Case Study 3: Exploring Large Group Interventions

Kerry slumped at her desk in need of an organization development (OD) mentor. As a young OD consultant with her recently received master’s degree in OD, Kerry is the only official OD person in her firm, Levelco. Having just left the CEO’s office 5 minutes earlier, Kerry wondered if she was in over her head with the assignment the CEO Stanley just gave her. Apparently, Stanley heard about the success of “large group interventions” from other CEOs at a Wall Street executive meeting last week, and so he thinks “it would be a great idea to do a large intervention here at Levelco regarding our new initiative.”