NPQ Article:
Working Together Across Generations

by Melinda Barbosa, Ora Grodsky

In this article, we explore how to bridge generational divides to strengthen collaboration, leadership, and impact within organizations.

Drawing on our years of experience in intergenerational, cross-racial partnership, we offer insights and practical strategies for working across generations (and other dimensions of difference) while staying rooted in shared purpose and mutual respect.

Justice, Love, and Organizational Healing: A Guide to Transformational Consulting

In Justice, Love, and Organizational Healing, Ora Grodsky draws from decades of experience to lead organizational change agents through the multifaceted world of transformational consulting.

This comprehensive guide offers invaluable tools, practices, and mindsets for addressing the technical and spiritual dimensions of guiding individuals and organizations through complex, equitable, and inclusive processes for change.

Where Does It Hurt? Health and Disharmony in Organizational Ecosystems

Organizational development consultant Ora Grodsky draws on decades of working with social change organizations and years of experience as an acupuncturist to develop a framework for understanding organizations as living ecosystems within which the flow of energy can promote healthy operations or provoke disharmony. This provides a powerful metaphor for diagnosing and addressing organizational challenges, as well as creating and maintaining organizational health.

This short e-book is designed as a hands-on practical guide for organizational leaders, social entrepreneurs and consultants.

Strategic (And Successful!) Planning

Strategic planning results in an exciting, energized, successful organization when everybody involved is aligned about what they’re doing, why they’re doing it and how they’re going to do it. Identifying a clear purpose, a shared vision and compelling goals and objectives can powerfully propel an organization forward while providing essential guidance for daily operations and future decision-making. This framework can assist you in designing planning processes that lead to creative, dynamic, and useful plans.

The Why, When, and How of Successful Retreats

Retreats are powerful when they bring the right people together at the right time for the right reasons with the right process. Retreats allow us to step away from our daily responsibilities and see each other, our assumptions and our work with a wider lens and a different perspective. Retreats can enable us to access different parts of our hearts and minds, create new curiosity, generate momentum and good will, and move our work forward in powerful ways.