Dear Colleagues,
We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia for this year's annual meeting (31 July – 4 August)! We are very excited to receive your submissions for the Organization Development and Change program, so please check out the Calls for Submissions for both the Scholarly Program and for Professional Development Workshops (PDWs).
Our values as a division suggest the critical importance of how change happens. Change carried out through inclusive relational processes - with input from multiple stakeholders at multiple levels of action - can be critical for building thriving organizations and communities. At this year’s meeting, hosted in the heart of Philadelphia – where multi-stakeholder relationships are often used strategically to achieve sustainable outcomes – our focus on how change happens will be particularly relevant.
To see the ODC Call for Submissions for the Scholarly Program, see here.
To see the ODC Call for Submissions for PDWs, see here.
The Calls provide further information and links to guidelines for each type of submission, and the 2026 AOM Annual Meeting Submission Center is already open.
The PDWs will run from Friday, 31st July, through Sunday, 2nd August 2026, and the Scholarly Program will run on Sunday, 2nd, through Tuesday, 4th August. Note that this year the Scholarly Program includes Poster sessions, as well as the traditional Papers, Symposia and Caucuses.
The submission deadline is Tuesday, 13 January 2026, at 17:00 ET (UTC-5/GMT-5), but earlier submissions are strongly encouraged. Before writing your submission, we encourage you to review the ODC Division domain and mission statements and see the video of the ODC Division Submissions Workshop (25 November 2025).
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For questions regarding submissions for the Scholarly Program, please contact the Program Chair, James Vardaman, and Vice Chair, Richard Hall. For questions regarding submissions for PDWs, please contact the PDW Chair, Ninna Meier.
Regards,
James Vardaman and the ODC Board