Chicago OD Practitioners Network
Topic: Inoculating Your Organization Against the Mind-Heart Disconnection Virus
Date: Friday, May 30, 2025Location: Virtual, via ZoomTime: [7:45-8:00] AM, CDT- networking [ 8:00-9:30] AM, CDT- program
Register: Send an email to CODPNetwork@gmail.com by Tues, May 27 (free program). You will receive a Zoom link during the week of the program.
Program Description:
A previously unrecognized cognitive virus is spreading through organizations. This virus disrupts the link between mind and heart, diminishing employees’ ability to think rationally and empathize compassionately.
When this virus takes hold, it impairs decision-making, psychological safety, conflict resolution, and accountability. Employees become reactive, avoidant, emotionally distant, and less effective at navigating complex interpersonal dynamics. The impact on leadership effectiveness is particularly profound.
In this 75-minute presentation, you’ll learn how to spot areas of your organization where this virus is undermining employee performance and how to eradicate it.
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About the Program Facilitator Charles Jones.
Charles M. Jones is a behavioral scientist at the Institute for Adaptive Mastery. The author of “Emotional Intelligence for Stress-free Leadership” and a chapter of Fielding University’s “Innovations in Leadership Coaching,” Charles’s groundbreaking discoveries regarding the causal relationships between emotions, needs, stress, reactivity, negativity, and trauma are revolutionizing our approach to raising emotional intelligence, eliminating workplace negativity, and developing empathetic leaders. Past clients include American Airlines, Capital One, Direct TV, IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Motorola, Nokia-Siemens, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Lockheed Martin, Portland Community College, Sterling-Winthrop Pharmaceuticals, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. An avid hiker and jam band aficionado, Charles lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and golden doodle.
This networking event will inspire meaningful conversations as you connect and share with other Talent Development professionals.
Register now to join us for a Monday morning virtual cup of coffee!