Enacting the Scholar-Practitioner Role in Organization Development and Change
Join us for this interactive PDW at AOM General Meeting, Vancouver
Saturday August 8, 2015
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Pan Pacific Vancouver, Gazebo 2
Sponsors: ODC, CAR
PDW Chair: Patrice Rosenthal, Fielding Graduate University
Speaker: Ilene Wasserman, ICW Consulting Group
Panel: Bill Pasmore, Columbia University
Panel: Cheryl Mitchell, Redball Solutions
Panel: Angela Passarelli, College of Charleston
Organizers: Patrice Rosenthal, Fielding Graduate University
Ilene Wasserman, ICW Consulting Group
Julie Smendzuik-O'Brien, Fielding Graduate University
Cheryl Mitchell, Fielding Graduate University
Dorothy Agger-Gupta, Fielding Graduate University
Are you a scholar-practitioner (experienced or aspiring) working in the field of organization development and change?
Scholar-practitioners as boundary spanners in organization development and change inhabit a role rich in promise and complexity. We are convening a diverse array of scholar-practitioners to explore challenges and concrete solutions involved in enacting and living this role - both in AOM and in the world. Join with us for some active inquiry and solution-trading.
An important goal of this PDW is to consider the experience and enactment of the scholar-practitioner role across career stages and contexts (eg academic or practice-led). We will explore how understandings, challenges and positive action might be shared (and differ) across these dimensions. We also will consider some individual and institutional actions that can enhance AOM as a resource for scholar-practitioners.
The PDW will engage participants in four segments. First, we collectively will connect and identify some challenges facing participants as they develop in their role and career. Second, an overview of research on the scholar-practitioner role will be presented. Third, a diverse panel of scholar-practitioners will share personal perspectives, including concrete actions that can help deliver on the promise of the role. Fourth, we will focus and deepen our collective conversation on some emergent issues. Post-session, participants will have the opportunity to access workshop resources, develop connections, and continue the conversation.
Our goal is that participants leave the PDW with expanded knowledge of the scholar-practitioner role, concrete ideas to address challenges in personal career development, connections to other scholar-practitioners, and new research directions.
We hope you will join us,
Patrice Rosenthal
PDW Chair
prosenthal@fielding.edu