Events.
Partner Program: What to Do When You Don't Know What's Next: Recharge Your Inner Improviser
Join for our partner program with Chesapeake Bay ODN in June!
This 90-min virtual session will explore how to recharge your inner improviser as an OD practitioner navigating ambiguity and uncertainty.
The speaker, Jordana Cole, combines her expertise in both psychology and leadership development, along with her authentic blend of energy, humor, and strategic questions, to ignite behavior change and spark transformation that sticks.
OD in Action: Change Management
OD in Action is an in-person, member-driven think tank where we learn from one another by sharing tools, techniques, and resources along with practical examples of how they’re actually being used.
This session will focus on how members are approaching change management in their organizations or with clients and what’s working in practice.
Partner Program: Marketing for Consultants Who Hate Marketing
Join for our partner program with ODN Oregon this October!
This 2-hour virtual session will cover marketing strategies and tips for consultants, including what clients actual want, how to let the client do the selling for you, and more.
The speaker, Jerry Talley, combines his 18 year’s experience teaching in Stanford’s Sociology department with over 450 client engagements as a consultant. His business now focuses on mentoring and coaching the next generation of OD consultants.
April OD in Action: Strategic Planning
OD in Action is an in-person, member-driven think tank where we learn from one another by sharing tools, techniques, and resources along with practical examples of how they’re actually being used.
This session will focus on how members are approaching strategic planning in their organizations or with clients and what’s working in practice.
March Program: Coaching with the Spiral of Accountability
This 90-minute virtual workshop will introduce the Spiral of AccountabilityTM and how to effectively apply it to coach others improve their reactions in times of change, conflict and uncertainty.
Join in for this engaging session with speaker, Carol Horner, Founder of Synchronicity, Inc.
MNODN Winter Social Event!
We hope you’ll join us in gathering as a community for the Winter Social! This event is free and open to both members and non-members. Appetizers and drinks will be provided. Beer, NA drinks and food are all available.
You are encouraged to bring-an-OD-friend!
Partner Program: Amplifying Impact with AI: Practical Strategies for Coaches, Consultants, and OD Leaders
Join for our partner program with Triangle ODN, which represents Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, this November!
This 90-minute virtual session will explore how to amplify your impact as an OD practitioner using AI.
Together, we’ll consider how generative AI can be a strategic partner in our work while preserving the unique value we each offer.
The speaker, Lei Comerford, is an executive and leadership coach and certified AI consultant with over 25 years of leadership experience.
Partner Program: Grace Under Pressure: Dealing With Unexpected Moments In Your Facilitation
Join for our partner program with Pacific Northwest Organization Development Network this February!
This 90-minute session will explore strategies to maintain grace under pressure when unexpected moments occur during your facilitation.
The speaker, Abby Yanow, is a skilled coach and facilitator who will guide us through real-life scenarios and strategies to navigate them when facilitating.
Partner Program: When Cultures Meet: Connecting Across Differences
This 90-minute virtual workshop is a cognitively and emotionally powerful experience in connecting across differences. This will be both hands-on and engaging, led by speaker, Jeff Boudro of Power & Systems, Inc.
December Program: Essential Architecture: Simple Systems to Amplify the Org Dev Work that Matters Most
This 90-minute virtual workshop will provide actionable strategies and a repeatable system to shift from fighting fires to focusing on strategy.
Join in as this month’s speaker, Ian C. Williams, introduces an essentialist framework to help leaders and teams increase performance, engagement and enterprise value.
Partner Program: The Overlooked Power Skill: Why Relationship-Building Is Essential for Leadership and Growth
Join for our partner program with Triangle ODN, which represents Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, this November!
This 60-minute virtual session will dive into an often overlooked power skill in today’s shifting landscape: relationship-building.
Together, we’ll explore the neuroscience of the social brain, the impact of pressure on connection, and why organizations—from founders to first-time managers—need to prioritize relationships as a strategic advantage.
The speaker, Noa Ronen, brings over 20 years of experience in change management, leadership and talent development, HR, and executive coaching across the US and Israel.
November Program: The Hero’s Dilemma: Moving from Hero to Coach
Join us for 1-hour of dinner and networking followed by this 90-minute in-person workshop where we will explore a common temptation that OD professionals experience - the desire to be heroic leaders. Together, we will learn and practice strategies to shift from hero to coach in a way that encourages clients to take ownership.
The speaker, Tyler Zabriskie, will lead an engaging and multi-modal experience including storytelling, peer sharing, guided reflection, and small group discussion.
MNODN Community Update
Join the MNODN Board for a 90-minute virtual session to discuss community updates and opportunities to get involved in shaping the future!
Partner Program: Launch Your Modeling Career…. Business Modeling That Is
Join for our partner program with ODN Oregon this October!
This 90-minute virtual session will welcome you to the beginning of your modeling career… business modeling, that is.
Discover and try visual tools that will advance situational awareness and take individuals and teams into a more effective, productive and aligned relationship with each other, your organization and your customers.
The speaker, Bruce Hazen, combines business systems experience with clinical understanding to address the needs of individuals who are managing other people, organizations, and constant change.
Partner Program: Strike the Right Chord: The Six Essential “Notes” of Leadership
Join for our partner program with Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network this October!
This interactive 90-minute session will explore how OD practitioner success is no longer measured by output. In today’s workplace, we must orchestrate alignment, meaning and engagement for clients to create something powerful - much like great musicians do!
The speaker, Dr. Michael Brenner, will introduce his research-grounded CHORDS Model which is a diagnostic and development framework built around six critical “notes”: Communication, Harmony, Ownership, Respect, Direction, and Support.
Partner Program: Matriarchal Futures in the Workplace: Redesigning Systems That Don’t Demand Our Disappearance
Join for our partner program with Pacific Northwest Organization Development Network this September!
This 90-minute session will challenge the assumption that working with women particularly racialized, neurodivergent, and system-disrupting women is what makes inclusion hard. The real difficulty lies in organizational systems built on dominance, compliance, and erasure.
The speaker, Lovette Jallow, will unpack how patriarchal systems selectively uplift sanitized versions of marginalized women while punishing the leadership, boundaries, and brilliance that challenge extractive norms.
July: Short & Fun Networking Workshop (+ Social)
This is a free in-person program and social event led by MNODN community member, Barb Bickford.
Networking can connect us with people, knowledge and resources we wouldn't find on our own. At its best, networking creates webs of trusting relationships that benefit everyone in them. But many of us struggle to network effectively. And how we network can actually turn people off!
Join us to practice microskills of networking that will both help others (and ourselves!) feel at ease and will grow our networks in a healthy way.
Members, non-members and student/ alliance members are welcome to join!
Member & Non-member Focus Group - Option 2
Join the second of two member and non-member focus groups to share insights and ideas related to the MNODN community and membership model.
We hope you’ll join us and enjoy this free opportunity to gather as a community.
Partner Program: Building a Strategic Mindset in Leaders and Teams
Join for our partner program with Minnesota Professionals for Psychology Applied to Work (MPPAW) this May!
In today's dynamic business landscape, strategic thinking has emerged as a crucial skill for leaders and teams to thrive. This thought-provoking presentation will equip talent development professionals with the tools and insights to create powerful development plans that foster strategic thinking within their organization.
Speaker: Mary Rapaport, Founder of Xcelerate
Member & Non-member Focus Group - Option 1
Join the first of two member and non-member focus groups to share insights and ideas related to the MNODN community and membership model.
We hope you’ll join us and enjoy this free opportunity to gather as a community.
Partner Program: Community Consulting Project: Lessons from the Field
Join for our partner program with Oregon Organization Development Network this April!
Like MNODN, Oregon's ODN Chapter is home to the Community Consulting Program (CCP) which provides OD consulting to local nonprofits using teams of volunteers from their chapter. This session will highlight what CCP does, highlighting three recent community consulting projects.
Team members will present their project, the OD strategies and tools used, challenges, and outcomes.
Speakers: Alisa Blum, Judy Sugg, and Sarah Budd
April Program: MNODN Community of Practice
This is a free virtual program to leverage the knowledge, skillsets and experiences of your MNODN colleagues to help solve your professional questions and sticky issues.
Members, non-members and student/ alliance members are welcome to join!
Community Consulting Program Summit Part II
We invite you to join current and former consultants at the Community Consulting Program (CCP) Summit Part II, offered on Thursday, March 13th.
We welcome and encourage you to join us for Part II, even if you haven’t participated in CCP in the past and/ or cannot attend Part I.
This is a free event for members, non-members, regional partner members, and students.
This will be a virtual workshop to ensure as many people as possible can participate.
Registration deadline: Friday March 7th
March Program: The Future of OD: Our Core Essence and How We Need to Modify Change in Our New World
We have created wonderful, useful, successful ways to approach most issues, problems, and whole system transformations in complex socio-technical systems. However, we have never come together in agreement on what makes OD, OD! And that leaves the world asking, "What is OD"?
Join us to explore this question in the context of the ever-changing landscape we work within.
This will be an in-person workshop with 30 minutes of networking followed by 90 minutes for the workshop.
Community Consulting Program Summit Part I
We invite you to join current and former consultants at the Community Consulting Program (CCP) Summit Part I, offered on Thursday, February 13th.
We welcome and encourage you to join us for the CCP Summit Part I, even if you haven’t participated in CCP in the past.
This is a free event for members, non-members, regional partner members, and students.
This will be a virtual workshop to ensure as many people as possible can participate.
Registration deadline: Friday February 7th
February Program: Exploring OD: Insights from Industry Experts
Organizational development is a critical yet often misunderstood discipline that shapes how businesses adapt, grow, and succeed in a rapidly changing world. This expert panel brings together leading OD practitioners to explore the core principles, evolving practices, and future trends in organizational development. Join in on this insightful conversation!
This will session will be held virtually.
Jan program: The Hidden Formula for High Performance
Program description:
Traditional methods to drive performance aren't working. Companies are siloed and it's impacting the bottom line. As OD leaders, you already know that relationships are the bedrock of your teams’ success. What we’re here to talk about is how you scale that connection as your company grows. This isn’t just about building relationships—it’s about driving performance through connection In a high-performance organization, no one can afford bottlenecks in information flow or collaboration. Your CEO wants speed, efficiency, and innovation—all of which depend on having the right people connected. The best companies scale without losing their agility because they intentionally create high-value relationships that cut across silos. These are the tools you can use to create those same structures in your org today.
Program Outcomes:
How to breakdown silos
New structures to maximize information flow
Hiding in plain sight: the super connectors you're not leveraging
Register today
Liz Gulliver is the cofounder of Kunik. Prior to founding Kunik, she spent her career on Wall Street in investing and corporate finance. Liz and Josh built Kunik to provide the personal and professional development and growth they sought in their own careers and could not find.
Dec Program: Maintaining Executive Presence in a Virtual World
This is a virtual event.
Program description:
For professionals who routinely manage projects or processes, communicating virtually is proving pretty effective. But if your job is more nuanced — if you need to motivate, inspire and influence people — things are now a little trickier. If your ability to drive organizational performance is tied to leadership attributes like building trust, demonstrating credibility or influencing others, then your ability to “command the room” or convey your executive presence through your digital device may require extra care.
This virtual program will give you the tools, practice and confidence you need to make every virtual interaction, conversation, or presentation both engaging and effective.
Program Outcomes:
- Increased self-awareness of your executive presence online
- Actionable tips for effective body language and vocal elements
- Best practices for creating audience engagement
(Please note: This program won’t be recorded. Attendees will still receive the deck and handouts after the program.)
Register today!
About the speaker:
Jeanne Rice
With a background in corporate communications and broadcast journalism, Jeanne is an experienced coach and facilitator who works with business professionals in three critical areas of development: leadership communication, presentation skills, and executive presence. Jeanne has helped thousands of leaders from some of the world’s largest companies create powerful messages, speak with confidence, and be more influential -- whether communicating in-person or virtually. Jeanne’s clients identify, refine and polish their unique leadership qualities, especially those that inspire others, move people to action, and impact business outcomes.
Jeanne began her career in the financial services industry, where she arranged speaking engagements and media tours for executives. She later worked as a field producer for CNN Business News in the Chicago bureau, and served as an adjunct professor in the School of Communication at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Jeanne holds a master’s degree in business journalism from Northwestern University. She also serves as a trustee for several environmentally focused nonprofit boards in New Jersey. She is the co-author of Brave Leaders: Finding the Guts to Make Meaningful & Lasting Change. (Advantage, 2020)
Contact: ricepr.com
Partnership Series: Reconnecting with the Global OD Competency Framework to Inspire our Work
This is a virtual event in partnership with Triangle OD Network.
The Global OD Competency Framework has been in place for several years. During this interactive session, we’ll discuss at a high level the components and the value we see in using this groundwork to evolve our collective knowledge. The hope is that this discussion will inspire participants to connect with the future vision of the OD work they aspire to do and the framework serves as a guide for the skills needed to achieve their desired results.
To get inspired for this discussion, you may want to watch Dr. Chris Worley, Research Professor of Management at Pepperdine University's Graziadio Business School, address "Moving from Definitions to Action in OD": https://youtu.be/XvgnPne3oYI
Kelly Gangl
About the facilitator:
Human Resources Consultant at Performentor, Independent Leadership and Life Coach, SHRM Instructor
Kelly Gangl combines her knowledge of people in the workplace with positive change strategies to support growth, well-being and performance. She is passionate about supporting individuals, leaders and teams to tap into and leverage their greatest strengths in order to unleash their collective energy and potential.
Kelly is a seasoned HR and OD leader with over 25 years experience working in a variety of industries from large publicly traded to smaller family owned, nonprofit and privately owned businesses.
Kelly earned a Master’s in Organization Development (MOD) from Bowling Green State University and holds an Associate Coach Credential through the International Coach Federation. Kelly works as a career transition and leadership coach, human resources consultant, and SHRM instructor.
Kelly loves sailing with her husband, exercising with her fitness friends and reading the latest thought leadership books.
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Find Your Genius, Transform Your Work
This is an in-person program with 30 minutes of networking followed by 2 hours for your workshop
Location: Westwood Hills Nature Center – Aspen Room
8300 W. Franklin Ave
St. Louis Park, MN 55426
Program Description
Do you feel satisfied, fulfilled, and energized by your work? As professionals, we’ve adapted to be able to do many things, and do them well. And sometimes that work leaves us drained, frustrated, and burnt out. But why? What would it take to have more days that leave us saying, ‘I love my job.’?
Whether you’re constantly asking questions, coming up with new ideas, exercising your instincts and intuition, rallying and inspiring others, first in line to help, or adamant about meeting targets, you’ll find/see yourself in this session. You’ll see how your geniuses are critical to the success of work. You’ll see how the geniuses of others are complimentary. You’ll see how to build a better team.
In this session we’ll overview the 6 types of Working Genius, developed by Patrick Lencioni, whose work has transformed organizations for more than two decades. You’ll leave with tools and resources ready to lean into your geniuses and rethink the way you look at work.
Program Outcomes:
Understand the 6 types of Working Genius
Understand how to apply the Working Genius framework to teams
Understand how the 6 types of genius correlate with the 6 types of work
Recognize how to use the Working Genius framework to identify weaknesses within teams
You will receive an online assessment link prior to the event on November 7th, and please bring your results to the workshop.
Registration for this event is now closed.
About the speaker:
As a seasoned educator and professional learning leader, Stacy Rutten began her career as an elementary education teacher before falling in love with professional and personal development work during her 9 years in instructional coaching. As a Certified Working Genius Facilitator, she introduces Patrick Lencioni’s framework that transforms teams using this simple model. Stacy is committed to building authentic relationships and creating customized learning experiences that enable teams to fully leverage the talent that exists to maximize team effectiveness and workplace culture. A natural empath, Stacy is driven to find a way to appreciate and to advocate for every employee and leader she works with. Stacy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary & Middle School Education and Master of Arts degree from Hamline University. She resides in Maple Lake, Minnesota with her husband, Ryan, and their three sons
