Practicing Organization Development (A guide for Consultants) - Part 73. Organization development (OD) is about planned change. As change has turned into the only constant, many managers and other people are pursuing change strategies with vigor. OD is a major strategy for leading and managing change at the individual, group, intergroup, organizational, interorganizational, and large systems levels. This book is about what it takes to be an effective change manager, change leader, and OD consultant | ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS 691 Institute of Architects and over three hundred other major organizations. He is a highly sought-after keynote speaker. His twenty-one books include the ten-year best-seller Million Dollar Consulting McGraw-Hill as well as the sevenbook The Ultimate Consultant series Pfeiffer . He can be reached through his website at . Michael Welp . leads EqualVoice an organization development consulting firm recognized for its transformative approaches to conflict. Known for his authentic trust-building style he works to develop leadership in everyone. He is also a founding principal of White Men as Full Diversity Partners a consulting firm that has pioneered work on engaging white men as full diversity partners inside organizations . Dr. Welp s background includes a year of facilitating interracial team building for South African corporations. He is an adjunct faculty member at Capella University. He is a recipient of the Minnesota Organization Development Practitioner of the Year Award and is a professional member of NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. Margaret Wheatley . writes teaches and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. She works to create organizations of all types where people are known as the blessing not the problem. She is president of The Berkana Institute a charitable global leadership foundation serving life-affirming leaders and has been an organizational consultant for many years as well as a professor of management in two graduate programs. Her newest book Finding Our Way Leadership for an Uncertain Time will be released in January 2005. Dr. Wheatley s work also appears in two award-winning books Leadership and the New Science 1992 1999 and A Simpler Way with Myron Kellner-Rogers 1996 plus several videos and articles. She draws many of her ideas from new science and life s ability to organize in .
