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Santa Barbara, CA (December 5, 2007) - Fielding Graduate University was once again well represented in all aspects of the Organization Development Network Conference, held this year in October in Baltimore. Christi Olson, PhD (HOD 96), ODN board chair, kicked off the official conference by leading the OD Network's Business Meeting during which it was announced that she would be stepping down soon in order to accept the position of president and CEO of the NTL Institute.

Marcella Benson-Quaziena, PhD (HOD 96), OMD faculty member, along with colleagues from the Gestalt Institute, facilitated “Becoming a Better Intervenor,” one of the three pre-conference workshops. Frank Friedlander, PhD, HOD faculty emeritus, and Charlie Seashore, PhD, HOD faculty member, were among the notable OD participants providing leadership in the conference’s Dick Beckhard Mentoring Session.

Seashore also presented in one of the morning concurrent sessions; and Candi Trujillo, PhD, (HOD 97), director of HOD’s Organization Management and Development (OMD) Master’s Program, facilitated a lunchtime session highlighting the scholar-practitioner model utilized in OMD.

John Bennet, PhD (HOD 06), facilitated a popular session based on his dissertation. It was part of the "Learning from the Lived Experience of Luminaries in OD” session and included a panel with Charlie and Edie Seashore.

Post conference workshops continued with Dan Distelhorst, PhD (HOD 95), presenting "Leadership for a World of Difference" and Marcella Benson-Quaziena facilitating "Systems, Social Justice, and Quadrant Identities" with NTL colleagues.

Adding to HOD’s presence in the field of OD, the Fall 2007 issue of OD Practitioner includes an article by Barbara Mink, HOD faculty member, (co-authored with Bill Husson, PhD (HOD 92), and his colleague at Regis University Jerome Stiller) titled “Organizational Learning at an Institution in the Business of Learning.” In the same issue, HOD student Anne Litwin has an article titled “OD: Dancing in the Global Context.”

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