Upcoming Events

Please join us for this special book club focusing on the article "Supporting a Leader Through Change" by Rick Rochetti. Rick will lead us through this special event to give us the inside look on this important topic. Read more about Rick below. Rick is an independent consultant whose work focuses on leadership development, executive coaching, strategy, culture and teams. He also works with the NC League of Municipalities and is adjunct faculty for the UNC School of Government’s Center…

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Join us for this informative and interactive session on a really useful tool! Dr. Bob Preziosi will discuss a classic tool, Organizational Diagnosis Questionnaire (ODQ).  He personally designed and developed it, and it continues to be used around the world, 40 years after it was originally published!  Both internal and external consultants use the ODQ to help design interventions for business and government, as well as for education and health care.  Marvin Weisbord’s six-box model was the reference for the…

GIODN is excited to welcome our special guest Barry Johnson to share us some lessons from his book And, Making a Difference by Leveraging, Polarity, Paradox or Dilemma. Join us for the conversation! Using Or-thinking where And-thinking is required has been the demise of organizational change efforts. It has resulted in chronic polarization in organizations, nations, and international relations; has been a root cause of poverty, racism and sexism; has resulted in thousands of unnecessary deaths from COVID-19; and, has…

GIODN is pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Norlin for this special speaking engagement on Developing a Personal Theory-of Practice. Join us to learn together! Wherever we work and whatever we do as OD consultants, our professional perspective, our design choices, and our contracting decisions will all inevitably reflect our own, personal theory-of-practice.  It’s a fancy name for the framework all of us build internally to understand, integrate, and organize our professional experience.  What we think we know about people, what…

Join us for this informative and interactive session on Family Business Transformation with Marc Silverman! Although the great majority of businesses in the world are family owned or controlled, little attention has been paid to the impact of this reality on Family and Business Leadership, Organizational Culture, Succession, and Change Management. Certainly one of the tasks of family business leadership is to develop an environment in the family and the business that promotes business success as well as family success.…

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