What should my meeting planner wife do for a new career?
Before I make any suggestions, let me disabuse you of an incorrect assumption: organizational development as a field has little to do with being organized (although some OD professionals are very well organized). The term “organizational” means “company” in this case. Organizational development is simply the fancy umbrella name for team-building, training, and so on. Now onto the career advice: Much of what your wife does as a meeting planner would translate well into things like project management, industrial engineering (which would probably require a master’s degree), office relocation/greenfield projects, facility mergers/redesigns, etc. I could also see her making a smooth transition into being an office manager (for a professional firm), although there might not be enough pressure and thrills in that for her. Ditto for running a call center or other customer service facility. But now a question: What is it she dislikes about being a meeting planner? She needs to think carefully a
