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Proactive Communication is proud to participate in this World Summit of Organizational Development stakeholders, which will take place in Budapest, 22-26 August 2010.

Why an Organizational Development World Summit? – Message from the Summit organizers:
“Co-creating a New World of Organizations & Communities”

“There’s something going on out there. There‘s something emerging. We all know it. We all feel it. The World is not what it used to be 10-15 years ago and it’s definitely not what it’s going to look like in 10-15 years from now. It’s time to decode the nature of the ongoing changes around us.

Humanity is just on the edge of understanding what’s happening. Individually and collectively we started to feel the convergence. By now we know that we can’t live our lives on this Planet the way we used to. We feel the need to act, but the way forward is not clear yet.

We’ve already done a lot. Thousands of initiatives are taking off every day. Millions of us are already active. The steps we take though are seldom coordinated. Our resources and energy are consumed in dispersed efforts. We need to join forces, as the breakthrough is yet to come.

Members of our professional community – all of us working on building, nurturing and developing systems, organizations and communities – play an important role in this process. Our contribution is significant both globally and locally. We – as subjects and facilitators of change, learning and human development – can make a difference.

Aims and objectives

To bring together the active local, national, regional and international organizations of our field and their members: practitioners, end-users, educators and researchers from all continents. We want them to join us, get involved and participate in making one of the most significant mutual know-how and experience sharing efforts in the history of developing organizations happen. The summit is based on three main focus areas: non-conventional organizations, global impact, and cross-fertilization.

Through that our fundamental aims are:

* to contribute to the development of our profession through getting closer to each other and strengthening the global community,
* to help create and build lasting worldwide networks and relationships among all those interested, involved and aligned,
* to provide space for emerging conversations and open dialogue on the nature of change taking place around us,
* and searching for, defining, communicating and getting prepared to deliver our true contribution to a better world.

So, hereby:

• we invite you to join the flow of conversations before, during and after 2010 – the year of reunion, togetherness, community and coordinated action,
• we invite you to enjoy the co-creative process leading to, taking place at and flowing from the 2010 OD World Summit and its associated events,
• we invite you to be with us in Budapest, Hungary at our flagship event in August 2010.”

More information about this flagship event …

You can also view the entire OD World Summit Agenda here…