Advanced Certified Program
for Leaders of Change
The OD ACADEMY
by Dr. John J. Scherer
Introduction
The OD ACADEMY by Dr. John Scherer is a direct response to a rapidly changing job market which, due to pandemic and other current trends is requiring different skillsets from people-professionals.
With over 40 years of practice and research, Dr. John J. Scherer gathered some of the most significant methods and frameworks that enable successful and lasting change-facilitation in an organizational context.
Divided into 8 modules, this certification program guides practitioners in a structured way through signature know-how and teaches the skills essential to be a successful OD Practitioner.
With an international audience in mind, this program is designed to equip participants in the skills necessary to be a significant partner and a guide to business leaders in running large, innovative, international organizations and creating thriving and positive working cultures.
Learning objectives
- Learning how to lead system-wide transformations for organizations and communities
- Learning how to analyze and diagnose organizations using action learning approach
- Learning how to create and apply successful change interventions in cross-functional teams in all types of organizations from micro to multinational corporations
- Learning how to inspire, facilitate and lead change
- Learning how to master change and transformation as a way of continuous adaptation to VUCA world
- Knowing how to create greater effectiveness and needed change in virtually any situation using the principles of system-wide high-engagement performance-improvement (HEPI),
- Learning how to initiate, implement and track breakthrough projects
Message from Our Leader
For several years a small group of colleagues and I have been accumulating our best material and techniques to pass on in forwarding the important work of transforming individuals, groups and organizations. Three years ago a colleague, Dr. Noushin Bayat, collected, collated and organized every piece of material from my 40+ years of practice, preparing it for use by people like you, the next generation of change artists. It will be a delight to introduce you to this material – as well as ‘the good stuff’ from my closest consultant colleagues – and to the skills and principles we apply in our work.
There’s a catch: In order for you to take on the work of transforming others, helping them deepen and grow in their mastery, you must live in that place yourself. More important than mastering the theories and skills of the work, The OD Academy is about ‘self-mastery’, working on yourself as the instrument of transformation. Like an outdoor guide, you can’t take others where you have not been.
My personal mission with this program is to help you become a successful, effective, deeply fulfilled change artist, making a huge difference in your world–and in The World. Whether you are a seasoned change artist, a leader/manager, or a novice, The OD Academy will unleash you into a place of greater confidence and competence you might not have thought possible.
If you are ready to take on the task of transforming the world at work™, starting from where you are right now, join us for three months of intensive personal and professional development that will equip you to find and effectively express your best, most power-full Self into our turbulent world.
John Scherer
OD is our future!
In rapidly changing times there is no space for managing human resources – we all know that human beings are work in progress and our mission as people-professionals is to help them thrive in the workplace, making it an efficient business organism at he same time.
Audience
In this carefully curated program, 24 practitioners from all around the world will learn, share and practice together in a friendly, creative atmosphere guided by some of the most significant mids of the OD industry.
Business Leaders
Executives of diverse business areas whose joint objective is to drive strategic change in the organization from their domain.
OD Practitioners
Seasoned consultants, coaches, facilitators, who accompany diverse organizations in their strategic initiatives.
Leaders of Change
Individuals, whose personal qualities and/or values make them natural change-agents from within the system.
Methods of learning
8 live virtual sessions
Every several weeks you will participate in a 3.5h live group session with Dr. John J. Scherer. During the sessions you will participate in:
- signature lectures with unique content
- Q&A’s
- demos
- case studies
Weekly groupwork
In groups of 4 you will have a weekly practice and group coaching sessions where you can:
- solve your challenges
- ask questions
- help others
- widen your toolset
- practice what you’ve learned
Online materials
You will receive a daily piece of inspiration as well as access to:
- videos
- articles
- audios
- document templates
- questionaires
- forum
- exclusive webinars and more!
Program Schedule
Module 0 – Pre-Work & Orientation
10/30/2024 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM CEST / 9:00 – 10:30 AM PST
Module 1 – WHY OD? What do you want to change?
11/06/2024 | 5:00 – 8:30 PM CEST / 8:00 – 11:30 AM PST
Module 2 – Initial Client Contact & ‘Stakeholder Analysis’
11/27/2024 | 5:00 – 8:30 PM CEST / 8:00 – 11:30 AM PST
Module 3 – System Diagnosis: Survey-Guided OD
12/18/2024 | 5:00 – 8:30 PM CEST / 8:00 – 11:30 AM PST
Module 4 – The High-Engagement Part |
Working with The Internal OD Team
01/08/2025 | 5:00 – 8:30 PM CEST / 8:00 – 11:30 AM PST
Module 5 – Preparing Decision-Makers for Change
01/29/2025 | 5:00 – 8:30 PM CEST / 8:00 – 11:30 AM PST
Module 6 – Global OD
02/19/2025 | 5:00 – 8:30 PM CEST / 8:00 – 11:30 AM PST
Module 7 – Whole System Transformation: Three Methods
03/12/2025 | 5:00 – 8:30 PM CEST / 8:00 – 11:30 AM PST
Module 8 – Final Learnings & Next Steps |
GRADUATION
04/02/2025 | 5:00 – 8:30 PM CEST / 8:00 – 11:30 AM PST
Tuition: €3,500 +VAT for the Full Program wih Certification.
In this carefully curated program, 24 practitioners from all around the world will learn, share and practice together in a friendly, creative atmosphere guided by Dr. John Scherer.
Payment plans
a one-time payment of €3,500 +VAT, or four payments of €930 + VAT. Invoices on request.
Early Bird Registration
Register before July 31 for a 10% reduction in tuition for both plans.
Certification
The program enables receiving Certificate as an Organization Development Practitioner.
To receive it, you need to follow the program guidelines and present a case study from your OD work at the end of the program.
Next Steps
- Filling out an application form online
- Interview with Dr. John Scherer and our Program Director
- Presentation of a project
- Tuition and confirmation
- You're ready to start!
About Dr. John J. Scherer
International OD Career
From 1973-1982 John was co-developer and Core Faculty of America’s first competence-based graduate program in the applied behavioral sciences, and is an internationally-respected change consultant and leadership coach. His clients have included large and small businesses and not-for-profit organizations around the world. Recognized by Stephen Covey’s Magazine as one of America’s Top 100 Thought Leaders in Personal/Leadership Development, he is a pioneer in the emerging field that shares the name of his 1993 book, Work and the Human Spirit.
As a former Vietnam-era Combat Officer on a US Navy Destroyer, Lutheran Chaplain at Cornell University, Gestalt and Family Systems Therapist, Graduate School co-creator, author, and successful business consultant and coach, John brings a unique perspective to his life and work. Since 1987, business and community leaders from 55 nations have graduated from his Executive and Leadership Development Intensives.
John is a natural innovator: He was Co-developer (1978) of The People Performance Profile, the first holistic, computer-scored diagnostic OD/OE tool for identifying and addressing organizational change opportunities. His Breakthrough Series (1985) was one of the first applications of video-based high-performance training designed for regular team meetings. His most recent book, Facing the Tiger: Unleashing the Human Spirit at Work, has been called ‘The best business self-help book ever written’. Wiser@Work, his new online resource portal and personal/professional development network, is going live in 2022.
Now working internationally from a base in Warsaw, Poland, John is the father of four, a former U.S. Masters Swimmer, a two-time Marathon runner, does yoga and High-Intensity Interval Training, plays the guitar (as an old rock & roller), does the occasional magic show, and loves to read a good spy novel.
