October: OD Sound Bites (TEDx-style Talks!) – [10/13/22]

OD Sound Bites (TEDx-style Talks!)      

At DFW OD Network we look for a variety of ways to share our knowledge and experience. Our October 13^th monthly meeting will feature one of our most popular annual sessions!

This year our meeting theme is Organizational Healing.  Our seven selected speakers will each deliver an engaging 10-minute TEDx-style talk on this theme based on their experiences and insights from the past few challenging years.

Our speakers and topics will include:

Alex Yaroslavsky, NCM, PCC — ConflictYES
    “Into the Fire: Mediation Stories of Conflict and Resolution”  

Audrey Wyatt, MBA — Leaders and Lifters, LLC
    “Prioritizing the Value of Care”  

Dustin Staiger, PMP — The People Brand
    “Moving Beyond Blame Culture” 

Ilona Posner, MS — UX Consultantcy
    “Keyhole Impact on Organizational Healing”  

Nancy Dixon, PhD — Common Knowledge.org
    “Speaking Up!”  

Nila Sinha, PhD — Sinha Solutions Inc.
    “Leading The Healing Effort”  

Robert Schaefer, PhD — Mindful Leadership, Inc.
    “Getting to Know about Flow: A Healing force for the Post-Pandemic Workplace”  

OD Network is a great place for internal and external practitioners to share ideas and get feedback.  Please join us on 10/13 to hear these multifaceted presentations and get to know our presenters! 

Moderator:  Nila Sinha, PhD – Founder & Principal, Sinha Solutions, Inc.     {see Bios below}

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

Schedule for Thursday Evening October 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.

Speaker BIOs:      

Alex Yaroslavsky  is an executive coach, mediator, and trainer, working at the intersection of emotional intelligence and conflict resolution.  His supportive, empathic, and direct coaching style empowers clients to have important and powerful conversations – at work and in their personal lives. Alex has worked with clients in financial services, legal, technology, sports & media, higher education, and nonprofit fields. His clients include entrepreneurs, corporate and nonprofit leaders. In addition to his private practice, Alex teaches Conflict Resolution at Baruch College and trains new mediators and coaches.

Audrey Wyatt – As the founder of Leaders and Lifters, LLC, Audrey partners with leaders to build cultures of psychological safety, breakthrough performance, and innovation. The goal is to help teams navigate unprecedented problems with collective joy. Audrey has worked as both an Entrepreneur and an Intrapreneur including Corporate Controller at BizNet Software and Marketing Communications Manager at DB&A, a Management Consulting firm located in Dallas, Texas.  Liberating her heart and mind to dream and execute on all cylinders, Audrey is harnessing and leveraging her diverse experiences to help organizations build unstoppable cultures using the Inspired TeamsTM framework.

Dustin Staiger uncovers companies’ identities and equips them to leverage it for more of their best customers and employees. Branding and culture are two sides of the same coin. Most businesses are challenged to manage or even understand either of these enigmas. The People Brand reduces this confusion and complexity by focusing on the people who compose a brand and culture… the employees and customers. Dustin and The People Brand have consulted companies like BP, ConocoPhillips, and Align Technology (Invisalign). He has been a thought leader on workplace culture and its impact on creativity since 2004.

Ilona Posner is a UX Consultant, Coach, and Educator. Specializing in UX Research and Strategy, her experience ranges across many industries, from startups to large corporations. Ilona teaches UX Design at the University of Toronto in the departments of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Science, and Medicine. She develops custom UX courses for client organizations to facilitate communication across teams. Passionate about nurturing UX talent and communities, she has been volunteering with Toronto’s CHI chapter for over 15 years and organizing International Student Design Competitions at conferences. Ilona holds a Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction.

Nancy Dixon is a long-time academic and consultant whose research and consulting is about helping organizations learn to conduct more authentic, insightful, and respectful conversations.  Before starting her own company in 2000, Common Knowledge Associates, she was a tenured professor and Department Chair of Administrative Sciences at the George Washington University, and before that a professor at the University of Texas. She is a thought leader in the field of Knowledge Management.  She has been a consultant to the most celebrated knowledge management companies with a rich experience in the corporate, government and international development sectors.

Nila Sinha is founder and principal of Sinha Solutions. Her focus is on high touch consulting from a scientist-practitioner perspective – Identifying core 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.

Robert Schaefer is a renowned expert in the assessment and diagnostic debrief of ability-based Emotional Intelligence, individual and team conflict styles, Mindfulness and Flow experiences at work, and the impact of mood and emotions in the workplace. His 25 years of experience has helped many companies across multiple industries achieve their desired business results.  Robert’s experience in both the design and implementation facets of training management adds significant benefits to clients in the areas of needs analysis, job analysis, efficiency modeling, assessment-based selection systems, learning retention, statistical analysis, and capturing the return on investment (ROI) of the learning function.