(To sign up for any network event, you'll need your network code. This can be found in your welcome email and will also be included in the pre-event email.)
This network is a space for CIPD members working in Organisation Development & Design (OD&D) and HR, at every stage of their careers. It’s designed for those who are passionate about shaping people, culture, and organisational structures—whether you’re just beginning your journey or bringing years of strategic expertise.
Please note that only those who have applied and been successfully accepted into the network are eligible to attend an event. If you have not already applied, please click Apply to this network at the top of this page and fill out the form required.
Organisational Development and Design Network event
Date: Tuesday 6 October 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:15
Location: Online
Explore practical relational skills to help OD, HR and People professionals work confidently with complexity, ambiguity and change.
In this session, Gareth Evans will explore the relational skills at the heart of effective Organisational Development practice, especially in organisational spaces shaped by complexity, ambiguity, diversity and emergence.
Gareth will share seven relational processes and five relational micro-practices that support practitioners to work more skilfully with what is happening in the room, in the relationship and across the wider system.
The session will connect these ideas to core OD principles and practices, including use of self as instrument, reflexivity, shared inquiry and working live with the group processes that emerge in real time when we work with groups, teams and systems.
This will be a practical and reflective session for OD practitioners, HR and People professionals, leaders, coaches and facilitators who want to deepen the relational quality of their work and develop greater confidence in working with complexity as it unfolds.
Organisational Design and Development Network event
Date: Tuesday 2 February 2027
Time: 12:00 - 13:15
Location: Online
Most people who work in organisations have experienced moments where things feel absurd.
The meeting where everyone appears to agree, but leaves with a different understanding. The same issue that returns to the agenda again and again. The strategy that looks coherent on paper, but never quite connects with how work actually happens. The polite silence when everyone knows something important is being avoided.
These moments can be funny. They can also be deeply frustrating. But they may also be useful signals.
In this session, we will be joined by Charleen Johnson, founder of InSpark Group and author of the 2026 Workplace Absurdities Report, to explore how absurdity shows up in organisational life and what it may be trying to tell us.
Charleen’s work invites us to look beneath the surface of workplace contradictions, mixed messages and strange recurring patterns. Rather than treating absurdity as simply irrational or dysfunctional, we will consider what function it may be serving, what it reveals about the wider system and what it may be costing people and organisations.
Date: 6 April 2027
Time: 12:00 - 13:15
Location: Online
More information about this session will be shared closer to the date, ensuring our discussions reflect the latest trends and priorities across the people profession.
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