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• Partnership Series with OODN Chapter - Improv Mindset

  • When
    12 Nov 2026
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    3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Craft Your 3-Sentence Strategy for Better Opportunities, Referrals & Relationships **This program is organized by our partners in the Oregon ODN Chapter! Join our partners, alongside the Triangle, Pacific Northwest, and Minnesota OD Networks for an opportunity for learning and cross-regional connections. Improvisers create without the benefit of a script or plan. The ways they do this can be used offstage. In fact, when you act like an improviser, work gets better. Adding more improv skills helps you create, communicate, and collaborate at a higher level. In this highly experiential (and joyful) Masterclass, you will learn the “advanced basics” of improvisation, ideas that can be applied immediately to your life and work. This session will help you: Respond constructively to whatever happens. Turn the unexpected into something you use, not something that stresses you out. Generate new ideas with ease and learn to build on the ideas of others. Enjoy the creative process even more. On Your Feet (OFY) led by Gary Hirsch  For 25 years, On Your Feet has been creating content for some of the world’s best brands. Our clients include firms like Disney, Nike, Google, Uber, and many others. These are interactive workshop experiences to teach and apply some universally helpful tools, like listening, providing clear feedback, dealing with uncertainty, collaboration, and creative problem-solving. These concepts can be tailored to specific organizations and applied in ways that give leaders tools that they can begin using immediately.

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• DC Area OD Practitioners CoP — Follow the Lines, Not the Boxes: Mapping the Social Architecture Where Change Takes Root

  • When
    03 Dec 2026
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Follow the Lines, Not the Boxes: Mapping the Social Architecture Where Change Takes Root

  When a client reaches for the org chart, OD practitioners can offer a better question: who do people actually turn to when the formal channels don't work? The answer reveals an organization's social architecture, the web of relationships, trust, and influence where work actually gets done and where change either takes root or withers.

  In this interactive virtual session, Dr. Liz Scott, author of The Ripple Effect, moves from why reorganizing rarely fixes the culture to how to work with the networks that do. Participants will map a real client system and locate the connectors, problem-solvers, and culture carriers already shaping it. They'll practice bringing those people into a change effort before it launches, not after it stalls.

  Come ready to draw, annotate, and work in small breakout groups. Have pen and paper and a current or recent client in mind.

  Participants will leave able to:

  • Shift a client conversation from "what's the right structure?" to "who do people actually turn to?"

  • Run a quick, low-tech network scan using five diagnostic questions.

  • Identify the connectors, problem-solvers, and culture carriers in a client system, and know how each one spreads or stalls change.

  • Build a "starting lineup" of the five to seven people to engage in the first thirty days.

  • Use a one-page network mapping template with their next client.

  Presenter — Dr. (Liz) Elizabeth Scott

  Dr. Scott is the founder and CEO of Brighter Strategies, a women-owned organizational development firm that serves nonprofits, associations, and mission-driven organizations. For nearly two decades, she has helped leaders make their organizations' relational dynamics visible and actionable, working at the intersection of network analysis, culture change, and leadership development. She holds a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems and is the author of The Ripple Effect: How Social Sector Leaders Transform Organizations Through Relationships, which shows how lasting change spreads through relationships, not mandates.

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• Coffee & Connections: A CBODN Social Hour

  • When
    05 Dec 2026
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Java Nation (1010 Wayne Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910)

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  Join fellow CBODN members for a relaxed, informal gathering at Java Nation in Silver Spring, MD!

  Come sip your beverage of choice and build connections with practitioners from across the field. This is a no-pressure social catch-up—perfect for networking, idea swapping, and just enjoying good conversation with peers who “get” the work. All OD and OD-adjacent professionals are welcome—whether you’re a seasoned consultant, internal practitioner, researcher, or student exploring the field.

  The event is open to all CBODN members and guests interested in OD practice, organizational development, change management, and related domains. If you’re new, consider this a welcoming entry point to the community!

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  Address: Java Nation (1010 Wayne Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910) 

  Metro: Silver Spring Metro Station

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• Coaching Community of Practice – Closing the Year, Opening the Next

  • When
    08 Dec 2026
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Closing the Year, Opening the Next
  A Reflective Harvest for Coaches

  Coaches spend the year holding space for other people’s reflection. We ask the questions that open things up, stay with the hard answers, and help clients make sense of what just happened to them. We rarely give ourselves the same attention.

  This December session of the Coaching Community of Practice is that time. For many in our community, 2026 asked a lot. Systems shifted, clients carried more, and many of us carried more too, often without stopping to notice. Before the calendar turns, we’ll pause to take honest stock, together.

  The session moves in two parts. First, we look back: What did 2026 ask of me, as a coach and as a human? What surprised me, about myself, my clients, or the systems I work in? What am I still carrying that needs to be named?

  Then we look ahead: What am I ready to leave behind? What will I carry forward on purpose? What possibility excites me, or scares me a little?

  You won’t get a framework to master or a lecture. Expect quiet reflection, small-group conversation with peers who have walked similar ground, and a closing harvest of what the room has learned. Come as you are.

  By the end of this session, participants will leave with:

  1. A clearer, more honest account of their year as a coach and as a person.
  2. At least one thing named, acknowledged, and set down.
  3. One or two intentions for 2027, grounded in what this year actually taught them.
  4. Renewed connection with a community that understands the work.

  Bring a journal, a warm drink, and a willingness to reflect with yourself and others. Participants will receive 1.5 ICF CCEs for resource development.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

  
  

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• DC Area OD Practitioners CoP — Frontline Workers and Lewinian Change

  • When
    07 Jan 2027
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Frontline Workers and Lewinian Change

  The front-line workers are the people doing the physical work, directly serving the customers, writing the code, providing social services to a targeted population, etc. Lewin's action-research validated that involving people on the front lines is the key to successful and sustainable change, whether within organizations or in pursuit of broader social change. The how of his model is simple and effective, yet rarely practiced by management or even OD practitioners. The presenter will cover the how and the why, using case studies from his most recent book, Leadership and the Frontline Workforce: Lessons from the Targets of Change. 

  What you'll take away:

  • Change the way Lewin wanted it practiced 
  • True stories of moving from polarization to collaboration
  • Applications to organizational and social change

  
  

  Presenter — Gilmore Crosby

  Gilmore is an organizational development practitioner, author, and professor of social science at the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS). His work centers on applying the methods of Kurt Lewin—the founder of modern OD and group dynamics—to leadership, change management, and team performance. Crosby's career began in 1984, building on his father Robert P. Crosby's OD practice, which dates to 1953 and to Lewin's immediate circle of students and collaborators.

  Planned Change: Why Kurt Lewin's Social Science Is Still Best Practice for Business Performance, Change Management & Human Progress lays out the argument that animates Crosby's work: that Lewin's methods remain the most reliable foundation for change. While embracing the past, Crosby experiments in the present, conducting T-group learning in organizations, online T-groups, and various uses of new technology, including AI. His mission, inspired by Lewin’s, is to help create a better future for humanity—by keeping Lewin's social science alive and in active use as a practical instrument for social and organizational change.

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• Coffee & Connections: A CBODN Social Hour

  • When
    23 Jan 2027
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    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Teaism (Dupont Circle)

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  Join fellow CBODN members for a relaxed, informal gathering at Teaism at Dupont Circle.

  Come sip your beverage of choice and build connections with practitioners from across the field. This is a no-pressure social catch-up—perfect for networking, idea swapping, and just enjoying good conversation with peers who “get” the work. All OD and OD-adjacent professionals are welcome—whether you’re a seasoned consultant, internal practitioner, researcher, or student exploring the field.

  The event is open to all CBODN members and guests interested in OD practice, organizational development, change management, and related domains. If you’re new, consider this a welcoming entry point to the community!

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  Address: Teaism (Dupont Circle) - 2009 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

  Metro: Dupont Circle Metro

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• Coaching Community of Practice – More Clients, Less Marketing: How to Create More Leads and Income by Doing LESS

  • When
    02 Feb 2027
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  More Clients, Less Marketing: How to Create More Leads and Income by Doing LESS 
  

  Client generation is the lifeblood of your business. But with so many marketing options, how do you cut through the noise and find your best strategy for growth?

  The good news is that by strategically doing LESS, your marketing can be MORE effective.

  Referred to as “a coach approach to marketing”, Mary's engaging presentation quickly shows coaches how to get better results from their client-generation efforts, even if they feel uncomfortable with promoting and putting themselves out there.

  In a no-hype environment, participants get immediately implementable tools, including:

  • The 6 key elements that keep you out of the feast-or-famine cycle of client generation.
  • How to stop wasting time and money on marketing that doesn’t work, so you can attract clients consistently without social media.
  • A client generation system that has a proven track record of helping both new and experienced coaches quickly generate more clients and increase their income by 50% or more.

  Presenter: Mary Cravets

  

  Mary is the founder of Simply Get Clients. As an award-winning Client Generation Expert and International Speaker, she helps coaches grow their businesses without social media or working nights and weekends.

  She’s heard ALL the confusing and conflicting advice out there - so she isn’t surprised that most coaches struggle to establish a sustainable business. But she’s here to change that.  Using her methods, the majority of Mary’s clients increase their income 50% or more. 

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