OD Chat Group: Can Organization Development Keep Pace with AI?

An OD Dialogue with Dr. Claudy Jules

AI is transforming decision-making, work coordination, and value creation within organizations. For organization development (OD) practitioners, the challenge reaches beyond learning new tools. It calls for a fresh look at how we understand organizational health, human judgment, and our own role as advisors.

Join the OD Chat Group for an engaging discussion with Dr. Claudy Jules, an organizational strategist and independent advisor with a distinguished career in leadership roles at Google, McKinsey, Accenture, and Flagship Pioneering.

Dr. Jules brings together three often-separated areas: foundational OD practice, AI-enabled ways of working, and the capital and investor forces shaping organizational priorities.

This will be a practitioner-to-practitioner conversation, grounded in the pressing questions and contexts many of us face today:

• Organizational health in an AI-enabled workplace: Which foundational OD practices are essential as frontier technologies transform work dynamics?
• Human judgment and expertise: What must practitioners understand and contribute when AI can produce frameworks, analysis, and recommendations?
• Adoption through daily operations: Why do standalone capability-building efforts often have limited impact, and what strategies enable teams to seamlessly integrate new capabilities into their operating rhythm?
• The future of independent OD consulting: How can practitioners evolve their methods, demonstrate business value, and enhance the trust clients place in their services??

We will also explore Dr. Jules’s psychodynamic perspective on organizations, focusing on the underlying patterns in governance, decision rights, leadership dynamics, and operating models that affect performance..

This session is for organizational consultants, executive coaches, change practitioners, and leaders who want to align (or embed) enduring OD principles with the realities of tech-forward enterprises, AI transformation, and value creation.

One idea will run through the conversation: the future of OD depends on strengthening human judgment while integrating AI into how organizations operate.

Date: Thursday, August 27
Time: 3:00–4:30 p.m. Pacific
Format: Live virtual conversation

Register for This Event

Current OD Chat Group members are encouraged to join the conversation. Practitioners who are new to the group are also welcome to attend, meet the community, and explore future participation.