OD Connect is a group of like-minded people that has enriched each other’s lives over the past 12 years with interesting conversations, business opportunities, capacity building for existing opportunities, friendship, and learning. This initiative started on 28 February 2007 with the OD team of Absa in Pretoria inviting a few friends for breakfast. It soon became a tradition with more people being invited along. Olga Coetzee was the convener of the breakfast in Absa and when she left the corporate world to start her own business back in 2009 it was just natural to maintain the tradition. Up to now we have had 75 breakfasts! We have always been abundant in our approach, which is why there is currently such a variety of people in the network: Industrial Psychologists, Coaches, HR and HRD Executives, OD Specialists, Academics, Consultants, vendors of HR and OD products and services, Research Psychologists, Industrial Engineers, and others.
Apart from the breakfasts the network list has been a source for members to connect with each other for ad hoc needs.
There are only three membership requirements:
There is no membership fee.
How the breakfasts work: Breakfast times are from 07:30 to 09:30. There is no formal agenda. You are therefore free to connect to specific people for whatever purpose, or to mingle with everyone. The biggest secret of networking is curiosity. If you are interested in others they will respond in kind. Everyone pays for their own meal/drinks. Please feel free to join for a quick coffee if you can’t stay for two hours, or to extend your stay to meet with specific people on the list.
The breakfast venue for 2019 will be Cappuccino’s in Southdowns.
I will send out Outlook meeting invitations two weeks in advance of the dates, but please reserve the time in your calendar for the dates below. Please do respond to my invitations to enable me to finalise the booking with the restaurant.
The dates for 2019 are as follows:
Apart from the breakfasts the network list has been a source for members to connect with each other for ad hoc needs.
There are only three membership requirements:
- Having strong common ground with the existing membership.
- Providing your details for the network list.
- Attending at least one breakfast per year since this is a social network and not a social media network.
There is no membership fee.
How the breakfasts work: Breakfast times are from 07:30 to 09:30. There is no formal agenda. You are therefore free to connect to specific people for whatever purpose, or to mingle with everyone. The biggest secret of networking is curiosity. If you are interested in others they will respond in kind. Everyone pays for their own meal/drinks. Please feel free to join for a quick coffee if you can’t stay for two hours, or to extend your stay to meet with specific people on the list.
The breakfast venue for 2019 will be Cappuccino’s in Southdowns.
I will send out Outlook meeting invitations two weeks in advance of the dates, but please reserve the time in your calendar for the dates below. Please do respond to my invitations to enable me to finalise the booking with the restaurant.
The dates for 2019 are as follows:
- 1st February
- 5th April
- 7th June
- 2nd August
- 4th October
- 6th December
