Kazimierz (Kaz) Gozdz, Ph.D.
Kazimeirz “Kaz” Gozdz is the principle at Helix Group, an organizational development company based in Alamo, California.
Kaz is a founding member of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), originally the MIT Center for Organizational Learning (OLC) where he started in 1994 as a Researcher, given latitude and encouragement to research and explore the emerging concept of learning communities. He was living in Menlo Park, California at the time, working on his Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology, and commuting to Boston for his internship at the OLC.
Preferring applied research, he comes from the pragmatist tradition, applying theory, testing it in real world situations, and validating truth claims through direct experience. He has a constructivist view and was trained as a practitioner to be anti-skeptical, believing it is best to proceed with some degree of confidence with what he’s come to know and shift his thinking as he discovers where he is wrong or the truth he is acting on is partial.
Before arriving at the OLC, he had spent nearly a decade practicing with Scott Peck and others trained by him to lead individuals, groups and organizations through a set of community-building practices that facilitate groups to function at a higher developmental level integration than their cultural norm.
In the early through late 1990’s he worked with Michael Ray, then Professor of Creativity and Innovation and Marketing at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, as a collaborator in designing and teaching the “New Paradigm in Business” class.
Another contributor to his work was Willis Harman, a former Stanford engineering professor who was then the President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and also a member of the World Business Academy. Harman’s Center for Educational Policy Research and Center for the Study of Social Policy at SRI International had produced groundbreaking studies on the kinds of educational processes needed for long-term, sustainable economic and social systems. His book, Global Mind Change, offered a clear understanding of the kind of paradigm shift we need.
Kaz worked with The Decurion Corporation for a decade as the architect of their transformation into a developmental learning organization. After Decurion he has gone on to work with other large and small businesses.
With Joseph Jaworski Kaz helped to develop the Generon International Practice Model, and was part of the dialogue that became the book, Source, the inner path to knowledge creation.
At this point in his career, Kaz is integrating his accumulated knowledge and experience into a program that he hopes to share with others who are ready for a new paradigm of business and learning.