Organization Development and Change Division (ODC)

2025 PDW Program: Call for Submissions

PDW Chair: Richard Hall, Monash University

The Organization Development and Change (ODC) Division invites your Professional Development Workshop submissions for the 2025 Annual Meeting, with all PDWs to be scheduled Friday, 25 July through Sunday, 27 July. We seek proposals that address contemporary challenges and contribute to positive change within organizations, between organizations, and in communities. 

Our values as a division suggest the critical importance of how change happens.  Change carried out through inclusive processes - with input from multiple stakeholders at multiple levels of action - can be critical for building thriving organizations and communities.  At this year’s meeting hosted in the heart of Scandinavia – where multi-stakeholder relationships are often used strategically to achieve sustainable outcomes – our focus on how change happens will be particularly relevant.

When framing your PDW submission we invite you to consider questions such as the following:

Submissions to the ODC division may address these topics—as well as other topics —at the macro, meso, or micro levels of action.

PDWs may take the form of workshops, town hall meetings, debates, cafes, breakout sessions, round tables, research incubators – or new forms you may envision. We are open to a range of different topics and formats that will interest the ODC community. For more information see the Academy guidelines on PDWs.

Successful proposals will be interactive, create an engaging environment, provoke new ideas and learning, and integrate cutting-edge scholarship with applied ideas, processes, and practices. Proposals should be inclusive of participants from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds. 

To submit to the ODC Division, please review the Submission Guidelines and refer to the section on information for Professional Development Workshops. The submission deadline is Tuesday, 7  January 2025 at 17:00 ET (GMT-5/UTC-5), but earlier submissions are strongly encouraged. Before writing your submission, we also encourage you to review the ODC Division domain and mission statements. Please contact the PDW Chair, Richard Hall, with any questions about PDW submissions.

Finally, we encourage all those submitting PDW proposals to sign up as reviewers for ODC! We warmly thank all those who contribute to our community and the quality and vibrancy of our program by acting as reviewers for the ODC Division.

We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen!