Org Design in Practice
Practice Makes Progress: Using Practice to Activate Org Design
Lorraine Damerau – Strategy & Org Design Advisor, Incandescent
Lorraine Damerau advises a diverse range of clients (from Fortune 100s to investor backed start-ups) as they navigate questions at the intersection of strategy and organizational health. An engineer and economist by training, Lorraine takes an interdisciplinary systems thinking approach to partnering with clients as they diagnose and resolve their most pressing organizational challenges.
A Principal at Incandescent, a boutique advisory firm, and previously part of Accenture Strategy’s Operating Model and Organization Design practice (previously Kates Kesler Organizational Consulting), Lorraine has deep expertise in how thoughtfully designed organizational systems enable strategic objectives. Her areas of focus include innovation and product management, M&A integration, executive governance and management systems, leadership collaboration, and new business unit design.
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.
Achieving the extraordinary often requires that people work together in new, unfamiliar ways. These new skills and behaviors don’t magically appear; they require focused and intentional practice to develop and master.
Through a collaborative and interactive format, participants will explore the critical role of creating space for practice when activating a new organization design. Drawing inspiration from other practice-intensive disciplines, the session will demonstrate how structured practice can accelerate activation by building confidence, strengthening collaboration, and fostering innovation.
Participants will have the opportunity to co-create and exchange knowledge, highlighting the power of relationships in shaping successful organizations.