OD in the NHS 2025: elevating our everyday practice
Our Do OD annual conference returns for 2025, focusing on insights and strategies to elevate your OD practice against a challenging NHS backdrop.
Speakers
OD in the NHS is a free, face-to-face conference for anyone working in NHS organisational development or related roles.
Hosted in central Birmingham, the event will provide tools and knowledge, reflective spaces and useful connections to help OD practitioners lift out of the everyday practice it’s so easy to get stuck in.
We know OD in the NHS at the moment is tough. We find ourselves getting pulled into reactive work, we can feel overwhelmed by the scale of the challenges we’re facing, our opportunities to think, plan and reflect are squeezed.
The conference offers delegates the time and space to:
- hear about the latest developments in the wider world of OD in the NHS
gain a range of practical tools and strategies to help elevate everyday practice
- meet like-minded colleagues and peers and make new connections.
Conference programme
Our varied and interactive programme is being finalised and will be published nearer the event.
Session themes will include:
- Learning inquiries: from ‘I can’t’ to ‘I can’
- The role and boundaries of OD in building compassionate NHS organisations
- AI and OD: the light and the dark
- Building the seat at the table: OD and organisational design
- Thinking brighter: nurturing our creative spark
- Strengths-based OD: appreciative inquiry
An OD Swap Shop will be running throughout the day – bring your favourite OD tool, technique, idea, model or theory – tell your colleagues why yours is brilliant and learn about theirs. Don’t have a favourite? Come and get a new one!
The Do OD team will also outline the latest opportunities for your professional development and our current findings from the Do OD Culture Change Inquiry Group.
Venue
The Birmingham Conferences and Events Centre is located in Birmingham city centre, just a minute's walk from Birmingham New Street Station. Find out more on the venue website.
Your registration
This event has proved very popular in previous years. We therefore limit places to two per organisation and kindly ask that you only register if you are confident you will be able to attend. If you cannot use your registered place, please let us know as soon as possible, at mailto:eventbookings@nhsconfed.org.
