History
It all began in the beautiful remote township and Industrial hub
Hosur, Tamil Nadu when Dr Mohanakrishnan, Mr Vasudevan and Prof
Udai Pareek met at a dinner. The conversation dwelled on the practice
of OD in India and Asia and span off the concerns of OD practitioners
in the continent. The need for a knowledge sharing and, for that
purpose, networking was strongly felt; there should be a permanent
platform. To further deliberate and promote this idea collectively
with pertinent stakeholders, the thought of hosting an OD conference
was born. Vasu, who always looks for avenues to help the clients,
elevated the idea of conference to summit and that of regional
to global. Global Organization Development Summit (GODS) emerged.
A team was formed to make the summit a successful one. Mohan assumed
the leadership role as the Summit Chair with the mentoring of
Udai. SDM Institute for Management Development (SDM-IMD), Mysore,
Karnataka became the host and provided the seed money for initial
expenses. Vasu assumed the role of networking and bringing into
association the Indian Society for Applied Behavior Science (ISABS),
a premier organization in the field of OD affiliated to National
Training Laboratory (NTL). Thereby Mr Sankarasubramanian, the
President of ISABS joined the team. Mohan, Vasu and Sankar together
brainstormed and designed the summit model (www.odsummitindia.org).
Udai at the right time introduced Roland Sullivan (Roland) from
USA to the GODS team. Roland assumed the task of getting the big
names in the field of OD as keynote speakers. He succeeded in
enrolling Prof. Peter Kostanbaum, Prof. Micheal Beer of Harvard
Business School and Dr David Bradford of Stanford University as
keynote speakers. Vasu brought in Ms. Anne Litwin, the past president
of NTL. Mohan gained the partnership of Infosys, the leader in
the IT industry, and mobilized corporate sponsorships.
As everything started to fall in place for GODS 2006, the team
simultaneously worked on creating a permanent platform for networking
to bring together OD professionals, practicing managers and the
academics. Hence, in the summit design six hours were allotted
to have a brainstorming on the formation of Asia OD Network (AODN).
The summit, a grand success with about 200 delegates representing
seven countries, witnessed a serious and thoughtful deliberation
of the forming of AODN through intensive brainstorming and created
a white paper.
In the mid course of the summit Dr Lee Shing Lu (Lee Lu) came
forward to host the next GODS of 2007 in China and Mr. Douglas
(Dough) proposed to host it in Singapore in 2008. Lee spearheaded
the effort of organizing the second GODS (2007) and brought more
networking and affiliations with popular OD educational organizations
like Benedictine University. With the help of Benedictine University
and SDMIMD as knowledge partners and sponsors GODS 2007 will be
conducted in Shenyang city in China with Shenyang Jian Zhu University
as the host.
The Asia OD Network (AODN) was formed in 2006 by a group of OD
scholars and practitioners based in Asia and the US, is a not-for-profit
organization, officially registered in the US and in India in
May and June respectively.
Vision & Mission
We envision Asian business, nonprofit, and government organizations
that promote and practice economic, social and environmental performance
with sustainability.
Our mission is to create and provide an environment that continuously
fuels the passion and search for excellence in Organization Development
and to provide a venue for all OD professionals to network with
each other and to share knowledge and best practices with special
emphasis on the unique needs of the dynamic Asian region.
Goals & Objectives
1. To connect and network OD practitioners in the Asian
region and around the world.
2. To co-create conceptual and theoretical frameworks for OD that
are relevant to the emerging economic, social, cultural and technological
contexts in the Asian region.
3. To promote OD and Institutional Building practice among all
sectors of society.
4. To set standards for professional behavior and practice.
Board of Trustees (Interim)
Mr.
Douglas O’Lgouhlin
Dr Lee Lu
Ms.
Michelle Tapia
Dr. R Mohanakrishnan
Prof.
Udai Pareek
Mr. Vasudevan
Ms Vinaya Shetty
*Please note that the Annual Board Meeting, Planning & Elections
will be held during the summit on September 10, 2007 from 9am
to 5pm at the Shenyang Jianzhu University in Shenyang, China.
Office Staff
We currently do not have any full time office staff.
Webmaster:
Peng (Leo) Liu
*We are looking for the following volunteer staff and
professional services to help us organize the AODN and GODS.
Executive Director
Membership Assistant
Communications Assistant
Bookkeeper
Editor - Newsletter
Forum/Blog Facilitator
