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• April CBODN Peer Consulting Group ("Mastermind Sessions")

  • When
    29 Apr 2026
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Spaces left
    8

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  CBODN Peer Consulting Group ("Mastermind Session")
  "MASTERMIND SESSIONS" have been renamed as CBODN PEER CONSULTING GROUP

  We all face challenges in our work. Whether you are a leader in an organization, an independent consultant, or acting in any other role, it can often be useful to get an outside perspective when faced with a pressing or ongoing challenge. At CBODN, we know that our members each possess a unique and diverse set of personal and professional experiences. In CBODN’s Peer Consulting Group (formerly known as the "Mastermind Series"), we invite you to join our members and tap into the collective wisdom, curiosity, and experiences that our community of practitioners offers. By attending, you will trade ideas and learnings across a variety of organizational disciplines and career situations. For highly seasoned consultants and professionals, consider this a rich opportunity to pass on your hard-earned wisdom to other professionals who may be walking a similar path. For new consultants and professionals, consider this as a safe avenue to develop your consulting muscles by bringing thoughtful curiosity and fresh perspectives. For anyone with a challenge or obstacle in their work (that is all of us!), consider this a valuable resource to become “un-stuck” in your thinking or to find a new idea or direction forward. The Peer Consulting sessions take place each month with a new group of participants each session. During Peer Consulting events, we will use a modification of the Wise Crowds Liberating Structure to form small groups, identify a "client" to present a current challenge, and invite the other members in the group (or "crowd") to ask questions and offer suggestions while bringing inquiry, experience, and unique experiences.  For anyone interested in attending, you are fully welcome! Even if you do not have a pressing challenge you are ready to discuss, we encourage you to participate in supporting other members and contributing to the valuable discussions and learning. About the Facilitator: David Kading, MS, ACC is a facilitator, organization development consultant, and executive coach with over a decade of experience in leadership development, experiential learning, and organization development. He is the past president of CBODN (2023-2025) where he launched the Peer Consulting Group as a way for members to deepen peer-to-peer learning opportunities in addition to CBODN’s various presenter-led programming options.

  

  Important Registration Note, PLEASE READ:

  The peer consulting format finds the most success when working in small groups. The sessions are interactive and rely on each attendee's engaged participation. To facilitate this, we will limit the number of attendees to a maximum of 10 participants and ask anyone who is unable to actively participate refrain from registering. Anybody who signs up after the first ten spots will be added to a waitlist for the event. 

  If you sign-up and then find that you are unable to attend, please let us know by emailing admin@cbodn.org and cc’ dkading030@outlook.com. It’s no problem! Life happens. But we will provide your seat to the next member of our community on the waitlist to ensure a fruitful session for attendees.

  Attended Before?

  We have been facilitating peer consulting sessions at CBODN for the past two years, with dozens of participants acting as “clients” and getting support with their challenges. While we love supporting members through their challenging moments, we’d also love to hear about what happened next in the story! Did you make progress? What role (if any) did the peer consulting experience play in supporting you with your next move?

  If you have participated as a client in a past session and are willing to share, please consider using the collection form https://forms.gle/BUPp2fKrJjF5UHMK9.

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• DC Area OD Practitioners CoP — Explore A Self-Managing Organization (SMO)

  • When
    07 May 2026
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Explore A Self-Managing Organization (SMO)

  Many organizations today feel the strain of hierarchy—slow decisions, overwhelmed managers, stifled innovation, and talented people who disengage because the system leaves little room to lead. Self-managing organizations (SMO) offer a proven alternative, showing that more adaptive and human-centered structures can outperform traditional models.

  Yet many leaders remain unaware that these approaches are already succeeding at scale. This interactive discussion is a session that introduces the core principles and evidence behind SMOs, translating research into practical insight for business and association audiences. The goal is simple: to spark informed curiosity and open a doorway to more resilient, participatory ways of working.

  Deanna Doan will share her in depth research in this area and offer lessons learned from the experience in standing up this type of organization and tips on how to make it work.

  Presenter — Deanna Doan

  Deanna is an enabling partner and co-founder of Eleccion LLC. She has more than 20 years of consulting and leadership experience across government and commercial markets, with expertise in designing and implementing highly decentralized organizations. Prior to founding Eleccion, she was vice president at Allegheny Science & Technology, managing a diverse portfolio of programs across the Intelligence and DoD markets. Prior roles include advising senior intelligence community leaders on strategy and improvement initiatives.

  Deanna holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech, a master’s degree in Operations Research from George Mason University, and is currently a doctoral student at Virginia Tech where her research focuses on decentralized organizational structures. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Lean Six Sigma green belt.

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• Coaching Community of Practice – Open Forum

  • When
    12 May 2026
  •  
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Open Forum

  This open forum session is designed as a brave and creative gathering space for coaches to come together in real conversation about what is shifting in the coaching industry and what is stirring in their own practices. In a time marked by uncertainty, change, and disconnection, this session offers an invitation to pause, reconnect, and remember the strength that becomes available when we do not carry our questions alone.

  Participants will be invited to bring a current challenge in the form of a brief story or lived moment from their practice. Through thoughtful facilitation and a range of reflective and interactive modalities, the group will explore these challenges with compassion, curiosity, and honesty. This is not a space for fixing or performing expertise. It is a space for witnessing and being witnessed, for offering perspective without pressure, and for drawing on the wisdom, care, and resourcefulness of the collective. We will share resources generously and welcome diverse perspectives as part of the learning.

  Together, we will create room for truth, reflection, and shared encouragement. Coaches can expect to leave feeling more connected, more grounded, and more supported by the courage, presence, and collective wisdom of a community willing to meet this moment together.

  Facilitators: Beza Ayalew, Bryan Miles, Friderike Butler  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

  
  

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• May CBODN Peer Consulting Group ("Mastermind Sessions")

  • When
    27 May 2026
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Spaces left
    10

  Register

  CBODN Peer Consulting Group ("Mastermind Session")
  "MASTERMIND SESSIONS" have been renamed as CBODN PEER CONSULTING GROUP

  We all face challenges in our work. Whether you are a leader in an organization, an independent consultant, or acting in any other role, it can often be useful to get an outside perspective when faced with a pressing or ongoing challenge. At CBODN, we know that our members each possess a unique and diverse set of personal and professional experiences. In CBODN’s Peer Consulting Group (formerly known as the "Mastermind Series"), we invite you to join our members and tap into the collective wisdom, curiosity, and experiences that our community of practitioners offers. By attending, you will trade ideas and learnings across a variety of organizational disciplines and career situations. For highly seasoned consultants and professionals, consider this a rich opportunity to pass on your hard-earned wisdom to other professionals who may be walking a similar path. For new consultants and professionals, consider this as a safe avenue to develop your consulting muscles by bringing thoughtful curiosity and fresh perspectives. For anyone with a challenge or obstacle in their work (that is all of us!), consider this a valuable resource to become “un-stuck” in your thinking or to find a new idea or direction forward. The Peer Consulting sessions take place each month with a new group of participants each session. During Peer Consulting events, we will use a modification of the Wise Crowds Liberating Structure to form small groups, identify a "client" to present a current challenge, and invite the other members in the group (or "crowd") to ask questions and offer suggestions while bringing inquiry, experience, and unique experiences.  For anyone interested in attending, you are fully welcome! Even if you do not have a pressing challenge you are ready to discuss, we encourage you to participate in supporting other members and contributing to the valuable discussions and learning. About the Facilitator: David Kading, MS, ACC is a facilitator, organization development consultant, and executive coach with over a decade of experience in leadership development, experiential learning, and organization development. He is the past president of CBODN (2023-2025) where he launched the Peer Consulting Group as a way for members to deepen peer-to-peer learning opportunities in addition to CBODN’s various presenter-led programming options.

  

  Important Registration Note, PLEASE READ:

  The peer consulting format finds the most success when working in small groups. The sessions are interactive and rely on each attendee's engaged participation. To facilitate this, we will limit the number of attendees to a maximum of 10 participants and ask anyone who is unable to actively participate refrain from registering. Anybody who signs up after the first ten spots will be added to a waitlist for the event. 

  If you sign-up and then find that you are unable to attend, please let us know by emailing admin@cbodn.org and cc’ dkading030@outlook.com. It’s no problem! Life happens. But we will provide your seat to the next member of our community on the waitlist to ensure a fruitful session for attendees.

  Attended Before?

  We have been facilitating peer consulting sessions at CBODN for the past two years, with dozens of participants acting as “clients” and getting support with their challenges. While we love supporting members through their challenging moments, we’d also love to hear about what happened next in the story! Did you make progress? What role (if any) did the peer consulting experience play in supporting you with your next move?

  If you have participated as a client in a past session and are willing to share, please consider using the collection form https://forms.gle/BUPp2fKrJjF5UHMK9.

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• DC Area OD Practitioners CoP — Transitions: Navigating Change — Holding Space for Ourselves and Our Clients

  • When
    04 Jun 2026
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Transitions: Navigating Change — Holding Space for Ourselves and Our Clients

  As OD professionals and coaches, we stand beside our clients through times of profound upheaval—organizational restructures, job loss, economic instability, social unrest, and the quiet losses that follow change. We hold space for their despair, growth, and renewal. Yet, how often do we pause to examine our own internal transitions—the ways we metabolize uncertainty, loss, or transformation in our personal and professional lives? 

  Nature offers a timeless mirror. After storms come stillness. After endings come new beginnings. This session invites practitioners to reconnect with nature’s wisdom as a lens for understanding both the turbulence and opportunities that come with change. Through guided reflection, discussion, and grounding practices, participants will explore how to deepen presence and expand their capacity to accompany others in transition.

  By the end of this workshop, participants will: 

  Differentiate between change and transition.

  • Reflect on personal and professional experiences of transition to identify current needs and opportunities for growth.
  • Recognize nature as a model for resilience, cyclical renewal, and wholeness within organizational life.
  • Strengthen their ability to hold space for clients and teams navigating disruption with empathy and steadiness.
  • Leave with tools to maintain personal balance and support organizational transformation.

  Presenter — Tanara Bowie

  Tanara is a trauma-informed and ICF (ACC) and National Board of Health and Wellness certified coach. For 30 years she has applied Gestalt theory to her work with groups and individuals. 

  Tanara is a former Vice President at The Nebo Company where she facilitated several cohort programs for senior leaders and designed leadership development strategies for healthcare and nonprofit entities. She is a trainer for Mentor Agility’s Veterans Talking to Veterans program in which veterans are trained in a trauma-informed approach to coaching that uses storytelling to aid veterans on a path of healing and resilience. Her coaching clients include military veterans, family caregivers, those navigating identity after loss and in the second half of life. She uses myth, somatics and her extensive study and practice of Gestalt and Jungian principles to help clients navigate shadow stories, loss, and find renewed purpose. 

  
  

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• Coaching Community of Practice – Social In-Person Gathering

  • When
    09 Jun 2026
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Social In-Person Gathering
  

  Come join us for what will hopefully be a beautiful summer evening in Vienna, Virginia, to spend time with fellow coaches. This in-person social is simply a chance to be together, enjoy good conversation, and nourish the connections that make this community so special. We will spend the evening in a spacious backyard, enjoying light appetizers and a mix-your-own salad buffet.

  Bring a beverage to share, and join us for a relaxed and welcoming time in good company.

  Hosted by Friderike Butler

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• Learning Series - What to Do When You Don't Know What's Next: Recharge Your Inner Improviser

  • When
    17 Jun 2026
  •  
    12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  What to Do When You Don't Know What's Next: Recharge Your Inner Improviser

  OD professionals know better than anyone that you can't script transformation. But when AI is reshaping work, roles are shifting, and organizations are under pressure, even seasoned practitioners can find themselves frozen or overextended. In this session, Jordana Cole draws on her TEDx talk and two decades of leadership and well-being research to help OD practitioners recharge their inner improvisers and find the clarity, creativity, and confidence to lead themselves and others through whatever comes next.

  By the end of this session, participants will: 

  • Reconnect to their core, human strengths 
  • Boost their mindset to move forward through ambiguity and missteps
  • Co-create ideas on how to bring OD value in an AI world
  • Recharge themselves and others through quick, energizing activities

  About the Presenter: Jordana Cole

  

  Combining her rich background and expertise in psychology and leadership development, alongside her authentic blend of energy, humor, and strategic questions, Jordana enables leaders to ignite behavioral change and spark transformation that not only sticks, it spreads.

  As an organizational consultant, workshop facilitator, and leadership coach, Jordana has designed and led talent strategy and leadership programs for thousands of individuals across all levels and roles around the globe.  Prior to launching her consulting and coaching practice, Jordana led enterprise learning and development functions for a decade within technology, financial services, e-commerce, and nonprofit industries. Jordana’s worked with a number of Fortune 100 companies and companies on the Best Companies to Work For list.

  Jordana is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology program and has served as an instructor for undergraduate and graduate courses related to positive organizations and human strengths & resilience. She is also certified as a PCC level coach from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a Gallup Strengths Coach, with experience coaching more than 250 leaders worldwide. As a lead faculty member for the Center for Human Potential's Self-Actualization Coaching Program, Jordana equips cohorts of professional coaches with research-backed tools to help clients surface their needs and embrace their whole selves. 

  Jordana believes that leadership is the most needed and most durable skillset in our changing world, and the one that AI can't replace.  She's been featured on a variety of podcasts and webinars discussing the connections between leadership, well-being, AI, and organizational success. She's on a mission to help everyone lead themselves and others better through uncertainty. Her TEDx talk on this topic: "What to Do When You Don't Know What's Next" currently ranks in the top 10% of views for all TEDx talks globally.

  
  

  
  

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