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• PNODN Community Lunch Hour

  • Start
    April 15, 2026
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  • End
    July 15, 2026
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Community Lunch Hour with PNODN

  
  

  Looking to spend some quality time with like-minded folks? Come join us for this free event where we can spend time with the community.

  We might:
  

  • Jump into breakout rooms to connect and chat
  • Do some give-and-get help activities
  • Explore themes that we see showing up in our work and world
  • Chat about the PNODN
  • Something else!

  Anyone who is interested is welcome to join. All levels of experience will find value here. 

  About Your Host

  Justin Navetski, PNODN Director of Community, will be your host. Learn more about him here!

  
  

  COST:

  No charge

  
  

  AGENDA:

  12:25 pm Zoom Room opens

  12:30 pm Session begins

  1:30 pm Zoom Room closes

  
  

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

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• 5-week Class: Marketing for Consultants ~ with Jerry Talley

  • Start
    May 21, 2026
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  • End
    June 18, 2026
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  • Schedule
    5 sessions
  • Location
    Online

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  Marketing for Consultants
  A 5-week class with Jerry Talley

  Free to PNODN Members! Filling fast!

  Learn a strategy for building an OD practice. Learn how to market to your client’s concerns instead of talking about your specific services.

  There are entire industries poised to take your time and money to market your practice; it probably won’t work. Marketing an OD practice is unique among professional services:

  • Our clients typically do not know when they need us.

  • Most clients do not know what we might offer.

  • Clients often misunderstand their circumstance and ask for the wrong interventions.

  • Contracts need to be flexible enough to allow for emergent insights and opportunities even as client asks for concrete deliverables, schedules, and costs.

  So it falls to us to get in front of a potential client and engage with them in a way that opens up a dialogue rather than moving directly to a specific solution. Most digital marketing strategies (websites, SEO, Google AdWords, podcasts, blogs, LinkedIn, etc.) are too tepid to generate a robust flow of work. So this course is about what else to do.

  Who should take this course:

  This course is for external consultants (or internals ready to move out on their own) wanting more control over their income, their workload, and the type of engagements they attract.

  Curriculum:
  

  • The purpose of marketing (HINT: It’s not just acquiring clients)
  • The unique challenges of marketing an OD practice
  • What clients really want (and need) from us (it’s not your services)
  • Refining your practice offering
  • How to position yourself in the marketplace (“solo practice” is not the best option)
  • The 3 planks in a proactive marketing platform
  • Market well, and let the client do the selling; how handle the initial conversation
  • Special attention to finding your first 10 clients

  Structure:
  

  • 5 sessions of 2 hrs each week at 10AM Pacific Time starting May 21st

  • Office hours available 1-2 days a week for more focused individual questions

  Registration & Fee:

  This is a no-fee course. After you register your interest here, your confirmation email will include a message from Jerry about how to get in touch with him to make sure this course is right for you and receive further details.

  Your Instructor:

  

  Jerry started his 45-year career in Stanford’s Sociology department where he taught for 18 years. Leveraging his research and assessment experience, he moved out into corporate consulting. Over the years he accumulated over 450 client engagements with companies in high tech, higher education, manufacturing, construction, health care, banking, the military, entertainment, hospitality, telecom, city & county government, public utilities, consulting firms, aerospace, college publishing, pharmaceuticals, numerous not-for-profits, and one organic grocery store. He is no longer providing client services; his practice is now focused on mentoring and coaching for the next generation of organization development consultants.

  
  

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• Less Stress, More Joy ~ with Amy Leneker

  • When
    June 18, 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Less Stress, More Joy

  
  

  with Amy Leneker, Author of Cheers to Monday: The Surprisingly Simple Method to Lead and Live with Less Stress and More Joy

  
  

  Less Stress, More Joy is a transformative and energizing workshop based on Amy Leneker’s book, Cheers to Monday: The Surprisingly Simple Method to Lead & Live with Less Stress & More Joy (Wiley, 2026). This workshop is typically a half-day or full day training, so we are thrilled that Amy is offering this special 1 hour lunch and learn session for PNODN!

  Drawing on insights from her national research study, The State of Stress & Joy at Work, Amy reveals why the common advice about stress isn’t working and what leaders, teams, and organizations can do instead.

  Participants leave with a practical framework they can use immediately to stop operating on autopilot, respond more intentionally to stress, and approach their work with greater clarity, energy, and joy.

  What You'll Learn From This Session

  • Understand what’s really driving stress at work today. Insights from Amy’s national research reveal the most common sources of stress at work and why traditional approaches to managing stress are often making it worse.

  • Learn The Un-Stressing Method™. Practice Amy’s simple, science-backed three-step method for reducing stress and increasing joy at work. In a 2026 study, 96 percent of American workers said The Un-Stressing Method™ helped them better understand and manage their stress.

  Discover the five biggest drivers of joy at work. Explore why joy isn’t a “nice to have,” but a powerful catalyst for decision-making, creativity, and performance.

  
  

  Join us for this enlivening presentation with Amy Leneker! Please note that this event will NOT be recorded. Catch it live!!

  
  

  About Our Speaker:

  Amy Leneker is an optimistic, joy-seeking, recovering workaholic. She's also a leadership consultant with over 25 years of leadership experience, including a decade in the C-suite, who has helped over 100,000 leaders, teams and organizations (from Fortune 100 companies to the public sector) thrive at work through keynotes, coaching and training, centered on less stress and more joy.

  
  

  A first-generation college student, Amy earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees while working full-time and later raising a family. She has studied leadership at Yale, neuroscience at the NeuroLeadership Institute, and stress resilience at Harvard Medical School.

  
  

  Amy has appeared in Forbes, Katie Couric Media Inc., CEOWORLD Magazine, and other prestigious outlets. She is a regular contributor to Fast Company and the author of the national research study, The State of Stress and Joy at Work (2026). Cheers to Monday is her first book and was an instant national bestseller, debuting as the #1 bestselling business book on the USA Today bestseller list and in the top 10 on the Publisher's Weekly bestsellers list.

  
  

  She and her family make their home in the Pacific Northwest.

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• Follow-up Magic: Craft Your 3-Sentence Strategy for Better Opportunities, Referrals & Relationships ~ with Annie Franceschi (with TODN)

  • When
    July 22, 2026
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    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Follow-up Magic: Craft Your 3-Sentence Strategy for Better Opportunities, Referrals & Relationships

  Special morning workshop with Annie Franceschi
  (in partnership with Triangle ODN)
  

  
  

  When expanding your network, having a clear, confident way to describe what you do—and how to connect with you—can make all the difference. Whether you're a consultant, professional, or searching for your next role, join us to learn (and start using) the authentic 3-sentence strategy that turns new connections into lifelong relationships - just like magic! If you’d love a personalized resource to help you follow up fast, connect with confidence, and make your networking matter today and every day after - this is the session for you.

  Your Facilitator:

  Annie Franceschi is a former Disney storyteller, branding expert of 12+ years, and host of the Establish Yourself® podcast. Since 2013, Annie has helped more than 400 coaches and consultants clarify their brand message, package their offers, and grow businesses with confidence through her practice, Greatest Story Creative®. Along the way, she's spoken for thousands, been featured in Forbes, and written 3 bestselling books: "Establish Yourself," "Permission to Try," and "Small Biz for Kids." A Duke University graduate and major Muppets fan, Annie lives in Durham, NC with her husband, Gus, and their favorite Muppet, their son - Leo.
  

  AGENDA:

  8:45pm - 9:00 AM: Join meeting
  9:00 - 10:00 AM: Workshop

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• What to Do When You Don't Know What's Next: Recharge Your Inner Improviser ~ with Jordana Cole (with CBODN)

  • When
    June 17, 2027
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    9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  What to Do When You Don't Know What's Next: Recharge Your Inner Improviser

  Join us for this special morning workshop with Jordana Cole, hosted by our partners at CBODN!

  
  Jordana Cole

  OD professionals know better than anyone that you can't script transformation. But when AI is reshaping work, roles are shifting, and organizations are under pressure, even seasoned practitioners can find themselves frozen or overextended. In this session, Jordana Cole draws on her TEDx talk and two decades of leadership and well-being research to help OD practitioners recharge their inner improvisers and find the clarity, creativity, and confidence to lead themselves and others through whatever comes next.

  By the end of this session, participants will: 

  • Reconnect to their core, human strengths 
  • Boost their mindset to move forward through ambiguity and missteps
  • Co-create ideas on how to bring OD value in an AI world 

  About your Facilitator:

  Combining her rich background and expertise in psychology and leadership development, alongside her authentic blend of energy, humor, and strategic questions, Jordana enables leaders to ignite behavioral change and spark transformation that not only sticks, it spreads.

  As an organizational consultant, workshop facilitator, and leadership coach, Jordana has designed and led talent strategy and leadership programs for thousands of individuals across all levels and roles around the globe.  Prior to launching her consulting and coaching practice, Jordana led enterprise learning and development functions for a decade within technology, financial services, e-commerce, and nonprofit industries. Jordana’s worked with a number of Fortune 100 companies and companies on the Best Companies to Work For list.

  Jordana is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology program and has served as an instructor for undergraduate and graduate courses related to positive organizations and human strengths & resilience. She is also certified as a PCC level coach from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a Gallup Strengths Coach, with experience coaching more than 250 leaders worldwide. As a lead faculty member for the Center for Human Potential's Self-Actualization Coaching Program, Jordana equips cohorts of professional coaches with research-backed tools to help clients surface their needs and embrace their whole selves. 

  Jordana believes that leadership is the most needed and most durable skillset in our changing world, and the one that AI can't replace.  She's been featured on a variety of podcasts and webinars discussing the connections between leadership, well-being, AI, and organizational success. She's on a mission to help everyone lead themselves and others better through uncertainty. Her TEDx talk on this topic: "What to Do When You Don't Know What's Next" currently ranks in the top 10% of views for all TEDx talks globally.

  AGENDA:

  9:15 am - 9:30 am - Join meeting
  9:30 am - 11:00 am - Workshop

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