Organizational Dynamics Lecture Series

One of the most popular educational programs offered by Organizational Dynamics is our lecture series.

In the Fall and Spring terms, speakers who are leaders in their fields, some of whom are pictured on this page, are invited to lecture on topics pertaining to Organizational Dynamics concentration areas - i.e., coaching, leadership, global, change management and project management, as well as other relevant topics.

To make the event particularly enjoyable, we combine most speakers with a meal. Dinner Lectures are held from 5:15 p.m. until about 6:15 p.m., when students and professors must leave for class. Lunch Lectures are held from 12 noon untill 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Brunch Lectures are included during the Organizational Dynamics new semester Brunches in January and September.

These lectures offer unique opportunities to keep abreast of the latest developments in many areas of interest as well as to socialize and network with faculty, other students, alumni, and Center for Organizational Dynamics members.

Those who are enrolled in or teaching a class on the lecture date need not register. All others must send an email to dynamics@sas.upenn.edu to sign up.

There is no charge to current students and faculty or to members of the Organizational Dynamics Exchange Network (ODEN). Others may be charged $25.00 at the door.

2009/2010 Academic Year
Fall 2009
L. Frederick Sutherland Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Group Executive, ARAMARK Corporation. November 23, 2009 "Entrepreneurship and Leadership at the Individual Level in ARAMARK"	David W. Jamieson, Ph.D. President, Jamieson Consulting Group, Inc. Adjunct Professor, Master of Science in Organization Development Programs, Pepperdine University and AU/NTL November 17, 2009 To be announced
Arthur M. Freedman, Ph.D. Consulting Psychologist Former Director of the American University National Training Laboratories' (AU/NTL), Master of Science in Organizational Development Program November 10, 2009 "How Action Learning Team Coaching Contributes to Leadership and Organization Development"	Marvin Weisbord Co-director, Future Search Network (FSN) November 3, 2009 "Evolution of Workplace Improvement Strategies from Taylorism through Participative Management to Systems Thinking and Beyond"
Chris Born, MD Fellow, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons October 24, 2009 "Disasters: An Overview of Preparedness and Response Management"	Robert J. Marshak, Ph.D. Scholar in Residence, School of Public Affairs, American University October 13, 2009 "Organization Development and Post Confucian Countries"
Alan Barstow, Ph.D. Director of Academics and Professor, Organizational Dynamics October 8, 2009 "The Flight 93 Memorial: A Report on Students' Work in the Organizational Dynamics Project Course"	Debra Gmelin, PhD Corporate Director, Leadership Institute at Humana Inc. September 13, 2009 "Learning as a Go-to-Market Strategy"
2008/2009 Academic Year
Spring 2009
Ruth Anne Guerrero Vice President, Project Management Office, Amerihealth Mercy Family March 28, 2009 "What Makes a Program Management Office (PMO) Successful?"	Peter F. Norlin, Ph.D. Executive Director, Organization Development Network March 19, 2009 "Developing a Meta-Organization: Laboratory Learning at the OD Network"
J. Andrei Villarroel, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar, Organizational Dynamics Postdoctoral fellowship, MIT with Professor Eric von Hippel (Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship) March 5, 2009 "Strategic Crowdsourcing: Motivating Firm-Sponsored Online Collective Work"	Anne Papageorge Vice President for Facilities and Real Estate Services, University of Pennsylvania February 28, 2009 "The Penn Connects program"
Jason D. Patent, Ph.D. Independent Consultant February 12, 2009 "Are These Truths Self-Evident? Digging Deeper into Chinese and American Culture"	William E. Smith, Ph.D. Director of Organizing for Development, an International Institute (ODII) Adjunct Associate Professor, Organizational Sciences, George Washington U. January 22, 2009 "The Transformational Origins and Opportunity in Our Current Crisis: A New Philosophy, Theory, and Model of the Organizing Process"
Richard Caruso, Ph.D. Chairman/ CEO/ President of Integra LifeSciences January 10, 2009 "How to Become the Entrepreneur of the Enterprise of Your Own Life"
Fall 2008
Diane Brennan President, International Coach Federation November 18, 2008 "Leadership Coaching: The Impact on the Organization"	David Cook, Ph.D. December 2, 2008 "Sustainable Development and The Natural Step Framework"
Matt Minahan, Ed.D. President, MM&A Adjunct Professor, Organization Development/Strategic Human Resources, Johns Hopkins University Adjunct Professor, Management and Organization at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland November 6, 2008 "Some Myths and Realities about Cross Culturalism"	Arthur M. Freedman, Ph.D. Consulting Psychologist Former Director of the American University National Training Laboratories' (AU/NTL), Master of Science in Organizational Development Program October 23, 2008 "The Undiscussable Sides of Implementing Complex Systems Change"
Jan Hanousek, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar and Affiliated Faculty, Organizational Dynamics Professor at CERGE-EI, Charles University & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic October 6, 2008 "Organizations' Behavior and Types of Ownership: Responsibility, Soft Budgetary Constraints, and Bailouts."	Jason Magidson, Ph.D. Director of Innovation Processes, GlaxoSmithKline October 2, 2008 "Organizing So Institutions and the Individuals in Them Can Thrive in Turbulent Times"
Alexander (Sandy) Pentland, Ph.D. Director of the Digital Life Consortium Media Lab Group, M.I.T. September 13, 2008 "Honest Signals: Understanding Organizations through Reality Mining"
2007/2008 Academic Year
Spring 2008
Gunnar Olsson, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden. April 17, 2008 - "Towards a Critique of Cartographic Reason" April 19, 2008 - "Mapping the Human Territory"	Paul Osimo Jr. Vice President, Lehigh Nanotech, LLC April 1, 2008 "Nanotechnology for Energy and Environment - Applications and Implications"
Rosa Colon, Ph.D. Vice President, Systems learning, Christiana Care Health System, Delaware March 17, 2008 "Learning and Organization Development in Healthcare"	Claudia Byram, Ph.D. Senior SAVI trainer and Psychologist and Fran Carter, MSS Clinical and Consulting Practice February 28, 2008 "Making a Map of Communication - SAVI: Tracking the Patterns that Matter"
Robert Croner Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Radian Group, Inc. February 5, 2008 "Anatomy of a Merger: Connecting 'People' Strategies with Business Strategies"	Feliks Tarasenko, Ph.D. Dean of Faculty and Professor, Department of Public and Business Administration, Tomsk State University Tomsk, Russia January 28, 2008 "Seven Paradoxes of Voting Systems: Inherent Peculiarities of Collective Decision Making"
Richard Harriman Managing Partner, Synectics Corporation January 12, 2008 "Creativity and Innovation"
Fall 2007
Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ph.D. with Henry Teune Ph.D. Executive Director, International Institute of Regional and Local Studies, Pultusk School of Humanities December 10, 2007 "A Berlin-Warsaw Axis? New Perspectives on the Old Fractures in a Changing Europe"	Juraj Stancik Ph.D. Candidate, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic December 6, 2007 "The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Sales Growth of Domestic Companies"
Ruth Orenstein, Psy.D. President of Princeton Consulting Resoruces, Inc. Director of the Organzational Psychology Consulting Group, Center for Applied Psychology, Rutgers University Part-time faculty, Center for Applied Psychology, Rutgers University November 13, 2007 "Multidimensional Executive Coaching"	Richard Kilburg, Ph.D. Senior Director, Office of Human Services, Johns Hopkins University October 30, 2007 "On Executive Conscience: Coaching and the Virtue of Justice in Leaders"
Larry Hirschhorn, Ph.D. Affiliated Faculty, Organizational Dynamics October 4, 2007	Jane Frankel and Laura Burford Founder, The Art of Performance, LLC. September 25, 2007 "Strategic Capabilities: People and Technology"
J.T. Kostman, Ph.D. Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and Sociocognitive Economist September 8, 2007 "Leadership in Times of Crisis, Chaos and Change"
2006/2007 Academic Year
Lewis Stern, Ph.D. Director, Graduate Certificate Program in Executive Coaching Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology March 29, 2007 "Graduate Education in Executive Coaching: Competence, Professional Ethics, and Commitment to the Community."	Robert J. Marshak, Ph.D. Scholar in Residence, School of Public Affairs, American University November 30, 2006 "The Hidden Dimensions of Organizational Change"
Harold Klein, Ph.D. Affiliated Faculty, Organizational Dynamics, Associate Professor, Department of General and Strategic Management, Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University October 12, 2006 "Complex Organizational Problems in the Mind's Eye"	J. Andrei Villarroel Ph.D. Candidate, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Former Visiting Scholar, Center for Organizational Dynamics September 26, 2006 "Organizational Networks"
Karen Daroff President and Principal in Charge of Design, Daroff Design September 16, 2006
2005/2006 Academic Year
Robert J. Lee, Ph.D. Practicing Executive Coach, Author, Lecture March 23, 2006 "Executive Coaching: An Executive Summary"	James Pawelski, Ph.D. Director of Education, University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center faculty, Master's of Applied Positive Psychology November 5, 2005 "Applications of Positive Psychology"
Jose Lambert, Ph.D. Leuven Research Centre in Belgium October 25, 2005 "Intercultural Communication"	Diane Hanson President of Creative Resource Development October 25, 2005
Gerald Suarez, Ph.D. Consultant and Lecturer October 10, 2005 "Threats in the Workplace"	Mike van Oudtshoorn, Ph.D. Organizational Psychologist September 27, 2005 "Doctoral Coaching Programs in the UK ."
2004/2005 Academic Year
Jeremy Rifkin, Ph.D. Author and President, Foundation on Economic Trends Personal Advisor to Romano Prodi, President of The European Commission June 20, 2005 "The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Sales Growth of Domestic Companies"	Robert Barsky, Ph.D. Professor of Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University April 6, 2005 "Haven or Purgatory? Refugee Policies of the US and Canada"
Jan Hanousek, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar and Affiliated Faculty, Organizational Dynamics Professor at CERGE-EI, Charles University & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic March 1, 2005 "The Gray Economic Zone: Firms, Stocks, and Shadows"	Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ph.D. with Henry Teune Ph.D. Executive Director, International Institute of Regional and Local Studies, Pultusk School of Humanities February 8, 2005 "Prospects and Problems of the Baltics in a New Europe"