Upcoming Events

Please join us for this GIODN Book Club, "Social Ecology in Holistic Leadership - A Guide for Collaborative Organizational Development and Transformation" with author Erik Lemke. Many managers, consultants, and facilitators have backgrounds in business administration trained in contemporary management methods focusing on decision-making and economic efficiency. The question is: Are these academic methods the best to further the development of society as well as organizations? An increasing numbers of people are looking for alternatives to traditional decision-making and management…

Join GIODN for this special event featuring Dr. Bob Preziosi! OD practitioners have an opportunity to help their organizations diagnose improvement opportunities that can have an impact on organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Learn how using the Organization Elements Productivity Model can assist OD practitioners in developing objectives for a program that can move the bottom line in the right direction. Two tools for productivity data collection will be considered.

Join us for this GIODN special speaking event featuring seasoned OD professional Kevin Cress. He will highlight lessons learned during his unique 25-year career journey as an OD Practitioner. Drawing from his experiences as both an external trainer and consultant and internal employee, Kevin will provide practical examples and real stories of applying OD principles, tools, and practices to a variety of organizational situations. He will also share from his personal “Top 10 OD List”, which includes his favorite OD…

GIODN members connect and learn together! Our regular virtual meeting this month will be facilitated by Dr. Nancy Zentis and Patti Dammann of IOD. During this meeting you will learn how to use a Dialogic OD Tool, World Cafe, to identify current challenges and trends impacting organizations as a result of the yearlong world pandemic. In small groups, participants will share the issues and challenges faced as a result of the pandemic. After discussing the challenges, there will be a…

Join us for the last GIODN event of 2021! This highly special speaking event will explore the nature of adaptive challenges. Guest speaker Dr. Chuck Appleby will discuss a novel approach to problem solving integrating mindsets and practices from action learning and design thinking.  Participants will learn the key success factors in designing and facilitating an adaptive challenge.  The focus of this session will be on framing (i.e. clarifying) the challenge.