Overview
As the world of technology rapidly evolves, the heart of our success lies in our relationships. These connections drive the collaboration, bold decision-making, and innovative breakthroughs that push organizations to new heights. At the 2025 conference, we will explore how to design adaptable systems where individual talent and collective intelligence thrive, and teams unite to create meaningful impact. By working together, we can achieve the extraordinary.
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$1895 $1495
$400 savings for Early Registration thru February 1, 2025
Ticket Options
| CONFERENCE $1895 *Discounted $400 thru 2/1/25 |
| STUDENT $695 |
| INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICE OF ORG DESIGN Pre-Conference Workshop $349 |
| DESIGNING YOUR OWN ORGANIZATION DESIGN BIZ Pre-Conference Workshop $349 |
| INTRO TO THE PRACTICE OF ORG DESIGN Pre-Conference Workshop – Student Rate $149 |
Keynote Presentations
A New Paradigm of Org Design: How Technology is Changing the Design Process and the Role of the Practitioner
Stu Winby – Spring Network
What makes the modern organization different? Simply put, advanced technology and dynamic organizational capabilities. Practitioner skills must evolve to enable design and facilitation of ‘deliberations’…the interaction between humans and technology.
Helping High Growth Companies Pivot to Sustainable, Profitable Growth: The Leadership Team and Leadership Alignment Challenge
Michele DiMartino – Michele DiMartino & Assoc
Explore the common design, change, and talent dilemmas that successful, high-growth companies face as they pursue continued revenue and market expansion at similar velocity.
People and Technology-Powered Organizations: Designing the Operating Model of the Future
Greg Kesler – C-suite Advisor & Mackenzie Luong – Accenture
Technology and data are poised to revolutionize the way organizations operate, leading to significant implications for future organizational models. Build on the three themes of the 2025 conference as a way to think about today’s enterprise transformation agenda – fusing people and technology with innovative organization design thinking.
Organization Design in Practice
Peer-led Concurrent Sessions
Bringing Good Design to Social Impact Organizations
Julian Chender – 11A Collaborative & Brandon Curry – Work Arts
An illustration of how we have applied outside-in (corporate → nonprofit) and inside-out (nonprofit → corporate) organization design approaches to meet the unique needs of social impact organizations.
Bringing Organization Planning & Analysis (OP&A) to Life
Jill Dobbe & Kristie Tran – Orgvue
Organizations typically deploy organization design and workforce planning as two independent disciplines, yet we believe the two intersect to bring OP&A to life.
Building the Adaptive Organization: Thriving in the AI-Enabled Future
Julie Cline, Tamarah Usher, & Amalia Goodwin – Slalom
Discover how to prepare your organization for the AI revolution and beyond! Equip yourself with tools and insights to navigate continuous change with confidence and build adaptability into your culture, leadership, and workforce.
Designed to Connect, Adapt, Evolve, and Flourish: Leveraging Generative Tensions (Polarities) in Organization Design
Sally Breyley-Parker – TimeZero Enterprises
Every organization is affected by generative tensions or polarities with the power to foster or undermine an organization’s ability to flourish as a living system. When we effectively address these tensions in our design process, we create conditions for a natural flow that enables connectivity, collaboration, and adaptability.
The Grassroots Game-Changer: Using Community Organizing Principles to Create Dynamic, People-First Organizations
Robyn Rohde & Kelle Snow – Thornbird Consulting
Discover how to transform your organization design by applying principles of community organizing – relational leadership, co-creation, and grassroots adaptability – to reflect the complexity and interdependence in systems.
How Your Decision Making Process Can Become a Lever for Organizational Change
Mike Arauz – August Public & Tom Hunt – Pivot Energye
Is your organization suffering from decision dysfunction? If perfectionism, bureaucracy, or uncertainty are holding your team back, discover a proven framework to make faster, better decisions while fostering inclusivity.
Human-Centered Organizations: A Tear-Down to Build-Up Approach
Eileen Bartholomew & Brad Clark, Navigate Corp
Organizations are at the crossroads of a seismic shift, social upheaval, technological disruption, and political turbulence. Learn to break down legacy approaches and build adaptable, human-centered organizations that prioritize employees, customers and other stakeholders.
Practice Makes Progress: Using Practice to Activate Organization Design
Lorraine Damerau – Incandescent
Leveraging insights from practice-intensive disciplines like sports or music, learn how structured practice can help build the skills and behaviors required to activate a new design.
Where are we meeting?
Join us at the playful
The Curtis Hotel
1405 Curtis Street
Denver, Colorado, 80202
Click here to reserve your room
or call the hotel directly – 303.571.0300
reference ODF 2025 Annual Conference
Conference Rates – $209/nt + tax
(based on availability thru 04.07.2025)
Parking onsite is $45/nt
There are a number of options to get from DEN to The Curtis
- Taxi or ride-share – likely to run $55+
- For $10 each way, it takes ~40 minutes to take the A Line Rail between DEN and Union Station, which is about a 10-15min walk or a short taxi or ride-share to the hotel. You can learn more about the Denver Airport Rail here.
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Where and How Do I Buy a Ticket?
Mobile ticketing is the easiest way to buy tickets. The convenient app allows you to connect to other RTD resources for trip planning. Tickets can also be purchased on rail line platforms at ticket vending machines, inside DEN or Union Station, or at any RTD sales outlet.
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Explore Denver
16th Street Mall – A 1.25-mile outdoor pedestrian-friendly promenade designed by celebrated architect I.M. Pei, that is home to 300+ stores and over 50 restaurants and bars
LoDo – Lower Downtown (referred to locally as LoDo), is a vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood that is home to 25 square blocks of art galleries, restaurants, night clubs, eclectic boutiques, breweries and more.
You can find more places to explore on The Curtis’ website, including:
- Denver Center of Performing Arts
- Empower Field
- Ball Arena
- Coors Field
- Music Venues
- Nightlife
- Ways to #StayHappy in The Mile-High City
Pre-Conference Workshops
We devote the day before the conference to workshops that build knowledge, skills, and competence for practitioners at different stages in their career.
Introduction to the
Practice of Org Design
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
$349 ($149 Student)
Are you new to the field of organization design? Do you want to better understand and be conversant in foundational organization design models and processes? If so, this engaging, interactive program will build your awareness, understanding, and knowledge as an emerging practitioner of organization design. You will be introduced to a growing, inclusive, learning community and connect what you already know to the vital practice of organization design!
Facilitated by:
- Jodie Goulden, an ODF Board Member and Consultant/Founder, Orgdesign Works LLC
- Brandon Curry, ODF Community Engagement & Learning Volunteer and Managing Advisor/Founder, Work Arts LLC
Designing Your Own
Org Design Business
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 12:30 – 4:30 PM
$349
Ready to Scale Your Organization Design Practice?
A Master Class for Independent & Boutique Consultants Who Want to Win Better Clients at Higher Fees
Are you an independent or boutique organization design consultant looking to level up your practice? In today’s rapidly evolving market, where major firms are consolidating through acquisition, there’s never been a better time for us smaller consultancies to capture high-value opportunities—if you know how to position yourself effectively.
Facilitated by:
- Kate Dixon, an ODF advisory board member and Principal/Founder of Dixon Consulting
- Julian Chender, ODF Advisory Board Liaison and Founder of 11A Collaborative