We’re delighted and excited to have Gervase connect again with our OD community! So don’t miss out, save the date!

We are delighted to begin ODA’s 25th anniversary year with Gervase Bushe, Professor of Leadership and Organization Development at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Gervase is an internationally renowned OD thought leader and award-winning author with books including Dialogic Organization Development and Clear Leadership. Many of you will remember Gervase from his February 2020 in-person ODA session on Dialogic OD.

Gervase will talk about his research and recent writing on generative leadership and the distinction between a high-engagement change strategy, and a generative change strategy. Generative approaches to leading and change create conditions for stakeholders to assume more authority and innovate, managing organizational challenges through generativity instead of problem-solving. Over the past 20 years studies show rapid transformational results are possible using generative change. After describing the generative change strategy and some stories from his consulting, Gervase will discuss the challenges leaders and OD consultants often face in using a generative approach.

Join us for this unique opportunity to strengthen insight into change as we together explore the generative approach, what it enables, its challenges and ways of navigating.

Our guest: Gervase Bushe, Professor of Leadership and Organization Development, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

Gervase (pronounced Jervis) Bushe is the Professor of Leadership and Organization Development at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser U in Vancouver, Canada. His career spans four decades of transforming organizational structures, cultures and processes away from command and control toward more collaborative work systems. He is an award-winning author of over 100 papers and four books on organizational change, leadership, teams and teamwork. Gervase has consulted blue chip corporations and start-ups, public sector and business corporations, in a variety of sectors. Clear Leadership (2009) has been translated into 8 languages and over 100 certified facilitators have trained tens of thousands of managers in North America, Europe and Asia in his models and methods. Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change, co-edited with Robert Marshak (2015) builds on his ground-breaking research into processes of generative leadership and change, and is transforming the OD discipline. In 2019 he co-founded the Bushe-Marshak Institute for Dialogic OD, which offers in-house courses and certification in Dialogic OD, and is the editor of the BMI Series in Dialogic Organization Development. A chapter on his life and work appears in the Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. For more information and links to his papers go to www.gervasebushe.ca