OD Competencies and Capabilities – Developing OD Practitioners for the Future

Over the years as OD has evolved as an industry and profession, the competencies and capabilities OD practitioners possessed have also had to evolve to meet the current needs of our times. In 2016, the OD Global Competency Model Framework was developed to guide OD practitioners’ development and provide a level of consistency and rigour to how OD practitioners practised their craft across the world.

In 2017, a grassroots initiative led by OD elders ignited a larger conversation around OD’s capabilities and OD’s role in the future. 

The outcomes of both of these bodies of work provide OD practitioners powerful guidance around how to develop ourselves and our practices to be fit for the future and also honour the humanistic values in which OD was born.

Join us for our first breakfast event as we invite Matt Minahan, who led the OD Competency Model work for the Organisation Development Network (ODN) in the United States, to walk us through the competency model and offer insights into the evolving conversation around competencies and capabilities. This conversation invites our members to reflect on how we as modern OD practitioners can continuously develop ourselves.

Our guest:

Matt Minahan, President, The Minahan Group

Matt Minahan is the President of The Minahan Group, a consulting firm specializing in organization design and development, improving leadership, management effectiveness, and decision making since March 1997. Matt is also an adjunct professor at the American University School of Public Affairs, teaching leadership to senior managers in the federal government and organization development to graduate students in the Masters of Science in Organization Development program. 

Matt is based in Washington, D.C in the United States, and is an active member of the Organisation Development Network, having led the development of the Global OD Competency Framework and subsequent programs that support the learning and development of OD practitioners worldwide.  He holds an Ed.D. in Organisation and Human Resource Development from George Washington University. His bio can be read here.