The South Bay Organizational Development Network (SBODN) is an informal forum focused on making a difference in how organizations and the people in them survive and thrive.

Torchiana, Mastrov & Sapiro

We will be giving away $150 gift certificate to dinner at La Fondue in Saratoga.

Torchiana, Mastrov & Sapiro About Us

Since its founding in 1980, Torchiana, Mastrov & Sapiro has become the largest independently owned career-management consulting firm in Northern California. The organization serves more than 300 clients by providing personalized leadership development and career transition programs to individuals and companies. Torchiana consultants serve the entire Bay Area through offices in San Francisco, San Ramon, and Silicon Valley. Torchiana is able to assist in all aspects of a downsizing including reduction project planning, manager training, scheduling, and communications. For individuals who are impacted by a reduction, we develop and implement customized highly personalized approaches to help them evaluate and plan their next career steps. We also offer a unique opportunity for leaders and teams to expand their behaviors and capabilities and move into new levels of performance. All leadership development programs focus on the career management and coaching needs of high performing, high-potential executives.

Working Arts

About Us

Working-Arts® is a unique professional resource, invaluable to CEOs, Creativity Directors, innovation leaders in Marketing, Product Development and Organizational Development, and other leaders who wish to develop a culture of innovation and passion within their organizations. Working-Arts assists you in developing a culture of innovation by helping you design and implement an Innovation Architecture for any level of your organization. Working-Arts assists you in developing a culture of passion by offering creative practices designed for the Artful Professional -- those individuals and workgroups at every level of your organization who wish to bring greater creativity and effectiveness to their work.

Why Attendees should stop by

Working-Arts® invites you to stop by its booth to engage in a simple but powerful exercise. Called “Ask Art,” this self-led exercise will provide you with inspiration regarding a current challenge or opportunity. While you are there, pick up some free information regarding Working-Arts’ Innovation Architecture Development and Artful Professional Practice-Development services. Be sure also to sign up for your free email newsletter, “The Artful Professional."

Entrepreneurs Foundation

Entrepreneurs Foundation About Us

Entrepreneurs Foundation is the only Bay Area non-profit working with entrepreneurial life science and high tech companies for corporate citizenship purposes. Working with Entrepreneurs Foundation, companies build community programs that ensure corporate citizenship is an integral part of their corporate culture. For Entrepreneurs Foundation (EF) corporate partners, we are knowledge experts in the development and implementation of community involvement and philanthropic programs. With EF staff, companies incorporate corporate citizenship, community involvement and philanthropy into everyday business. Companies derive significant employee benefits through their partnership with EF such as enhanced employee morale, team building, and higher employee retention. Programs also enrich the company’s culture and public reputation. Since our founding in 1998, EF has worked with 149 Bay Area companies and given out over $4.5 million to 140 local community benefit organizations. For more information about EF, please visit www.efbayarea.org.

Corporate Wisdom

Walking the Corporate Talk: Our Vision for a Communicating Corporation
Our vision is to positively transform both the communication and behavior in an organization by working with CEO’s and their executive team to support a healthy corporate culture. By focusing on their own and their employees development, the organization is much more able to deliver bottom line results.

Why Work With a Corporate-Wisdom Consultant?
Corporate Wisdom consultants can step in as advisors, coaches or teachers, depending on the needs of the organization. We are committed to delivering tools, techniques, and highly practical learning experiences that remain with the company after the programs are completed.

We start this process by analyzing and helping individuals and teams to understand the issues and skill deficits that are unique to your organization. We then create a custom program to break the negative cycles and thereby improve company performance in goal-targeted areas.

In addition to custom consulting services, the coaching, team development, communication, and intuition modules we offer help employees overcome person-to-person obstacles, improve their decision-making, and work as a team, in a more evolved fashion.

Drop Your Business Card at the Corporate Wisdom Table and Receive a Free Assessment of:

Corporate Culture and Team Dynamics
Innovation and Creativity

Forton Bank Consulting

Forton Bank About Us

Forton Bank Consulting provides leadership and organizational development services to world class companies. As well as consulting, executive coaching and facilitation services, we offer professional training in coaching and leadership and psychometric and assessment tools. At the SBODN conference we will focus on these key services to support your excellence and growth.

Please visit our stand

Stop by our booth to find out about the Coaching for Leadership professional coach training program and the CoreClarity® team tool. Enter your business card to win an in-house high-impact ‘Lunch and Learn’ training session for your team, or a copy of the book “Now, Discover Your Strengths”.

We look forward to meeting you on Friday, September 8th.

The Palmer Advantage

The Palmer Advantage is dedicated to providing business solutions for client companies' human resource needs. The single largest cost of doing business for many companies is the cost of human capital. The Palmer Advantage has helped numerous companies develop staffing strategies that support their growth plans, design compensation programs that enable them to attract and retain the talent they need, implement merger and acquisition strategies meeting financial objectives, reorganize and restructure for maximum results, manage the performance of their organizations, and hire the human resources talent needed to achieve their business objectives. We approach managing human capital from a strategic standpoint:

Assessing your organization's human resources needs and available resources,
Working with your executive team and human resources organization to develop strategic programs that assure your success,
And/or identifying and helping you hire the human resources talent you need.

For more information about The Palmer Advantage, Inc., and the numerous clients we serve, please visit our website at www.palmeradv.com or contact us at 408-246-2456.