Tonya Peck and I launched Locomotive Partners in the summer of 2009 to pursue organizational development (OD) work with clients, for the public, and the community of OD practitioners in the Pacific Northwest.

One year later and that work continues to pick up steam (most recently with our move into a wonderfully open shared work-space at the Seattle architecture firm Bumgardner). We’re happy to report the following developments in our three main focus areas:

OD COMMUNITY:

• We’ve developed a new workshop called “iPads & Organizations: Using Design Methods as OD Interventions“. This 90-minute experiential learning workshop explores the overlaps between the fields of design and organizational development, and ways that design can benefit OD.
• We piloted “iPads & Organizations: Using Design Methods as OD Interventions“ in September for our friends at the Seattle ISPI chapter meeting. In October we delivered it to a standing-room only audience at the OD Network 2010 Conference in New Orleans. This month we’ll bring it back to Seattle, with some refinements, where we’ll present at the Pacific Northwest OD Network meeting.
• I continue to publish OD FIELD NOTES, our weekly digest of OD news from across the web. It’s now available on Facebook, Paper.li, RSS, Twitter and email.
• I’ve also strengthened distribution of our OD JOBS and OD JOBS PNW listings so you can now get them Facebook, RSS, Twitter and email as well.

PUBLIC WORK:

• I”ve developed a new workshop called EQ for Entrepreneurs. This 2-hour experiential learning workshop explore the neurological basis for building effective relationships (so critical for entrepreneurs).
• I piloted EQ for Entrepreneurs with a class of graduate design students at Lake Washington Tecnical College.
• We’re ramping up for our 2011 offering of Dreaming Your New Year, held again at Seattle’s Space Needle in mid-January. Be on the look out for more about that shortly.

CLIENT WORK:

• Tonya recently began a new role back in Microsoft’s Engineering Excellence (EE) division. She’ll drive the vision, design, and delivery of a new learning engagement model between EE and employees across the company. This is a great next step on her path building large-scale learning programs there.
• I returned to Microsoft for a two-month project designing and developing a custom training experiences for mid-career hires in the Enterprise Services Group.
• I also co-designed and c0-delivered a custom workshop on conflict management at Sound Transit with a great internal partner there (go ST!)
• I’ve also completed my certification in the EQ-in-Action Profile tool, which provides an excellent foundation for coaching clients

On top of these developments, you may have noticed we launched a new website in September and we moved into a new office on 3rd Avenue in Seattle in this month.

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