Category Archives: Meetings

The Power of OD —
Pioneers & Luminaries    

The Pepperdine University MSOD Alumni network has created a platform called “The Power of OD“, whose goal is to bring together like-minded agents of change who are passionate about transforming people, leaders, organizations, and communities. By offering compelling and freely shared content, they seek to mobilize dialogue and authentic connections that enable us to make an impactful difference in the world.

Our May 12 DFW OD Network session offers both a powerful introduction to the field of OD and a great overview of the diverse leadership that has helped OD thrive for the past 20 years. Whether you are new to the field or just need a fun refresher, the work of the Pepperdine Pioneers and Luminaries initiative will enhance your understanding of significant OD thought leadership, and also look to the future of OD.
         
Presenters:  Charlotte Law and Jeb Bates (Pepperdine MSOD Alumni)   
{See full BIOs below}      
     
(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)

Schedule for Thursday Evening May 12:  (CT)    
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:15  Program Begins Promptly    
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

PRESENTER BIOs:   
 
Charlotte Law is an experienced organization development consultant, international seminar leader, and professional coach.  She is the founder of High Impact Training & Coaching Systems, a Phoenix-based firm working with individuals and companies to achieve outstanding results. Her unique approach combines strategic planning, executive consulting, group learning focused on skill development and concept integration, and one-on-one support and accountability coaching of individual employees.

Jonathan ‘Jeb’ Bates is the founder of ThoughtAction LLC, a global talent optimization, executive development and team alignment firm based in Massachusetts. A graduate of the Pepperdine University MSOD program and ICF certified coach, Jeb consults with senior leaders in organizations to implement intentional people strategies that drive their business strategies. You can reach Jeb at jbates@thoughtaction.com.

For more information about the Pepperdine initiative see:    https://www.ThePowerofOD.org/about

The Path to Mastery Using the  
Foursquare Coaching Framework 

What distinguishes a master-level practitioner from those less competent? This subject has not been well researched in coaching; however, it has been a research topic in other helping disciplines such as counseling and psychology. From the results of that research Dr. Hicks will describe a developmental model that depicts reference points on the novice to mastery continuum.

While many experts talk about how to “do” coaching, they do not spell out the cognitive process that underlies the doing – something that master-level coaches have developed through either experience or education. Integrating his background as a clinical psychologist, an experienced executive coach with that of a research professor,

Dr. Hicks will present an overview of the Four-Square Coaching Framework as described in his book, The Process of Highly Effective Coaching. This framework was developed to provide a clear pathway for navigating the landscape of a coaching conversation with mastery. Please join us on April 14 for this very relevant discussion!
         
Facilitators:  Dr. Robert F. Hicks  {See full BIO below}      
   
(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)

 Schedule for Thursday Evening April 14:  (CT)    
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:15  Program Begins Promptly    
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

 FACILITATOR BIO:   Robert F. Hicks, Ph.D.
 
Dr. Hicks is a Clinical Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the founding Executive Director of the Organizational Behavior, Coaching, and Consulting program at the Naveen Jindal School of Management.

Robert is a Licensed Psychologist with a background in both clinical and organizational psychology. He has over four decades of experience coaching executives of fortune 500 companies, executives and department chairs of various medical institutions, and teaching coaching methodology to leaders and practitioners. Dr. Hicks holds an appointment as a Faculty Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Dr. Hicks has taken the lead in educating practitioners in coaching methodology to improve their professional effectiveness. He has written two books on the subject: Coaching as a Leadership Style: The art and science of coaching conversations for healthcare professionals (2014) and The Process of Highly Effective Coaching (2017) – both published by Routledge/Taylor Francis. He is currently writing a second edition of The Process of Highly Effective Coaching, to be published in 2023.

Organizational Storytelling:    
Reimagining the Why, How, & What    

Did you realize that everything you speak and do is part of your story? Are you aware of the impact that stories are having on you? Is it possible that entire cultures are a complex weaving of stories?

What stories are we telling right now? What stories are being heard and not heard right now? These are the kinds of questions that Dr. Johel Brown-Grant and John Hovell work with every day. They have designed an interactive session with us to discover our stories and work with them.

Dr. Brown-Grant will share the findings from his published book regarding the basic structures of a story. And of course, come prepared to share your stories – especially a story about the most impactful OD experience that you’ve had.

We invite you to join us on 3/10 to enjoy some stories about stories, and maybe share some of your own!
         
Facilitators:  John Hovell and Johel Brown-Grant  {See full BIOs below}      
   
(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)

 
Schedule for Thursday Evening March 10:  (CT)    
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:15  Program Begins Promptly    
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

 FACILITATOR BIOs:  
  
As a leader in the convergence of Knowledge Management (KM) and Organization Development (OD), John Hovell is the Managing Director and co-founder of STRATactical International. He is a practitioner, speaker, and author in OD/KM strategies and their application to current challenges. He is on the team creating a new international discipline known as Conversational Leadership.

John volunteers as the corporate lead for the award-winning annual ‘STEMmerday’ event where thousands of participants engage in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math related learning activities. John serves on several advisory boards including the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Psychotherapy, International Knowledge Management Institute, Training Industry Quarterly, and Synergy Development and Training. John may be best known for his Conversational Leadership framework and the practice of “C-Groups”.

Johel Brown-Grant, PhD, is a storytelling strategist and knowledge management practitioner with extensive experience in the practical application of storytelling to transfer critical knowledge in organizations. His practice-driven workshops, seminars and presentations focus on finding storytelling solutions for complex enterprise problems requiring a communication strategy.

In his most recent book, Knowledge Management and the Practice of Storytelling, he offers practical advice and guidance on the skills and competencies practitioners need to implement successful and sustainable storytelling initiatives.

Using Dialogue for Complex
Organizational Challenges   

This month we will focus on the multiple ways we talk with each other in organizations, e.g. conversation, monologue, dialogue, skilled discussion, etc.  We will try out these various ways to see how each serves our needs.

Dialogue is of greatest need when we are facing complexity (Snowden) or adaptive challenges (Heifetz). When we are in dialogue, members do not try to solve a problem, rather they work to understand the problem they are jointly facing. Dialogue is a necessary precursor to holding a skilled discussion where members decide on the action to take to solve the problem.

We invite you to join us on 2/10 to explore these methods and to share your perspectives!
         
Facilitator:  Nancy Dixon  {See full BIOs below}      
   
(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)

 Schedule for Thursday Evening February 10:  (CT)    
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:15  Program Begins Promptly    
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

 FACILITATOR BIO:  
 
Nancy M Dixon  is the CEO and Senior researcher at Common Knowledge Associates, a consulting and research company that uses dialogue as the agent of change for cultural transformation and conflict resolution.  She is the President  of the US Academy of Professional Dialogue where she conducts monthly interviews with leading theorist and practitioners of dialogue. She is also a faculty member of the Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) program at Columbia University.

At Common Knowledge Associates we think of ourselves as a conveners. We don’t come with ready-made answers for what an organization needs. What we bring is the knowledge and processes for convening people, within an organization, in a way that lets them develop an understanding of what is needed and then building on that understanding to find a path forward. By drawing on the collective intelligence of an organization we are able to help them solve complex problems and achieve shifts that create sustained change.

Orchestrating Collisions:
Stimulating Dialog Across Hybrid Teams  

Hybrid work is our emerging reality as organizations vacillate between virtual, face-to-face, and new variations.  In this era how do we design & orchestrate ‘dialogic collisions’ – i.e. human interactions that facilitate meaningful discussions across groups?

A few things we know about people & organizations today: 

• COVID-19 continues to change the nature of work and the workplace
• Organizations are driven by the flow of information, in and across teams
• People use dialogue to engage in deliberations to get work done

Our Dialogic Deliberation on Thursday January 13 2022:

• We are living in a world of virtual, hybrid, & face-to-face interactions. What are the policy & practice implications of this new and evolving reality?
• How do we influence and nudge leaders & organizations towards defining and achieving their purposes & goals in this different work ecosystem?
• How do we facilitate dialogue across fragmented and rapidly changing organizations, and how can we stimulate serendipitous connections across these new silos?

We invite you to join us on 1/13 with your own questions, ideas, and perspectives!
         
Facilitator:  Pete Sorenson  {See full BIOs below}           [Coordinator:  Ben Dilla]
   
(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)

 
Schedule for Thursday Evening January 13:  (CT)    
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:15  Program Begins Promptly    
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

 
FACILITATOR BIO:  
 
Peter Jay Sorenson, CMC®  is an independent strategic organization design and change management consultant, coach, social entrepreneur, university instructor, and ethicist.  His professional focus is to collaborate on and discover and create the next generation of organization design technology that can match the speed of change and disruption in this volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, (VUCA) digitally fueled world. (And on developing the next generation of organization designers that will make this world work from a values, effectiveness, and efficiency points of view.)

Personally his focus has been on using innovation to create economic and social self-reliance for individuals, families, and organizations in both the developing and developed world.

Annual Networking / Social Meeting
and VIRTUAL “Gold Elephant Book Exchange”   

Meeting Goals: 

–  Connect:  get to know each other better – personally & professionally
–  Learn:  share knowledge informally during book exchange and a NEW game!
–  Enjoy:  fellowship + books + virtual party game

This will be our 10th Annual Holiday Event — but this year it is virtual.  We can’t bring physical gift wrapped books this year.  So instead please reply to this invitation with an Amazon link to a book that you would have brought.  (Or email to Jim Jameson).  I will keep it ‘under wraps’ and will only reveal your book at the meeting (in a new way)!

Here is a mailto:jimjameson83@gmail.comlink to the instructions for the book exchange in case you would like to know what to expect or to use with other groups.

In this fun activity perhaps we can all find some new inspiration, fellowship, and even some ‘golden nuggets’ in these challenging times.  I hope to ‘see’ you there!

Facilitator:   Jim Jameson

Schedule for Thursday Evening:
–  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
–  7:00  Announcements / Intros / Program  <–Note earlier start!
–  8:45  Closing and evaluation 

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

 
Facilitator BIO: 

Jim Jameson is “semi-retired” from his various consulting roles and is exploring new avenues.  His professional mission has been to improve the success rate of technology adoption projects, working mainly in the areas of Business Analysis, Change Management, Collaboration, and Knowledge Management.  He believes that focusing on the people side of technology change is the key to improving ROI on transformational ‘IT solutions’.

Jim earned an MS degree in Information Systems and post-grad certificate in Knowledge Management, both from George Washington University in DC.

2022 Program Planning —  
Using MURAL (+other virtual tools)!   

This year our November annual planning meeting will again be virtual, but we will do more than just planning.  We will be using some innovative virtual collaboration processes and tools to ensure that this meeting will be a learning experience as well!

We need your help to gather as many ideas as possible BEFORE the meeting.  Here is the initial Idea Gathering / Brainstorming Document for 2022 — please begin adding your ideas and suggestions to this immediately!    What topics and/or speakers would you like to see?

At the meeting we will be using the MURAL tool to take our brainstorming process to the next level, using the affinity grouping and voting capabilities of MURAL.  (Thanks to Stephen Anderson who is an expert on this tool and on group decision processes like this.)

For reference and to stimulate new ideas here are some topics from past years: LINK  

Again, our goal for this event (and the pre/post activities) is to select our 2022 programs AND to learn some new techniques for virtual consensus building in today’s VUCA world.

We look forward to working with you on this important activity and we hope you can join us on November 11 (and/or before)!

Meeting/Process Design Team:  Pete Sorenson, Stephen Anderson, Jim Jameson, Terri Adkisson, ++

Results Curation/Follow-Up Team:  TBD  (We are looking for volunteers!)

Schedule for Thursday Evening:
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros / Program  <–Note earlier start!
   –  8:45  Closing and evaluation 

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

  
Speaker BIOs:   n/a this month

OD Sound Bites (TEDx-style Talks!)    

At DFW OD Network we look for alternative ways to share our knowledge and experiences. Our October 14^th monthly meeting will feature one of our most popular annual sessions!

Seven Selected Speakers will each deliver an engaging 8-minute TEDx-style talk on an OD related topic, reflective on where we’ve been this past year and looking forward into the future!

Here is our list of speakers and topics:

OD Network is a great place for internal and external practitioners to share ideas and get feedback from others.  Please join us on 10/14 to hear these multifaceted presentations and get to know the presenters!
             
Moderator:  Nila Sinha, PhD – Founder & Principal, Sinha Solutions, Inc.  (Email) 

(See speaker BIOs below.)    

Schedule for Thursday Evening October 14:  (CDT)
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros / Program  <–Note earlier start!
   –  8:45  Closing and evaluation 

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

 
Speaker BIOs:  

Brian Lowell French is Brian Lowell French is a leadership creator, teacher, consultant and coach with 30+ years of experience. He is the Founder and President of Harmonic Learning, LLC, a talent development company providing leadership development, executive coaching, team-strengthening, and mindfulness-based programs. He also provides executive coaching through Franklin Covey, and serves as a Senior Consultant with KJE Consulting, providing DEI facilitation and coaching. Brian previously spent 16 years with Verizon, leading a team that provided the Global Leadership Development programs. He is a certified executive coach, certified mindfulness meditation teacher, and holds many certifications on industry-leading psychometric-assessments and leadership-content. He is the author of the soon to be published book, “Harmonic Leadership – Leading with Inclusive, Mindful Caring” and is a frequent speaker on the topic of leadership and talent development.

Carrie McHale Reed is President of McHale Group, LLC, which provides the assessment tools, skill-development, and coaching essential for individuals and teams to take action to achieve and surpass their desired goals. www.mchalegroup.us. She is also the founder of the Leader’s Warehouse portal where leaders can receive inspiration, coaching and tools to use.  She is also founder of Women’s Wizdom – a one-stop resource site to connect women from across the globe with the tools, people and coaching they need to live their best lives: www.womenswizdom.com.    Carrie is a published author and an international speaker in the areas of communication, leadership development, and change management.

Jay Gordon Cone, PhD is an author and co-founder of Unstuck Minds. He has spent the past 35 years supporting leadership development and organizational change. Unstuck Minds is a firm focused on helping leaders find compassionate and creative solutions when they feel uncertain and overwhelmed.  His current and past clients include: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dell Technologies, Exelon, GE, Nokia, Fluor Corporation, The TJX Companies, and W.L. Gore and Associates.

Marilyn Sutherland is the Founder of LoveLeadConnect.com, and author of Why did you load the dishwasher like that? 9 Whopping Mistakes that Push Love Away, and creator of Relationship School (where women leaders finally learn the skills we should have learned in school). With a 30+ career coaching and consulting with companies centers around people, culture, change management, HR and OD. An avid personal development student, Marilyn has completed an M.S. in Organizational Development, 12 years of leading transformational training seminars, is trained as a Presence-Based Coach, and is in a certification program called “Sourced Experience.”

Nila Sinha, PhD is founder and principal of Sinha Solutions. Her focus is on high touch consulting from a scientist-practitioner perspective – Identifying core people strategy issues and maintaining a “solutions focus” with an emphasis on measuring outcomes that positively affect organizational results. Nila leverages 20 years of experience in talent selection and leadership development. Her areas of specialization include the construction of competency-based hiring and development programs, psychological assessment, test validation, and employee development. Over the course of her career, she worked with clients such as BNSF, Travelers Insurance, 7-Eleven, Comcast, and American Airlines. Nila completed her doctorate at Florida International University in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

Syed Zafar, author of Crossing Cultures with Grace and Humor, has been pursuing his passion of promoting intercultural understanding for over 25 years through keynote addresses, seminars & workshops.  He has presented over 600 programs on Intercultural Communication at corporations, universities and not-for-profit organizations across the world.  Syed Zafar was born and raised in Pakistan.  Before coming to the U.S. in 1982, he worked in Saudi Arabia for four years. Experience of living in three different countries provides him a unique perspective on the subject of intercultural communication.

Trevor Spunt, MBA is an Organizational Effectiveness Executive, Thought Leader, and Speaker with 20 years of experience helping global companies achieve strategic and operational organizational success. He has built a successful change management practice for one of the big 4 consulting firms, navigated Fortune 500 clients through strategic and tactical organizational challenges, and helped clients build sustainable organizational effectiveness capabilities. Mr. Spunt founded Soarington in 2012 — a firm dedicated to helping clients successfully introduce change to support their strategic goals.  Trevor is a Founding Member of the Global Association of Change Management Professionals and is also a member of the Oceans 7 consortium of Change and Transformation Executives.

Moderator:  Dr. Nila Sinha, Sinha Solutions, Inc.

Multi-Level Resilience and Mental Well-Being:
Best Self <> Best Team <> Best Organization   

Our September meeting will be devoted to discussions, polling, and break-out groups designed to help us think across levels in the areas of workplace and employee resilience and mental health.

Specifically, Joel and Ben will explore these qualities through a positive lens or growth mind-set and show how teams and organizations can embark on a journey to systematically develop qualities of resilience, thriving, and flourishing.

Also to help jump-start your insights in this area here is a link to a pre-reading article by Joel on multi-level resilience.

We look forward to seeing you online on 9/9 to gain new insights on resilience during these change-filled times.
         
Facilitators:  Joel Bennett and Ben Dilla  {See full BIOs below} 

>> October 14 preview – our TEDx Style Meeting!   This is one of our most popular meetings each year but we could not do it without your presentations!  We will feature 6 to 8 selected speakers with an engaging 8-10 minute talk.  If you are interested please submit a brief outline highlighting your topic, objectives, and impact of your talk.  You can reply to this message or email your outline to Nila Sinha (nila@sinhasolutions.com) by Monday, September 6th.  We hope to have initial selections by our next ODNet meeting on 9/9 so planning may begin!          

Schedule for Thursday Evening September 9:  (CDT)    
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:15  Program Begins Promptly    
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

FACILITATOR BIOs:  
 
Joel Bennett, Ph.D. is president of Organizational Wellness and Learning Systems (OWLS), a consulting firm that specializes in evidence-based wellness, resilience, mental well-being, and catalyzing healthy work cultures from the inside out.

OWLS clients include corporate, private, nonprofit, local and federal agencies. OWLS has received close to $5 million in federal research grants to assess, design and deliver workplace wellness programs. Dr. Bennett is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed research articles, and he has authored or co-authored five books.

Dr. Ben Dilla is a business professor at the University of Dallas and an executive coach, trainer, and consultant through his own company, Bold Leader Development. His career as an Industrial & Organizational Psychologist included working as a behavioral scientist in the US Air Force, as a leadership development consultant for Personnel Decisions International (PDI, now Korn Ferry), and in OD & Training leadership roles for several companies in the DFW area.

As a coach, Ben often works with accomplished technical professionals who want to develop and improve their leadership and influence skills, which led him to promote a strengths-based approach to the skills of Emotional Intelligence.

Doing the On-Line / Hybrid Facilitation Tango! 
(A Knowledge Creation, Capture, & Curation Event) 

This event will use an “idea crowdsourcing process.” It’s not really “brain storming” because it’s based on our experiences & expertise. But it’s not really a presentation either. We will all contribute!

A few people will be presenting “idea seeds” of what they have seen work.  And since we all have been working remotely, we will tap into our individual & collective experiences to capture some helpful principles and practices.

Thus we will learn with and from each other, and perhaps take away some new insights!

Some questions for reflection:

• How do we promote dialogue in a virtual environment?
• How do we develop informal relationships and informal sharing remotely?
• What are the advantages of remote / virtual?
• What are the disadvantages of remote / virtual?
• How is facilitation the same?  How is it different?
• And what about our hybrid future?

Please join us on 8/12 as we use the Mural whiteboard, Zoom breakouts, and other neat tools for this knowledge creation, capture, and curation extravaganza!
         
Facilitators:  Stephen Anderson and Pete Sorenson {See full BIOs below}
   + supporting cast — Terri Adkisson, Jim Jameson, Jeff Richardson, & YOU! 
    

Schedule for Thursday Evening August 12:  (CDT)    
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:15  Program Begins Promptly    
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

 
FACILITATOR BIOs:  
 
Stephen P. Anderson is a design leader focused on workforce learning and organizational development. And he’s on a mission: To make learning the hard stuff fun, by creating ‘things to think with’ and ‘spaces’ for generative play. Through custom-designed toolkits, on-site training, and now via The Mighty Minds Club, Stephen helps product teams work through their most difficult situations. As a keynote speaker, Stephen continues to challenge and inspire audiences as he exposes the quirky connections between games, play, learning, interactive visualizations, and other exciting topics.

Stephen’s newest book, Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding, was published in May 2020.

Peter Jay Sorenson, CMC®  is an independent strategic organization design and change management consultant, coach, social entrepreneur, university instructor, and ethicist.  His professional focus is to collaborate on and discover and create the next generation of organization design technology that can match the speed of change and disruption in this volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, (VUCA) digitally fueled world. (And on developing the next generation of organization designers that will make this world work from a values, effectiveness, and efficiency points of view.)

Personally his focus has been on using innovation to create economic and social self-reliance for individuals, families, and organizations in both the developing and developed world.

Return to Work: The New Normal 
 (and Tug-of-War between Organizations & Employees) 

Join us for a lively discussion on how organizations are bringing people back to work, in a hybrid or still yet to be defined environment.

Learn first-hand from leaders who are currently involved in designing pathways to bring people back into the traditional or evolving workplace.

We look forward to your participation in this highly interactive session where attendees will have a chance to discuss their point of view on the challenges faced by organizations and by employees as a part of this emerging process.

Please join us on July 8 to add your perspectives as we explore how people should be preparing themselves for a successful transition (or assimilation) into the new ‘hybrid’ workplaces of the future

Facilitator:  Pallavi Ridout   {See full BIO below}

Schedule for Thursday Evening July 8:    (CDT) 
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:15  Program Begins Promptly    
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

FACILITATOR BIO:  
 
Pallavi Ridout  is an Executive Coach, facilitator, speaker and OD consultant.  For the past 16 years she has worked in leadership roles within the OD and Talent Management functions for global organizations. During this time she coached several hundred executives and helped employees and teams perform at their peak at organizations such as ICANN and Warner Bros.

She is currently writing a book inspired by her life changing decision to embark on a journey of “living a life of no regrets”.  On this journey she decided to quit her successful corporate career to prioritize family, pursue her passion for motivational speaking, and inspire others.

Humble Inquiry (2nd edition)
Book Discussion – w/ authors Ed & Peter Schein!  

This is an exciting opportunity to have in-depth discussions of the newly released “Humble Inquiry (2nd ed)” with like-minded professionals AND with the authors — the legendary Ed Schein and his son Peter!

Humble Inquiry, in a nutshell, is the basis for building trusting relationships to facilitate better communication and collaboration. It’s a way of empowering others by building trust and focusing on the contrast between asking (from a position of humility) versus telling (from a position of authority).

Humble Inquiry is useful for anyone — students, trainers, coaches, change consultants, or any other HR or OD professional.   Learning Objectives for these events include:

• Engage in critical discussions of a shared text
• Discuss practical opportunities to apply the book’s concepts
• Build relationships with other OD professionals
• MEET THE AUTHORS!

It’s OK if you do not read the entire book (or any of it).  Read what you can and join us for these stimulating conversations!

   
Facilitators: Joel Bennett, and featuring authors Ed & Peter Schein!   {See full BIOs below}

Schedule for Thursday Evening June 10:    
   –  6:40  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  6:55  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:05  Program Begins Promptly    
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

 
FACILITATOR BIOs:  
 
Joel Bennett, Ph.D., is president of Organizational Wellness and Learning Systems (OWLS), a consulting firm that specializes in evidence-based wellness, resilience, mental well-being, and catalyzing healthy work cultures from the inside out.

OWLS clients include corporate, private, nonprofit, local and federal agencies. OWLS has received close to $5 million in federal research grants to assess, design and deliver workplace wellness programs. Dr. Bennett is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed research articles, and he has authored or co-authored five books.

Edgar H. Schein is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His previous books include Helping; Process Consultation Revisited; The Corporate Culture Survival Guide; DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC; Organizational Culture and Leadership; and Career Anchors.

Peter Schein is a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.  He provides help to start-ups and expansion-phase technology companies.  Peter was educated at Stanford University (BA Social Anthropology, Honors and Distinction) and Northwestern University (Kellogg MBA, Marketing and Information Management, Top Student in Information Management), and the USC Marshall School of Business Center For Effective Organizations (HCEO Certificate, 2017).

>> See http://www.scheinocli.org/ for more detailed Biographies of Ed and Peter, along with a history of their work and many other resources.