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• From Micro to Massive: Turning Local Sparks into Regional Wildfire (The Good Kind)

  • When
    June 16, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  From Micro to Massive: Turning Local Sparks into Regional Wildfire (The Good Kind)

  
  

  Danielle Westbrook

  Join us for this fun and interactive session as Danielle leads us into what's possible when we energize the strengths of our organizations, our messaging and our people. How do we raise more money for our nonprofit? How do we start a social movement to build more positive outcomes? How do we leverage partnerships to grow our impact?

  This 90 minute session will trace how small but strategic actions can ripple into huge outcomes. You'll love this positive, unique presentation no matter where your work is - we all need a little wildfire right now!

  MORE DETAILS TO COME!

  About Your Facilitator
  

  Danielle Westbrook - Danielle is a political consultant, legislative advocate, and executive director with a proven track record of innovation, imagination, and success. She has spent the last 20 years building relationships, minding the care and feeding
  of association members, and engaging with a vast array of stakeholders from positions across public and private enterprise. 

  Currently the Director of Development for Enterprise4Equity, Danielle has worked at nonprofits, State, and for City and County administrations in the Olympia/ Thurston County area. She played a key role in the formation of the Washington State Women’s Commission. She also worked on workplace design and culture change for the State.

  Danielle is dedicated to the pursuit of equitable governance, authentic and passionate service, and the art of being.

  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.

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• Annual In Person Partnership Event - Elevating the People Side of Work

  • When
    June 26, 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Work and Play Lounge on Beacon Hill, 2336 15th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144

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  In Person Partnership Event - Elevating the People Side of Work

  
  

  It’s REAL! It’s HAPPENING! 

  In person on Beacon Hill, June 26th, 5-8pm

  Once again PNODN is partnering with LIOS (Leadership Institute of Seattle), PMI of Puget Sound & ICFWA (International Coaching Federation of Washington)  to put on our yearly shin-dig, hootenanny, party … Elevating the People Side of Work! This year, we’ll be gathering at the Work and Play Lounge on Beacon Hill. This beautiful restored Seattle classic has a great gathering space, outdoor space for us to stretch out, and plenty of PARKING!! 

  We will be doing the ever awesome SPEED NETWORKING so bring your business cards or QR codes, plus we’ll be setting up some time to brainstorm together and solve small puzzles instead of doing org presentations this year. 

  Food & drinks will be available - Tickets are limited and include snacks & one drink ticket (additional drinks available for purchase @ $6). We will take cash or Venmo. Come with friends, colleagues or family… this is a great way to introduce people to what we do.

  
  

  COST:

  $30 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered

  $50 Non members when pre-paid & pre-registered

  $50 At the door

  
  

  AGENDA:

  5:00 - 6:00 pm Socialize, nibble & sip while our orgs introduce themselves!
  

  6:00- 6:45 pm Speed Networking Activity

  6:45-8:00 pm Conversation and Collaboration Tables, Networking

  8:00- Stay and help break down if you're able.

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• Career Journeys and Aspirations: Putting People First

  • When
    July 09, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Career Journeys and Aspirations: Putting People First
  with Michelle Kinkade and Misha Depp

  Join us for a case study presentation on the rapidly changing workplace at a Fortune 100 company. This study looks at multiple enterprise-wide reorganization efforts over the course of four years, with specific focus on two global teams. Many times, roles are changed, and people must adapt to the business while changing their personal goals. We deep-dive into aligning people to work that drives business goals while optimizing their individual career journeys, and aspirations, and aligning to their values.

  Drive organizational business goals while actively growing individual's careers
  

  Think outside the box

  Put people first

  MORE DETAILS TO COME!

  About Your Facilitators:
  

  Misha Depp
  Director of Transformational Change | Strategy & Organizational Effectiveness Leader
  

  Misha is a strategic change leader with over a decade of experience delivering enterprise transformation, digital modernization, and operational excellence at Nike, Inc. As Director of Transformational Change, she partners with executive leadership to unlock value—leading initiatives that have driven over $75M in savings and positioned the company for $125M in additional efficiencies.
  

  Known for designing future-ready operating models and scaling global change initiatives, Misha has guided transformation across functions including technology, procurement, and marketing. She brings a people-first, data-driven approach to organizational strategy, helping Fortune 500 companies thrive through complexity. Misha holds a Master’s in Organizational Management & Business Analytics, an MBA, and a BS in Communications. She is PROSCI certified and serves on the board of the Pacific Northwest Organizational Development Network.

  
  

  Michelle Kinkade

  Michelle Kinkade’s career spans the fields of enterprise transformations across business and technology functions and, currently, global trade strategic management within a Fortune 100 company. With the lens of organizational development, her focus includes working with international cross-functional teams, assessing and implementing ways of working that best support the individual, team, and organization.
  

  Michelle holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Design and Leadership from Fielding Graduate University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Puget Sound. She is a certified PROSCI change manager, a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) consultant, and a certified Brain-centric course designer. Outside of work, Michelle enjoys pro bono consulting with non-profits, volunteering, exploring the outdoors, and traveling. She and her husband live in Beaverton, Oregon, and they spend most of their free time cheering their kids on during sporting events.

  
  

  AGENDA:

  5:45 - 6:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

  6:00- 8:00 pm Workshop

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

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• OD Community Connections - Being OD

  • When
    July 31, 2025
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  OD Community Connections - Being OD
  

  
  

  This PNODN Community Gathering will be conducted live via Zoom. The zoom meeting details are included in your emailed confirmation and sent out the day prior.

  At our core, PNODN is a community. We are brought together by our shared passion for helping people thrive and organizations achieve more by unleashing the human potential within them. 

  Whether you think of yourself as an OD person or not, if you share this passion, we think you’ll love connecting with the amazing people in this community.

  Once each month we dedicate this gathering to the purpose of building community, helping you make connections that add value to your life in friendship, support and business collaboration.

  This is not your typical networking event where you share your business cards and well-worn elevator pitch. 

  This is about making authentic connections with people in our local community with whom you share this passion for people and fascination with the human dynamics of organizations.

  Each time we gather we’ll offer topics in line with our quarterly theme and guidance to make conversation easy. We’ll often use breakouts to give you a chance to talk with each other in small groups. And you’ll have the freedom to take the discussion in any direction that works for you and those gathered with you.

  We will share and stick to a set of guidelines that support our shared commitment of creating a safe environment in which everyone is valued and respected. Nothing will ever be forced – you can abstain at any time.

  The gathering is free of charge and everyone is welcome.

  About Your Host

  Justin Navetski, PNODN Director of Community, will be your host. Justin continues as part of a team convening PNODN members for the last several years.Justin brings well-being theory, OD first principles, and experiential learning to his work. Combining design work with use of self, he strives to build containers where people can bring themselves to the forefront.
  

  
  

  COST:

  No charge

  
  

  AGENDA:

  5:30 Welcome and Topic Introduction

  5:45 Conversation / Discussion Groups

  6:15 Come together and/ or rotate to new rooms
  

  6:45 (optional) Linger to talk informally if you choose

  
  

  Online registration is encouraged so we can plan for the gathering accordingly. And walk ins are also welcome.

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  Consider joining PNODN - members savings over the course of the year are substantial!
  

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• Speak Inarguably: Leadership Communication for Psychological Safety and Team Engagement

  • When
    August 18, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Speak Inarguably: Leadership Communication for Psychological Safety and Team Engagement

  

  Christopher Arnold

  This training will be conducted live via Zoom. The zoom meeting details will be sent out prior to the training.

  Workplace conflict can arise even when everyone involved has the best of intentions. What's commonly considered "professional communication" encourages leaders to express arguable opinions as inarguable facts. When combined with positional power, this style of communication creates a psychologically unsafe environment. In response, colleagues feel the need to defend, explain, and raise their voices to feel heard -- increasing the chances of an unproductive conflict. Alternatively, colleagues can go silent and disengage from work. Both strategies -- silence and violence -- create an unhealthy work environment. 

  When leaders speak arguably, they get resistance. When leaders speak inarguably they get safety, engagement, and results.

  About Your Facilitator

  As the founder of Care Deeply Consulting, Christopher Arnold has curated a community of leadership coaches who want to see every leader be a force for positive change in the world. Together, they develop high-performance workplace cultures for people-first businesses by transforming all levels of management into highly-skilled leaders who drive employee engagement and greater business results. 
  

  As a leader in the conscious business movement, Christopher has served as President of the Board for the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center and as an organizer for B2B B Corps. 

  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 am - 6:00 pm PST: Join Zoom Meeting

  6:00 – 8:00 pm PST: Training

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

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  Consider joining PNODN - members savings over the course of the year are substantial!

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• OD Community Connections - Being OD

  • When
    August 28, 2025
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

  Register

  OD Community Connections - Being OD
  

  
  

  This PNODN Community Gathering will be conducted live via Zoom. The zoom meeting details are included in your emailed confirmation and sent out the day prior.

  At our core, PNODN is a community. We are brought together by our shared passion for helping people thrive and organizations achieve more by unleashing the human potential within them. 

  Whether you think of yourself as an OD person or not, if you share this passion, we think you’ll love connecting with the amazing people in this community.

  Once each month we dedicate this gathering to the purpose of building community, helping you make connections that add value to your life in friendship, support and business collaboration.

  This is not your typical networking event where you share your business cards and well-worn elevator pitch. 

  This is about making authentic connections with people in our local community with whom you share this passion for people and fascination with the human dynamics of organizations.

  Each time we gather we’ll offer topics in line with our quarterly theme and guidance to make conversation easy. We’ll often use breakouts to give you a chance to talk with each other in small groups. And you’ll have the freedom to take the discussion in any direction that works for you and those gathered with you.

  We will share and stick to a set of guidelines that support our shared commitment of creating a safe environment in which everyone is valued and respected. Nothing will ever be forced – you can abstain at any time.

  The gathering is free of charge and everyone is welcome.

  About Your Host

  Justin Navetski, PNODN Director of Community, will be your host. Justin continues as part of a team convening PNODN members for the last several years.Justin brings well-being theory, OD first principles, and experiential learning to his work. Combining design work with use of self, he strives to build containers where people can bring themselves to the forefront.
  

  
  

  COST:

  No charge

  
  

  AGENDA:

  5:30 Welcome and Topic Introduction

  5:45 Conversation / Discussion Groups

  6:15 Come together and/ or rotate to new rooms
  

  6:45 (optional) Linger to talk informally if you choose

  
  

  Online registration is encouraged so we can plan for the gathering accordingly. And walk ins are also welcome.

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  Consider joining PNODN - members savings over the course of the year are substantial!
  

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• Matriarchal Futures in the Workplace: Redesigning Systems That Don’t Demand Our Disappearance

  • When
    September 05, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Matriarchal Futures in the Workplace: Redesigning Systems That Don’t Demand Our Disappearance
  

                            
  

  
  

  Lovette Jallow

  Join PNODN in welcoming Lovette Jallow, all the way from Sweden! Lovette's work has earned national and international awards for leadership in anti-racism, neurodiversity, and systemic inclusion, spanning government, education, and civil society.

  This 90-minute session challenges the assumption that working with women particularly racialized, neurodivergent, and system-disrupting women is what makes inclusion hard. The real difficulty lies in organizational systems built on dominance, compliance, and erasure. Lovette Jallow unpacks how patriarchal systems selectively uplift sanitized versions of marginalized women while punishing the leadership, boundaries, and brilliance that challenge extractive norms.

  Through the lens of matriarchal governance, relational intelligence, strategic refusal, and care-based accountability this session offers OD practitioners actionable frameworks for redesigning systems that support rather than silence. Participants will leave with tools to shift workplace culture from extraction to reciprocity, from control to collective strength anchored in equity, not performance optics.

  Learning Objectives for this Session

  1. Identify how traditional workplace structures are shaped by patriarchal and ableist norms.

  2. Analyze how underrepresented women are systematically excluded, co-opted, or punished.

  3. Examine matriarchal governance principles as models for structural care and non-hierarchical leadership.

  4. Apply equity-centered design strategies to organizational policy and culture.

  5. Develop interventions that do not require marginalized women to assimilate in order to survive.

  About the Presenter

  Lovette Jallow is a nine-time award-winning author, strategist, and international speaker specializing in neurodivergence, anti-racism, and structural equity. As a Black autistic woman with lived experience across Europe and West Africa, her work spans systems consulting, humanitarian coordination, and published critique.

  She founded Black Vogue to challenge Eurocentric beauty standards and document how Black women are erased across industries a theme further explored in her books. She also leads Action for Humanity, supporting racial justice and neurodivergent advocacy across Sweden, The Gambia, Libya, and Lebanon. Lovette’s lectures interrogate diagnostic bias, institutional harm, and racialized pathologization offering evidence-informed strategies to build environments rooted in justice, not compliance.

  Learn more about Lovette: https://lovettejallow.com/
  

  COST:

  $15 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered

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

  $10 for students/seniors pre-registered
  

  AGENDA:

  11:45am - 12:00pm Join Zoom Meeting

  12:00- 1:30 pm Training

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

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  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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• OD Community Connections - Being OD

  • When
    September 25, 2025
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

  Register

  OD Community Connections - Being OD
  

  
  

  This PNODN Community Gathering will be conducted live via Zoom. The zoom meeting details are included in your emailed confirmation and sent out the day prior.

  At our core, PNODN is a community. We are brought together by our shared passion for helping people thrive and organizations achieve more by unleashing the human potential within them. 

  Whether you think of yourself as an OD person or not, if you share this passion, we think you’ll love connecting with the amazing people in this community.

  Once each month we dedicate this gathering to the purpose of building community, helping you make connections that add value to your life in friendship, support and business collaboration.

  This is not your typical networking event where you share your business cards and well-worn elevator pitch. 

  This is about making authentic connections with people in our local community with whom you share this passion for people and fascination with the human dynamics of organizations.

  Each time we gather we’ll offer topics in line with our quarterly theme and guidance to make conversation easy. We’ll often use breakouts to give you a chance to talk with each other in small groups. And you’ll have the freedom to take the discussion in any direction that works for you and those gathered with you.

  We will share and stick to a set of guidelines that support our shared commitment of creating a safe environment in which everyone is valued and respected. Nothing will ever be forced – you can abstain at any time.

  The gathering is free of charge and everyone is welcome.

  About Your Host

  Justin Navetski, PNODN Director of Community, will be your host. Justin continues as part of a team convening PNODN members for the last several years.Justin brings well-being theory, OD first principles, and experiential learning to his work. Combining design work with use of self, he strives to build containers where people can bring themselves to the forefront.
  

  
  

  COST:

  No charge

  
  

  AGENDA:

  5:30 Welcome and Topic Introduction

  5:45 Conversation / Discussion Groups

  6:15 Come together and/ or rotate to new rooms
  

  6:45 (optional) Linger to talk informally if you choose

  
  

  Online registration is encouraged so we can plan for the gathering accordingly. And walk ins are also welcome.

  ---

  Consider joining PNODN - members savings over the course of the year are substantial!
  

  Show details
• OD Community Connections - Being OD

  • When
    October 30, 2025
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

  Register

  OD Community Connections - Being OD
  

  
  

  This PNODN Community Gathering will be conducted live via Zoom. The zoom meeting details are included in your emailed confirmation and sent out the day prior.

  At our core, PNODN is a community. We are brought together by our shared passion for helping people thrive and organizations achieve more by unleashing the human potential within them. 

  Whether you think of yourself as an OD person or not, if you share this passion, we think you’ll love connecting with the amazing people in this community.

  Once each month we dedicate this gathering to the purpose of building community, helping you make connections that add value to your life in friendship, support and business collaboration.

  This is not your typical networking event where you share your business cards and well-worn elevator pitch. 

  This is about making authentic connections with people in our local community with whom you share this passion for people and fascination with the human dynamics of organizations.

  Each time we gather we’ll offer topics in line with our quarterly theme and guidance to make conversation easy. We’ll often use breakouts to give you a chance to talk with each other in small groups. And you’ll have the freedom to take the discussion in any direction that works for you and those gathered with you.

  We will share and stick to a set of guidelines that support our shared commitment of creating a safe environment in which everyone is valued and respected. Nothing will ever be forced – you can abstain at any time.

  The gathering is free of charge and everyone is welcome.

  About Your Host

  Justin Navetski, PNODN Director of Community, will be your host. Justin continues as part of a team convening PNODN members for the last several years.Justin brings well-being theory, OD first principles, and experiential learning to his work. Combining design work with use of self, he strives to build containers where people can bring themselves to the forefront.
  

  
  

  COST:

  No charge

  
  

  AGENDA:

  5:30 Welcome and Topic Introduction

  5:45 Conversation / Discussion Groups

  6:15 Come together and/ or rotate to new rooms
  

  6:45 (optional) Linger to talk informally if you choose

  
  

  Online registration is encouraged so we can plan for the gathering accordingly. And walk ins are also welcome.

  ---

  Consider joining PNODN - members savings over the course of the year are substantial!
  

  Show details