Gain CPD Credits by attending the 2024 Roffey Park Conference
Are you interested or involved in change management, leadership development, team effectiveness or cultural transformation?
Why not join us at our 2024 conference where we will explore why Organisational Development (OD) is an important tool considering global perspectives and local actions.
This conference offers an opportunity to engage with thought leaders, practitioners and fellow professionals to exchange insights, share best practices and co-create innovative solutions. It promises to inspire and empower you on your professional journey.
Join us at our Conference on 24-25 October 2024
At Roffey Park Institute, we specialise in empowering organisations to thrive in the ever-evolving landscape of today’s business world. As an Organisational Development specialist organisation, we understand that the success of any enterprise hinges not only on its products or services but also on the strength of its internal structure, culture, and people. Whether your organisation is facing challenges related to change management, leadership development, team effectiveness or cultural transformation, we are here to help. Our approach is collaborative, data-driven and results-oriented, ensuring that our solutions are not only impactful but also aligned with your unique goals and objectives.
Our 2024 Conference will take place on 24-25 October at Roffey Park Institute and we’re finalising the details of an exciting programme which includes:
- International keynote speakers
- Practical workshops
- Space and time for learning and networking with other professionals
Key note speakers
Inclusive Leadership Navigating Organisational Complexity
Are you tired of inclusive leadership being treated as just another tick-box exercise?
Are you ready to leverage it as a transformative force within your leadership and organisation?
Beyond the conventional, exploring how inclusive leadership can be our most potent tool in navigating organisational complexity, enhancing performance, and driving sustainable excellence. Inclusive Leadership Navigating Organisational Complexity is not about adding to your workload; it’s about enriching your approach to leadership for more effective outcomes. Sile Walsh invites us to shift our paradigm from viewing inclusion as an extra task to integrating it as a core principle of our leadership practice. This shift is not just beneficial—it’s essential for thriving in today’s complex organisational landscapes.
Building the Software for Collective Impact
There is a growing recognition that the global challenges of the twenty-first century necessitate a localised response to reflect the specific socio-economic and demographic circumstances of each locality. In his talk, Rob will set out how his practice and evidence based Place-Based Leadership Development (P-BLD) initiatives develop collective leadership capability for problem solving across different places in the Global South and North. Rob will demonstrate how working with the intangible ‘software’ of relationship-building facilitates the emergence of a better understanding between local actors and a more open and innovative mindset towards trying out innovative solutions. Finally, he will also show how designing in continuous review and impact evaluation from the outset is key to demonstrating considerable impact at individual, inter-agency and place-based levels during and beyond the life of the programmes.
Reimagining Organisational Development: Navigating Contemporary Challenges through Global Unity and Local Action
OD is facing several contemporary threats that challenges its effectiveness and relevance. These threats stem from rapid technological advancements like AI, remote and hybrid work, OD less being taught at universities and organisational need for rapid organisational changes etc. A lack of growing membership in different organisational bodies could be seen as a soft signal that the field might be in the trouble. Given these threats, it’s interesting that the field does not rally together more globally but remains based in a plethora of local professional bodies. Using Bartlett & Ghoshal’s model of international strategies, we can look to several options of what this field could be like, what is preventing it to move into these different strategies and what could be first steps towards thinking global and acting local.
Localizing Organisational Change in Cultural Values
What can we learn from indigenous culture about our perspectives on organisational change? How can we as organisational development practitioners apply these cultural values and knowledge in the work we do? In this interactive session, Native Hawaiian practitioner Ku’ulani Keohokalole will share insights and stories from effectively doing organisational change work in “non-traditional” ways, informed by cultural values. The talk will give specific examples from Hawaiʻi, whilst extrapolating those values to ways that a global audience can OD work they do, no matter where they are located.
Local vs global approaches: What you can learn from other organisations’ struggles
Today’s organisations are increasingly grappling with local vs global challenges. From a complex web of stakeholder funding, a business model disrupted by competitors’ technology or poisonous cultures rooted in outdated hierarchies, tension exists between empowering those closest to the customer and the efficiency benefits of standardisation and centralisation.
In this enlightening interactive session, we’ll be sharing our observations and insights from working with clients across many sectors and industries from large global enterprises to small local charities and invite you to predict the outcomes!
Neil Mullarkey
Conference MC
Neil will be our Conference MC. He will also kick off Day Two with an energising interactive session. How do OD practitioners tell their story? How can they adapt their story to create momentum in organisations? How do they get a seat at the top table? Do they want a seat at the top table? Is ‘storytelling’ just the new ‘yada yada’?
Workshops
Poverty: Finding Leverage Points to Act
Poverty, like any complex issue, has entangled causes and effects, making it difficult to know where to start. This workshop will use the learnings from supporting a cross-functional group of council employees with a part they could grasp, to see and understand some of the patterns in the complexity, and iteratively test actions to shift the patterns and then transfer successful tests into day-to-day operations.
What participants will gain
- Hear a story of transformative change in action
- See intractable challenges as opportunities for action
- Work at multiple scales (individual, team, institution and community) to influence complex, systemic change
- Support collaborations among diverse stakeholders
- Make progress on long-standing wicked issues
- Add simple, powerful tools and methods to your OD toolkit
Simplifying Complexity for Team Growth
The workshop will bring to life an approach repeatedly and successfully used to work with senior leaders, executives, and boards to understand and engage in the process of developing teams that ultimately perform well.
The workshop aims to get participants excited about developing their own use of principles and reframing, sometimes overly complicated Organisation Development Practices into simple, easy to use business language. And to start to reframe how they would explain how they work to their clients.
Mindfulness: Beyond the Buzzword, and Beyond Wellbeing
How might mindfulness support your employees and organization to navigate fast-paced organizational change and manage culturally-diverse workforces?
Drawing from Anne’s Doctoral research insights, this workshop is designed to be educational and hands-on. It will also invite reflection on how a workplace mindfulness-based programme may be useful in helping your organisation to think globally and act locally.
Participants will:
- gain an understanding of the current evidence-base on mindfulness and workplace performance
- gain an appreciation of how mindfulness can strengthen capacities such as being adaptive to change, open-minded to other diverse perspectives, connected to others challenges, and able to problem-solve calmly under pressure – all important qualities when navigating fast-paced change and a culturally diverse workforce
- gain an awareness of the psychological constructs involved in creating these behaviour changes
- be guided through a structured reflection on (a) whether a mindfulness programme might be suitable for your organisation and (b) how to ensure programme effectiveness in their organisation
Conflict and Challenge in Multi-Cultural Teams
In a world of distributed leadership, networked communities and fractal web organisations, more multi-cultural/national, locally based colleagues come together globally to innovate, share skills and make collective decisions to optimise performance.
Research study findings involving a global team of 9 nationalities, located in 7 geographies speaking 4 main languages provide the basis for this interactive workshop exploring the impact of different cultural dimensions on the quality and effectiveness of challenge and conflict to optimise organisational performance with the aim of gaining new perspectives and ideas for enhancing practice.
Join us to discover key findings and explore crucial cultural dimensions affecting challenge/conflict to gain practical tips to enhance practice
From national policy to local delivery – supporting sustainable change in health and care
The health and care system in England has been through unprecedented change recently. In 2022, Integrated Care Systems were formalised as legal entities, pushing the focus from organisational autonomy (and competition) to improving care and tackling inequalities for local populations collaboratively across organisational boundaries. Local systems have invested in developing transformation plans to deliver these new ways of working, but they are getting ‘stuck’ at the point of translating plans into tangible change in service delivery.
In this workshop we will explore how to make national and system-level change real for frontline staff who are delivering care to local people.
Understanding how to address Organisational Conflict when Thinking Global, Acting Local
This session will explore the critical question: Is it more effective to adopt a global, systemic approach to organisational conflict, through an Org Design intervention or a Learning and Development programme or should a more localised, interpersonal method such as facilitating an honest conversation or using mediation be employed? And how do you know which to choose?
Participants will engage in an open conversation about the challenges practitioners face in discerning the most effective strategy. We will examine some example scenarios where a structured, organisation-wide strategy is beneficial versus situations where a simpler localised intervention is more effective.
This interactive discussion aims to stimulate insightful reflections and provide some thought-provoking questions around identifying and applying the appropriate conflict resolution approach based on specific organisational contexts.
Navigating the Global-Local Dynamic in Organisation Design
This session is aimed at OD&D practitioners curious about Place-Based Design. It will help you to:
- Understand the dynamics of global vs. local decision-making.
- Explore the concept of place-based design in the context of organisation design
- Provide practical tools and frameworks for OD practitioners to apply in their work.
Evolving OD through the power of AI
This interactive session will explore the growing role of AI in Organisational Development (OD), offering a facilitated global discussion on how practitioners are currently using AI to drive change.
We’ll examine emerging trends, share practical insights, and delve into the possibilities AI brings to OD, all while considering regional and cultural differences in AI adoption.
Whether you’re just beginning your AI journey or are already integrating AI tools, this session provides a collaborative space to gain insights, share experiences, discover new ideas, and shape your next steps.
Agenda
08:30
Arrival & check-in
09:15
Opening remarks
09:30
Keynote Speaker: Ku’ulani Keohokalole
10:30
Networking & Comfort Break
11:00
Workshop Sessions
11:45
Networking & Comfort Break
12:15
Workshop Sessions
13:00
Lunch & Networking
14:30
Keynote Speaker: Rob Worrall
15:30
Networking & Comfort Break
16:00
Keynote Speaker: Jesse Segers
17:00
Closing remarks
19:00
Welcome drinks
19:30
Conference Celebration Dinner
09:00
Welcome
09:15
Keynote Speaker: Neil Mullarkey
10:00
Comfort Break
10:15
Keynote Speaker: Sile Walsh
11:15
Networking & Comfort Break
11:45
Keynote Speaker: Emma Du Parcq
12:45
Lunch & Networking
13:45
Open Space & closing remarks
14:30
End of Conference
Fees
Residential fees include conference place as well as tea/coffee, meals and accommodation.
Non-residential fees are exclusive of accommodation, breakfast and celebration dinner. The Celebration Dinner is available at an additional cost of £60 +VAT per person.
Conference Fee
Residential Fee
£1,210 +VAT per person
Residential Fee including networking dinner and accommodation the night before
£1,410 +VAT per person
Non-Residential Fee
£1,050 +VAT per person
Discounted Fee
We offer discounted places to the NHS, Roffey Park MSc students, Roffey Park MSc Alumni and Roffey Park associates.
For further details please email Juliet Batchelor at hello@roffeypark.com
Please note tickets are non refundable
Why choose Roffey Park’s OD Conference?
Roffey Park Institute is a centre of expertise in organisational development and a pioneer of action learning for over 75 years. For the last thirty years, our MSc in People and Organisational Development has been at the forefront of developing the practice and field of OD. We are the home of people and organisational development.
As an educational charity our research aims to challenge perspectives and practices to enable people and organisations to realise our potential. All conference fee revenue will be transferred to the Val Hammond Research Fund. The fund, set up in recognition of our former Chair and CEO, cements Roffey Park’s commitment to applied management research through expanding the diversity and reach of thinking aimed at improving the world of work.
By attending the conference, you will be actively contributing towards future research in improving the world of work for all.
The Venue
Roffey Park Institute is our purpose-built dedicated training, events and conference venue which is set in 40 acres of rural Sussex Countryside just five minutes from the M23 and 20 minutes from London Gatwick Airport. With 60 bedrooms, comfortable surroundings, natural daylight, access to acres of space and first-class hospitality you can relax and enjoy the conference.