Join us for our series of events “Making Work Worth Doing” in 2025.
This is relevant for anyone interested in learning about meaningful work, flexibility and autonomy.
The events will take place on the 4th Thursday of each month starting in March.
We hope to see you there.
What:
- Each event in the series will feature a specific topic and a dedicated facilitator;
- At 10 to 11:30 AM Pacific Time; 1 to 2:30 PM Eastern Time;
- Upcoming event dates are:
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- Thursday, 24 April 2025 – led by Carly Riehle & Bert Painter — ‘’Humancentric Work: Examples of Thriving Hybrid Offices’’
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- Thursday, 22 May 2025 – led by Stu Winby — ‘’Human-centered AI and the Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems’’
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- Thursday, 26 June 2025 – led by Trond Haga —‘’Pre-conference workshop’’
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- Thursday, 24 July 2025 – led by Jon Mullican —‘’Deep Listening’’
Workshop Presenters & Facilitators:
Carly Riehle is the manager of a Strategic Program Management Office working on enterprise wide, large scale change initiatives. She has nearly 20 years of experience as a covert OD consultant having worked inside organizations in multiple industries including for-profit education, shipping, residential construction, and banking.
She is a project manager at heart, who thrives on helping others meet their goals and has been PMP certified since 2014. Storytelling helps her connect with project stakeholders, team members and fellow project managers, to build trusting relationships and guide people towards a common goal.
Carly has a Master’s degree in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University and lives in Bedford, TX with her husband and three sons. She serves in her church and speaks on OD related topics across the Dallas Fort Worth Area.
Carly currently serves as the President of the STS Roundtable.
Bert Painter is an independent consulting social scientist and documentary filmmaker. Since 1975, his professional passion has been to assist people in designing their work and organizations to achieve both high performance and quality in their working lives. As a filmmaker, Bert has produced over 20 documentaries on innovative workplaces in North America.
Current projects involve work with engineers, IT professionals, and employees to deploy advanced technology in manufacturing in ways that up-skill (vs. displace) the workforce, as well as work with staff and management to design effective and flexible hybrid office work.
He has a B.A. from Carleton University (Ottawa) and an M.A. from the University of Sussex, U.K.
Bert is currently serving as a Steward of the STS Roundtable.
Stu Winby is the Founder of SPRING network and a thought leader in strategy innovation, organization design and innovation, and founder of SPRING Network. His focus over the last decade has been in healthcare and technology, working at the CEO, state and national level in healthcare innovation and transformation.
Trond Haga is Senior manager at Aker Solutions Yard at Stord, Norway. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. The yard at Stord is Norway’s largest offshore yard, with approximately 1,800 employees and several thousand hired-in resources. He is currently leading a R&D project on the transition from being a supplier to the oil and gas industry to becoming a supplier to renewable energy markets. The project is being carried out in collaboration with SINTEF (a Norwegian research institute) and is funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Over the period in Aker Solutions, he has held several different leadership positions in both the project and base organizations at the yard. He is also the leader of the Norwegian STS competence network, which in 2025 will host the STS Roundtable in Trondheim, Norway. As a leader in this network, he is also a member of the global STS Roundtable board.
Trond holds a PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, with a focus on action research and sociotechnical systems. He has worked as a researcher during certain periods.
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