PUBLICATIONS & SPEAKING
Ideas that move
people to act.
A body of work at the intersection of organizational health, leadership, and human flourishing — speaking engagements, published articles, and media appearances.
SPEAKING
Every talk Judy designs starts with one question: what should the audience be able to think, feel, or do differently by the time they leave? She brings an organizational development practitioner's approach to the stage — using storytelling as the backbone for change, and designing the room for something to actually happen. Audiences not only receive information, they also leave with:
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New awareness of themselves as leaders and changemakers
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New connections with the people in the room
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A renewed sense of agency around creating positive change in their communities
SIGNATURE TALKS
Facilitative keynotes available for booking
FACILITATIVE KEYNOTE
Flourishing for Community-Centered Leaders
What does it actually look like to lead in a way that sustains both you and your community? This talk uses the science of flourishing to help leaders identify the conditions under which they — and the people they lead — do their best work. Participants leave with a personal framework for sustainable, values-aligned leadership.
Ideal for: Nonprofit leadership conferences, social sector convenings, community foundation gatherings, ERGs
FACILITATIVE KEYNOTE
Power Intelligence: Expanding Your Leadership Toolkit
True leadership presence isn't about looking confident — it's about actually feeling powerful. This workshop helps leaders identify their primary sources of power, recognize the moments when those sources are under pressure, and develop the capacity to consciously draw on other dimensions of power when they need it most. Participants leave with concrete strategies for connecting to authentic leadership presence in any situation.
Ideal for: OD/HR professional associations, leadership
development programs, B-Corp and social enterprise communities
SPEAKING & FACULTY HISTORY
2024-
2026
ODN Global Competency Framework Series — Efficient Designer
Organization Development Network
FACULTY
Faculty for the Efficient Designer module of ODN's Global Competency Framework Series, one of the field's most widely referenced practitioner development programs.
2025
The Great Debate: AI Friend, Foe, or Frenemy?
Pepperdine MSOD Alumni Conference
PANEL & DEBATE
A structured debate exploring AI's role in organizational development practice, examining where it creates genuine value and where it introduces risk for practitioners and the organizations they serve.
2025
Beyond Token Gestures: Designing Authentic Community Partnerships
ISNS Conference · In collaboration with Brevity & Wit
CONFERENCE SESSION
Designing community partnerships that go beyond surface-level representation to create genuine, reciprocal relationships between organizations and the communities they serve.
2024
Adjunct Faculty, Organizational Communication
Roosevelt University
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Taught organizational communication at the graduate level, bringing practitioner experience in organizational health and leadership development into an academic context.
2024
Conflict Competence in People Pleasing Work Cultures
Public Media Development and Marketing Conference · Two-Part Series
CONFERENCE SESSION
A two-part interactive series on building the skills and organizational conditions for constructive conflict in cultures that avoid it.
2023
Human Flourishing Track
ODN International Summit, Organization Development Network
TRACK LEAD
Designed and led the Human Flourishing track across multiple sessions, connecting the science of flourishing to organizational development practice.
2019
Building Psychological Safety Through Improvisational Comedy Tools
IODA Annual Conference — Santiago, Chile
CONFERENCE SESSION
Using improv comedy mechanics as a practical toolkit for building the psychological safety that enables high-performing teams.
WRITING
Published articles
2026
Relational Intelligence Is the Last Durable Skill
Sherises Studios · Print Magazine
Why relational intelligence — the ability to build, maintain, and repair trust across difference — is the one leadership capability that cannot be automated, outsourced, or shortcut.
2026
Patience is a Virtue. Sometimes It's Also an Excuse.
Sherises Studios
On the difference between patience as a strategic virtue and patience as a form of avoidance — and how leaders can tell which one they're practicing.
2024
Conflict Competence: How to Move Beyond Public Media Nice
Greater Public
On why conflict avoidance masquerading as professionalism is a mission risk — and how public media organizations can build the skills for constructive, honest dialogue.
2021
The OD Review · Spring 2021
Applies OD principles to participatory change in public safety, arguing that sustainable community-led transformation requires the same organizational rigor as any systems change effort.
MEDIA
Podcast appearances and media features
Culture Stew Podcast · MSM Global Consulting
Bringing Joy to Change: A Conversation with Judy Oyedele
Season 6 Finale. A conversation on Nigerian immigrant identity, the evolution of a leadership practice, and joy as a serious organizational strategy.
Lifting Leaders Podcast
What's All This Buzz About Human Flourishing? (Two-Part Episode)
A two-part conversation on what flourishing actually means for leaders and organizations — and how the science of human flourishing translates into everyday leadership practice.