Call for Submissions
Organizations and the Natural Environment Division (ONE)
2026 Call for Professional Development Workshop (PDW) Proposals
Division PDW Chair: Todd Schifeling, Temple University
The Organizations and Natural Environment (ONE) Division seeks proposals for Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) to take place 31 July-2 August at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
ONE is dedicated to the advancement of research, teaching, and service in the area of relationships between organizations and the natural environment.
The goal of PDWs is to serve the personal and professional needs of Academy members to develop and update their practical, professional, and intellectual skills. PDWs differ from the Academy’s Scholarly Program and should not mimic symposia or paper sessions in which a series of presentations are made with minimal audience involvement. Instead, PDWs should be inclusive, encourage widespread participation, develop members’ skills, foster connections, and promote interactive involvement. PDWs provide a platform for experimenting with new processes, models, formats, and ideas, and proposers are encouraged to develop something new.
In previous conferences, PDWs have included workshops, town hall meetings, debates, tutorials, panels, tours, roundtable discussions, case studies, invited speakers, and workout sessions. All program sessions will be held on-site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
We strongly encourage you to discuss your ideas with the ONE PDW Chair prior to submission to ensure that proposals fit with our aims, and that overlap between different proposals can be minimized so that each PDW creates a unique and innovative contribution. Please send your preliminary ideas via a short e-mail to Todd Schifeling by Monday, 15 December 2025 for discussion.
PDW proposals should present the goal of the PDW, its underlying rationale, the session’s design, its organizers, and its intended audiences. If you would like to request any conference fee waivers, please note that in your proposal. We cannot guarantee any fee waivers as it depends on what is available to us. The ONE division has a strong tradition of cross-division proposals. We encourage you to connect with other divisions and be explicit about how you will do so. Please refer to the AOM’s PDW guidelines for further details.
The submission system opens early December 2025. Submissions need to be uploaded through the AOM Submission Center by 13 January 2026 (17:00 ET GMT/UTC-5).
We look forward to receiving your submissions. For any questions, please contact the PDW Chair.