Chatting About Change with Dr. Jim Maddox
Chatting About Change with Dr. Jim Maddox
Latest Episodes
Building Change Capabilities: A Conversation with Riley Smith of Propeller Consulting
In this episode, I had the opportunity to chat with Riley Smith, Senior Director at Propeller Consulting, about his nontraditional path from teaching high school biology with Teach for America to leading large-scale change initiatives in consul...
Learning OD in Action and Reflections from the IODA Ghana Conference: A conversation with Cody Smith
In this episode, I chatted with Cody Smith of Virginia Tech to reflect on his experience at the recent IODA conference in Ghana. This was Cody’s first time attending the International Organization Development Association conference (IODA)...
Designing for Human Flourishing: A Neuroscience-Based Approach to Organizational Success – A conversation with Sasha Farley
In this episode, we explore a human-centered, neuroscience-based approach to Organization Development consulting that places people at the heart of organizational success. Sasha Farley introduces the powerful idea of moving beyond survival into...
International Organization Development Association OD World Summit coming to Accra, Ghana, in September 2025: The Practice of OD in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Swim or Sink?
My guest this episode is Noble Kumawu from Accra, Ghana. Noble is the current president of the International Organization Development Association (IODA). Noble shares with us some of the exciting details about the upcoming Organization De...
Uncovering the Hidden Dynamics of Teams: A conversation with Willie Marais, from Cape Town, South Africa.
What happens when high-pressure environments, global expansion, and organizational change bring unspoken team tensions to the surface? In this episode, I sit down with Willie Marais, an organizational psychologist and Organization development c...