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Join us for our first virtual community coffee of 2023. Meet fellow ODNY community members over a casual, facilitated discussion led by Board Member Arielle Sadan. 

Creating a culture of recognition: How to ask for recognition as an employee and foster it as an employer."

Note: ODNY is a volunteer-led, community-supported organization. Please consider making a minimum $5 contribution to help us sustain our programming. 

Virtual Community Coffee

Join the ODNY community for our April Happy Hour at The Brazen Tavern in Midtown Manhattan. Connect with NY-based OD professionals, enjoy appetizers on us, expand your network, and take part in a facilitated activity. Cash bar.

ODNY is a volunteer-led, community-supported organization. Please consider making a contribution to help us sustain our programming.

April Happy Hour

Join us for this special session with New York-based leader, facilitator, and educator 

Michael’s work is widely regarded for its ability to embolden others to feel, think, and act with greater curiosity, and a willingness to deepen their understanding of the different perspectives that influence our inner and outer worlds. His study and practice of modern leadership draws from ancient wisdom to bring about new skills and adoptable behaviors that are thoughtful, provocative, and personal.

During this 1-hour session, Michael will:

- Share tactics to help make empathy a more accessible practice

- Offer different exercises and prompts to explore our understanding of ourselves and others

- Open the dialogue for questions and conversation

 (Simon & Schuster, 2018) have been embraced by influential, respected organizations from the ACLU, LVMH, Google, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Microsoft, and Nike to The United Nations and the Obama Administration. His work is focused on helping leaders and their teams to incite growth and catalyze change.

A dynamic speaker and facilitator, Michael has shared his work as an advisor to a variety of public and private organizations, as well as prestigious institutions such as Princeton University and the United States Military Academy at West Point. His work has been featured in media outlets such as Business Insider, Fast Company, Forbes, The New York Times, PBS News Hour, and with conference attendees at Adobe’s 99U, SxSW, The TED Conference, and corporate events the world over.

ODNY is a volunteer-led, not-for-profit organization. Please consider paying the highest amount you are able. If you are facing financial hardship, email us at 

 and we will provide additional options to attend this program.

Applied Empathy with Michael Ventura

Our May happy hour is being postponed until June. Hope to see you on Tuesday the 16th!

Join the ODNY community for our May Happy Hour at the Empire Steak House in Midtown East. Connect with NY-based OD professionals, enjoy appetizers on us, expand your network, and take part in a facilitated activity. Cash bar.

[Postponed this month] May Happy Hour

Come one, come all, and join us for ODNY's next virtual community discussion. ODNY member Dr. 

 will facilitate a rich discussion on the impact of layoffs of organization culture.

ODNY is a volunteer-led, not-for-profit organization. While this event is free to attend, please consider making a donation to help support our programming.

Virtual Community Discussion

Join the ODNY community and Association for Talent Development (ATD) for our June Happy Hour at the Empire Steak House in Midtown East. Connect with NY-based OD and Talent Development professionals, enjoy appetizers on us, expand your network, and take part in a facilitated activity. Cash bar.

June Happy Hour

 as we learn about a new way to focus and prioritize our own self-care, a practice which we can take and apply to ourselves, our teams, and our clients.

Often OD professionals are so focused on caring for others, we forget to care for ourselves so the first half of this event will be about each of us as individuals.

In the second half we will learn about the future of engagement surveys, focusing on the holistic health of an organization and its people and how we can measure health to create change.

The OD Oxygen Mask - Self and Organizational Health

 is a space for facilitated discussions, led by one of our community members, to the OD community in NY connect, build ideas, and exchange insights.

: for our first OD Braintrust, Estee Kim, board member, will bring a topic for us to discuss through a structured conversation. The topic will not be announced in advance as we want an element of surprise, and suspect we’ll have greater diversity of thought by avoiding the self-selection process that usually happens when we have a topic in mind.

? If you have an open mind and are interested in starting your Friday with thought provoking, invigorating conversation on a surprise topic related to the workplace, join us!

You’re someone who work in, studies, or is fascinated with fields like change leadership, human behavior, organizational culture, pro-social development, creativity, navigating complexity, or agility (just to name a few).

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