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New Jersey Organizational Development Community

Welcome to the New Jersey Organization Development (NJOD) Community, an all-volunteer, not-for-profit regional organization development professional association. NJOD, formed in 1998, is the world's largest and fastest growing regional OD network, with over 1,200 members. NJOD is recipient of the 2004 Worldwide Regional OD Network of the Year Award.

New Jersey OD Community Mission & Vision

Our mission is to advance the field of organization development. We achieve this mission by sharing our knowledge freely, learning from one another, and building relationship with colleagues. By sharing knowledge freely, we build and strengthen the community knowledge base. We reinvent our skills and prepare for future opportunities by learning from each other. As a free and all-volunteer learning community, it is the relationship we have with one another that determines our growth and success.

Our vision is a united, energized, and mobilized OD community focusing on improving our practices, strengthening our research, and advancing the future of our profession.


                         N.J. OD Network Announcements


   Next Meeting Date:     June 26th

   Time:     3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

   Location:     Goldman Sachs in Jersey City

Host: Carol Pledger, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs University

    Program: Lessons Learned about the Psychology of Leadership

Bob Lee, PhD, will discuss “Lessons Learned about the Psychology of Leadership”, which is about some of the important things he’s learned along his life journey regarding the psychology of leaders. It is also about his own lessons learned as a leader and as a coach to leaders. It is based on what he sees as important as he looks back on a life that wasn’t planned. His article on this appeared in the recent Winter issue of OD Practitioner.

Bob is a management consultant in private practice in New York City. He is the Director of iCoachNewYork, which provides coach training programs and supervision for both internal and external coaches. For the past 10 years he has served as a coach to senior executives regarding leadership and management issues, transitions and team effectiveness.
Bob is on the adjunct faculty at the Milano Graduate School of New School University, and is a Senior Fellow with the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY.    In conjunction with his iCoachNewYork colleagues he teaches introductory and advanced courses on executive coaching; the program at Baruch leads to a Certificate in Professional Coaching.   He is co-author of Discovering the Leader in You [Jossey-Bass, 2001], and co-author of Executive Coaching: A Guide for the HR Professional [Pfeiffer/Wiley, 2005].

From 1994 to 1997 he was President and CEO of the Center for Creative Leadership, the world’s largest leadership development and research organization.   For the prior 20 years he was founder and president of Lee Hecht Harrison, a worldwide career services firm.

Bob is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York Metropolitan Association for Applied Psychology, the NTL Institute, and the Society of Psychologists in Management. He received the Distinguished Psychologist in Management award in 2008 from SPIM. He serves on the Advisory Board for the New York Human Resources Planning Society.   His PhD is in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Case Western Reserve University, 1965.

   RSVP: Please contact me at thiet.nguyen@earthlink.net for seating request.