Upcoming Events

Join together with OD practitioners to envision the future of OD work in a post-COVID world. Our featured guest speaker, Carol Rosener, will lead us in an interactive discussion to identify what the opportunities, responsibilities, interventions and resources available for OD professionals as a result of the pandemic crises due to COVID19. We will utilize some of Zoom’s features that enable us to personally connect across our global organization and add to our toolkit for the Organizational Development profession. To…

GIODN is excited to have Jackie Stavros and Cherie Torres to present their work Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement. Check out a little bit more about what's in store below! Do you wish to have the best possible conversation so you, your employees, colleagues, and external stakeholders are productive and have meaningful engagement? Conversations is the primary way we connect with others especially in workplace and social settings, imagine trying to lead a…

  Join us for our regular interactive virtual meeting! Our special guests will be David Sibbet Gisela Wendling from The Grove Consultants International. David and Gisela are experienced change and OD consultants who are historically experienced in and are now fully adapted to virtual work. They will share archetypal frameworks for thinking about leadership and change, as well as learning from a range of engagements supporting leaders in adapting to the new online and blended environment. They will provide examples…

  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…

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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…

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…