OD Shop Talk Recordings
The OD Shop Talk series includes recorded conversations with Alumni about their work, passions and other topics that are top of mind for us as OD Practitioners. If you would like to do an OD Shop Talk session with us please contact Gretchen LaRusch glarusch25@gmail.com.
Podcasting Unplugged (August 2023) Host Sarah Spengler (MOD 6) interviews her classmate Andrew Pek about his podcast "Consulting Unplugged" which has aired nearly 50 episodes as of August 2023. Andrew demystifies podcasting and walks through a series of questions to think through when moving into this process. About Andrew Pek (learn more at https://www.andrewpek.com/) is an internationally recognized executive advisor, entrepreneur and best-selling author in the field of creativity, innovation and design thinking. He has coached and educated thousands of professionals and top executives throughout the world using design thinking to help grow and transform their business. In 2005 he co-founded DxD Partners Inc, whose mission is to build the power skills of the next generation of entrepreneurs, innovators and change makers through real world experiences and provocative educational programming focused on what he calls the “power skills of innovators and change makers.” Watch the 1 hour video: https://youtu.be/QJ1OSxmu8NU
Strategic Thinking – Improve Decision Making Company-wide (January 2022) In this January 2022 Shop Talk session Rebecca Poretsky of Life Labs Learning presents on an approach to Strategic Thinking. Watch the 1 hour video: https://youtu.be/U1R3EL5TJ_0
SARS-CoV-2 and You (Summer 2022) MPOD 15 Alum Gretchen LaRusch is a Research Coordinator at the Cleveland Clinic and has a clinical research background. In this OD Shop Talk session Gretchen walks us through an overview of Covid from a biomedical perspective and addresses implications for us as individuals and OD practitioners to stay safe in the new Covid world. Todd Porter (MPOD 6) Hosts this conversation. Watch the 1 hour video: https://youtu.be/yWI3tukAy8I
Designing the Hybrid Office (November 2021) This OD Shop Talk features alumna Cheryl Duvall (MPOD 1) talking about her work at Genzler using OD with clients in office design during and post-Covid. Watch the 1 hour video: https://youtu.be/4iMYkzk5XWk