Roundtable 2025
While some leaders seek to divide and conquer, there are many people who are looking for solutions to real problems. How can we move from domination to integration to solve the very real problems we face, whether in the healthcare, education, environmental, public administration, policy or commercial sectors?
Mary Parker Follett advocated for constructive conflict — understanding each other's “full field of desires” to reach integrative solutions. But she also cautioned that integration is not possible when either party’s primary goal—ours included—is to dominate. How do relationships matter in this process? How can relational coordination and relational leadership help organizations to find integrative solutions in this turbulent era? How can we recognize when integration is not possible?
The theme for this year's Roundtable is Domination or Integration? How Relationships Matter. Hosted by Suffolk University November 6-8 in the heart of Boston, we will gather on Thursday at 2:00 pm for optional Welcoming Activities and an Opening Reception, then end Saturday at 6:00 pm with a Closing Reception.
Join us to share your work and to be inspired by the latest research and practice. Submit your abstract here by June 12th, and register here for early bird rates!
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What is the Roundtable?
The Roundtable is the keystone event of the Relational Coordination Collaborative. It is a highly interactive annual event that brings colleagues together to share their work and learn from each other through interactive presentations, keynote speakers, professional development workshops, and informal engagement that help participants develop their knowledge and networks and move their knowledge into action.
The Roundtable is hosted each Fall in different locations for participants to submit their work to a peer-reviewed process, then share their work. It is an event to build new relationships and renew existing ones. Roundtable participants are researchers, consultants and leaders from around the world who are interested in improving how people work together at the group, organizational and ecosystem levels.
Relational Coordination Is...
Relational coordination is a mutually reinforcing process of communicating and relating for the purpose of task integration. Relational coordination is shaped by organizational structures and, when strong, it supports organizations in achieving a wide range of desired performance outcomes including quality, safety, efficiency, financial outcomes, well-being, learning and innovation. Relational coordination is particularly important for achieving these outcomes when work is highly interdependent, uncertain and time constrained, whether in times of crisis or everyday stress.
Relational coordination is measured as a network of ties across roles in any work process that requires coordination. Its outcomes and predictors have been tested in 73 industry sectors and 36 countries. See Revisiting Relational Coordination: A Systematic Review.
What is the RCC?
RCC's mission is to connect researchers and practitioners from around the US and around the world to develop and test relational models of coordination, leadership and change. We were founded at Brandeis University in 2011 by Professor Jody Hoffer Gittell, in partnership with students and colleagues at Brandeis and around the world.
