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Doug Silsbee is a leadership coach, consultant, and author in Asheville, NC. He has been an OD consultant since 1986, with a primary focus on leadership coaching since 1996. Doug specializes in developing self-authoring leaders in major corporations, small business, and education. His presence-based coaching builds his clients’ capacity to enter into strong commitments and to take meaningful and skillful action to produce results they care about. Along the way, clients cultivate their leadership presence, resilience, and capacity for fulfillment. A master teacher, Doug has worked with leaders in eleven countries on four continents. He is an outdoor adventurer, father, and owner of Bend of Ivy Lodge, a retreat center and the first carbon neutral business in Western NC.

Doug is a leader in the coaching industry, with certifications from International Coach Federation, New Ventures West, and Strozzi Institute. He serves as adjunct faculty at Brookings Institution, Federal Executive Institute and Emory University, and is an affiliate of the Pyramid Resource Group. Doug has authored two well-received books: The Mindful Coach (Ivy River Press, 2004) and Presence-Based Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2008.)

Master Class: Kurt Lewin Master Class Series - Dorothy Siminovitch - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Dorothy E. Siminovitch, PhD, MCC, principal of GestaltCoachingWorks and AWAREWORKS International, is a Master Certified Coach and consultant to organizational leaders, executives, and groups worldwide. She is a newly appointed faculty member of  The Professional School of Psychology in California, and teaches as well in the Eurasian Gestalt Coaching Program (EGCP) in Istanbul. She co-founded the International Gestalt Coaching Program (IGCP), the first  Gestalt-based coach training program awarded International Coach Federation (ICF) certification. EGCP in Istanbul is the second Gestalt-based coach training program to gain ICF certification. Dorothy received her doctorate from Case Western Reserve University's prestigious Department of Organizational Behavior. She was a professional faculty member at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the Gestalt OSD Center, where she held leadership roles while honing the rich teaching, coaching, and consulting skills that she now brings to all her work. Her individual and organizational coaching practices are deeply informed by Gestalt theory and practice, leading to outstanding results for individuals, groups, and organizations. Her Gestalt institutional affiliation is with the Gestalt International Study Center (www.gisc.org) based in Wellfleet, MA. She presents training and development opportunities at the Organization Development Network's annual conference, the International Coach Federation Conference, and by invitation.  She is particularly proud to be a  Board member of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (http://www.coachingconsortium.org/), a dialogue and research service for coaching and leadership around the world.

Concurrent Session: Simple Models for Systemic Change: Easy to Understand/Practical to Implement - Monday, October 19, 2009

Gabe Singer is a Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Singer specializes in organization and human capital solutions in the public sector. He works with organizations and communities to bring about a variety of large-scale system changes in strategy, culture and organizational design.

Mr. Singer has extensive experience in the areas of leadership development and team building, business process improvement, and training. Some of his project highlights include:

•    Led human process interventions focused on leadership, group decision-making, and effective communication; efforts increased productivity, strategically aligned personnel, and created high performing teams for client organizations
•    Conducted training needs assessments: a quantitative survey distributed to 1350 people, creating insight and further focusing resources for future needs assessments
•    Designed a strategic human capital plan, included change and performance management strategies resulting in improved leadership, transparent accountability and stricter policy formulation and enforcement
•    Designed and moderated multiple focus groups, analyzing internal organizational communication challenges, led strategic communications planning, resulting in targeted recommendations to Sr. Management.
    
Mr. Singer holds a Master’s in Organization Development from the Johns Hopkins University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Washington College. He is an active member of the Organization Development Network (ODN).

Concurrent Session: Intentional Inquiry: Collaborative Learning to Enhance Individual and Organizational Performance - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Todd Slingsby is Vice President of Talent & Organization Development for Risk Management Solutions. In this role, Todd is the strategic driver of building individual, and organization capabilities of RMS worldwide. He is responsible for developing and implementing company-wide strategies, processes, programs and organizational design that link to the overall organization strategy and that helps achieve organizational capability at the individual, team, functional, business unit and organization levels. Current priorities include building leadership capability and bench strength at all levels of the organization, enhancing the RMS culture, and building capacity and capability to initiate, lead, manage and embrace change across the Company, and creating a more ‘seamless’ organization through highly effective and efficient processes. Todd’s engagement with the Intentional Inquiry process provided an experience that supports his continued learning and offers reflections which will be shared with the session participants.

Concurrent Session: Launching a Sustainable Consulting Practice - Monday, October 19, 2009

H. Terry Smith has been in his clients’ shoes. In his more than 30 years of business experience, Terry has had responsibility for operations, sales, inventory and customer service.  As a general manager, he led a staff of more than 100 employees and managed multi-million dollar budgets. He understands the pressure to increase profits and improve efficiency.

He has used that experience to help others succeed … most recently as the Director of Change Management for Best Buy, a 40 billion dollar company with the distinction of being one of the world’s largest electronics retailers.

Part of the ground-breaking Change Implementation Team (CIT) chronicled in the best-selling book Big Change at Best Buy, Terry led the group with responsibility for all CITs nationally.  With the added responsibility for the OD department, he led efforts to streamline operations, improve processes, build effective teams and provide executive coaching.

Terry has facilitated cross-functional teams to achieve significant business results.  He was an integral part of the acquisition integration team for Best Buy’s first acquisition. Terry established change management functions in the newly acquired business, improving business results dramatically in the first few months.

Bringing his systemic thinking into play, Terry makes connections between business results, the customer environment and the employee experience. He redesigned the retail training efforts of a Fortune 100 company to align training, bring an application-based focus and create follow-up processes for supervisors.

Sought after as a speaker, he has presented at international conferences and actively shares his knowledge with his clients and through his affiliation with the international OD Network and OD Institute.

Terry is one of the founding partners of ROI Consulting, an international organization development and management consulting firm based in Minneapolis/St. Paul and a Principal of the Implementation Institute, a firm dedicated to helping organizations bridge the gap between strategy and implementation.

Areas of Expertise

• Implementation Effectiveness
• Change Management
• Merger & Acquisition Integration
• Culture Change
• Leadership and Organization Assessment
• Systems and Strategic Thinking
• Strategy Development & Deployment
  

Continuing Education
Terry completed the Leadership Engine course developed and delivered by renowned leadership expert, Noel Tichy from the University of Michigan. He has worked closely with both Noel and Customer Segmentation expert Larry Selden from Columbia University to implement a customer-focused strategy at Best Buy. Terry’s work helped strengthen leaders through increased business acumen as part of an overall plan to maximize profitability.

Sponsor Spotlight: OD History 101 - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Intentional Inquiry: Collaborative Learning to Enhance Individual and Organizational Performance - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Nancy L. Southern is Chair of Organizational Systems Programs at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco, an organizational development consultant, and a long time member of ODN who serves on the editorial board of ODP. Since 1989, Nancy has worked in the field of organizational

learning and development, consulting to organizations and teaching academic courses to mid-career

professionals.  Her work is grounded in the principles of transformative learning with a primary focus

on leadership development, collaboration, and organizational transformation. Nancy is a research member of the Society of Organizational Learning and a Steward of the Bay Area SoL. She has worked with numerous senior management teams in helping them develop the capacity for organizational learning and creating cultures of collaboration.

Half Day Workshop: Multi-Sectoral Partnership: Resolving Paradoxes to Solve Complex Societal Problems - Sunday, October 18, 2009

I am Manish Srivastava, an Organizational Development (OD) & Social Innovation Consultant. I am currently in Boston, USA, on a learning sabbatical from Unilever, engaged as a Research Fellow with Presencing Institute at MIT. Over last decade, I have gained valuable experience in facilitating organizational & social transformation, with MNCs, Government & Community based NGOs. However, my most transforming experience has been in last 3 yrs, setting up Bhavishya Alliance- India’s pioneering Multi-Sectoral Partnership (led by Unilever-UNICEF-Synergos Institute) to eradicate child malnutrition. It gave me systemic understanding of complex sustainability issues and deep insights into challenges and strategies for developing a successful cross-sectoral partnerships. Over last one year, I have been involved in action research and consulting with scholars/ practitioners Harvard, MIT, Synergos Institute on ‘societal transformation through partnerships, corporate sustainability, and local regenerative economic models’. I hold an MBA in Human Resource, Graduations in Sociology and Hospitality Management and advance professional training & certifications in OD, Change, Training & Facilitation. My life interests range from Poetry, Teaching, Buddhism, Engaging with Nature, Reading and deep dialogues with my life partner & friends.

Concurrent Session: Student Papers Presentation Program - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Helen Starkweather, MSOD, is an organization development consultant, trainer, and coach with expertise in human relations, communications, and organizational learning. She has consulted with businesses and non-profits, both in the United States and abroad. A former magazine editor for Smithsonian, she brings an affinity for writing and storytelling to her work. While pursuing an M.S. in Organization Development (OD) from American University/NTL Institute in Washington , D.C. , Helen earned a distinction for her field work and received the Hal Kellner Award for demonstrated commitment to diversity.

Sponsor Spotlight: Gestalt Coaching & Resistance - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Student Papers Presentation Program - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Nicole Stragalas is a Synthesist, solving problems through astute analysis of information across disciplines and crystallizing actionable plans. She has been in the human resources and organizational development field for over fifteen years, driving initiatives in learning, leadership development, and reorganization. Currently a consultant and educator, she functioned as Director of Training for two Fortune 100 financial services companies. Certifications include SPHR, Six Sigma Green Belt, and Organizational Effectiveness (Performance Management and Succession Planning). Ms. Stragalas earned her dual masters degrees from University of Florida, and her undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Industrial Organizational Psychology through the University of Phoenix.

Concurrent Session: The Nonprofit Organizational Model: A brand new assessment and strategic planning tool - Monday, October 19, 2009

Carolyn T. Thompson is an independent organization development consultant who specializes in the needs of progressive organizations. She has experience working with foundations, nonprofit and for profit organizations. Her experience includes: board development, fundraising, nonprofit management, infrastructure development, strategic planning, team development, diversity and inclusion, executive transitions, and the creation of mission, vision and value statements.

Carolyn began her career as the Executive Director of Mountain Meadow, a nonprofit organization committed to helping youth from non-traditional families succeed in school and daily life. Mountain Meadow enjoyed unprecedented growth under Carolyn's six year tenure. She recruited and seated the organization's first board of directors; designed and implemented numerous structures and procedures; worked actively to increase the organization’s income by nearly 200%; and with the resulting growth, expanded the organization's staff and programs. Carolyn has led diversity trainings for numerous organizations since 2002, including the National Conference for Community and Justice, Leadership Development in Interethnic Relations, The Kaleidoscope Group, and Mountain Meadow. In addition, Carolyn served as the long time Board President of the Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment and is a current board member with The Alliance for Nonprofit Management. She is also currently Chair of the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund’s Outreach and Grantmaking Committee, is an active member of the Community Women’s Fund Review Committee of Women’s Way, and serves on the Planning Committee of the Institute for Inclusion. Carolyn earned a Master’s Degree in Organization Development from American University, where she was awarded a Segal-Seashore Fellowship for her commitment to social justice.

Concurrent Session: Using a Peer Review Process to Evaluate OD Performance - Monday, October 19, 2009

Denise is an internal Organization Effectiveness Consultant/Executive Coach, coaching executives and leaders in The Boeing Company. In addition, she is the Program Manager for The Executive Coaching Program, with responsibility to manage the connections between coaches and executives within various business organizations of The Boeing Company, market the program within the Boeing enterprise, and demonstrate the value of coaching to the company as a resource to improve performance and quality of life.

Her personal area of focus is to help Boeing leaders develop a “coaching style of leadership”, and to that end she has developed and facilitated modules for leadership development courses targeted towards first-level, mid-level and senior managers. She is also passionate about helping executives in global assignments maximize their leadership potential in order to achieve the desired business results.

Denise holds a Master’s degree in Counseling and a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education. Earlier in her career she taught high school English and Spanish for three years before entering the business world. She is a certified Hudson Institute Coach, and is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), the Organization Development Network (ODN), and the International Society for Process Improvement (ISPI). She is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the BarOn EQ-I and EQ360, and the Birkman Method Assessment. Denise has presented on internal coaching at the International Coach Federation International Conference in Spain, and at the Organizational Development Australia Conference in Australia.

Concurrent Session: Awakening the Dreamer: New Possibilities for Community Development - Monday, October 19, 2009

CHRISTOPHER (KIT) TENNIS, Ph.D.

Sanchez Tennis & Associates, LLC

Dr. Kit Tennis has 34 years experience consulting to and managing business, government, academic and nonprofit organizations. In that time, he has developed a consulting philosophy that blends practical realism with a compassionate commitment to building effective, ethical high performance teams and organizations. Kit focuses on enhancing the management and life skills of organization members and broadening the competencies and perspectives organizations need to successfully face the challenges of a rapidly changing environment. Kit is a highly skilled and insightful facilitator and trainer, known for his lively, engaging style and his trust in the innate genius of everyone he meets. His most contemporary work concentrates on global diversity and inclusion, appreciative inquiry, strategic planning, seamless new team start-ups and dynamic team building, organizational cultural renewal, large systems change strategies, and the intersection of environmental sustainability, social justice and healthy human spirit.

Kit's broad work experience grounds his expertise and insight into team and organizational work life. In addition to his extensive domestic and international consulting practice, he has administered governmental social service delivery systems, served as a municipal personnel director, managed academic service programs, and developed successful nonprofit human service organizations. During a stint as a popular business professor of organizational behavior, human resources, and international/ cross-cultural management, Kit was a founding Senior Associate of the Colorado World Trade Center.

Kit has been a long-term member of the professional peer review panel of Associated Consultants International, certifying the competency of internal and external organization consultants in the Mountain States region. His own certification is in both societal change and small group development. Among Kit's recent clients are Hewlett-Packard, DuPont, AGILENT, Moss-Adams, National Association of Independent Schools, StorageTek, Xerox, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Bocconi University of Milan, AT&T, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Bank Boston (Fleet Bank), the Graland School, and the Northwest Province of Jesuits.

Kit regularly reviews research submissions for the national meetings of the Academy of Management and the OD (Organization Development) Network, and provides professional development training to consultants, trainers and management faculty. Kit's doctorate in organization development is from the University of Colorado. His dissertation and several subsequent publications addressed the connection between organizational climate and workplace burnout in the U.S. and other cultures. His most recent publication (2004) is "U.S. Experience in Managing Diversity: A Consulting View" in Diversity Management e Societa Multiculturale: Teorie e Prassi, Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli.He lives in the mountains outside Boulder, Colorado with his life and business partner, Anita Sanchez, and their two teen sons.

Concurrent Session: Leadership Wholeness--The Lived Experience of Spiritual Leaders - Monday, October 19, 2009

Hailing from the spice coast of India, Kerala,  Thomas Thakadipuram finished his graduate studies in Philosophy and Psychology from University of Madras. Currently he is doing his doctoral program in OD at the University of St.Thomas, Minneapolis, USA, researching on the topic of leadership wholeness. He area of focus in OD is leadership development, whole-system change, cross cultural team effectiveness and International OD. He is also part of the planning team for Asian OD network. He can be reached at ttthakadi@stthomas.edu

Other: Learning from the Legends of OD: Moving the Essence Forward - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Ted Tschudy is an organization consultant, trainer and educator with over 25 years of experience in organization development, managing change, and leadership development. He has also been an internal organization development consultant and a manager. Ted has served on the faculty of The American University School of Public Affairs and is currently an adjunct faculty member for the American University/NTL Master’s Program in Organization Development and George Mason’s Program in Organization Development and Knowledge Management. He is past Chair of the Board of Directors for the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, a non-profit organization of applied behavioral scientists and practitioners that has fostered collaborative work in organizations for over 50 years.

Concurrent Session: Student Research Colloquium - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Concurrent Session: Generating Results Through a Culture of Respect and Collaboration - Monday, October 19, 2009

Ann M. Van Eron, Ph.D., MCC is principal of Potentials, an international coaching and organization development consulting firm working with leaders and teams for over 20 years. She works with a wide range of organizations across the globe integrating executive coaching, leadership development and cultural change. Clients include: Fortune 100 corporations, government and nongovernmental organizations, health care, non-profit and privately held companies. She is committed to supporting people in having respectful collaborative conversations for results using her unique and proven process. She received her Ph.D. in organization psychology from Columbia University. Avaneron@Potentials.com, 312-856-1155.

Concurrent Session: Lean and Green - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Carlos Venegas has designed and led scores of successful process-improvement implementations in a wide range of organizations, from a Fortune 500 company to a 4-employee small business. The author of Flow in the Office: Implementing and Sustaining Lean Improvements, Carlos has also produced several videos on Lean and Green topics. He is a certified Lean consultant, and holds an MA in Applied Behavioral Science.

Half Day Workshop: Gathering Clear Evidence (II): How Contracting Conversations Can Clarify Our Accountability and Demonstrate Our Value - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Judy Vogel is an educator and business woman whose broad background includes Director of Organization Development and Human Resource Development for several major corporations, adjunct faculty in university OD programs, and consultant since 1972. Located in Columbia, MD, she is a partner of Vogel/Glaser & Associates, Inc. which was established in 1987 and provides customized organization development consulting and executive coaching services. 

The focus of Judy's career has been assisting organizations to create learning environments for leaders and members that support productivity, collaboration, creativity and renewal after change. She specializes in team development, culture change, executive coaching, and conflict resolution. She has particular expertise in assisting Human Resource Department professionals to become skilled and effective business partners and internal organization change consultants. She has published on the subjects of the consulting role and work partnerships.

Judy works with clients in a variety of fields, including insurance, financial services, marketing, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and health care, as well as many not-for-profit, mission-driven organizations and government agencies. She enjoys assisting community-based organizations to innovate and thrive.

Judy earned a BA from the University of Pittsburgh and a MLA from Johns Hopkins University. She is a Professional Member and trainer in NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, and an active member and frequent presenter at the Organization Development Network and an editor of its journal, The OD Practitioner.

In her private life she has long been a community leader and has special interest in local agencies that are dedicated to human services, children and the arts.

Contact her at 410.730.9590 or check the website at www.Vogelglaser.com.     

Concurrent Session: Leaders Building Leaders: Transforming Microsoft’s High Potential Development Experience - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Shannon Wallis is the Global Director of Leadership Programs and responsible for the development of top-tier talent for Microsoft’s Sales Marketing and Services Group, a 45,000 employee organization.  She is an executive coach, consultant and teacher with more than 20 years of international work experience in leadership development and organizational change.  She works with her clients to define what they want, take the steps to get it, and release the limiting beliefs that hamper their progress. Prior to her current role, she consulted to and held management positions in Fortune 100 businesses as diverse as Coca-Cola and Universal Studios. Her degrees include an MBA from Duke University and a BS in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University in the United States. Shannon is an author and speaker.  Her most recent article on creating Microsoft’s high potential development experience will be featured in Best Companies, Best Hires: how the world's leading corporations recruit, motivate, and retain their best talent(Jossey Bass/John Wiley, 2009).  She has been a speaker at Linkage, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, OD Network, ASTD, III Jornadas Internacionales de Coaching y Mentoring: Universidad- Empresa organized by the Universidad Politécnica and Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and other industry events as well as multiple womens’ conferences throughout the United States.   In addition, she is the co-author of Blueprint for Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard.   Her chapter, Getting to the Destination:  15 Lessons from El Camino de Santiago tells the inspiring story of how her personal and professional expertise crystallized in one transformational experience – a 500 mile hike across northern Spain. It demonstrates the power of vision for overcoming adversity to achieve success.  Her keynote address on the same topic is popular with individuals and organizations embarking on major change. 

Concurrent Session: Transforming How We Do Business: Integral Inclusive Leadership - Monday, October 19, 2009

Ilene C. Wasserman, PhD., has consulted to both corporate and non-profit health care organizations and universities, in the design and implementation of strategic culture change interventions aimed at achieving high performing, inclusive work cultures. As founder and principle of ICW Consulting Group, she coaches CEOs and leadership teams taking a strengths-based approach in helping them leverage their skills and promote team development. Ilene also teaches graduate courses in the areas of Leading Change, Transformative Dialogue, Human Development, Managing Diversity, Emotional and Social Intelligence and Organizational and Interpersonal and Organizational Communication.

Concurrent Session: Reaping the Rewards of Positive and Dynamic Collaborations - Monday, October 19, 2009

Kittie W. Watson, Ph.D., is President and founder of Innolect Inc., an organizational development and consulting firm focused on assessing, developing, and retaining top talent. She and her team of consultants are highly skilled at designing, leading, and cascading innovative systems-wide change initiatives. As a successful executive and leadership coach, Kittie is known for quickly sizing up the real crux of tough situations and providing leaders with powerful solutions that payoff with business results. Kittie works with the top leaders and teams of Fortune 500 companies such as: Entergy, Sysco, ChevronMobil, Pfizer, Elsag-Bailey, Bank of America, AbitibiBowater, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. As one of the top twenty-five most prolific women writers in communication, her books, articles, and assessment tools are used extensively by businesses and universities. A former chair of the Department of Communication at Tulane University, she has been featured on ABC’s 20/20 and in other publications including: American Medical News, Bottom-line Personal, Money, Glamour, and Home Office Computing. Her latest books are Leadership Coaching: Pathway to Peak Performance and Listen Up (endorsed by Stephen Covey and released by St. Martin’s Press). Most recently, she spoke at the 2008 OD Network conference in Austin, TX on the A.R.T. of Diversity: Overcoming Stereotypes.

One Day Workshop: Pricing Professional Services for Profitability and Growth - Wednesday-Thursday, October 21-22, 2009

Angela Watts is President and CEO of Annapolis Professional Resources, Inc. (APR). an organization development firm in the Baltimore-Washington area. She has been practicing OD for the past 19 years, providing services to a divers clientele of government and non-profit organizations. As an owner of the firm, Angela has played a key role in systematically improving pricing strategies for APR which has resulted in multi-year contract values up to $11 million. She co-presented "Pricing Professional Services for Profitability and Growth" at the OD Network Conference 2008, and twice co-developed and present the webinar session of the same title for OD Network's Building Business Acumen Program. Angela's consulting experience is complemented by 15 years of graduate-level instruction at Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School, in the MBA/Organization Development program. She is a member of OD Network and has serve on the organization's conference planning team in 1994, 2007 and 2008.

Other: OD Consultants and Power: How we use it, how we don’t, and why we need to talk about it An Intimate Conversation With The Conference Community - Sunday, October 18, 2009

Nedra Weinstein, along with Trish Silber and Lisa Kimball have participated in their own learning group for over 10 years. They have sought to explore new ground, create their own leading edge, and expand their impact with their clients. They have written about their learnings in articles and a book chapter and have presented on some of their new thinking at several conferences. Most recently, they have been exploring the power of using questions that have the ability to allow people to think differently, gain new perspectives and in essence reshape their lives. Nedra is the principal of Arden Consulting, an organization development consulting firm which provides a multitude of services to clients both in the private and public sectors - including strategic planning, team and leadership development, change management and large group meeting facilitation. Nedra is known for her dynamic style and has received accolades for her ability to engage groups in stimulating and thoughtful dialogue. Nedra is frequently called upon to coach teams, managers and leaders that are dealing with challenging and contentious organizational issues. She has been a past president of the Chesapeake Bay OD Network (CBODN) and a frequent presenter in professional programs.

Master Class: Kurt Lewin Master Class Series - Sandra Janoff - Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Other: Learning from the Legends of OD: Moving the Essence Forward - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Marvin Weisbord co-directs the international Future Search Network with Sandra Janoff.  Marv consulted with business firms, medical schools and hospitals from 1969 to 1992. He was for 20 years a partner in the consulting firm Block Petrella Weisbord and a member of NTL Institute and is a fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Science. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organization Development Network which voted his book Productive Workplaces (1987) among the five most influential books of the past 40 years. He also is author of Organizational Diagnosis (1978), Discovering Common Ground (1992), and Productive Workplaces Revisited (2004). He and Sandra Janoff co-authored  Future Search: An Action Guide, 2nd Edition (2000), and Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There! (2007).

Concurrent Session: Using Appreciative Inquiry in the Mexican Culture - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The most important professional opportunities in Nancy’s life have been within business and educational environments.  She was the first woman in Mexico to achieve a "Licenciatura" in education.  As director of a Montessori school in Monterrey, Mexico, she discovered the world of Organization Development and decided to pursue a master’s degree in this field at Universidad de Monterrey.  Most recently, she achieved a doctorate in Organization Change from Pepperdine University.

Currently, she is an associate professor at Universidad de Monterrey, and fully supports the Master’s in Organization Development in this institution. 

Her consulting experience since the eighties has been within Mexican organizations, as well as in organizations in the United States, Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. 

Her passion resides in the possibility of sharing her knowledge and expertise with her students, with the awareness that this process is a continuing learning opportunity for her. 

Concurrent Session: Using Career Paths To Integrate Talent Management and Change: Career Models at Microsoft - Monday, October 19, 2009

Biography

David White is a Director of Professional Capability & Development at Microsoft, where he has worked for 7 years. He was one of the architects of the career model, Microsoft’s integrated worldwide platform for managing and developing people and aligning strategic change with HR practice.

Prior to joining Microsoft David was a Principal with Mercer Human Resource Consulting, which he joined in 2001 when Mercer acquired Human Capital Technology, Inc. (HCT), an internet technology company focused on integrated talent management systems he co-founded in 1998 and led as Chief Executive. Prior to HCT David was Director of HR for an early Internet advertising company acquired by Excite@Home, and before that spent 5 years in line HR and staff organizational effectiveness roles at Lotus Development (later IBM).

David has over 20 years of experience consulting on and developing solutions for talent management and organizational effectiveness and culture change. He has worked with a wide range of companies, from Fortune 500, multinationals as well Internet and technology start ups, and across industries as diverse as aerospace, retail, HMOs, pharmaceuticals, and high tech.

When not at Microsoft David is also a professional jazz guitarist and composer. He lives in Seattle, WA.

One Day Workshop: Stages of Leadership Development: Exploring a New Frontier in OD Coaching - Wednesday-Thursday, October 21-22, 2009

Debbie Whitestone, a Principal of and Sr. Consultant at ChangeWise, has worked for over 30 years as a coach, clinician, consultant, and project manager in and with a range of business, government, and "third sector" service organizations. She has designed, managed, and delivered education-based interventions to effect desired change in her clients, from individuals, families, teams, organizations, to large-scale social systems. She has a knack for facilitating communication and understanding within and across disparate, unaligned individuals and groups for common good. Much of her career has been dedicated to effecting changes that improve effectiveness and delivery of health, social and safety services. She has also developed curricula and run training events on living with cognitive and attention challenges in schools and work settings. At ChangeWise, Debbie is a leadership development consultant, workshop leader and business strategist, helping bring the developmental, Leadership Agility perspective and related services to leaders around the world. Debbie received her BA in Psychology from Brandeis University, her Masters in Social Work from University of Illinois, and her Doctorate in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy, from Harvard University. She served as a post-doctoral research associate at the Harvard Business School, where she researched and wrote teaching cases, including a long popular one on People Express Airline.

Concurrent Session: 10,000 Girl Scouts Use Their Voices : Conversation and Stories in Large-scale Culture Change - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Christine Whitney Sanchez is a social entrepreneur, consultant, coach, teacher and pioneer in blending collaborative methods, reflective practices and conscious leadership.  For the past 15 years, she has worked with visionary leaders from over eighty organizations and communities across four continents to transform culture and organizational practices, to research and nurture self-organization and distributed leadership, to tap collective wisdom and to foster dynamic and sustainable collaboration.

Her background in depth psychology and experience in cross-sector work has positioned Christine to inspire diverse groups of collaborators to deep levels of co-learning and high performance on behalf of a meaningful cause.  She has worked with executive leadership teams, has coordinated system-wide capacity building and strategic change, has facilitated intense work with intact groups, and has guided multi-party stakeholders in resolving thorny issues and generating new opportunities to increase the triple bottom line – people, prosperity and the planet. 

Christine holds a B.A. from the University of Hawaii and a Master of Counseling degree from Arizona State University.  She has worked with clients across the business, social and public sectors such as Northrop Grumman, Motorola, KaosPilots Business School in Denmark, American Red Cross, La Liga de La Leche Latinoamericano, Facilitators Network Singapore, Make-A-Wish Foundation, the cities of Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, AZ and Aspen, CO, Digital Equipment Corporation, Arizona Diamondbacks, Girl Scouts of the USA, and the United States Postal Service.

In 2005 and 2008, Christine collaborated with Julie Murphy to bring StoryWeaving, Open Space Technology, World Café, Appreciative Inquiry and self-organized teams to the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Christine lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Concurrent Session: Building a Successful, Transformative OD Consulting Practice - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Tracey is Vice President of Leadership Development at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., one of the world’s largest insurance brokerage and risk management firms. She also teaches for the Masters of Knowledge Management (MKM) program at California State University Northridge, (CSUN) the only virtual Master’s degree in knowledge management offered worldwide. Tracey writes, speaks, and consults on workplace issues and is particularly passionate about the role connectivity plays in developing successful leaders. Her current focus is on doing more with less by leveraging social media and other Enterprise 2.0 tools. A sought after public speaker, Tracey inspires audiences on topics such as organizational change, talent management, distance learning, employee engagement, and executive coaching. Tracey received her Master’s degree in Organization Development from Northwestern University. She is a contributing author to The Handbook of Leadership Development second edition (March, 2009) and Practicing Organization Development third edition (October, 2009).

Concurrent Session: Evidence-Based Coaching, or Flying By the Seat of Your Pants: Which Do Your Clients Want? - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Leni Wildflower, PhD., PCC, is an executive coach, consultant, author and educator. Currently, she directs Fielding Graduate University’s Evidence Based Coaching certificate program, which she designed in 2006. This coaching program is one of the few in America to offer graduate credit in addition to certification from the International Coach Federation. It is the only coaching certificate in America granting PhD credit. Dr. Wildflower has worked for thirty years in the field of organization development, counseling and human relations, designing programs and interventions for schools, businesses and non-profit agencies. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she has a Masters degree from the University of Hawaii in Health Management and a Doctorate from the Fielding Graduate Institute in Human and Organizational Development. Her instinctive feel for the subtleties of human interactions in the business world is sharpened by a sophisticated theoretical understanding of what motivates individuals, and how their behavior affects organizational culture and performance. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and experiences, she has developed an evidence based approach to assisting clients in dealing with a range of issues. She believes that executive coaching should be emancipatory, enhancing the client’s sense of independence, emotional intelligence, and personal control. In addition to her work at the university, Dr. Wildflower’s coaching and consulting clients have included BP, HBO Films, Prudential Life Insurance, Center For Creative Leadership, First Data Corporation, Walt Disney Productions, CNN, US Investigations Services, California Association of Independent Schools, Prince of Wales Trust, Laura Ashley Foundation, Goldcrest Pictures (UK), and Santa Barbara County management.

New Views: Shift Happens: How Four Generations in the Workplace are Transforming Approaches to Learning and Development - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Organizational ADD: How to Coach ADD Leaders and Consult to the Frenetic Organization - Monday, October 19, 2009

Scott Wimer, Ph.D. is principal of Wimer Associates, a Santa Monica-based organization development consulting firm. He is an OD consultant and coach with 25 years of experience consulting to organizations across a wide range of industries. His specialties include leadership coaching, facilitation, conflict management, team building and 360º feedback. Scott designs customized offsites and retreats, and he conducts training seminars and workshops on leadership, communication, coaching, conflict management, and consulting skills. Scott has published articles in journals that include Training and Development, Executive Excellence, The ODPractitioner, and Consultation, and he has written for the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe. His work has been featured in the videos “Situational Coaching,” “Learning from 360º Feedback,” and “Continuous Team Development.” Scott has a Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA with a concentration in Organizational and Behavioral Science from the Anderson School of Management. Also, Scott teaches top-rated classes at UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, and other institutions. Previously, he has held positions as an OD consultant at General Dynamics, Kaiser Permanente, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

Sponsor Spotlight: A Passion for OD: Unleashing Our Calling for Doing Great Work in the World - Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Other: Healthcare in OD Affinity Group - Monday, October 19, 2009

Jason Wolf is a ‘radical catalyst’ for organizational health and effectiveness with a passion for sustaining high performance in healthcare. As Director of OD for HCA’s Eastern Group, he leads OD strategy for over 45 hospitals and 45000 employees. He served on the Board of the OD Network from 1999-2002.

Concurrent Session: Contemporary Issues Facing OD in Healthcare: An Open Space on Current Practice and Future Possibility - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Jason Wolf is a ‘radical catalyst’ for organizational health and effectiveness with a passion for sustaining high performance in healthcare. As Director of OD for HCA’s Eastern Group, he leads OD strategy for over 45 hospitals and 45000 employees. He served on the Board of the OD Network from 1999-2002.

New Views: Making Friends with Marketing: A Fresh Approach to Marketing Your OD Practice - Monday, October 19, 2009

Annie Wolock established her second business, Keystone Media, in 1994. Annie’s first business was a B2B, industrial sales business. This experience, plus many years as an operations manager for a group of college textbook stores, gives her a solid foundation for understanding both online and face-to-face marketing strategies. She also has a degree in Marketing from Eastern Michigan University.

Annie is a person who LOVES to network. Given a chance, she’ll attend a network event, join an online group, read any books or blogs regarding networking, post on LinkedIn, or tweet.

In the fifteen years Annie has been developing websites, the field has evolved into an incredibly robust marketing arena. Annie is a consultant to businesses, helping them harness the power of the Internet by leveraging their own strengths, thereby maximizing ROI.

Other: Icons, Influencers & Interventions: Reflecting on the Evolution and History of OD - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Dr. Therese Yaeger is an Associate Professor in the OD and OB programs at Benedictine University. She a long-time member of the ODNetwork, and editorial board member of the OD Practitioner and ODN's Seasonings. In 2008, Yaeger received the OD Network’s Sharing the Wealth Award with Peter Sorensen.

Sponsor Spotlight: OD History 101 - Monday, October 19, 2009

Concurrent Session: Making Measurable Progress: Project Management Methodology and Change Initiatives - Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Education:

B.A. Honors Humanities, Stanford University

Executive MBA, University of Washington, Seattle

MSOD, Pepperdine University (In Progress)

Mr. Ziegler has over ten years of organizational development experience, as both an internal and external OD consultant.  Much of Mr. Ziegler’s external experience has been focused on public agency clients, with an emphasis on Federal agencies with a mission of public health service.  His consulting support to these agencies has included organization-wide evaluations, facilitated strategic planning sessions, support of a number of change teams and initiatives, and the design and facilitation of strategy-focused workshops (usually 2-3 days in length), including project management, customer service, and data systems.  Mr. Ziegler has also assisted in the design, pilot testing, and implementation of an agency-wide environmental compliance auditing system.

In addition to his consulting experience, Mr. Ziegler has over 15 years of teaching experience, including professional continuing education, graduate student, and undergraduate education.  This experience includes the design and performance of professional conference workshops on strategy, grassroots leadership, team development, and professional service firm management.

Concurrent Session: Launching a Sustainable Consulting Practice - Monday, October 19, 2009

In Lisa Zweber-Smith's 20+ years of OD experience, she’s helped organizations increase profits, improve efficiency and raise employee engagement. She has been involved with strategic and business planning, managing change across organizational levels, planning and implementing small and large scale strategic changes, and acquisition integration.

Her knowledge of foundational and cutting edge OD approaches has been applied to many industries including financial services, law, retail, manufacturing and transportation. Lisa has worked with client groups in the United States, Central and South America, Europe, China and the Pacific Rim. 

A popular speaker, she was invited to present her work on How OD Speeds Acquisition Integration at the international ODN conference in Vancouver, Canada.  She has presented at other ODN conferences on the topics of Developing Global Leadership Development Programs, Implementation Effectiveness and Launching a Sustainable Consulting Practice.  Lisa also spoke at the Singapore Institute of Management on Using OD to Impact the Bottom Line.

While with the nation’s largest electronics retailer, Lisa led the process of cultural due diligence, culture planning and integration for the company’s first acquisition. She used her methods and best practices on subsequent acquisitions - resulting in higher ROI on each purchase. Lisa also led the global OD function for a billion dollar specialty chemical company with operations in 43 countries. 

Sought after as a trainer and facilitator, Lisa has designed and delivered workshops for participants from all over the world. A few of her topics include Group Dynamics, Team Development, Strategy Development & Deployment, Systems & Strategic Thinking, Implementation Effectiveness and Training & Facilitation Skills.

She has worked as a consultant to numerous Fortune 1000 companies and has held positions with Best Buy Co., Inc., Northwest Airlines, Target Corporation and H.B. Fuller.  She has been an adjunct faculty member for Pepperdine University and Augsburg College where she taught Organization Development in the MBA program.

Lisa is a founding partner of ROI Consulting and Implementation, an international organization development and management consulting firm, based in Minneapolis/St. Paul and the Executive Director of the Implementation Institute a firm dedicated to helping organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution.

Areas of Expertise

• Implementation Effectiveness
• Change Management
• Merger & Acquisition Integration
• Group Dynamics
• Leadership and Organization Assessment
• Systems and Strategic Thinking
• High Potential Leadership Development
• Strategy Development and Execution

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
  Central Washington University
• Master of Arts in HRD/OD
  University of St. Thomas
• Master of Science in OD
  Pepperdine University
• Doctoral Candidate
  Tilburg University
  

Certifications & Faculty Affiliations

• Augsburg College – Adjunct Faculty, MBA program
• Pepperdine University – Adjunct Faculty, MSOD program
• RODC – OD Insititute

Concurrent Session: Transformation through Conversation - Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Louise describes herself as a social entrepreneur. Her work is all about contributing to ‘strengthening the fabric of South African society’ and fulfilling her personal mission to enable more people to live with joy and possibility. She is a founder and CEO of three organisations: Symphonia Leadership Development (an Organisational Development practice), Symphonia Consulting (a company focused on the development of OD & HR practitioners), and Symphonia for South Africa (an NPO focused on ‘strengthening the fabric of South African society’). (Symphonia means “sounding of all the voices together” – the name is derived from the story that Benjamin & Rosamund Zander tell about their first visit to South Africa, when they found that ‘everybody was talking about South Africa’, it was like a ‘living, breathing entity’) Louise has more than 20 years of experience as a change leader and activist and has worked in the US, UK, many countries in Europe, Singapore, Australia and South Africa. She holds a BSc degree, a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and a Doctoral degree in organisational change (DMAN) and works with business leaders to help them develop and implement change strategies. She is also actively involved in Leadership Development (supporting leaders on their development journey). In addition to consulting, facilitating large group learning & organisational development processes and lecturing, Louise is part of an international network that includes the avant garde of leadership and thought exploration (The CreatingWe Institute). In 2007, she established the South African Organisational Development Network (SAODN), a mechanism for Organisational Development (OD) practitioners to learn together and create opportunities for newcomers to the field to learn from people with experience and knowledge of OD. She is currently working towards establishing an Academy for Organisational Change Practitioners in South Africa and holds a vision for creating a Leadership Institute in the Cape Winelands.