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• Strike the Right Chord: The Six Essential “Notes” of Leadership ~ with Michael Brenner (with CBODN)

  • When
    October 02, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Strike the Right Chord: The Six Essential “Notes” of Leadership

  
  

  with Michael Brenner  

  In Partnership with Chesapeake Bay ODN

  In today’s dynamic workplace, the work of OD practitioners and consultants is no longer measured solely by output—it’s also about orchestrating alignment, meaning, and engagement for our clients. During this interactive webinar, participants will explore how to bring different elements together to create something truly powerful – much like great musicians do!  Whether you advise senior executives, facilitate team interventions, or coach emerging leaders, you’ll gain field‑ready insights to deepen your practice and amplify client results.

  Central to the session is Dr. Brenner’s CHORDS Model, a diagnostic and development framework built around six critical “notes”: Communication, Harmony, Ownership, Respect, Direction, and Support. Just as musicians attend to timing, tone, and tempo, OD professionals help leaders stay attuned to trust levels, accountability norms, and change readiness. Each note pinpoints a leverage point for boosting engagement, collaboration, and sustained performance at every level of the organization.

  
  

  Whether you’re supporting a department‑level culture shift or an enterprise‑wide transformation, you’ll leave equipped to help your clients strike the right chord and mobilize people to play in sync. 

  
  

  You'll walk away with:

  • A memorable, research-grounded framework (CHORDS) you can integrate into leadership development programs, coaching engagements, and culture diagnostics.
  • Practical techniques for improving team dynamics, elevating communication quality, and embedding emotional intelligence into day-to-day leadership behaviors.
  • A set of "next day" actions and reflection prompts to guide leaders toward purpose-driven, trust-based, high-performance cultures.

  
  

  About Your Facilitator:
  

  As founder and CEO of Right Chord Leadership, Dr. Michael Brenner collaborates with leaders and teams at all levels to strengthen the essential skills needed for peak performance. He achieves this by drawing on more than two decades of experience as an international leadership consultant, executive coach, keynote speaker, and educator, and more than 35 years as a professional musician.

  Michael has partnered with leading organizations in a variety of industries and has been a featured speaker at industry events and conferences around the world, including South Asia, Canada and Australia. He holds a doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership from Columbia University and a master’s degree in Adult and Organizational Development from Temple University.

  
  

  AGENDA:

  3:45 - 4:00 PM Pacific (6:45-7:00 Eastern) Join Zoom Meeting

  4:00- 5:30 PM Pacific (7:00-8:30 Eastern) Workshop

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• Sovereignty Leadership: Shifting from Survival to Creative Expression ~ with Maria Alexandra Ramirez

  • When
    October 08, 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Sovereignty Leadership: Shifting from Survival to Creative Expression 

  
  

  Maria Alexandra Ramirez

  In a world of rapid change, relentless pressure, and increasing disconnection, many professionals, regardless of title, are longing for a more meaningful way to work, lead, and make an impact. This experiential session introduces Sovereignty Leadership™, a human-centered, science-informed system that helps leaders and professionals rewire how they show up in the world, starting from the inside out.
  

  Rather than offering surface-level strategies or quick-fix leadership tactics, this framework guides participants through an embodied process of breaking through patterns of fear and self-doubt, reclaiming their inner authority, and stepping into their highest creative leadership expression rooted in presence, dignity, and sovereignty. Through guided self-reflection, somatic practices, and real-world application, participants will explore how to shift from reactive survival mode to aligned, creative leadership, even in high-pressure environments.

  They'll leave with a comprehensive system, practical tools, and renewed self-awareness they can immediately apply - to support their own growth as a human being and leader, and to foster more human-centered, regenerative cultures in their organizations and communities. Whether you're navigating complexity in your own role or supporting others as a change agent, this session offers both a personal recalibration and professional reimagining of what's possible when we evolve how we lead individually and collectively.

  
  

  Learning Objectives
  

  1. Learn how to identify and shift unconscious patterns (like perfectionism, people-pleasing, burnout, etc..) that silently drive disconnection and reactivity in leadership.

  2. Experience embodied tools to regulate the nervous system and build inner capacity for leadership traits, like presence, clarity, and resilience, even under pressure.

  3. Explore a new paradigm of sovereign leadership that supports embodied transformation and the co-creation of thriving, inclusive, conscious organizational cultures.

  
  

  About Your Facilitator
  

  Maria Alexandra Ramirez is the founder of Wholistic Solutions and creator of the Sovereignty Leadership Framework™ and Quantum Organizational Dynamics™, two systems that support sustainable, embodied transformation in leaders and organizations.

  With a background in mechanical engineering, somatic psychology, naturopathic studies, organizational strategy, and design thinking, Maria bridges systems, science, soma, and structure, to help leaders and teams lead with clarity, dignity, and purpose. Her work integrates trauma-informed practices, somatic intelligence, and leadership development to create lasting change, using human-centered approaches.

  Maria supports professionals, teams, and organizations in cultivating wholeness, fulfillment, and impact, not just through external goals, but by aligning with their most authentic creative expression. Whether working with young leaders or seasoned executives, she empowers clients to lead from within, transforming challenges into catalysts for growth and fostering cultures where both people and purpose can thrive.

  
  

  AGENDA:

  4:45 - 5:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

  5:00- 7:00 pm Training

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• Launch Your Modeling Career…. Business Modeling, That Is! ~ with Bruce Hazen (with ODN Oregon)

  • When
    October 17, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Launch Your Modeling Career…. Business Modeling, That Is!

  
  

  Bruce Hazen
  

  Join us for this Friday lunch hour event in partnership with ODN Oregon!

  The Visual Methodology That Increases Everyone’s Operational Savvy

  Welcome to the beginning of your modeling career…business modeling that is. It’s easy to learn. This kind of modeling will advance situational awareness and take individuals (including YOU) and teams into a more effective, productive and aligned relationship with each other, your organization and your customers.

  You will discover and try visual tools to see the business models that surround you and your colleagues. See how to depict operations at the enterprise, team and individual levels to enable everyone to see how their organization really works and how they fit in.

  The painful truth is that people get hired for an individual j-o-b but are expected to produce group results by integrating that j-o-b into a vague, bigger scheme. This is why you need a BIGGER THEORY OF WORK. A “vague bigger scheme” isn’t good enough anymore. You need a way to explicitly and visually depict the bigger scheme: the value proposition, how you create it for your customers and what value you receive back for doing so. Shockingly, most team members can’t describe this.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Show team members how to operate their enterprise/team not just their j-o-b
  • See a visual method and tool that offers power beyond just words
    
  • Experience a tool for hiring, onboarding, change management and, team building to develop outward focus and escape job-description myopia

  About Your Facilitator:

  As a leadership and career coach and OD consultant, Bruce Hazen combines business systems experience with clinical understanding to address the needs of individuals, in a range of different professions, who are managing other people, organizations, and constant change. He is the President of Business Models for Teams, LLC and coauthor of the Chapter on Career Coaching in The Complete Handbook of Coaching (2018) and co-author of Business Models for Teams: See How Your Organization Really Works and How Each Person Fits In. (2017) and Business Model You (2nd edition 2023). He consults primarily in healthcare today.

  Bruce has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, with emphasis in organizational behavior and psychology. In addition, he holds a MS in Clinical Psychology from California State University, San Jose, and is active within the Organization Development Network (ODN).

  (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: for visual comprehension, attend on a computer screen, not a phone.)

  AGENDA:

  11:45 - 12:00 PM Join Zoom Meeting

  12:00- 1:30 PM PM Workshop

  Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.

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• Prevention through Appreciative Community Engagement ~ with Michael Emmert, EdD

  • When
    October 20, 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Prevention through Appreciative Community Engagement

  
  

  Michael Emmert, EdD

  How can systems move toward partnering with the communities they serve?

  In this session, Dr. Michael Emmart introduces PACE: Prevention through Appreciative Community Engagement - a practical, strengths-based framework for rethinking system-community relationships. Drawing on Appreciative Inquiry, positive sociology, and prevention science, PACE invites system partners to build on community strengths, shift outdated dynamics, and collaborate more effectively with impacted communities in support of lasting, positive change.

  Designed for organizational development professionals, this talk offers new tools and mindsets to support meaningful, future-focused change.

  Learning Objectives
  

  1. A fresh framework for understanding and improving community engagement.

  2. Insight into the kinds of organizational mindsets and practices grow relationships with impacted communities.

  3. Tools to consider in helping your team move from reactive fixes to proactive collaboration with those you serve, regardless of your role.

  About Your Facilitator
  

  Michael Emmart, Ed.D. is a founding member of the Institute for Just Outcomes through Conversation, which is housed within Case Western Reserve University’s Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit and has served as executive director since its inception. He also serves as a professor within Keuka College’s Division of Criminal Justice and Social Work. His speaking and research centers on the value of incorporating positive, inquiry-based conversations in our families, communities, and workplaces.

  Michael’s professional interests center on strengthening the connection between communities and the systems intended to serve them. Drawing on frameworks such as Appreciative Inquiry, positive nonviolence, and community-engaged prevention science, his work explores how institutions can meaningfully engage with impacted communities to promote well-being and resilience. He is particularly interested in designing and evaluating initiatives that build collective efficacy, foster authentic partnerships, and shift power toward community-defined visions of success. Through his teaching, research, and practice, Michael is committed to developing practical, strengths-based tools that support positive systems change and deepen community voice in policy and service delivery.

  Michael and his bride, Jodi, live in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of Central New York, where they raised six children and are enjoying an ever-growing number of grandchildren.

  
  

  AGENDA:

  4:45 - 5:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

  5:00- 6:00 pm Training

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• OD Community Connections - Being OD

  • When
    October 30, 2025
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  OD Community Connections - Being OD
  

  
  

  This PNODN Community Gathering will be conducted live via Zoom. The zoom meeting details are included in your emailed confirmation and sent out the day prior.

  At our core, PNODN is a community. We are brought together by our shared passion for helping people thrive and organizations achieve more by unleashing the human potential within them. 

  Whether you think of yourself as an OD person or not, if you share this passion, we think you’ll love connecting with the amazing people in this community.

  Once each month we dedicate this gathering to the purpose of building community, helping you make connections that add value to your life in friendship, support and business collaboration.

  This is not your typical networking event where you share your business cards and well-worn elevator pitch. 

  This is about making authentic connections with people in our local community with whom you share this passion for people and fascination with the human dynamics of organizations.

  Each time we gather we’ll offer topics in line with our quarterly theme and guidance to make conversation easy. We’ll often use breakouts to give you a chance to talk with each other in small groups. And you’ll have the freedom to take the discussion in any direction that works for you and those gathered with you.

  We will share and stick to a set of guidelines that support our shared commitment of creating a safe environment in which everyone is valued and respected. Nothing will ever be forced – you can abstain at any time.

  The gathering is free of charge and everyone is welcome.

  About Your Host

  Justin Navetski, PNODN Director of Community, will be your host. Justin continues as part of a team convening PNODN members for the last several years.Justin brings well-being theory, OD first principles, and experiential learning to his work. Combining design work with use of self, he strives to build containers where people can bring themselves to the forefront.
  

  
  

  COST:

  No charge

  
  

  AGENDA:

  5:30 Welcome and Topic Introduction

  5:45 Conversation / Discussion Groups

  6:15 Come together and/ or rotate to new rooms
  

  6:45 (optional) Linger to talk informally if you choose

  
  

  Online registration is encouraged so we can plan for the gathering accordingly. And walk ins are also welcome.

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• Psychological Safety and the Neuroscience of Workforce Agility ~ with Jacquelyn Bergmann Mastriani

  • When
    November 05, 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Creating Agility in the Workplace
  

  Psychological Safety and the Neuroscience of Workforce Agility

  

  Jacquelyn Bergmann Mastriani, EdD, MAT, CSM, SHRM-CP

  This interactive presentation takes a deep dive into transforming an organization into an agile workforce. We’ll discuss how to create a psychologically safe work environment, examine the concepts of employee psychological flexibility, agility, and agile behaviors in the workplace. This session will provide participants with a deep understanding of the adaptability and proactive sides of agility, and behaviors that exemplify agile teams.

  Objective:

  Attendees will collaborate in large and small groups to create agility assessments for immediate use in their organizations.

  Dr. Jacquelyn Mastriani specializes in Organizational and Transformational Leadership. As a senior consultant, she leverages her experiential insights and knowledge of neuroscience, psychology, and learning theory to help organizations effectively navigate the transformation process. Her research field is stress, psychological flexibility, and agile behaviors. She is a certified Scrum Master, DEI Specialist, and has a SHRM-CP certification. She utilizes her research and experience in Education and Change Management to empower leaders and teams with the psychological and social-cognitive neuroscience tools that allow them to create agile, productive, and sustainable teams.

  Her book Becoming Agile is slated for publication in 2026.

  AGENDA:

  4:45 - 5:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

  5:00- 7:00 pm Training

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• The Overlooked Power Skill: Why Relationship-Building Is Essential for Leadership and Growth ~ with Noa Ronen (with Triangle ODN)

  • When
    November 12, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  The Overlooked Power Skill:
  Why Relationship-Building Is Essential for Leadership and Growth

  
  

  Noa Ronen
  

  Join us for this morning event in partnership with Triangle ODN!

  In today’s shifting landscape—whether your organization is growing fast, facing uncertainty, or navigating constant change—leaders are being asked to do more with less clarity and more pressure. They’re trained to adapt, respond, and deliver.

  But what often gets overlooked is the one skill that makes all of that possible: relationship-building.

  When stress rises, connection drops. Leaders isolate. Silos form. And decisions are made in a vacuum. This session reframes relationship-building not as a “nice-to-have,” but as a crucial leadership skill—essential for collaboration, influence, innovation, and trust.

  
  

  In This Session:

  We’ll explore the neuroscience of the social brain, the impact of pressure on connection, and why organizations—from founders to first-time managers—need to prioritize relationships as a strategic advantage.

  In this engaging session, we’ll also open the floor for shared insights and conversation around how L&D professionals are addressing this overlooked skill—and where opportunities may still be hiding.

  
  

  About Your Facilitator:

  Noa Ronen, MCC MBA is the Co-Founder and CEO of Coaching Connection, bringing over 20 years of experience in Change Management, Leadership and Talent Development, HR, and Executive Coaching across the U.S. and Israel. Her personal relocation journey sparked a passion for bridging differences and staying curious—especially in times of uncertainty and change. Noa works with leaders and teams worldwide to challenge assumptions, strengthen collaboration, and lead with vision and values. Her core question: What can you see beyond yourself to influence the change you care about?

  AGENDA:

  8:45 - 9:00 AM Join Zoom Meeting

  9:00- 10:00 AM Workshop

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  Consider joining PNODN - member savings over the course of the year are substantial and we need your voice in the conversation!

  
  

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• The Body Calls: An Exploration of Embodied Activism and Its Relevance to the Field of Organizational Development ~ with Marissa Mosunich

  • When
    November 17, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Body Calls: An Exploration of Embodied Activism and Its Relevance to the Field of Organizational Development 

  
  

  Why this session matters:

  In the pursuit of operational excellence, we often overlook one of the most powerful instruments of change: the body. Marissa Mosunich's professional journey began in the structured world of operations—until she realized something essential was missing. Inspired by the practice of Relational Whole Body Focusing and the writing of embodied activists and organizers, Marissa began weaving body awareness and social justice into her professional path. She returned to school for Organizational Development and now works at the intersection of systems, people, and purpose.

  Through this personal transformation, she recognized that when she slowed down and truly listened to her body, she became more attuned to her own needs—and more empowered to make meaningful changes in her work, organizations, and communities. These insights now shape her belief that embodiment is an essential tool for Organizational Development practitioners promoting equity, connection, and socially aware transformation.

  What to expect in this session:

  In "The Body Calls: An Exploration of Embodied Activism and Its Relevance for the Practice of Organizational Development," participants will:
  

  • Explore how embodiment can support employee-led and justice-focused organizational change

  • Discover the overlapping values, principles, and possibilities shared by embodied activism and Organizational Development

  • Discuss practical applications and future directions for bringing embodied approaches into OD work

  Session structure:

  This interactive workshop will unfold in three parts:
  

  1. A presentation that introduces foundational concepts of embodiment and embodied activism

  2. Breakout session for small-group discussion and reflection on embodied activism and Organizational Development

  3. A guided whole-group brainstorming session on OD values and practices, inspired by embodied activism

  Come ready to dive in. You’ll leave with new ideas, frameworks, and embodied perspectives to deepen your Organizational Development practice and support transformative systems change.

  Learning outcomes:

  1. Familiarize oneself with the presence of embodiment in contemporary activism and social change movements.

  2. Begin to discover how embodiment coupled with employee agency can inform and inspire organizational shifts.

  3. Identify practical applications and directions for bringing embodied approaches into OD work.

  About Your Facilitator
  

  Marissa Mosunich is an operations professional, former industrial engineer, and organizational development consultant.

  Through her company, Operate Well Consulting, Marissa helps teams bring clarity, flow, and alignment to their operations.  She brings a unique blend of systems thinking and human-centered organizational design, shaped by both real-world experience and academic training. She seeks to ignite change through her writing, community involvement, and organizational development practice.

  Marissa lives on the Central Coast of California with her family. She loves people, music, poetry, and nature—and is always up for a good walk or deep conversation. She holds a master’s in Organizational Development and Leadership from Fielding Graduate University, a master’s in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and a bachelor’s in Music and Mathematics from Northwestern University.

  
  AGENDA:

  5:45 - 6:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

  6:00- 7:30 pm Presentation

  7:30-8:00 pm Discussion

  Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.

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• Essential Architecture: Simple Systems to Amplify the Org Dev Work that Matters Most ~ with Ian C. Williams (with MNODN)

  • When
    December 04, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Essential Architecture: Simple Systems to Amplify the Org Dev Work that Matters Most
  

  
  

  Ian C. Williams
  

  Join us for this afternoon event in partnership with MNODN!

  Tired of fighting fires instead of focusing on strategy? Most organizations are drowning in complexity when what they really need is clarity. This workshop introduces an essentialist framework proven to help leaders and teams increase performance, engagement, and enterprise value. All that’s needed are a few timeless principles to unlock real leverage as it relates to organizational development.

  Participants will learn to:

  • Use Minimum Effective Dose thinking to reduce over-engineering
  • Apply Pareto and Parkinson’s Laws to workflows and schedules
  • Differentiate Maker vs. Manager time for better team productivity
  • Craft business processes that actually support operational strategy
  • Adopt the “BOP It” model to improve execution and increase clarity

  Objectives:

  Participants will walk away with actionable strategies and a repeatable system to reduce operational drag, improve execution, and make space for high-impact work so they can finally work on the business, not just in it.

  About Your Facilitator:

  Ian C. Williams is a best selling author, speaker, and business advisor specializing in social and environmental impact. As Founder and CEO of Still Point Insight, Ian helps mission-driven organizations scale solutions to global challenges. Specializing in process improvement, change management, and workforce development, Still Point Insight helps leaders and teams grow culture and capacity to maximize their wellbeing and impact. He holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis in Leadership Strategy and Organizational Culture.

  AGENDA:

  3:45 - 4:00 PM Pacific (5:45-6pm Central) Join Zoom Meeting

  4:00- 5:30 PM Pacific (6-7:30 Central) Workshop

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  Consider joining PNODN - member savings over the course of the year are substantial and we need your voice in the conversation!

  
  

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• On the Spectrum From Autonomy to Control ~ with Ananda Valenzuela

  • When
    December 11, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  On the Spectrum From Autonomy to Control

  
  

  Ananda Valenzuela

  How do we as consultants most efficiently and effectively facilitate organizational change management processes? In a context where there are long-held assumptions about the "right" way to hold power and decision-making, how do we help build lightweight, effective governance structures? This session will offer learnings from years of structure and culture change work, often with organizations wanting to explore options beyond traditional hierarchy. Actionable tools and processes will be shared, and participants will be invited to share their wisdom.

  
  

  About Your Facilitator

  Ananda Valenzuela (any pronouns) provides interim executive director leadership, facilitates organizational transformation, and coaches values-aligned leaders. He is passionate about nourishing joyful organizational cultures, supporting equitable self-management, and building liberatory practices. They have served as interim executive director at multiple organizations, provided capacity-building support to nonprofits for over ten years, and currently serve as Practioner-in-Residence at the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. Ananda grew up in Puerto Rico and slowly made her way across the United States, holding a variety of consulting, governance, and activist roles along the way.

  
  

  AGENDA:

  5:45 - 6:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

  6:00- 8:00 pm Training

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• Skillset, Mindset, Heartset: The Art of Possibility ~ with Dr. Nicole Bussard

  • When
    December 15, 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Skillset, Mindset, Heartset: The Art of Possibility 

  
  Dr. Nicole Bussard

  

  Session description coming soon!

  
  

  Learning Objectives
  

  Coming soon!
  

  About Your Facilitator:

  Dr. Bossard helps organizations and communities unlock the collective wisdom within, identify their unique core strengths, and engage the whole system in achieving results they can be proud of! Her motto is: together we really can transform great challenges into great opportunities!

  AGENDA:

  4:45 - 5:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

  6:00- 7:00 pm Training

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• Holding Space is Not Enough: How Physical Environments Shape Transformation ~ with Kristin York Brennan

  • When
    January 07, 2026
  •  
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Holding Space is Not Enough: How Physical Environments Shape Transformation

  
  

  Kristin York Brennan, MBA, NCIDQ, CID (VA), PMP, LSSBB, LEED AP (she/her)  

  We say we want transformation—but do we design the space for it? As we face the challenge of change, this session invites a new perspective: What if the physical environments we create are just as important as the conversations we hold? Organizational development professionals and transformational leaders often focus on mindset, culture, and systems, but we frequently overlook the silent collaborators in transformation: the physical environment, sensory cues, and spatial rhythm. These elements profoundly shape how people feel, think, and engage. Drawing from interior design, neuroscience, and real-world experience in high-performance and high-stress settings, Kristin York Brennan highlights neurodivergent needs as visible expressions of universal human truths—drawing from inclusive design and behavioral science to bring these insights into the practice of transformational leadership. Participants will explore how spatial elements affect regulation, trust, creativity, and insight. They will leave with tangible practices to assess their own environments (and those they help shape), a renewed understanding of the role physical space plays in transformation, and a deeper ability to support meaningful change—whether in a moment, a meeting, or a long-term engagement.
  

  As a participant, this session is for you if…
  

  • You’re ready to stop saying “I’m not creative” and start owning your power to support transformation with accessible and inclusive spaces
  

  • You want to design more intentional physical and psychological conditions for insight and action

  • You’re curious about how environment and sensory experience shape trust, creativity, and learning

  Learning Outcomes:

  1. Understand how sensory and physical environments influence psychological safety, creativity, and insight in transformational work.

  2. Reframe neurodivergent needs as design guidance that benefits all humans, supporting inclusive and effective transformation.

  3. Apply neuroscience-informed design principles to assess and intentionally shift the environments where you support change.
  

  About Your Facilitator:
  

  Kristin York Brennan is a strategist, facilitator, and human-centered designer with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of spatial experience, organizational systems, and transformation. She holds a BS in Interior Design and an MBA from Virginia Tech, along with certifications in facilitation (Georgetown ITL) and advanced applied neuroscience coaching (KCI).

  Her career spans creative studios, federal agencies, and complex organizations—where she’s tackled everything from workplace strategy and change management to culture transformation and leadership development. This diverse path gives her a unique ability to connect spatial, behavioral, and cultural dynamics into a cohesive whole.

  As the founder of Studio B Collaborative, Kristin helps individuals, teams, and leaders reimagine their environments—physical and organizational—not as passive backdrops, but as active catalysts for insight, creativity, and growth. Her curiosity about how space shapes experience has driven her cross-disciplinary work, blending systems thinking, creative process, and practical tools into transformational outcomes.

  When she’s not designing environments for transformation, she’s likely brainstorming wildly ambitious projects—or getting schooled in advanced negotiation techniques by her eight-year-old daughter.

  A believer in the power of unexpected metaphors, Kristin once built an enterprise experience office and internal comms strategy using insights from The Happiest Toddler on the Block—proving that even toddler psychology can transform how grownups lead, listen, and engage.
  

  AGENDA:

  4:45 - 5:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

  5:00- 7:00 pm Workshop

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• Heart Centered Leadership: In Honor of MLK ~ with Derick Carter

  • When
    January 19, 2026
  •  
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  Heart Centered Leadership: In Honor of MLK

  
  

  Derick Carter
  
  Leadership Coach | Workplace Well-Being | Cultural Change Agent

  

  We're so excited to be hosting Derick! Session description coming soon!

  
  

  Learning Objectives
  

  Coming soon!
  

  About Your Facilitator

  Coming soon!

  
  

  AGENDA:

  4:45 - 5:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

  5:00- 7:00 pm Training

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