Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Culture
2nd Group Relations Conference in the Amazonas

oezpa leads in cooperation with the Tavistock Institute, by using T-Consult Peru, UPC University in Lima, Grubb Institute and London School of Economics, the second Group Relations conference in Peru. The conference takes place from 22.02 - 29.02.2012 in Iquitos, Peru. The role of        the director takes Monica Velarde Lazarte with Hüseyin Özdemir as associate director. All information to the conference can be found here.

Leicester conference 2012: Authority, Role and Organisation: Coalition, Cooperation & Sustainable Society

Open Space Conference, November 2011

German Soccer Association - DFB (Soccer)

oezpa supports with Mr. Holger Vetter the German Soccer Association. A pre-conference is facilitated in October 2011. The main Soccer-Conference Germany (DFB) will take place in February 2012. Participants of the Pre-Conference are the Presidents and Directors of the regional DFB Organisations as well as the Deputy President of the DFB.

LEADERSHIP, AUTHORITY & TRUST: ROLE DESIGN IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS, Peru

5TH GROUP RELATIONS CONFERENCE IN ESAN UNIVERSITY. 17-22 OCT 2011 LIMA, PERÚ. Mónica Velarde Lazarte (Peru/ USA) will direct the Conference. Hüseyin Özdemir will be the Associate Director.

Sponsors: ESAN University (Lima-Peru); T-Consult (Peru); The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (London, United Kingdom).

ESAN University (Lima-Peru): Esan Business School is the first Postgraduate academic institution of Business in the Hispanic world. It was established the 25th of July of 1963 in the context of the a working agreement between the Governments of Peru and the United States of America. Its organisation and implementation was trusted to the Business School of Stanford University in California, USA.

If you are interested, please contatct: jmarimon@esan.edu.pe

oezpa is Cooperatingpartner of the largest Coaching Association in the world, September 2011

"We are a nonprofit organization formed by individual members-professionals who practice coaching, including Executive Coaches, Leadership Coaches, Life Coaches, and many more, from around the world. Formed in 1995, today the ICF is the leading global organization, with over 17,000 members, dedicated to advancing the coaching profession by setting high professional standards, providing independent certification, and building a network of credentialed coaches. We exist to support and advance the coaching profession through programs and standards supported by our members and to be an authoritative source on coaching information and research for the public." (ICF)

Barbara Lagler Özdemir leads the Group Relations Conference in 2011

oezpa performs in 2011 the third oezpa Group Relations Conference. Mrs Barbara Lagler Özdemir takes the role of the director.

Large Leadership Program in Luxemburg

oezpa wins assignment in Luxemburg. 200 Leaders will be trained by the oezpa Academy. Barbara Lagler Özdemir leads the comprehensve program.

Executive Coaching in Turkey

oezpa coaches Expatriates in Turkey.

Mid size Company Development

oezpa consults mid size company in Turkey. The founder and General Manager of a company with 200 associates is going to be consulted by oezpa. oezpa will consult the Strategy-, Organisation- and Personnel Devlopment of the successful corporation.

Interview Mannie Sher and Hüseyin Özdemir, Part 1, 2 and 3

Mannie Sher, Director, Group Relations Programme; Principal Researcher  & Consultant, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations; Fellow, British Association of Psychotherapists; Board Member, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations, talks to Hüseyin Özdemir, Director, oezpa GmbH (Germany/Switzerland). View video

Video - Inhouse Leadership 

Hüseyin Özdemir describes an inhouse management development program: leadership for division managers, department managers and team leaders. The program is structured in two-by-two days, learning partnerships and coaching. View Video

oezpa GmbH successfully started the 14th advanced training in organisational development. Module 1 "Organisation & OD" was directed by Karsten Trebesch, pioneer of OD. Mr. Trebesch is also associate editor of the magazine "OrganisationsEntwicklung".

oezpa ORGLAB 2011, May 2011 

The 8th oezpa ORGLAB (Group Relations Conference) took place in the monastery Walberberg. The main focus was on demonstrating the participants the psychodynamic processes in organisations by learning from experience and reflection.

Listen to interview clips from Group Relations Conference participants

oezpa ORGLAB 2011 -
Supervised by Bruce Irvine and Barbara Lagler Özdemir

Bruse Irvine, director of the renowned Grubb Institute in London, will be director of the oezpa ORGLAB 2011. As the associate director of the oezpa ORGLAB 2011 he has invited Barbara Lagler Özdemir. Futhermore Prof. Dr. Ajeet Mathur (India), Nicola Wreford Howard (UK/Netherlands) and Thomas Webers (Germany) will be part of the staff.

The Leicester Conference 
(Tavistock - Group Relations Approach)

Following the invitation of Eliat Aram (CEO, Tavistock Institute London) Hüseiyn Özdemir worked as a staff member at the Leicester Conference from April 6th - April 21st 2011. The staff consisted of professors and consultants from USA, UK, Peru and India.
The Tavistock Institute and oezpa GmbH cooperate officially.

Organisational Consulting in China

Mr. Hüseyin Özdemir, general manager of oezpa GmbH, depicts the organisational development of a well-known company in China using organisational, team and leadership development as well as coaching.
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8th Coaching Program of oezpa

oezpa is accredited by the German Association of Coaching (DBVC). The program is accepted by DBVC as a professional Business-Coaching Program. The Accrediting by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) is in progress and will be finished soon. The Program is supported by the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences Cologne, Department of Business Psychology. The program’s concept is practice oriented (international case work, real live coaching sessions etc.) and systemic. Psychodynamic Modules are integrated (orglab, Role analysis and –coaching, Psychoanalytical concepts in coaching). 20 years of international Coaching Practice of oezpa in the Business World is the basis of this Program. International staff is invited. Date of first module: 28th to 30th March 2011, Schloss Buschfeld, Erftstadt/ Germany. The Modules can be booked individually as well. Please talk to our Co-Program Director Barbara Lagler Özdemir for the requirements (b.oezdemir@oezpa.de) or to Jennifer Haymes, our Program Coordinator (j.haymes@oezpa.de).

oezpa trains Management Board of Media company

oezpa trains and coaches the Management Board of a Media Company in Leadership as well as in Change Management. In this assignment oezpa works on two levels. First level is on the aspects of Leadership, Change and Strategy. The second level is the teambuilding of the Management Board itself, while training them.

8th  Group Relations Conference ORGLAB, organised by oezpa, Germany

The conference is supported by Fresenius University, Institute of Business Psychology, Cologne: 8th  ORGLAB 2011, an international Group Relations Conference, taking place from 4th  to 7th  of May 2011 in Walberberg, a former Dominican Monastery (near Cologne), Germany. The conference will be directed by Hüseyin Özdemir, Germany. Bruce Irvine, Director of the Grubb Institute, London, will take up the Associate Director´s role. English will be the main language beside German. Other languages can be explored.

China – Group Relations Conference

2nd Group Relations Conference China – GRC (Intercultural Management Training) in Shanghai. 
Hüseyin Özdemir will be the conference director. read more...

Consulting Board of Directors of Consulting Company

oezpa consults Board of Directors of successful Consulting Company. Questions of Strategy, Organisation, Roles and Leadership are focussed in this assignment. oezpa brings in it´s 20 years of experience of working as an international consulting institution.

Organisatioal Diagnosis in a factory

oezpa facilitates an organisational diagnosis in a factory. Beside the Factory Director all Departments with their associates are involved in this organisational diagnosis. With this participative approach the diagnosis is based on in depth knowledge. At the same time all participants are learning how to diagnose and reflect their findings. Cross-departmental-cooperation is enforced as well.

Working Conference in India

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), Prof. Dr. Ajeet Mathur, invites Hüseyin Özdemir to work in the staff of the annual Group Relations Conference. ...see

oezpa client BSH is Germany’s most sustainable company

Munich, December 7th (bsh) – Germany’s most sustainable company is BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH. The award was given by Günter Verheugen, Vice-President of the European Commission, to Dr. Kurt-Ludwig Gutberlet, Chairman of the BSH Board of Management, on Friday evening: “I am delighted to receive this award, which represents a gratifying acknowledgment of our corporate strategy, which is oriented towards economic, environmental and social sustainability”, said Gutberlet at the gala event in Düsseldorf. Some 350 companies which market products and services in Germany took part in the competition. The German Sustainability Award, given for the first time in 2008, recognizes companies which combine economic success with social responsibility and protection of the environment in an exemplary manner, and use their sustainable activities to generate further growth...  Read more here…

7th  oezpa ORGLAB (Group-Relations-Conference), 26-29 May 2010, Cologne/ Germany

7th ORGLAB 2010, an international Group Relations Conference, taking place from 26 - 29 May 2010 in Walberberg (near Cologne), Germany. The conference will be directed by Hüseyin Özdemir, Germany/ Turkey. Olya Khaleelee, London, will take up the Associate Director´s role. Ilana Litvin, Israel, Barbara Lagler Özdemir, Switzerland/ Germany, Prof. Dr. Gordon Strauss, USA as well as Prof. Dr. Jörg Fengler, Germany will be on staff. English will be the main language beside German. Other languages can be explored.

Boston Center`s 20th Group Relations Conference 2010

oezpa wishes Dr. Gerard Fromm and his staff members of the Boston Center`s 20th Group Relations Conference 2010 a successful and meaningful Conference, good work and learning with the membership as well as with the staff. Hüseyin Özdemir has worked with Dr. Gerard Fromm in the staffs of Holland and Israel.

It is very important for the world to work on issues of authority, leadership, change and complexity in the GR-conferences. We as the oezpa Institute in Germany, sponsoring GR-Conferences in Germany and in Turkey as well as in other countries, are with our minds and hearts with Dr. Gerard Fromm and his staff.