The Asia OD Network will be launched during the Global
Organization Development Summit at Mysore between 18th to
20th September 2006. The first formal meeting of the the
founding executive board members will be held in 21st September
2006 at the SDM-IMD campus - the summit venue.
Those delegates attending the summit will be offered one
year free annual membership. If you wish to be one of the
founder Donors you are welcome to send in your CV and offer
letter through the Forum page.
Please login in the forum page of this
web site and send in your specific recommendation and your
dream for the network
of OD professionals in Asia.
Donors
Mr. Roland Sullivan- CEO, Mohd Sullivan, USA
Prof. C Balaji - Director - Training-Symphony services,
Bangalore, India
Dr R Mohanakrishnan - Associate PRofessor - SDM IMD, Mysore,
India
Dr Himank Priyadharshi - Infosys Tchnologies, Bangalore,
India
History
It all began in the beautiful remote township
and Industrial hub Hosur, Tamil Nadu when Dr Mohanakrishnan,
Mr Vasudevan
and Prof Udai Pareek met at a dinner. The conversation dwelled
on the practice of OD in India and Asia and span off the
concerns of OD practitioners in the continent. The need for
a knowledge sharing and, for that purpose, networking was
strongly felt; there should be a permanent platform. To further
deliberate and promote this idea collectively with pertinent
stakeholders, the thought of hosting an OD conference was
born. Vasu, who always looks for avenues to help the clients,
elevated the idea of conference to summit and that of regional
to global. Global Organization Development Summit (GODS)
emerged.
A team was formed to make the summit a
successful one. Mohan assumed the leadership role as the
Summit Chair with
the mentoring of Udai. SDM Institute for Management Development
(SDM-IMD), Mysore, Karnataka became the host and provided
the seed money for initial expenses. Vasu assumed the role
of networking and bringing into association the Indian Society
for Applied Behavior Science (ISABS), a premier organization
in the field of OD affiliated to National Training Laboratory
(NTL). Thereby Mr Sankarasubramanian, the President of ISABS
joined the team. Mohan, Vasu and Sankar together brainstormed
and designed the summit model (www.odsummitindia.org). Udai
at the right time introduced Roland Sullivan (Roland) from
USA to the GODS team. Roland assumed the task of getting
the big names in the field of OD as keynote speakers. He
succeeded in enrolling Prof. Peter Kostanbaum, Prof. Micheal
Beer of Harvard Business School and Dr David Bradford of
Stanford University as keynote speakers. Vasu brought in
Ms. Anne Litwin, the past president of NTL. Mohan gained
the partnership of Infosys, the leader in the IT industry,
and mobilized corporate sponsorships.
As everything started to fall in place
for GODS 2006, the team simultaneously worked on creating
a permanent platform
for networking to bring together OD professionals, practicing
managers and the academics. Hence, in the summit design six
hours were allotted to have a brainstorming on the formation
of Asia OD Network (AODN). The summit, a grand success with
about 200 delegates representing seven countries, witnessed
a serious and thoughtful deliberation of the forming of AODN
through intensive brainstorming and created a white paper.
In the mid course of the summit Dr Lee Shing Lu (Lee Lu)
came forward to host the next GODS of 2007 in China and Mr.
Douglas (Dough) proposed to host it in Singapore in 2008.
Lee spearheaded the effort of organizing the second GODS
(2007) and brought more networking and affiliations with
popular OD educational organizations like Benedictine University.
With the help of Benedictine University and SDMIMD as knowledge
partners and sponsors GODS 2007 will be conducted in Shenyang
city in China with Shenyang Jian Zhu University as the host.
The Asia OD Network (AODN) was formed in
2006 by a group of OD scholars and practitioners based in
Asia and the US,
is a not-for-profit organization, officially registered in
the US and in India in May and June respectively.
Vision & Mission
We envision Asian business, nonprofit,
and government organizations that promote and practice economic,
social and environmental
performance with sustainability. Our mission is to create
and provide an environment that continuously fuels the passion
and search for excellence in Organization Development and
to provide a venue for all OD professionals to network with
each other and to share knowledge and best practices with
special emphasis on the unique needs of the dynamic Asian
region.
Goals & Objectives
1. To connect and network OD practitioners in the Asian
region and around the world.
2. To co-create conceptual and theoretical frameworks for
OD that are relevant to the emerging economic, social, cultural
and technological contexts in the Asian region.
3. To promote OD and Institutional Building practice among
all sectors of society.
4. To set standards for professional behavior and practice.
*Please note that the Annual Board Meeting,
Planning & Elections
will be held during the summit on September 10, 2007 from
9am to 5pm at the Shenyang Jianzhu University in Shenyang,
China.
Office Staff
We currently do not have any full time office staff.
