In most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them for—namely, covering their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and managing other people’s impressions of them. There may be no greater waste of an organization’s resources. The ultimate cost: neither the organization nor its people are able to realize their full potential.

Deliberately Developmental Organizations (DDOs), by contrast, are organized around the simple but radical conviction that organizations will best prosper when they are more deeply aligned with people’s strongest motive, which is to grow.  They are incubators of personal development.  Those who can coach others to grow hold the most revered positions in these organizations.  In this highly interactive webinar, we will discuss:

• What are the design principles, concrete practices, and underlying sciences at the heart of DDOs?
• How do they provide a new, 21st century answer to workplace professional development? 
• What are the implications for coaches (working internal or external to organizations)?

Presenter:  Deborah Helsing, EdD

About the presenter:

Deb has coached individuals from many walks of life and consulted with organizations across several sectors to use the Immunity-to-Change approach to reach their most-cherished improvement goals.  More recently, her role at Minds at Work has focused on developing coaches’ and consultants’ abilities to integrate the ITC method into their own practices.

Deb holds a faculty position at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, teaching courses in Adult Development, Immunity to Change, and co-teaching a course in personal mastery for leaders.  She provides executive coaching to high potential educational leaders as part of the Doctor of Educational Leadership program.

Deb has co-authored several articles and books, including: An Everyone Culture:  Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization (2016, with Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming, and Matt Miller); Right Weight, Right Mind: The ITC Approach to Permanent Weight Loss (2014, with Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey); The Immunity to Change Coach’s Guide (2011, with Lisa Lahey and Robert Kegan) and “Unlocking Leadership Potential: Overcoming Immunities to Change” (2010, with Lisa Lahey) in Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development.