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Burnout is a very real threat to our health, our life satisfaction, and our effectiveness as leaders, partners, and parents – and the impact for our organizations in terms of attrition and rapidly diminishing engagement is significant. The need for practical organizational support and personal resilience skills has never been more urgent.

As OD practitioners, leaders and coaches, we are uniquely positioned to help our clients recognize burnout risks and identify crucial changes to build more resilient leaders and teams.

In this program Christy Mihina, founder of Verge Coaching & Consulting, will facilitate interactive learning and dialogue around:

• How to recognize and respond to the signs of burnout in yourself and others
• A framework for building more resilient leaders and teams
• Resilience practices you can apply with your clients and in your own life and work

About Our Facilitator: Christy Mihina

Christy Mihina is an executive coach and consultant and the founder of Verge Coaching & Consulting. Through Verge, Christy and her collaborators equip leaders, teams, and individuals to be their best selves and do their best work through executive and team coaching, burnout and resilience programs, and organizational culture consulting. In addition to her role with Verge, Christy serves on the faculty of the coach training program at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. A dynamic coach and facilitator, her clients describe her as insightful, inspiring and “lit up” with positive energy.

Unethical behavior in organizations can be extremely costly. It exposes firms to direct costs, including fines, settlements, and legal expenses, as well as indirect costs like damage to the firm’s reputation. This presentation will examine when employees perform unethical acts to benefit the organization (i.e., unethical pro-organizational behavior), what factors contribute to it, and what organizational development professionals can do to reduce unethical behavior at work. Participants will leave with a specific, documented plan to reduce unethical behavior in their workplace, drawing upon the latest research and customizing solutions to their needs.

About Our Facilitator: Kyle Payne

Kyle is a talent development professional, a lean six sigma black belt, and a PhD candidate who studies organizational behavior. He lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he oversees learning and development for Collins Engineers and facilitates leadership workshops for Development Dimensions International. Kyle also volunteers in exam development, education, and ethics for professional associations.

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In Justin Reinert’s decades as a practitioner in talent development, he has encountered many interventions related to Diversity & Inclusion but has seen us collectively fail to move the needle. Based on his experience and research, Justin kept coming back to concepts of deep self-awareness and radical acceptance of others. The result of this work is his new book, Creating Belonging: A Practical Guide to Accelerate Belonging in Organizations and Communities.

Join Justin to learn more about his findings and the Creating Belonging model to see how belonging is created at the intersection of authenticity and acceptance. In this session, individual reflection and small group discussions will help you explore how to balance authenticity and acceptance, see where you may sit in the model, and create a plan to move further into belonging.

About Our Facilitator: Justin Reinert

Justin Reinert is an experienced Talent Leader with nearly 20 years of talent development experience. He holds an MA in Educating Adults from DePaul University, along with the CPTD, SPHR, and SHRM-SCP. He has led learning at organizations as large as HSBC and Oracle and built award winning learning functions at smaller high-growth firms. He is currently the Senior Director of Learning & Development at Provi, and recently published his first book, Creating Belonging, in the spring of 2022.

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Having a culture of high trust pays big dividends in any organization. The result is double productivity, lower attrition, ability to attract best talent, and fewer internal conflicts. Unfortunately, the behaviors of many leaders actually cause lower rather than higher trust. Join Bob Whipple, the Trust Ambassador, to learn the keys to reverse low trust and make solid progress toward a new and more robust culture based on real trust.

About our Facilitator: Bob Whipple

Bob Whipple is CEO of Leadergrow Inc., a company dedicated to improving leadership in organizations. He is known internationally as “The Trust Ambassador.” He is a professional speaker, and a member of National Speakers Association. He is a Certified Professional in Talent Development with the Association for Talent Development. He has been named by Inc. Magazine as one of the top 100 Leadership Speakers for the past three years and by Leadership Excellence Magazine as one of the top 15 thought leaders. Trust Across America has honored him with the Lifetime Achievement Award as a Top Thought Leader in Trust. He has won numerous other awards including two BEST Awards for Talent Development. He has five published books on the topic of trust, over 1700 published articles, and more than 100 videos on various leadership topics.

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How can you make teams you work with more effective? Join the OD Network of Chicago to kick off the new year and explore the answer to this question with Dr. Tim Franz, an experienced organizational psychologist with expertise in team leadership and performance. Join Franz to discuss the ten reasons that teamwork goes wrong. For each of the ten reasons, explore at least one solution.

Expect the following key takeaways from this interactive session:

• Understand the principles of effective teamwork
• Learn the top ten team traps
• Learn the best ways to help avoid the ten team traps
• Think about how to apply the tips to teams you work with

About Our Facilitator: Dr. Tim Franz

Dr. Franz is an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist at St. John Fisher College, where he is a Professor of Psychology as well as Chair of the Psychology Department and past Program Director and Chair of the graduate Human Resource Development Department.  In addition to his academic work, he also works as an organizational consultant through his independent consulting organization, Franz Consulting. 

His topical areas of expertise include team leadership, individual and team decision making, improving team performance, and using teams to drive organizational change.  Many of his ideas about improving teams are published in his books, titled Making Team Projects Work: A Resource for High School and College Educators and Group Dynamics and Team Interventions: Understanding and Improving Team Performance. His most recent book, co-authored with Seth Silver, is titled Meaningful Partnership at Work: How The Workplace Covenant Ensures Mutual Accountability and Success Between Leaders and Teams. 

Prior to his work as a college professor, Dr. Franz was a survey consultant for the Wyatt Company (now Towers-Watson) and Buck Consultants.  In addition, he has designed selection tests, employee development instruments, and custom organizational surveys as a contract consultant for Custom Solutions, A London House Consulting Group.  

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The December meeting of the Organization Development Network of Chicago is historically reserved for a grateful and celebratory reflection on the past year and a whole-hearted look to the new year. Building on that tradition, this year we will be celebrating our partnerships with our speakers, sponsors and affiliated associations for the community of learning we have been able to generate for our members.

This FREE program will be structured to celebrate and learn with our colleagues at the OD Network (National) as we welcome Dr. Matt Minahan, a former Chair of the ODN’s Board of Trustees and a leader in the process of developing the ODN Global Competency Framework.  We will celebrate our partnership with the University of Louisville’s HR and OD Masters’ program by welcoming all students from the program to participate and learn alongside the practicing professionals of the OD Network Chicago.

Join us for this unique and complimentary Open Space program centered on the OD Global Competency Framework to learn about the depth and nuances of the Organization Development profession. Come for the content and stay for the community.

About Our Facilitator: Dr. Matt Minahan

Dr. Matt Minahan is an organization strategy and design consultant, “committed to removing the gap between human potential and the human condition.” He leads a boutique strategy, organization and leadership development firm. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at American University and is a former Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Organization Development Network (National).

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Program Description

Join us for our October program with Alex Boulting in looking at the future of organization development (OD) and change by discussing:

• What is the history of organizational change?
• What is wrong with organizational change?
• Why we need to change our beliefs about organizational change.
• How can we better challenge our beliefs about organizational change?
• Why the future of organizational change has to be evidence-based.

About Our Facilitator

Alex Boulting is an evidence-based organizational change and development practitioner with 20 years’ experience. Alex has worked on organizational transformations in public, private, and third sectors on the client-side and within consultancy.

Since 2018, Alex has been challenging assumptions in organizational change using his myth buster series and Change Management challenges series. Most recently, Alex has focused on building a new evidence-based body of knowledge for organizational change and is currently working with GSK helping them to build a future-proof culture.