A word from our Research Pillar Champion, Jaimini Lakhani on what research stands for at the OD Academy: 

“The systemic aspect of organisations means that change is inevitable, though as we know sustainable growth needs to be consciously nurtured.  Effective Organisation Development is the skilful mixture of intuition, experience, collaboration and evidence. This is why Research is a key strategic pillar of the OD Academy.

Managerial decisions made on knowledge, experience, success stories alone leave inherent risk in the system. The objective of this pillar is to provide members an opportunity to devise an evidence base to support and underpin the ways we as practitioners can learn from how we intervene in systems. This enables us to target root causes of organisational challenges and target actionable, evidence based strategies.

We would be delighted for members to join a Research Panel to guide our work in this area.  

We are also looking to spotlight case studies where you have leveraged research to action an evidence based solution.”

View more information about current and upcoming Research pillar activity and how you can get involved via the links below.