

Graduate Portfolio
Emily McConnell
Roosevelt University
Master of Arts in Organization Development
May 2026
This links to a version of my resume focused on organization development. For a full CV, please email me at emilymcc@gmail.com. You can also see my LinkedIn here.

The first part of this project is a paper collecting interviews with organization members conducted in February 2024, The culture assessment was based on Weisbord’s Six-Box Model.

The second part of this project is a presentation laying out the intervention plan based on the cultural assessment.

This is the supporting paper for my graduate portfolio, summarizing my philosophy of organization development and the Exhibits featured below.

This project presents a hypothetical series of steps for increasing diversity and inclusion at a local non-profit sports and self-defense organization. This was informed heavily by Minal Bopaiah’s book, Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives, and modeled on similar plans for the FDA and the City of Edmonton.

This paper uses a case study to propose an organization development process, emphasizing engagement from a full range of stakeholders. The process outlined follows a dialogic organization development process, and uses frameworks such as Liminal Pathways Change Framework and Role Negotiation and Analysis.
