2018 Annual Conference |
Plenary Sessions![]() We're pleased to announce the following plenary sessions for this year's conference! Stay tuned for more details! Friday: OD in the Federal GovernmentThis panel discussion will be moderated by Larry Kokkelenberg, who recently retired from the Federal Government Office of Personnel Management. In this role, he was the chief of employee engagement and directed their Nationwide OD efforts with other Federal Agencies. Panelists include: ![]() Dee Ramsel has been a clinician, mental health executive, organization development consultant, and medical college instructor over the past thirty years. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology in 1985. She was director of a 200-bed mental health rehabilitation program and regional mental health coordinator for the Veterans Health Administration, and from 2003-2008 served as director of the Healthcare Analysis & Information Group in the Office of Policy and Planning at Veterans Affairs Central Office. She now serves as the executive director of the VHA National Center for Organization Development.
William (Bill) Thompsonhas been the Administrator of the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC), ETA, Department of Labor in Washington, DC. since late 2014. From January 20, 2017 until May, 2018, Bill was on temporary assignment in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for the Employment and Training Administration (OFLC’s parent agency). He is an attorney and began his career in private practice in New York and Washington DC in labor and employment law.
![]() Ms. Kelly Bulliner Holly currently serves as the Director of the Leadership and Organizational Development office in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Ms. Holly most recently served as the Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, earning two medals for Exceptional Civilian Service.
![]() Regan Miller is a senior Human Resources Consultant at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Workforce Planning and Reshaping Division within OPM’s HR Solutions, providing OD and human capital management services to public-sector clients nation-wide. Regan previously served in the private sector in training and development positions. Across her federal career, she has served in civilian positions within the Department of Army, and the Defense Logistics Agency.
![]() President and CEO of The Clearing, a management consultancy in Washington D.C. Tara Carcillo is accountable for operations, business growth, employee development, corporate strategy, and overall company health. She has 15 years of experience as a professional in whole systems design, enterprise transformation, systems modeling, facilitation, and leadership development. Tara has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Washington College, and a Master of Arts in Whole Systems Design and Organizational Systems Renewal from Antioch University.
Saturday: The Emerging Possibility of the OD Field to Government Led Reform: Evidencing the International Reach of the Global Practice FrameworkThis panel will share the ongoing work by OD professionals in England's National Health Service. The discussion will explore how they have developed a robust process to enable OD practitioners to claim and evidence their practice by using the ODN Global Practice Framework, and how action research developed in one part of England has been spread to become a country wide OD intervention. The UK has a proudly held socialised healthcare system which in terms of ROI is viewed to be the best in the world. Within England the service is facing the global challenges of ever increasing demand, changing demographics and rising cost. The National Health Service (NHS) directly employs 1.3 million people and has an expenditure of 122 billion pounds which equates to a per person spend of £2,200 annually. The UK government is seeking to transform the NHS to ensure it continues to deliver. As part of this country-wide transformation programme CEOs are calling upon OD practitioners to support the system wide work. CEOs are rightly asking for assurance that the OD practitioners can evidence that they are capable of undertaking work at this level. This is the back drop against which the presenters set out to:
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Sunday: Creating New Possibilities in Change Theory
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