The Organisation Development Symposium: Improving Agility, Learning and Action

Dr. Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge is a Senior Fellow of Singapore Civil Service College, Duke University Exec. Programme and the NTL Institute, where she was Dean. Mee-Yan was a trustee on the Board of the ODN and founded the OD Network in Europe. The author of numerous articles, books and reports, she is also a member of the board of the Journal of OD Practitioner.

Richard Cleverly is an Organisational Development Advisor and Executive Coach. He works with CEOs, Chairmen and Executives across multiple sectors helping them navigate seemingly intractable business challenges. After a decade in the military and 2 more in global corporates, including Thomson Reuters, Novartis and M&S, in a range of senior OD and People roles, Richard knows how to find a path through the apparent chaos that often characterises daily corporate life – and it isn’t following fads or applying imported ‘best practice’. It is how you translate strategy into results following simple (but not easy) rules.

In the last year Richard has helped redesign the operating model and organisational structure for the fastest growing FTSE 100 investment business; coach the new CEO and Exec Team of a European Exchange; and work with the exec team of rapidly scaling medical robotics company on their leadership and operating model. At the beginning of the Covid Crisis he volunteered to help set-up and run part of the Nightingale Hospital in London.

Richard has a Masters degree from Cranfield and a certificate in OD from NTL. He is an accredited coach and facilitator. He lives in SW London with his wife and 3 sons and is an obsessive cyclist, motorcyclist, and paddleboarder. Richard coaches and referees age group football and rugby and his lockdown hobby was learning the ukulele which horrifies and amuses his family in equal measure.

Danielle Lee is an Organisation Development and Gestalt practitioner, Agile coach and clinician.  Working as coach, consultant and interim director for FTSE100 and other global companies such as HSBC and Unilever, she is passionate about enabling senior leaders and HR teams to design and develop their organisations in a way that is adaptive to complex change, while paying attention to organisational health and performance. 

Danielle is qualified as a Fellow of the CIPD, Chartered Accountant and a psychotherapist with the BACP and UKCP.  She is also accredited by the EAGT as a Gestalt Practitioner in Organisations.

Rupert is an economist, recognised author and leader in organisation design and human capital strategy. Formerly a management consultant, Rupert is now CEO of orgvue. He has dedicated his career to helping businesses revolutionise the way they see, plan and manage their organisations through the innovative use of data. His book Data-Driven Organization Design was shortlisted for the 2017 Management Book of the Year Award.

Prof. Joseph Perfetti is an executive speaker, consultant and expert in corporate finance and strategy. He has delivered over 2000 executive education teaching days over the past 25 years for leading organisations including McKinsey & Co, Google, UnitedHealth Group, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Santander, Standard Chartered, Merck and Nokia. Joe currently serves as a Lecturer at the RH Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

Dave Snowden is Director of the Cynefin Centre which focuses on action research in the application of complexity science to human systems. He created the Cynefin Framework which featured in an award winning cover article in the HBR on Leadership. He is working on self-organisation and the formation of informal networks in organisations using models drawn from ecology. His pioneering work on decision support resulted in a series of engagements on DARPA programmes in the US looking at weak signal detection and attitudinal measures; work that has resulted in new ways of mapping culture and creating early indicators of change.

In her 30-year career, Karen has worked extensively across all sectors on the issue of organisation effectiveness, particularly developing sustainable strategic capability. Her work spans two communities within organisations – organisational leaders and line managers on the one hand and change practitioners (HR, OD or L&D) on the other. She is particularly interested in the potential of the space between these communities for creating accountable, ethical and healthy places of work.