BAodn Style: Holiday Social

On December 12, a few students, OD practioners, BAodn Board members and friends gathered together to celebrate the holidays and the new year. The event was held at Ana Mandara restaurant in Ghirardelli square. An exquisitely decorated venue with Asian themes, couches, and international flavor. I arrived right at 5:30 p.m. as it began to rain. And was visually pleased to enter this wonderous place.

We came together to celebrate our passion for OD, and the conversation certainly had that flavor. I met some new people that I had not attended before. Most who attended were independent consultants. As I looked around everyone seemed to be converging into small groups and deep in conversation with others. My group was made up of two independent consultants, and one psychologist. The conversation turned lively as we began discussing the communication efforts of various fortune 500 companies, the role of OD in Corporate America and Seth Godin, marketing genious. We also talked about various books and interesting readings and of course a little about human nature and behavior. The best part of all turned out to be recruting my little group to write blogs in January-so look forward to some great writers with lots of experience in January. I invite others who attended to feel free to comment and share their conversations.

The appetizers were delicious as always and included chicken skewers with peanut sauce, bite sized turnovers, tempura shrimp, vegetable egg rolls and much much more. We stayed pretty late until about 10 p.m. One thing I have come to know about OD consultants and specially at BAodn that we do LOVE to socialize.

I am looking forward to the January 4th event with Linda Ackerman Anderson-how to REALLY succeed in large systems transformation. This is something I always wonder about. How successful and sustainable our the changes we implement? Hope to see you there and at other networking events!