Professional Handbook Series

Name: Becoming an OD Professional
Author: Dr. Karmela Palma Samson
ISBN: 978-621-06-6795-0

Volume one

Becoming an OD Professional

The Complete Handbook of Organization Development: Frameworks, Diagnostics, Tools, and Career Pathways

Dr. Karmela Palma Samson

DBA · LLM · FCMI · FLPI · FCMC · FRSA · CQP (MCQI) · CCMP · SPHRi · PMP

First edition, 2026 · 300 pages · Hardbound · ISBN 978-621-06-6795-0

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Four working parts, one volume

The working canon, each model written to the same profile so you can compare them rather than read them one at a time.

How to read an organisation before choosing a tool: assessment, measurement and the judgement between them.

Thirteen one-page working instruments, with the technology stack around them.

Credentials, commercial routes, pay and the professional infrastructure of the field.

You have the passion and some of the frameworks. This is the map that puts them in order and shows which fits which problem.

You own people strategy and now own change with it. Here is the discipline behind it, without the jargon.

One reference across engagements: diagnostics, instruments, eight worked engagements, and what to charge.

Sequenced the way a practitioner develops, not the way a textbook is assembled. Each part opens with its own introduction.

The profession. What OD is, where it came from, whether it suits you.
Foundations. The conceptual ground the rest stands on.
The framework library. The working canon, in one comparable format.
Diagnosis and measurement. Reading the organisation before choosing the tool.
Where the work is commissioned. Leadership, strategy, operations, human capital.
Working forms. Thirteen one-page instruments.
Engagements. Eight, beginning to end.
The career. Credentials, routes, pay, infrastructure.
What comes next. The decade ahead for the profession.

300 pages, forty-four diagrams, tables, callout boxes and checklists throughout.

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Becoming an OD Professional. Published, first edition 2026.

Volume two, in development