Date: May 6, 2024

Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Facilitated by:  Steve Garcia, an Author and Managing Partner at Contemporary Leadership Advisors (CLA)

Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) has been the subject of keynotes at the last 2 ODF conferences. But how many of us have used ONA to better understand and design the organizations with which we work? If you haven’t, now is your chance to learn how.

In this interactive, hands-on session, participants will:

• Dive into the network perspective and its relevance to organization design
• Design your own ONA study, leveraging proven practices and avoiding pitfalls.
• Practice collecting, analyzing, and visualizing network data
• Explore how different interventions can address the opportunities that ONA uncovers

In today’s faster-paced, more complex business environment, its often the structure of a firm’s informal network versus its formal hierarchy that defines success. Learn how you can add ONA to your organization design toolkit and gain new insight to help solve today’s most important design challenges.

NOTE:  Participants would need to bring a laptop and download a few open source applications

 

More about Steve Garcia:  Steve is an Author and Managing Partner at Contemporary Leadership Advisors (CLA) where he helps clients build and lead faster, higher-impact, and more adaptive organizations in rapidly-changing, complex environments. His consulting work has won numerous awards, including Johnson & Johnson’s Burke Award and the Brandon Hall Gold Award in Executive Education.

Prior to co-founding CLA, Steve served on the Senior Leadership Team in AlixPartners’ Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness practice and was the Partner in charge of Human Capital Consulting at Philosophy IB (since acquired by Heidrick & Struggles). At Philosophy IB, Steve built SYNAPP, a web-based organizational network analysis (ONA) application that was accepted into DreamIt Venture’s selective Accelerator Program.

Steve received his MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School and his Ed.D. in Adult Learning at N.C. State University, where his research focused on how organizational networks impact learning, change and innovation. His book on the future of leadership, The End of Leadership as We Know It was published by Wiley in 2023. Steve serves on the Board of The Hawthorne Park Club and on the ODF’s Advisory Board.

When he’s not working, Steve likes to spend time with his family in Millburn, NJ, catch up on pop culture, or fall down mountains on his bike.