At last month’s OD Network 2010 Conference in New Orleans I ran a 100-minute workshop titled “Practitioners in Transition”, a repeat of a similar session I had run session at OD Network Conference 2009 in Seattle. From the program guide: OD Practitioners in Transition - Are you an OD practitioner in transition? Are you considering joining the field, changing direction within the field, or leaving the field of […]
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 […]
Last month Tonya and I attended the Seattle ISPI September chapter meeting to present our workshop iPads and Organizations: Using Design Methods as OD Interventions. We had 14 attendees from across the training spectrum, including some colleagues from the Pacific Northwest OD Network. We also made some new connections with someone from the Organization Design Forum, that we’ll explore in the months ahead. The workshop […]
Following on the heals of last week’s Seattle ISPI workshop (recap coming soon), we’ll be presenting several more talks in the coming months around the region and the US: October 12th at Lake Washington Technical College -Â My good friend and colleague Lindsay Andreotti is teaching a class this semester on “Entrepreneurship and Design”. I’ll be talking about emotional intelligence as a key differentiator for successful […]
We’ve put a lot of effort into developing our workshop “iPads & Organizations: Design Methods as OD Interventions” which we’re piloting at Seattle’s ISPI September meeting and then launching at ODN’s Conference 2010 in New Orleans. We’ll update this blog-post over time with the books, videos, blogs, articles, and other resources that have influenced our work. Resources available so far include: WORK-in-PROGRESS: MICRODESIGN (pdf) MACRO-DESIGN […]
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be previewing our workshop on “iPads & Org Structures” at this week’s Seattle ISPI Chapter Meeting. The working title has evolved into “iPads & Org Structures: Using Design Methods as OD Interventions”.  Be sure to RSVP to ISPI if you wish to attend (details below): Topic: iPads & Org Structures: Using Design Methods as OD Interventions - What do iPads & effective […]
Tonya Peck and I have now completed the micro-design for our presentation at next month’s #ODNET10 conference in New Orleans. Given the nature of the material we’ve taken the approach of creating an experience instead of giving a typical ‘presentation’. You can get a sense of it from the screen-shot above. The working title has also evolved to be “iPads and Organizations: Using Design Methods as […]