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Webinar: Building Adaptive Capacity for the VUCA World (with Derek Miller)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Building Adaptive Capacity for the VUCA World — OD Network Webinar

OD Network Webinar Interactive Session

Building Adaptive Capacity for the VUCA World

With Derek Miller

Volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous — the VUCA world demands more than a fixed skill set. This interactive session introduces a practical framework for building the adaptive capacity to keep developing, individually and across your organization.

JUL

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

4:00 PM ET · Live online

About this session

Adaptive capacity is the skill that keeps you developing when the ground keeps shifting

In a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, the practitioners and organizations that thrive aren't the ones with the most fixed expertise — they're the ones who can keep adapting. Adaptive capacity is the underlying ability to learn, adjust, and grow as conditions change, and it can be developed with intention.

This highly interactive session introduces the 'Four Wheels' Developmental Framework and sets it alongside current developmental models. You'll use the Framework for a brief, honest reflection on your own level of adaptive capacity — then explore how it can guide your ongoing development and serve as a comprehensive developmental program within your organization.

What you'll take away

A framework you can apply to your own growth — and across your organization

Learn the 'Four Wheels' Framework

Get to know the 'Four Wheels' Developmental Framework and discuss how it compares with current developmental models.

Reflect on your adaptive capacity

Use the Framework for a brief, structured reflection on your current level of adaptive capacity.

Apply it going forward

Discuss how the Framework can guide your ongoing development or anchor a comprehensive program within your organization.

Your speaker

Derek Miller

Talent Development Practitioner

Derek Miller is a talent development practitioner who is always looking for opportunities to apply his expertise in all things learning toward his life's pursuit of helping others thrive in their work. He holds dual master's degrees in Teaching and in Talent and Organization Development.

He has innovated in learning and development roles spanning three decades, serving as a public-school educator, academic program director, and corporate instructional designer. He currently works in the last-mile delivery space, supporting gig drivers on Walmart's Spark Driver platform.

Webinar: Leadership and Emotional Resiliency (with Michelle Cummings)

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Leadership and Emotional Resiliency — OD Network Webinar

OD Network Webinar Interactive Session

Leadership and Emotional Resiliency

With Guest Speaker, Michelle Cummings

Leadership today isn't just about strategy — it's about stamina. A highly interactive session on building the emotional resiliency to adapt, focus, and thrive when demands run high.

AUG

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

11:00 AM ET · Live online

About this session

Resiliency isn't about pushing through stress — it's about leading through it

In a world where uncertainty is constant and workplace demands are high, emotional resiliency is the skill that separates leaders who burn out from those who adapt and thrive. But resiliency isn't just about pushing through stress. It's about understanding it, managing it, and leading others through it with clarity and intention.

This highly interactive session helps participants uncover their personal stress triggers, recognize how stress shows up in their behavior, and explore the powerful role of biofeedback and the brain's focus. We'll dive into the concept of Locus of Control to assess how much mental energy is spent on things we can't influence — and how to shift that focus back to what we can control.

What you'll take away

Practical tools to lead with more focus, flexibility, and emotional clarity

Uncover your stress triggers

Identify the personal triggers that set off your stress response — the first step to managing it.

See how stress shows up

Recognize how stress surfaces in your behavior, plus the role of biofeedback and where the brain focuses.

Master your Locus of Control

Assess how much energy goes to things you can't influence — and shift focus back to what you can control.

Build calmer teams

Leave with tools to manage your own stress and create calmer, more effective environments for your teams.

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Your speaker

Michelle Cummings, MS

Founder, CEO & Chief Creative Officer, Personify Leadership

Michelle Cummings, MS, is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Creative Officer of Personify Leadership, a global leadership development company known for delivering experiential programs that drive real business results. She is also the founder of Training Wheels, a recognized leader in team building and experiential learning.

Michelle is an accomplished author, podcaster, and creator of high-impact leadership programs designed to improve performance, communication, and accountability. Her work is grounded in a unique body-focused competency model that equips leaders with practical tools they can apply immediately in the workplace. She has developed innovative leadership assessments and a 360-degree feedback tool that help organizations build self-aware, effective leaders.

Known for creating “sticky learning” experiences, Michelle's programs are designed to last well beyond the classroom and deliver measurable ROI.

Webinar: Value Beyond Values - How Axiological Science Can Elevate the Future of OD in the Age of AI

Tue, 8 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Value Beyond Values — OD Network Webinar

OD Network Webinar

Value Beyond Values: How Axiological Science Can Elevate the Future of OD in the Age of AI

With Peter Demarest

A provocative, future-focused session on grounding core values in the bedrock of objective value science — and what that means for next-generation OD.

SEP

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

11:00 AM ET · Live online

About this session

Why the distinction between value and values now demands our attention

As OD faces the pressures of rapid change, polarization, and purpose fatigue, a critical distinction demands our attention: the difference between value and values. Without a firm anchoring of “core values” into the bedrock of objective value science, even well-intentioned values too often become performative, fragmented, negotiable, or even disvalued in practice.

This session explores how axiological science — the formal study of value and evaluation — offers a powerful framework to take OD to a level of influence and impact widely envisioned, but rarely achieved. In the Age of AI, the need for leadership and OD grounded in Axiological Intelligence has never been higher.

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Your speaker

Peter Demarest

Founder & President, Axiogenics LLC and The Institute for Value-generative AI

Peter is a leading expert in formal and applied axiology — value science — and its applications to OD, training, leadership, and now, AI. For 25+ years he has been a highly-rated speaker and presenter for organizations such as the OD Network, ISODC, WBECS/Coaching.com, ICF, ATD, SHRM, and ILT.

Stephen R. Covey called his work “groundbreaking.” David Cooperrider said it produced outcomes “beyond what he thought possible,” and Anton Shufutinsky sees it as a potential “game-changer for the practice of OD.” Peter and his team of independent partners use the principles and practices of axiology to produce results that transform lives and organizations.

Peter also serves on the Board of the Hartman Institute for Formal and Applied Axiology as VP of Education. Today, his mission is helping people develop the Axiological Intelligence to thrive in the new age of the Wisdom Worker.