IODA Workshop | OD in Times of Polycrisis – How Can We Help Organizations to Adapt?

Organizations have been grappling with a VUCA world for some time—one marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. But today, the challenges are even greater. We are now in a polycrisis, where economic, social, environmental, and political systems are intertwined, and disruptions in one area ripple across all others.

From trade wars and supply chain breakdowns to rising inequality, food insecurity, regional conflicts, and the breaching of six of our nine planetary boundaries, it has become urgent to move beyond “business as usual.” For many organizations, this moment can feel like there is no solid ground on which to plan or strategise. Yet this groundlessness also offers fertile soil for reimagining purpose, reshaping practice, and embracing organic, emergent strategy.

This workshop, led by OD Consultant Michelle de Bruyn, will be an interactive opportunity to explore how OD can be valuable in this context, and what values, tools, and approaches may be most useful to us in supporting organisations through this time. Lakshmidevi Vasudevan will co-facilitate through reflecting back to the group discussion from her perspective. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Hands-on approaches to emergent strategy and organic planning
• Questions and tools to guide organisations navigating the polycrisis
• Principles to strengthen resilience and purpose in turbulent systems

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Michelle de Bruyn is a practitioner with more than 25 years of experience finding practical and sustainable solutions to socio-economic challenges in Africa, using OD as a key tool to support this. She has successfully helped deliver over 120 projects. Her expertise includes supporting complex stakeholder processes, stakeholder facilitation, partnership building, and getting from policy to implementation. Her work blends OD and systems work with socio-economic content and research. Michelle has a passion for finding practical solutions that integrate the social, economic and environmental. Michelle is committed to serving society by supporting organizational and societal change processes globally, and has recently co-founded a nature-focused non-profit. She recently served as the President of IODA.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Date: Saturday 25th October

Duration: 90 minutes

Time: 09:00 New York | 10:00 Santiago de Chile | 14:00 London | 15:00 Cape Town | 21:00 Singapore. To check your time zone clock here.

Cost: Free for members of IODA and U$D20 for non-members.