Join an ODF Community Conversation

January 23 | 11AM – 12:30PM (EST)

Establishing an Internal
Org Design & Effectiveness Capability

This community conversation will explore how to build a fit-for-purpose and enduring Organization Design & Effectiveness center of expertise by exploring common pitfalls when establishing this new capability inside a company and best practices for avoiding them.

Michele DiMartino and Dan Lamp will draw on their experiences working inside corporations and consulting to global Human Resource Functions to bring you time-tested and pragmatic approaches for developing a fit-for-purpose Organization Design & Effectiveness (OD/E) center of expertise (COE). They will explore common pitfalls when establishing this new capability inside a company and best practices for avoiding them – sharing OD/E COE design decision making frameworks, design examples, and templates throughout the webinar that you can then use them to develop and successfully activate your own (or a client’s) internal OD/E practice. Key focus areas include evaluating the right design form within the context of the corporate operating model, selecting the optimal structure, architecting a high-impact OD/E COE brand, and engaging executive stakeholders to establish a sustainable OD/E capability that will meaningfully support short- and long-term business success.

Michele DiMartino is the founder of Michele DiMartino & Associates and co-author of Networked, Scaled & Agile: A Design Strategy for Complex Organizations.

As a consultant, Michele has worked closely with CEOs, executive teams, and Boards to develop bespoke organization solutions, and directed engagements for companies across a wide range of industries – life sciences, technology, consumer packaged goods, agri-business, retail, hospitality, energy, and financial services.

As a corporate executive, Michele served as Chief Human Resource Officer for Intuitive Surgical Inc, and held human resources and research leadership positions with iconic global companies, like Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, and Disney. Michele loves to share her knowledge and stay close to industry.

She is an adjunt professor at New York University on the topic of organization design and human resource management, and is an expert advisor with AdvisoryCloud and Tegus Network. Michele lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with her husband and teenage son, where she enjoys doing yoga, gardening, cooking for her family and friends, and playing golf (poorly).

Dan Lamp has spent the last decade serving as a trusted advisor to global C-Suite and executive leaders, working with them to assess organizational issues, reshape organization architectures and processes, and build management capability. He leverages his strengths as a systems-thinker, skilled diagnostician, and designer to help leadership teams understand organizational options and trade-offs to make sound design decisions.

Dan has partnered with corporations across various industries, including retail, high tech, med tech, and financial services, serving as a program delivery lead, design advisor, and organization design trainer. Currently, he is the Global Director of Organization Design at Intuitive Surgical, where he established the company’s Organization Design Center of Excellence. Previously, he spent eight years consulting for Deloitte, Accenture, and Kates Kesler, supporting Fortune 500 companies with talent and organizational initiatives.

Dan has extensive experience working with global teams to develop solutions for managing complex matrix structures at scale, helping them to reduce bureaucracy, clarify ways of working, and simplify horizontal collaboration. Additionally, he has worked with global HR leadership teams to develop their organization design acumen, helping these leaders to better position themselves as strategic advisors to the business. Dan has completed graduate course work through the Wharton School and is certified in both Human Centered Design (Human Factors International) and Design Thinking (LUMA Institute). Dan also has extensive experiencing leading global change initiatives and global leadership development programs. He earned his BA in English and Philosophy from Gettysburg College and resides in Lancaster, PA with his wife and daughter.