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    • March 27, 2024
    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    • Zoom Meeting
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    Partnership Series -You Are What You Practice: Use of Self and Self Mastery

    John D. Carter & Associates – Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development

    John D. Carter

    Join us on March 27 from 9-10:30 am PT for an interactive webinar in partnership with our friends at the Chesapeake Bay ODN. This guru of the Gestalt method will be a great experience, plus the larger group conversations should be rich!

    Is your practice what you preach and teach? In this session, participants will experiment with undoing lies and seeking transformation. These two skills are essential to the practice of OD. We will use techniques and tools developed by the GestaltOSD Center. They are part of an integrative perspective called Heartfulness Organization & Systems Development. Desired Outcomes: Heightened Awareness of your answers to: What is OD? What is your Practice? What is your answer to the three fundamental questions of life? What is your one-minute OD introduction of yourself?

        About Your Facilitator

        John D. Carter

        is an internationally prominent organizational consultant and innovative educator. He has led and designed some of the most creative and innovative organizational change efforts in the field of Organization Development. Currently President of the Gestalt Center for Organization & Systems Development (OSD), John has served the fields of OD and Gestalt OSD for over 40 years as founder and CEO of John D. Carter & Associates, and as an esteemed faculty member of several educational institutions (e.g., Gestalt Institute of Cleveland [GIC], Saybrook Institute, Benedictine University, Columbia University, Union Graduate School, and Case Western Reserve University [CWRU]).

        He has served as an Executive Board or Trustee member of many leading organizations involved with OD (e.g., GIC, Gestalt International Study Center, National Training Laboratories [NTL], Fielding Graduate University, and ODN), and is an Emeritus member of NTL. John earned his Ph.D. from CWRU’s renowned Organizational Behavior program; he is a Kappa Alpha Psi and Alpha Phi Omega lifetime member. As an independent consultant, John has worked with over 40 leaders of major domestic and international organizations. He is a co-founder and developer of ground-breaking training programs in OSD at GIC, where he began as a student in the 1960s and went on to serve as a faculty member, CEO, Director of Corporate Training, Program and Finance Director, Dean of Faculty, and OSD Center Head. He is a GIC Distinguished Honorary Fellow.

        John has been honored by the Organization Development Network (ODN) and the Gestalt Organization & Systems Development Center (GOSD) with their Lifetime Achievement Award. Throughout his career, John has continually developed a spiritual dimension, eventually becoming a Preceptor in the Ram Chandra Mission. John, the son of an original Tuskegee Airman, lives in Cleveland with his wife Veronica Hopper Carter, and daughter Annelise.


        COST:

        $15 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered

        $25 Non members when pre-paid & pre-registered

        $10 for students/seniors pre-registered 

        AGENDA:

        8:45 - 9:00 am Join Zoom Meeting

        9:00- 10:30 am Training

        Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.


        Consider joining PNODN - members savings over the course of the year are substantial and we need your voice in the conversation!
        • April 09, 2024
        • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
        • Zoom Meeting
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        What Was OD Made For?

        (Changing Everything, Everywhere, With Everyone, All at Once)

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        Dr. David Cooperrider

        Join us on April 9 from 4-6pm PT for a positive and uplifting workshop with Dr. David Cooperrider, founder of Appreciative Inquiry.

        All over the world, we are witnessing the potential of what leading economists are calling “mission economics.” Today’s emerging mission or purpose economy is, by far, the world’s largest universal change project ever. To end the climate crises in less than a generation while creating a future of “full-spectrum flourishing” requires more than moonshot thinking or bold policies and breakthroughs in technology.

        The deeper cornerstone capacity is nothing less than the elevation and expansion of human systems collaborative change capacity at whole new orders of magnitude, radical inclusiveness, and speed—at precisely the time we are witnessing the anguished fraying of our social bonds. This talk asserts that we are at a Lewinian-like watershed moment in OD and are poised to step into the next great episode in OD history. It introduces and explores new key terms—such as “full-spectrum flourishing” and “net positive OD” and “macro-to-micro OD” and the discovery and design of “positive institutions”-- including our most recent empirical survey research and some 6-thousand “better business, better world” interviews  into the paradoxical and life-giving power of “mirror flourishing.”

            About Your Facilitator

            David Cooperrider is a Case Western Reserve University Distinguished University Professor and has held two endowed chairs including the Char and Chuck Fowler Professor for Business as an Agent of World Benefit & currently the Covia-David L. Cooperrider Professorship for Appreciative Inquiry at the Weatherhead School of Management. David is the Faculty Founder of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. 

            David was awarded the Organization Development Network’s “Life-Time Achievement Award” for his pioneering work in the field of Organization Development and, in 2023, was given the field’s newest honor: the “Elevating Humanity Award.” David has published 27 books and authored over 120 articles and book chapters. Three of his books are Berrett-Koehler Publishing “Best Sellers” and his most recent book is titled The Business of Building a Better World: The Leadership Revolution That is Changing Everything; and it’s a book that was the “Reader’s Choice” winner of getAbstract’s 2022 book of the year award. David is best known for his founding theoretical work and research giving birth to Appreciative Inquiry, now being applied in organizations, whole industries, and cities around the world.

            He has served as OD and strategic change advisor with companies such as Apple, Johnson & Johnson, Green Mountain Coffee, National Grid, Vitamix, IBM, and many others, and has worked with five Presidents and/or Nobel Laureates such as William Jefferson Clinton, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, and others. Jane Nelson, at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Leadership, wrote, “David Cooperrider is one of the outstanding scholar-practitioners of our generation.”    



            COST:

            $15 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered

            $25 Non members when pre-paid & pre-registered

            $10 for students/seniors pre-registered 

            AGENDA:

            3:45 - 4:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

            4:00- 6:00 pm Training

            Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.


            Consider joining PNODN - members savings over the course of the year are substantial and we need your voice in the conversation!
            • April 15, 2024
            • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
            • Zoom Meeting
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            OD Workshop - Impossible is Temporary: Overcoming Barriers to Change


            Bud Caddell

            Join us on April 15 from 6-8 PM PT for an interactive webinar led by Bud Caddell, Founder of NOBL Collective and a leader in organizational transformation and change.

            Organizational change is, simply and stubbornly, individual behavior change coordinated at scale. So of course trying to do new things and taking advantage of new opportunities is inevitably met with resistance or even outright objection. Much of this is natural, but while many of us get excited about the idea itself we also need to prepare ourselves and our partners for the most common barriers we will face, whether we're just getting a new change started or we're trying to spread it beyond a single success or team. This workshop will explore those barriers and arm you with tactics to successfully make a change or transformation with your teams or departments.

            We’ll also directly address the role of office politics in shaping change (influencing and persuading those with more power), and how feelings of ick or discomfort can be and have to be addressed to see transformation through. 

            Format/Activities:

            • An introduction to the 25 most-common barriers to change
            • Breakout rooms to discuss those barriers and compare experiences (with share out from volunteers)
            • A tee-up about OD/HR’s role in supporting change, particularly influencing and persuading those in power; then breakout room discussions and sharing
            • Closing remarks and summation
            Learning Objectives:
            • Increase your awareness and literacy of the most common barriers to change
            • Diagnose and triage a barrier you or others you support could be encountering right now
            • Learn strategies specifically to wield greater influence and persuasion (aka office politics) as a partner in change
            About Your Facilitator

                  Bud Caddell is the Founder of NOBL, a global business transformation agency that helps leaders make change.

                  Bud grew up obsessed with technology, even serving as the Head of Technology at a venture-funded startup while attending high school. After years of helping the Fortune 500 develop innovative new products and services, Bud came to a realization: organizations don't suffer from a lack of ideas, they suffer from cultures and ways of working that kill innovative ideas. He started NOBL to help organizations respond to a world of increasing change by fusing the disciplines of organizational development, change management, systems thinking, and complexity science together.

                  His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and AdAge. Bud was named “one of the most creative people under 30” by Business Insider, and The Guardian named him as one of ten strategists to watch.

                  Bud's clients have included: Pepsi, CNN, Volkswagen, Bank of America, HBO, Nasty Gal, Calvin Klein, Levi Strauss, esurance, The College Board, Bloomin' Brands, Ford Motor Company, GE, Nike, Taco Bell, Reddit and many others.


                  COST:

                  $15 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered

                  $25 Non members when pre-paid & pre-registered

                  $10 for students/seniors pre-registered 

                  AGENDA:

                  5:45 - 6:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

                  6:00- 8:00 pm Training

                  Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.


                  Consider joining PNODN - members savings over the course of the year are substantial and we need your voice in the conversation!
                  • May 15, 2024
                  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
                  • Zoom Meeting
                  Register

                  OD Workshop - Connecting to Our Humanity at Work


                  Todd Porter

                  Join us on May 15 from 6-8 PM PT for an interactive webinar led by Todd Porter, a seasoned OD professional. 

                  Every workplace is full of humans, multi-dimensional beings with thoughts, values, feelings, needs, and desires, at a minimum. Our work cultures often accept some of these dimensions and reject, or at least ignore, others. In the absence of an intentional, focused effort to do otherwise, we welcome intellect, give lip service to values, minimize needs and desires, and reject feelings. This creates workplaces and cultures that are inhospitable to human habitation, that are dehumanizing.

                  What if we made an intentional, effort to accept the full humanity of our coworkers? What if we welcomed not only their intellectual power, but also their values, needs, desires, and emotions? What would change about our workplaces and our societies if they were filled with whole humans who on-purpose welcomed the whole humanity for their friends, neighbors, and coworkers? My contention is that everything would change.

                  This workshop presents a set of habits that enable this kind of acceptance, habits that help accept one another as we are and be present to what we are experiencing together. We will also have a chance to practice some of those skills and discuss ways to build our capacity to show up in ways that consistently embody these skills.

                  Participants will leave the session with:

                  - a model communication process for being present with others,

                  - having practiced elements of that model with other participants, and

                  - options for building their capacity to connect with other humans.


                      About Your Facilitator

                      Todd Porter (in his own words)

                      Never get a degree in the same field twice. That's my motto, though I only discovered it in retrospect. What I've really been doing is following my curiosity.

                      I studied electrical engineering as an undergrad because I was curious about technology and how we might use it to avoid societal collapse when all the oil runs out. I studied music because it does something to my brain that makes it work better for relating, for problem-solving, for living. I was curious about what might happen if I invested my attention in making more music. I studied Positive Organization Development because I was curious about what made people thrive and how we might enable more people to thrive more often by attending to each other. Most recently, I've been studying compassionate communication because I'm curious about what separates us from each other and what we might do differently to bridge that separation.

                      As I followed that curiosity, I've applied what I've learned in technical roles, management roles, leadership roles. In commercial ventures like Ideal Impact, Inc., in nonprofit ventures like Mosaic Fort Worth, The Charter for Compassion, Narrative 4, United States Christian Leadership Organization, Kairos Collaborative, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In these organizations and others I've designed experiences, designed and applied technology, mobilized people, facilitated learning, and worked to stimulate even more curiosity in myself and those around me.

                      I started my professional career working to save energy. In the time since, I've started to wonder whether our society will last long enough to run out of oil, or if we might destroy each other first. I'm curious now about how I might contribute all I've learned to helping people around me (and myself) see the full humanity in one another, how we might connect to that humanity, and how we might stoke the embers of life in one another.

                      It's odd to write a professional bio in the first person, isn't it? So be it. I'm hoping it gives you a better picture of who I am than the dates of what I did and in what context, though those details are in [my LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-porter/) if you want to see them. Biographies are really just stories and I'm writing this one here because I'd like you to be part of it. Let's follow our curiosity together and see how we might connect to one another.


                      COST:

                      $15 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered

                      $25 Non members when pre-paid & pre-registered

                      $10 for students/seniors pre-registered 

                      AGENDA:

                      5:45 - 6:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

                      6:00- 8:00 pm Training

                      Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.


                      Consider joining PNODN - members savings over the course of the year are substantial and we need your voice in the conversation!
                      • May 20, 2024
                      • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
                      • Zoom Meeting
                      Register

                      OD Workshop - The Power of Agency: cultivating autonomy, authority, and leadership in every role


                      Fred Miller & Judith Katz

                      Join us on May 20 from 6-8 PM PT for an interactive webinar led by the indomitable Fred Miller & the joyous Judith Katz!

                      The evolution of the organization and the manager-employee relationship continues. As we think about the next step in that evolution, we believe that the concept of agency needs to be at the center. Most often employees act as “do-ers” with a checker overseeing every significant decision, which makes people feel as if they are not the leader of their job responsibilities. There have been many attempts, some successful in pockets of organizations, to increase the autonomy of employees—to empower them, enable them to do their jobs with little supervision, be knowledge workers—but in many cases organizations have overlaid on that continued control and supervision that limits and, in many cases, smothers the employee and their ability to be the Operations Leader of their job.

                      People have written about and acknowledge that many are knowledge workers in organizations, but we treat them the same way as at the height of the Industrial Revolution, like “hands and feet”; only now letting them think but requiring their thinking to be reviewed and checked.

                      What is missing is agency, which we define as:

                      ensuring all people, of all identities, roles, levels, and tenure have the power, influence, and voice to make choices and decisions related to their jobs and the betterment of the organization.

                      In this session they will discuss the concept of agency and the role that OD practitioners can play in cultivating a culture of agency in which every person can take leadership in their role and interactions with others..


                          About Your Facilitators

                          Fred Miller - Cited as a forerunner of corporate change in The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management, Fred has been honored with the The Forum on Workplace Inclusion’s 2018 Winds of Change Award, as the OD Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, as one of the 40 Pioneers of Diversity by Profiles in Diversity Journal, as one of the Legends of Diversity by the International Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals, and as the NAACP Berkshires Branch W. E. B. Du Bois Award recipient. 

                          As CEO and Lead Strategist of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.—named one of Consulting magazine’s “Seven Small Jewels” in 2010—Fred specializes in developing workforce inclusion strategies that accelerate results to deliver higher individual, team, and organizational performance. For 50 years, he has been a pioneering change agent and thought leader in the field of organization development. His experience includes partnering with organizations to accelerate growth, enhance bottom-line results, and work through turnaround situations, as well as positioning leaders for success in start-ups, entrepreneurial ventures, and transitioning from founder-led companies to the next generation of leadership.

                          Judith Katz -

                          Fueled by her passion for addressing systemic barriers, known for her boundless energy and sharp analytical mind, Judith Katz has distinguished herself as a thought leader, practitioner, educator, and strategist for more than 40 years. She has created new paradigms in organization development and pioneered cutting-edge approaches to white awareness, inclusion, the leveraging of differences, covert processes, and strategic change.

                          Throughout her career, Judith’s thought leadership has brought critical ideas and issues to light. Few people, for instance, have connected the ability of all individuals to do their best work with the future of organizations as eloquently or persuasively. Colleagues and clients speak highly of her generosity, her humility, her approachability, her sense of humor—and her resolute commitment to partnering with all people so they can step fully into their own personal power.

                          COST:

                          $15 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered

                          $25 Non members when pre-paid & pre-registered

                          $10 for students/seniors pre-registered 

                          AGENDA:

                          5:45 - 6:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

                          6:00- 8:00 pm Training

                          Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.


                          Consider joining PNODN - members savings over the course of the year are substantial and we need your voice in the conversation!

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