Today’s business professionals work in complex, demanding and resource-constrained environments. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts as OD practitioners, established leadership practices continue to assume organizations operate like machines, and that change can be planned and executed by leaders at the top. There is an urgent need to introduce change practices more suited to present-day realities.
Location
Non-Profit Center 89 South St Community Room 1st floor Boston, MA 02110 UNITED STATES
Presenters: Martha Miser and Anna Tansi Date: Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, 9am-12:30pm Location: NonProfit Center, 89 South St., Boston Session Description
Today’s business professionals work in complex, demanding and resource-constrained environments. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts as OD practitioners, established leadership practices continue to assume organizations operate like machines, and that change can be planned and executed by leaders at the top. Although these approaches may have served them well in the past, there is an urgent need to introduce change practices more suited to present-day realities.
The challenge, as OD professionals have long known, is to help leaders shake off traditional mental models and learn more effective approaches that foster self-organization, innovation and emergent change. In concert with this, OD practitioners must “tune up” their own consciousness and diagnostic skills, understanding that the “self” (their ability to listen and bring awareness to a situation) may be the most powerful instrument they have to offer in helping their clients navigate rapid, dynamic change.
This interactive workshop offers fresh perspectives and approaches to OD consulting for the 21st century. We invite you to join us to explore new practices, refresh our skills as OD professionals, and share our collective experiences and successes. More specifically, during the workshop, we will:
Explore how different worldviews impact our approaches to organizations and change initiatives.
Learn a flexible 21st century consulting model that improves diagnostic capability by developing the “self” as the instrument of change.
Experiment with an Adaptive Systems Discovery tool for enabling emergence and self-organization.
Create a safe practice field to apply the consulting model and discovery tool to real business issues.
Presenters
Martha Freymann Miser, PhD, Leadership and Change
Martha is President of Aduro Consulting, LLC, a Boston-based firm specializing in leadership and change for purpose-driven companies. Over the past 30 years, Martha has held leadership positions in several organizations. These include senior roles with the City of Hartford, Aetna Financial Services, as well as global head of leadership and change for ING in the Netherlands. In her consulting, Martha focuses on disrupting organizations, so that people think differently about themselves and their relationships, leading to client organizations that are more awake, more passionate, more human and more focused - all of which adds up to better business results.
Anna Tansi, MS, Organization Behavior
Anna is President of Counterbalance Consulting, LLC, a Hartford-based consulting firm. As an Organization Development professional, Anna supports leaders and their teams in clarifying and achieving key business goals. With over 25 years facilitating change within a variety of organizations and industries, she brings a depth of business and consulting experience to her clients. Prior to starting her own business Anna held various internal Leadership Development and Human Resource positions. She specializes in facilitating strategic planning and leadership team alignment initiatives, coaching and developing leaders, and helping clients retool their work cultures.
