July: From OD, KM, & DEI to Conversational Leadership (07/14/22)

Conversational Leadership  
Emerging from OD, KM, & DEI  

OD has added complexity to its own practice over the decades. From diagnostic OD to dialogic OD to dynamic OD and beyond. Have you also noticed the similar fields of Knowledge Management (not Information Management) and Diversity Equity Inclusion have matured and added complexity to their own fields as well?

Enter Conversational Leadership!  The goal of Conversational Leadership is to integrate across OD, KM, DEI, and even Project Management. The 3 core questions of CL are:

• What is the conversation we need to have right now?
• In what way do we need to have the conversation?
• How is this conversation forming community?

Please join us on 7/14 as Donita and John introduce the CL framework and lead us through an interactive session.  We will experience Conversational Leadership and help guide its direction!

Speakers:    John Hovell and Donita Volkwijn
         
(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)

 
Schedule for Thursday Evening July 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.

  
Speaker BIOs:  
  
Donita Volkwijn,  Sr. Director – Membership Engagement, Philanthropy New York

Donita is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion expert leveraging knowledge management tools and methodologies to ensure that access and information (and, as a result, power) are distributed fairly and equitably across organizations to drive engagement and performance.

Her tagline:  Standing on the shoulders of giants and unsung champions, helping to guide organizations, often kicking and screaming along the continuum of diversity, equity, and inclusion; with the end goal of achieving justice!

John Hovell,  Managing Director / co-founder, STRATactical International

John is a leader in the convergence of Knowledge Management (KM) and Organization Development (OD).  He is a practitioner, speaker, and author in OD/KM strategies and their application to current challenges and is on the team creating a new international discipline known as Conversational Leadership.

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”.