Everyone will be able to recommend their ideas and help choose the topics for our  2020 programs.  What topics and speakers are most important, meaningful and relevant for you?  Here are some questions to stimulate your thinking:

• What great speakers do you know in the DFW area who would bring a topic of interest to OD professionals?
• What is a new program idea that you would like our chapter to try?  (For example, the TEDx-style talks have been very popular)
• What topic in the OD field are you most interested in, and who do you know in the DFW area who could address it?  (i.e. information to stay current, major challenges at work, strategic OD issues, etc.)

We have been blessed with interesting and informative monthly programs during 2019!  Let’s make our 2020 programs even better!  Bring your ideas, energy and a spirit of collaboration!  Consume copious amounts of pizza and non-alcoholic beverages!  Network with your professional colleagues!  Learn more about what’s going on in our profession!  Learn new facilitation methods and techniques!

Please reply to this note with your suggestions for speakers and meeting topics OR any ideas to improve our OD Network!  (Especially if you can’t attend.)  

Facilitator:    Logan Renfrow  (see BIO below)

We look forward to seeing you November 14 at the University of Dallas!

PS – For anyone interested we will have a pre-meeting starting at 6:00 to talk about how we can improve our overall participation and engagement.

Note:  SB Hall is on the north side the campus, near Gorman Dr. and Haggar Circle.  The SBH Serafy Special Events room is on the first floor (use any door).   Easy to find!

Parking:  Lot Q, along Dominican Lane (just northeast of the building), or Lot L (to the southwest) is larger.

We look forward to seeing you there!

At DFW OD Network we look for innovative ways to share our knowledge and experiences. Our October 10 monthly meeting will feature 6 speakers (below), who will each deliver an engaging 10 minute TED-style talk on a topic such as:

• Organizational Agility:  Organizations must be nimbler than ever, with no slowdown on the horizon. How can OD Practitioners bring a sense of order during constant change?
• Artificial Intelligence & OD:  AI is all the rage now, yet while there is great promise, there is potential for great harm. How can/should the OD field respond?
• The Future of OD:  With so much new research, what are the emerging concepts, models, and frameworks for Organization Development?

OD Network is a great place for internal and external practitioners to share ideas and get feedback from others. We look forward to your participation in this multifaceted discussion!

SPEAKERS:

• Pallavi Ridout – “Knock, Knock are you there? The Future of OD is Here!”
• Pete Sorenson – “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and other Technologies on Organizations & OD”
• Ben Dilla – “Cultivating Your Best Self at Work: Strengths-Based Emotional Intelligence”
• Lara Azcona — “For ROI from D&I, Respect trumps Tolerance”
• Jim Jameson – “Why Do We Do Things We Don’t Have To?”
• Joel Bennett – “Evidence-Based Models for Building a Culture of Health”

Moderator:  Nancy Dixon, Common Knowledge Associates    (see BIO below)

We look forward to seeing you October 10 at University of Dallas for this popular meeting!

(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)  

Note:  SB Hall is on the north side the campus, near Gorman Dr. and Haggar Circle.  The SBH Serafy Special Events room is on the first floor (use any door).   Easy to find!

Parking:  Lot Q, along Dominican Lane (just northeast of the building), or Lot L (to the southwest) is larger.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Gallup’s approach to discover and focus on strengths has benefits at the individual, team, and organizational level. They’ve shown that when people can use their strengths daily they are more engaged in their work and report higher quality of life.

Brandy Schade, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, will walk us through a deeper understanding of our own strengths and the strengths across DFW OD Network. We’ll also explore the strength interactions that enable meaningful relationships and partnerships with family members, teammates, managers and leaders. Finally, we’ll talk about how transforming an entire organization into a Strengths-Based culture can maximize engagement and performance.

As part of this discussion, we want to build a “Team Profile” of the Strength Themes of the DFW OD Network!  If you have taken the CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder) assessment, please email your Top 5 Themes to Ben.Dilla@gmail.com by September 11th.

If you haven’t taken the assessment (or want to take it again), Ben is offering a special rate (as a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach) of only $10 to complete CliftonStrengths online (including access to Gallup resources). Send an email request to Ben.Dilla@gmail.com, and you’ll receive a code for the online assessment; complete it by September 11th to be part of our DFW ODN Team Profile.

You can pay the $10 by cash or credit card at the meeting, along with the $10 meeting fee.  Special offer: If you’re a paid-up member of DFW OD Network, or if you join or renew at the September meeting ($60/year), we’ll waive the $10 fee and you’ll get the assessment for free!

It’s completely optional to take the assessment, of course. Either way, please join us on 9/12 for this very interesting discussion and analysis of “who we are”.

[Also – a quick ‘heads-up’ for the October 10 meeting, where we will have 6-8 short TEDx-stylepresentations.  We are looking for speakers – If you are thinking of submitting a talk please reply and let us know.  More info to follow.]

Speaker:  Brandy Schade, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach  (see BIO below)

We look forward to seeing you September 12 at the University of Dallas!  

(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)  

Note:  SB Hall is on the north side the campus, near Gorman Dr. and Haggar Circle.  The SBH Serafy Special Events room is on the first floor (use any door).   Easy to find!

Parking:  Lot Q, along Dominican Lane (just northeast of the building), or Lot L (to the southwest) is larger.

We look forward to seeing you there!

[Scroll to the bottom of the RSVP page to see who all is attending or share with others.]

The Collaboration Effect:
Bridging Learning and Change

Schedule for Thursday Evening:
–  6:30  Intros / Networking / Food
–  7:15  Announcements / Program
–  8:45  Closing and evaluation

Meeting Location:  American Airlines Headquarters *
   4333 Amon Carter Boulevard, Center Port 5 (6 Story Building)
   Fort Worth, TX 76155   [This is our final meeting at this location!]

>> Click for Satellite Map of the building and parking (with lat/long)
Note: Take Hwy 183 to Amon Carter exit; Go south to Sovereign Rd (SW corner).

Parking  is plentiful, free, and very close to the door (see map).  ADA accessible.

Cost:   No charge for members ($60/year).  $10 for guests.

Speaker BIO:  Lara Azcona  

Experienced in making necessary change in the workplace an exciting prospect rather than a dreaded reality, Lara Azcona, a Prosci certified change practitioner, has implemented change management across global organizations including technology and organizational changes at National Semiconductor and process change at Ernst & Young.

Her experience in education has strengthened her skills in training staff as well as developing and facilitating learning across industries from software training to audit training and more.  Lara holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

Our Dilemma – 4 Wicked Issues:

We live in a complex dynamic world of organizations in which we must deal with wicked problems involving a lot of stakeholders who wield power.

There are Four Wicked Issues that sabotage our organizational work:

• Sustaining change – making change stick
• Diffusing Change – spreading change throughout an organization and its ecosystem
• Seeing from an Ecosystems Point of View – A point of view that sees ALL stakeholders and their points of view
• Seeing Digital Impact – understanding the opportunities and constraints imposed by the all-pervasive impact of technology upon how work gets done

Is Design Thinking a Useful, Newish Tool We Can Use?

The fields of organization design and organization development are filled will many tools, ideas, techniques, models, and approaches that prove to be of varying degrees of helpfulness in achieving organization’s desired outcomes. Sorting through this “bag of tricks” and figuring out when to use which one is an ongoing struggle for the practitioner.

Design Thinking is a fairly recent model and approach that is available to the practitioner.

• What are a few basic concepts of Design Thinking?
• How does it fit with other approaches that we have available to us?
• What are some unique perspectives and insights of Design Thinking?
• What is an example of how Design Thinking has contributed to a project?

Join us for a lively discussion on how using design thinking can help us wrangle these four Wicked Issues!

Speaker:    Pete Sorenson, CMC®     (see BIO below)

We look forward to seeing you July 11 at the University of Dallas!  

(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)  

Note:  SB Hall is on the north side the campus, near Gorman Dr. and Haggar Circle.  The SBH Serafy Special Events room is on the first floor (use any door).   Easy to find!

Parking:  Lot Q, along Dominican Lane (just northeast of the building), or Lot L (to the southwest) is larger.

We look forward to seeing you there!

[Scroll to the bottom of the RSVP page to see who all is attending or share with others.]

Integral Organizational Wellness:
Bridging the Workplace Gap
Between OD & Mental Health  

Schedule for Thursday Evening:
–  6:30  Intros / Networking / Food
–  7:15  Announcements / Program
–  8:45  Closing and evaluation

Meeting Location:  American Airlines Headquarters *
   4333 Amon Carter Boulevard, Center Port 5 (6 Story Building)
   Fort Worth, TX 76155

>> Click for Satellite Map of the building and parking (with lat/long)
Note: Take Hwy 183 to Amon Carter exit; Go south to Sovereign Rd (SW corner).

Parking  is plentiful, free, and very close to the door (see map).  ADA accessible.

Cost:   No charge for members ($60/year).  $10 for guests.

Speaker BIO: 

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.  He first delivered stress-management programming in 1985, and OWLS programs have since reached close to 250,000 workers across the United States and abroad.

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/ co-authored five books: Raw Coping Power, Heart-Centered Leadership (with Susan Steinbrecher), Time and Intimacy, Preventing Workplace Substance Abuse, and Well-Being Champions: A Competency-Based Guidebook.

McKinsey and Company has reported that 70% of all enterprise technology transformations fail due to lack of employee engagement and inadequate management support.  These are ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ projects that blur the lines between the physical, digital and biological domains. Enterprise-wide technologies were in the first wave of this revolution, and early failures drove an interest in the human factors that impact transformation success. Since the early 90’s, many firms have developed methodologies and tools to increase engagement and adoption. These strategies are now being applied to the next wave of digital transformation.

Our speaker was an IBM Sr. Managing Consultant for the past 10 years with the Organizational Change Management practice in the Enterprise Architecture group of IBM’s Global Business Services division.  He will provide an overview of IBM’s Better Change methodology and present IBM’s best practice tools used to drive ERP technology transformations such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, and PeopleSoft.

Speaker:    Dr. Fred Asher     (see BIOs below)

We look forward to seeing you May 9 at the University of Dallas!

(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)  

Note:  SB Hall is on the north side the campus, near Gorman Dr. and Haggar Circle.  The SBH Serafy Special Events room is on the first floor (use any door).   Easy to find!

Parking:  Lot Q, along Dominican Lane (just northeast of the building), or Lot L (to the southwest) is larger.

We look forward to seeing you there!

ODN Secrets, Successes & Struggles:  
The State of the OD Network!   

Or in other words: Who are we? Where are we? And where in the hell are we going?  Come out for a rare luncheon DFW ODN meeting to discover the state of the OD Network, its wishes, its dreams, and its stark realities.

Be entertained and enlightened by Dr. Glen Earl, your fellow DFW ODN member, while he draws back the curtain on the OD Network, sharing with you the secret sauce and inner workings of this global organization…which you are a member of a regional affiliation.

Dr. Earl serves as an ODN Board of Trustee; his term is from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2020. Additionally, he is on the Editorial Board of the OD Review…yes after some 60 years, the professional OD journal changed its name from Practitionerto Review. Big changes are afoot!

Come “loaded for bear” i.e. questions that inquiring minds want answered. The landscape is shifting for all professional associations. Find out how that is affecting the OD Network. OD as a practice is gaining a worldwide presence and Identity; find out what the OD Network is doing (or not) to be a leader in this globalization.  And share ideas on how we can help!

We will have a stimulating conversation about the OD Network’s future as an organization and as a field of practice. We look forward to seeing you there!

SPEAKER:   Dr. Glen Earl,  Chicago School of Professional Psychology   (See Bio below)

    
Remember – No ODNet meeting on February 14 – come to this one on 2/15 instead!     
  
(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)    

Schedule for Friday’s Luncheon:  

–  11:30   Networking / Food / Intros
–  12:00   Announcements / Program
–    1:45   Closing and evaluation  
 

Meeting Location:   CSL Dallas  (Center for Spiritual Living)
  – Address:  4801 Spring Valley Road, Suite 115, Dallas 75244    <– Google Nav 

CSLDallas is located in the northeast corner of a two-story office complex near the intersection of Spring Valley and Inwood Road.  The parking lot is off of International Parkway although the official address is 4801 Spring Valley.  A large sign at the parking lot entrance 4801 Spring Valley has CSLDallas at the top.

From Spring Valley go north on International Parkway one block and enter the parking lot straight ahead. From Inwood Road go west one block on International Parkway and enter the parking lot to your right at the corner.  The entrance to the CSLDallas complex is in right hand (northeast) corner behind a big tree with CSLDallas signage above foyer opening. 

NOTE: Google maps may take you 100 yards south of the actual location.

Parking is plentiful and free!  (Lot entrance is 1 block north of Spring Valley and 1 block west of Inwood Rd.)

Cost:   No charge for members ($60/year).  $10 for guests.      

Speaker Bio:   

Dr. Glen Earl has over 25 years’ experience in Leadership and Organizational Development. After 6.5 years, he resigned from Parkland Hospital to serve as the Department Chair of the Business Psychology program at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology – Dallas campus.

Glen earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Alliant International University-LA campus. He is the co-author of Exiting Oz: How the New Workforce is Changing Business Forever.