Using Your Everyday OD Skills to Save the Planet [Video]

It is easy to think of using our OD skills to make organizations better. This presentation is an example of bringing OD skills to environmental activism to save the Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Minahan presents a case study of how OD and citizen engagement skills helped create a citizens coalition to establish major protections for the Chesapeake Bay. He brings us into the project team, its challenges, and successes, and shares the tips and lessons learned in this project.

Objectives
Participants will learn how a group of committed and concerned environmental advocates used everyday OD skills to mobilize more than 300 community associations across 5 peninsulas to create coalition to lobby local legislators and pass historic protections for the Chesapeake Bay.

Presenter Bio
Matt Minahan, Ed. D. has several decades of experience in strategic planning, organization design and development, and leadership development. His consulting practice focuses on organizations and leaders undertaking enterprise-wide change programs. He works in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors with senior executive teams who want to increase the capacity of their organizations to develop new business strategies and redesign their organizations to meet new business challenges.

He earned his doctorate from The George Washington University’s Executive Leadership Program in Organization Development, following an MS in Organization Behavior from the University of Hartford, and a BA in Communications from the University of Maryland. He holds adjunct faculty appointments in the School of Public Policy at American University and at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is also a guest lecturer in several doctoral programs and is also a frequent presenter at national and regional conferences.

He has been honored by the OD Network with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020, Service to the Network Awards in 2016 and 2002, and Best Article in the OD Practitioner, 2016. He also received the 2012 Highly Commended Award, Emerald Literati Network, for “McGregor’s Legacy: The Evolution and Current Application of Theory Y Management,” (with Peter F. Sorensen) Journal of Management History, Volume 17, No. 2, 2011

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