This article is divided into four main sections. First, we briefly review and contrast some of the central philosophical assumptions and practices of ‘Classical OD’ and an ensemble of newer OD approaches and techniques that have emerged over the last 20 years or so. In the second section we discuss the new academic field of organizational discourse. We examine the extent to which many of the assumptions and characteristics of this field of enquiry, in whole or in part, seem consonant with many of these New OD practices. In the third section we explore the capacity of organizational discourse to provide an emergent theory and research base that might help inform and expand New OD practices. In the final section we provide some concluding comments.