
Organisational Development Conference 2022
The impact caused by the Fourth Industrial revolution, the Covid-19 pandemic and hybrid working may have brought what one could call the “perfect storm”. The irony of this unprecedented vortex is that it provided a unique opportunity for the organisational development (OD) discipline to reshape and redesign businesses. A survey conducted by Boston Consulting Group in 2021 titled “The Future of People Management Priorities”, which included responses from more than 6 600 participants from 113 countries worldwide, reveals that it may be difficult to successfully nurture or develop HR capabilities (including Learning and Development, Talent Management etc) without OD interventions.
To its advocates, OD is the magical glue that makes businesses adaptable, responsive and resilient in the face of a world that changes by the day. However, the opportunity to build more future-ready and sustainable organisations, perhaps with new ways of defining value, is a challenge that most OD practitioners are now faced with.
Join the Knowledge Resources Organisational Development conference and unpack how you can lead your OD function with courage and receive insights that will help you usher your organisation through this tremendous change.
21 and 22 February 2022
Pre-conference workshop
Designing fit-for-purpose organisations
The way an organisation is designed has a profound effect, not only on its capacity to perform, but also its ability to:
- Execute strategy successfully,
- Create memorable experiences for customers and employees,
- Effectively deploy and use resources,
- Implement efficient modes of working,
- Influence the flow of people energy and positively engage staff,
- Embed a healthy organisational culture and dynamics
- Consequently perform effectively,
- And ultimately to be a successful and viable business.
Your organisation can (and should!) be competing by its design. This workshop will show you how.
A first of its kind in SA, this highly-practical workshop is unique in that it:
- Seamlessly merges the latest theory and practice of Organisational Design (OD);
- Presents a comprehensive, integrated, approach to OD and its processes;
- Offers real case studies to show you how to apply OD pragmatically at work.
After attending, you’ll have a well-grounded, high-level understanding of OD. You’ll get to grips with Organisational Design (OD) as a critical organisational discipline and key executive leadership task. And you’ll also know how to weigh up different Organisational Operating Models – with fit-for-purpose delivery logics – for your own organisation.
Workshop outline
- Engaging with OD as a mission-critical organisational discipline
Definition, purpose, and expected benefits of OD
Why has OD become a mission-critical organisational discipline? - Mapping the territory called Organisational Design
Levels and dimensions of design
Basic building blocks
Common myths
A comprehensive, integrated OD route map - Mapping the territory called Organisational Design
Phase 1: Recognise need for organisational (re)deign
Phase 2: Scope and set up the OD assignment
Phase 3: Craft a fit-for-purpose OD solution
Phase 4: Implement the signed-off OD solution and assess it value-add
Phase 5: Close out - Choosing a fit-for-purpose organisational design
Key considerations when choosing a fit-for-purpose organisational design
Generic organisational shapes with their respective strengths and weaknesses
Key questions to interrogate the fitness-of-purpose of an Organisational Design - 5a: Into the future: In search of a future-fit Organisational Design
OD within the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Organisational Design of the future for the future - 5b: Tying it all together
Fit-for-purpose organisational design: A holistic, integrated and systemic picture
Unique value-add!
The workshop is based on the globally, highly acclaimed OD text by the workshop presenter, Theo Veldsman: Designing fit-for-purpose organisations. A comprehensive, integrated route map. The book has been rated independently internationally as the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on organisational design, currently available globally. Participants in the workshop will receive a complimentary e-copy of the book.
He is seen as one of the pioneers of Organisational Design as a formal discipline in Southern Africa and Africa. He has enabled the process of introducing many of the global Organisational Design thought-leaders to South African audiences by arranging for them to visit South Africa. Personally, Theo has conducted more than 50 organisational design assignments across private and public organisations, both locally and internationally, at the executive and senior management levels.
Over the past 8 years Theo has trained close on 200 OD practitioners through public and in-company programmes. He has been party to many South African organisations introducing organisational design as a formal area of practice.
25 February 2022
Post conference workshop
Strategies for designing the Digital Employee Experience (DEX)
This workshop will cover
- The evolution of Human Experience (HX) to build a hybrid inclusive work culture
- Principles to shape a digital employee experience
- An understanding of the systemic factors that drive HX
- Structure and Skill
- EVP and the lived Experience
- Culture and Employee Experience (EX)
- Analytics and diagnostic empathy mapping
- Employee Experience enablers
- Practical immersion of designing an HR process DEX principles
- g. Onboarding
- g. Maternity Leave
Participants will receive:
- Tools for designing and shaping the HX
- A practical framework for designing the onboarding and offboarding – the 2 critical moments that matter in the EX journey
Facilitated by Selma de Morney, Managing Director, Human Fire
Selma de Morney is the founder of Humanfire – a boutique and agile talent management consultancy. Humanfire exists to help organisations unleash human potential by enabling talent and the organisations they work for to thrive together.
They do this by reimagining talent, Human Experience (HX) strategies and the tools and technologies to liberate them. They act as a journey partner to help create a connected human-centric workplace with greater relevance for the future.
As a journey partner to clients, Selma has been a part of large-scale culture, change and talent management transformation initiatives. Humanfire has the dynamic and intuitive ability to connect teams and collaboration partners for customized solutions.
As a forward thinking and innovative business, their drive is to shape and deliver experiences that people will love.
REGISTRATION FEES (excl. VAT)
Option A: OD Conference and two workshops | February 21,22,23,24,25 2021 | Normal Fee: R10 500 excl. VAT
Option B: OD Conference and pre-workshop | February 21,22,23,24 | Normal Fee: R8 500 excl. VAT
Option C: OD Conference and post-workshop | February 23,24,25 | Normal Fee: R 6 500 excl. VAT
Option D: OD Pre Conference Workshop Only | February 21,22 | Normal Fee: R5 000 excl. VAT
Option E: Two-day OD Conference Only | February 23,24 | Normal Fee: R5 000 excl. VAT
Option F: OD Post Conference Workshop Only | February 25 | Normal Fee: R2 500 excl. VAT
Hourly Schedule
Day 1 - 23 February 2022
- 09:00 - 09:10
- Chairman’s opening remarks
- 09:10 - 09:50
- Keynote: The business case for OD: Why the impact of the pandemic and hybrid working has been OD’s time to shine
- Sthembiso Phakathi, Director, Human Capital, Deloitte
Speakers:
Sthembiso Phakathi
- 09:50 - 10:30
- Organisational Agility: Case studies on moving from traditional to adaptive OD strategy
- Prof Theo Veldsman, Renowned Work Psychologist and Best-Selling Author AND Lisa Andrews, Talent & Organisation Director, Unilever AND Bedelia Theunissen, Group Talent & Organisational Effectiveness Executive - AECI
Speakers:
Lisa Andrews, Professor Theo Veldsman
- 10:30 - 11:00
- Morning break
- 11:00 - 11:40
- Decoding the OD-HR relationship
- Sandra da Mata, Executive Head, People Development, MySelf Mastery
- 11:40 - 12:20
- Change models – are they still relevant?
- Dayalan Govender, Partner & Director: People and Organisation, PwC
Speakers:
Dayalan Govender
- 12:20 - 13:00
- Organisational design for a hybrid future of work
- Janko Kotze, Managing Director, Human Interest
Speakers:
Janko Kotze
- 13:00 - 13:40
- Lunch break
- 13:40 - 14:20
- Conversation: Designing organisational cultures for disruptive and difficult times
- Travis Stephenson, Head: Talent & OD, Mr Price Group AND Durdana Kabir, Regional Head: Talent & Organisational Development, Nestle Central & West Africa AND Gbemisola Otimomo, Head: People & Organisation, Middle Africaa, Norvo Nordisk Kenya AND Dvorah Stein, Founder and People Strategist, Hive Culture
Speakers:
Durdana Kabir, Dvorah Stein, Gbemisola Atimomo, Travis Stephenson
- 14:20 - 14:50
- Case Study: Amplifying the Voice of the Employee as a lever of culture shift
- Andee Uren, Head: Organisational Effectiveness, Nedbank
Speakers:
Andee Uren
- 14:50 - 15:00
- Quick leg stretch
- 15:00 - 15:30
- Improving employee mental health and wellbeing: an OD perspective
- Ninette Van Arde, Organisational Design Lead, Momentum Metropolitan
Speakers:
Ninette Van Aarde
- 15:30 - 16:00
- Case Study: The importance of Self Leadership and how to leverage it to improve
- Bahia Sarlie, Group Leadership and Interim Learning Lead, ABSA
- 16:00 - 16:45
- International Keynote: The Regenerative Business: Redesign Work, Cultivate Human Potential, Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes
- Carol Sanford, Founder, The Regenerative Business Development Community, Best Selling Author and Executive Educator, Greater Seattle, USA
Speakers:
Carol Sanford
- 17:00
- Book launch: Indirect Work with Carol Sanford
Day 2 - 24 February 2022
- 09:00 - 09:10
- Welcome back | Chairman’s opening remarks
- JP Van Zittert, Head: People Effectiveness, SA Taxi
Speakers:
JP van Zittert
- 09:10 - 09:50
- The future of Employee Experience and the role of technology and its abilty to transform the workplace
- Chris Jones, Head: Customer Success EMEA, Enboarder
Speakers:
Chris Jones
- 09:50 - 10:30
- Leveraging analytics and metrics to inform organisation design
- Lerato Semenya, Managing Director, Chromatic Consulting
Speakers:
Lerato Semenya
- 10:30 - 11:00
- Morning break
- OD techniques Masterclass session
- 11:00 - 11:40
- Utilising Design thinking to optimally design work practices for the hybrid world of work
- Richard Perez, Founding Director: Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking, University of Cape Town
Speakers:
Richard Perez
- 11:40 - 12:20
- Appreciative Inquiry as an organisational development tool in a hybrid landscape
- Natasha Winkler-Titus
- 12:20 - 13:00
- Lunch break
- 13:00 - 14:20
- INTERNATIONAL MASTERCLASS PRESENTATION | World Café: Build mastery in hosting ‘conversations that matter’ on a virtual platform
- Augusto Cuginotti, Chair, The World Café Community Foundation Stewardship Council AND Michaela Sieh, Council Member, The World Café Community Foundation Stewardship Council
- 14:20 - 14:30
- Quick leg stretch
- 14:30 - 15:30
- Unpacking the competencies and capabilities for an OD practitioner in our new normal
- Speaker: Terrence Taylor, Talent and Organisational Development Consultant | Panellists : Tebogo Mdhluli, Head: Organisational Effectiveness, Anglo American Platinum AND Bernd Schulz, Director, Action Learning Partners AND Dr. Loyiso Mbabane, Executive Consultant, 21st Century
Speakers:
Bernd Schulz, Dr Loyiso Mbabane, Tebogo Mdhluli, Terrence Taylor
- 15:30
- Close of conference



















