R Mohanakrishnan is a Ph.D in Industrial Psychology. He has 18
years of wide ranging experience in research, teaching, consulting,
institution building projects and enjoys deep corporate exposure.
He had worked in Telecom, IT and banking sectors. His corporate
consulting areas are OD and HRD.
Training and Development being his forte, he has
enormous interest in OD, and behavioral science- based training and
interventions. He had done Competency more>>
Mapping through Development Center for more than 1500 managers in a large private bank, as a part of major change management project in India.
He is a regular speaker and research paper presenter in various national and international forums. He has organized Global Organization Development Summit (GODS) in the year 2006, which paved the way for forming Asia OD Network (AODN) and carried forward the GODS to China in 2007 and 2008 in Thailand.
Year 2009 will GODS in India in a big scale and has
assumed the charge as the conference chair. The 2009 conference
in India will see AODN and International Organization Development
Association (IODA) coming together to host GODS 2009. He is an
advisor to Foundation for Research, Education and Development (FRED)
in setting up large educational institution.
Vinaya Shetty - Summit - Co Chair
Vinaya has 18 years of experience in Human Resources Management, Strategic Thinking & Planning, Coaching & Mentoring.
She was a Corporate Senior Executive- heading the HR function who pursued her dreams of forming her own consulting firm in 1996. Her firm, Vin Management Consultants Pvt Ltd, is a boutique HR service house. It commenced operations with the zeal to assist start-up companies in strategizing, implementing & institutionalizing
their people and search practices. more>>
Facilitating CEO’s in start-up ventures
translated into being an active coach for the CEO. Hence, it was an
HRO—an HR Outsourcing firm—much before the rest of India realized this tremendous potential of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). The firm has assisted organizations across industries such as Information Technology, Telecom, Pharmaceutical, Media, Entertainment, Retail & Advertising.
Vinaya Shetty is an Associate of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management, USA and is based in Mumbai, India. Amongst other Conferences & Seminars, she has been invited by the Arabian Society of Human Resources Management (ASHRM)in Bahrain as a speaker in their international conference (April 2005). She has facilitated in sessions in Singapore & Dubai. Combined with her natural skills of counseling & a degree in Psychology, she has been coaching careers of innumerable professionals in the Senior & Top Levels of management.
Vinaya has been invited to be a member of the National Corporate Task Force formed by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of India.
Vinaya has been invited to be on the Board of New Media Communications Pvt. Ltd. – India’s largest Bi- lateral Trade magazine publishing house.
Vinaya has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (with Honors) from Mumbai University and a Master's in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (Tata Institute of Social Sciences). She is currently pursuing her Doctoral programme with SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai. Her Doctoral thesis is on Strategic Human Resources Management.
What makes her so easily adaptable to any industry is her ability to challenge the conventional wisdom and get results. Her passion for her work and life is contagious in all that she does. Her clients have been in almost every industry segment, both small and medium size firms. Creating HR Strategic Plans, systems and processes, organizational diagnosis, behavioral training, assessment centres, CEO coaching, and employee career counseling are some of her vast areas of consulting and training expertise. Web site for Vin Management Consultants: www.vinconsult.com
What makes her so easily adaptable to any industry is her ability to challenge the conventional wisdom and get results. Her passion for her work and life is contagious in all that she does. Her clients have been in almost every industry segment, both small and medium size firms. Creating HR Strategic Plans, systems and processes, organizational diagnosis, behavioral training, assessment centres, CEO coaching, and employee career counseling are some of her vast areas of consulting and training expertise. Web site for Vin Management Consultants: www.vinconsult.com
A.S.Vasudevan (Synetz India)
A.S.Vasudevan is one of the senior
professional consultants and educator
of change management and OD educators and OD in India, bringings
the wisdom from 30 years
of rigorous consulting into OD.
This year he has assumed the role
of Director Indian operations Operations of Synetz, a management
consulting firm from Germany,
to introduce systemic change management
programmes and coaching skills
for India Inc. He also has other responsibilities,
such as wears other hats like visiting
the OD Faculty for OD at the SDMIMD B School in Mysore, and he is
a founder member of the Asia OD
Network - AODN. more>>
He drives the OD and
change Certification Programme of ISABS, a premier institution
on the lines of NTL
in the USA.. His passion is executive
coaching and mentoring for Senior executives, Board members and
CEOs, helping them discover strategic solutions to manage change.
He also offers shadow consulting to fellow consultants and internal
change agents.
During his the two decades and more
of Vasu's consulting experience he has been closely associated
with Properitory proprietary fFirms managed by fFamily investments.
He runs a special workshop on 'inheriting the mantle' that addresses
the pressing need of new generation leadership from the family
to take over the professional reins, and build a top team that
can carry the cultural continuity into the future. Families are
brand names in India - like the Tatas, Birlas, Reliance (Ambanis)
Goenkas of RPG enterprise, Singhanias, Mafatlal, Mahindras, TVS,
The Essar Group etc. Some of them match the efficiency of MNCs
as well.
Santhosh Babu
Santhosh is the Managing Director
of OD Alternatives. He focuses on Transformations related projects,
Leadership development and
CEO coaching. He looks at organizations
as ecological systems and help you understand hidden inter connections
within your organization.
System Behavior, Large group interventions
tools like Appreciative Inquiry and Future Search, Deconstructionist
approach and mindset
change techniques are the tools that he
likes and uses depending upon the nature of the intervention.
OD Alternatives is a boutique OD
consultancy focusing on transformation
of communities and organizations using
behavioral skills knowledge. The interventions focuses on
subjective and objective parts of the organization
using one to one interaction methodologies,
small group interventions and Large
Group Intervention tools(LGI). All the
interventions focus on supporting Change
and Transformation. In the past ODA has worked with around
70 organizations in the areas of Leadership,
Team Development, Coaching and Supporting
Transformation Initiatives.
Vasanthi Srinivasan (IIM - B)
Vasanthi Srinivasan is an Associate Professor in the area of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. She is a member of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. She holds an MBA in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI Jamshedpur, and a Fellow in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. She was a Visiting Scholar at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at the Nottingham University Business School on a British Council Scholarship. The website www.teachcsr.com , an outcome of the scholarship is intended to promote teaching in Business Ethics and CSR among faculty of business schools in India. She was an Executive Committee Member of the International Society of Business, Economics & Ethics (ISBEE) and is also on the Board of Directors of a few international not-for profit social and non-governmental organizations. She is a member of two working groups on “Corporate Social responsibility” and “Disability and employment” set up by the Confederation of Indian Industry in Bangalore.
She has published in several journals like the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Research and Practice in Human Resource Management and has a paper in the forthcoming issue of “International Journal of Human Resource Management”.
Email id: vasanthi@iimb.ernet.in
C Balaji (Symphony Services)
IODA’s Executive Committee
The Executive Committee manages the business affairs of the association under the guidance of the IODA president and also includes both the current and future Conference Chairs. IODA members elect the EC members for a 3 years term.
Conference Chairs are nominated by the Host country Conference Team and approved by the EC for a term of 3 years.
Dr. Ulla Nagel was raised in East Germany and is
the founder (1992) and owner of IPU Dr. Nagel & Partner
Company - Innovative HRD and Business Development.
She has a diploma in Psychology (1980), a PhD in Industrial Psychology
(1985) and post-graduated
in Clinical Psychology and Psycho-therapy,
Behavioral Training and Organization Development. Her company does
a lot of research in industrial
projects with companies like German Telekom,
Airbus, Siemens and BMW etc. At this stage the main issues of her
research and her consultations
are health prevention and
development of health resources in
organizations .Therefore IPU cooperates closely with the Occupational
Health and Safety Associations (governmental insurances) in Germany.
The work is focused on supporting organizational learning to create
a healthy work place culture and get ready for the “age of access”.
She is a member of IODA since 1993 and served in its Executive Committee
since 1999. She hosted the 16th IODA World Conference 2001 in Dresden,
Germany.
Ben Arikpo is owner/manager of Akada Konsults (AK),
an Organization Development (OD) and Capacity
building Consultancy firm based in Lagos – Nigeria. Ben holds a Masters
Degree in Industrial Sociology from the
University of Calabar, were he lectured for six
years before leaving to work with various
international development agencies and
donors. Ben is a Certified Organization Development Consultant
and Chairs the Capacity Building for Organization
Development in Africa (CODA), the continental
training institute for OD.
He has twenty years of work experience
in development, training of trainers, facilitation
and moderation, Organization Development Consulting, Institutional
Development and
Capacity Building consultancy with small
medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs), non-government organizations
(NGOs), multi-lateral and bilateral
donor agencies (such as DFID, USAID, GTZ,
CIDA, British Council, etc) and churches. Currently, he spends his
time mentoring a team of OD
Facilitators in Nigeria, coaching executives
of SMMEs and NGOs as well as facilitating processes of institutionalization
of these organizations.
He makes his home in Lagos, Nigeria
Michelle de Bruyn, is based in Cape Town and currently serves as the Managing Director of the South African office of Kaiser Associates Economic Development Practice. Her work focuses on projects in the Southern African region relating to economic policy, strategy, implementation planning and capacity building.
Michelle has also worked as a researcher in a leadership development institute, a coordinator for the Trade and Industry Chamber of South Africa's primary formal
stakeholder consultative structure - the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC) - and as an economic policy adviser in government.
Michelle has a Bachelor of Arts Honours from Rhodes University and a Masters in Public and Development Management from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Dr. Kraus is an experienced executive and consultant in strategic business change. His focus is on overcoming barriers to new technologies/systems implementation and managing accelerated large systems change. He has a unique combination of theoretical expertise and a pragmatic business results orientation.
Dr. Kraus has been a faculty member at several universities including The University of Hartford, The University of Massachusetts, and Yale University. He has also taught in
a variety of Executive MBA programs and has worked for 6 years at General Electric implementing new technology and strategic business change.
Dr. Kraus has presented international papers and worked in several other countries including Thailand, Ghana and Australia.
His firm, WAKraus Associates, consults to a variety of sectors including Manufacturing, Finance & Banking, Health Care, Service Industries and Telecommuni-cations, as well as the Not-for-profit sector.
Executive coach and organization development consultant. Working with individuals, teams and departments of all kind of organizations, and with specialist and colleagues
Conference Chairs
Noble Kumawu, Ghana 2008
Noble is a Psychologist with a post-graduate specialization as an Organization Development [OD] Consultant. He divides his time between Africa, USA and Europe, undertaking relevant Organizational Development (OD) & Management Development Consultancy, Training and Research assignments or strengthening the capacity of local consultants to do so. In addition to his active consultancy and training responsibilities, he is the Chief Executive of OCIC International. He is also the
Coordinator of the OCIC-UCC OD Consultancy Skills Training Programme. He was the Chairperson for the OD Institute’s Conference held in 2002 in Ghana. He is the Chairperson for Ghana’s HCOC
AODN Team members
DOUGLAS O'LOUGHLIN Joy of Learning Consultants, www.jolc.com
Douglas O’Loughlin designs and facilitates OD processes to support organizations expand their effectiveness and success. Originally from the U.S. and a Singapore Permanent Resident since 1993, he has led sessions in more than 20 countries all around the world, working with Global and Local Organizations, Government Ministries, and NGOs.
His areas of expertise and focus are Change Management, Coaching, Leadership, more>>
Team Development, Adult Developmental Psychology, and Facilitation. In addition to being a practitioner, Douglas has lectured in various academic institutions in OB, OD, and OT. He is also an adjunct faculty for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), MDI Pakistan, and Ideation.
Douglas is involved in a number of learning communities…AODN, Future Search Network, World Café Community, Open Space World, IAF, ODI, as well as co-founding the OD Group at the Singapore Institute of Management.
He has a M.B.A from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management, and is currently doing coursework in the Doctorate in Management and Organization Development at Assumption University.
Dr. Lee-Hsing Lu
Dr. Lee-Hsing Lu is widely recognized today as a leader and visionary in cooperative university educational programs between China and the US. He has successfully launched programs in such diverse areas as business administration and management information systems. Programs in development include public health and organizational development. He is a broker of ideas in the truest sense. He is skilled planner, negotiator, teacher and scholar in wide breadth of fields in which he works. more>>
Dr. Lee-Hsing Lu, was born in Taiwan of a family rooted in Zhejiang,
China. He holds a B.S. in navigation from the National Taiwan Ocean
University, a M.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois
at Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Development from Benedictine
University, Chicago. He has served as a consultant to cities and
organizations both in China and in the U.S. Dr. Lee-Hsing Lu is
a member of many management and organizational development organizations.
He has been an adjunct faculty member and guest lecturer at many
universities. He has given papers and published both articles and
books in the area of organizational development.
Most recently Dr. Lee-Hsing Lu has served as chair and organizer of the Global OD Summit, 2007 China. This will be the catalyst for a dynamic new field of international and intercultural approaches to organizational development with special emphasis on East Asia. Thus Dr. Lee-Hsing’s Lu most significant work is today still unfolding and will be realized in the months and years ahead.
Michelle E. Tapia - 2010 Summit Chair
Michelle Tapia is an international management consultant with practice areas in strategy development, organization design and integrated strategic change management.
Currently, Mitsch is founding manager of Mozaik Multimedia, Inc., a startup company that creates cultural edutainment products using emerging multimedia and internet technologies. She is primarily responsible for research and is also involved in content design and development. more>>
Mitsch has over 13 years extensive consulting, management and professional experience in OD, change management, and corporate training in the private and public sectors. She conducted intercultural workshops to high tech companies and homebuilders in California and Arizona, as an Associate of Charis Intercultural Training Corp. She was also OD Adviser for Intel Technology Philippines, advising management on strategy development & execution, organization design, leadership and team development, succession planning and culture alignment. She designed and implemented HR account teams in the Philippines site’s business units, and co-facilitated the first OD session in Intel Shanghai, China. Within 9 months on the job, Mitsch was recognized with the Intel Business Group Human Resources Achievement Award for Strategic Business Partnering.
Before joining Intel, Mitsch co-founded Human Capital Asia, an HR outsourcing and consulting firm. She also provided HR and OD consulting, either as an internal manager or an external consultant, to various multinational and local companies in the Philippines such as Alfa Laval, First Data Corp., Earth & Style, Shell Solar, Fort Bonifacio Development and its joint venture companies, and the Metro Pacific group of companies.
Mitsch had the
opportunity to serve the Philippine
government twice – first as Technical Assistant to the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) then Deputy Commissioner Rene G. Bañez during the Ramos Administration, providing technical assistance in HR development and change management. As a Presidential appointee during the Macapagal-Arroyo Administration, Mitsch worked again with then BIR Commissioner Bañez
to instill a culture of good and effective
governance by initiating and managing
institutional reforms in the agency,
performing various roles as Internal
OD and Change Management Consultant,
Transformation Manager, and Liaison
to International Development Agencies
such as the World Bank, the USAID,
and the German Technical Foundation.
She was also Resource Speaker for the
BIR Transformation to multi-sector
stakeholders including the Office of
the President of the Philippines.
Mitsch holds a BS Psychology degree from Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines. She also earned the internationally renowned MS Organization Development from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business, USA, where she conducted field consulting assignments in the US, Canada, Mexico, China and the Philippines, and completed her research on the factors that lead to the integration of national and organizational cultures in a foreign affiliate of a transnational firm.
Mitsch is based in Redwood City, California, USA. She enjoys traveling, cooking, dining, listening to jazz and world music, and watching international films. Her interests are world cultures, spirituality, social change, and conscious evolution.
Roland Sullivan
Roland Sullivan is one of the original 100 change agents. He is a second generation OD consultant. He learned directly from the founders of the field beginning in 1962. He has lead change efforts with over 1,100 organizations in 30 countries and has taught OD at ten Universities, including the most recognized change program in the world. more>>
Editing over a twenty management of change books including the popular third edition of Practicing Organization Development have him in touch with best practices. He is known for “actually” transforming whole system in large interactive events and for the last 30 years, leading global competency research for consultants.
His practice simply involves for elements.
1. Transform a leadership team
2. Transform the critical mass
of their organization
3. Transform an internal change
agent that will sustain the organization change long term.
4. Sustain Transformation
He co-founded the Asian OD Network in 2004. Participants
from 27 countries participated in last year conference.
The largest gathering of OD practitioners and change agents
are expected at the 2009 conference in India.
He so so very excited about starting a long term relationship with Mesco Steel, one of the fastest growing group of companies in India.
… and mediation in his daughter’s boat on lake Minnentonka. A 250 mile around – lake less than a mile from his home.
.. and working with Tom Dick and Dr. Jubb.
