Org Design in Practice
Creating Your Own Human-Centered, Adaptive, and Impactful Design Methodology
Regan Miller – Lead Org Design Practitioner & Partner, US Office of Personnel Management
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Gary Frank – Partner, ChangeXcelerators, LLC
Explore how to create adaptive and agile methodologies that put the people first in organization design initiatives. By empowering clients to shape their own futures and engaging the whole system in the process, we can create sustained, lasting change.
In this interactive session we will explore how to create collaborative and facilitated organization design methodologies.
We will briefly trace our journey to create a methodology for systematically engaging clients in successive levels of organization design and share the rationale behind creating adaptive and agile methodologies that put the people first in organization design initiatives. Through interactive discussions we will engage on how thoughtful organization design methodology empowers clients to shape their own futures, engages potentially the whole system in the process, and thus enables sustained lasting change.
Together, we will learn how to enhance practitioners’ organization design work and equip customers to build sustainable organization design practices by building human-centered methodologies.
Regan Miller is a Team Lead at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in the Organization Design Division, providing human capital services to public-sector clients nationwide. She has held positions in the private sector and served in civilian roles at the Department of the Army and the Defense Logistics Agency.
Regan’s federal career includes two tenures at OPM, where she has extensive experience in operational and strategic HR management. She has led initiatives in Workforce and Succession Planning, Organizational Design, Performance Culture, and Organization Development, collaborating with agencies like DHS, Commerce, and Transportation.
Regan has co-authored two books in the Organization Development field, OD for the Accidental Practitioner and OD for the Intentional Practitioner (May 2024). Regan holds a B.S. in Psychology from Salisbury University and an M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Baltimore. She is certified in the Organization Culture Inventory (OCI) and Organization Effectiveness Inventory (OEI) from Human Synergistics and is an Advanced Certified Professional Coach (ACPC).
Dr. Gary Frank is a consultant with more than 40 years of experience. His professional focus is to help people in organizations create high performance work systems using high engagement approaches to strategic planning, organization and process design, organization development, and change management. Gary has consulted with organizations in a variety of industries and market sectors including manufacturing, sales and service, consumer food products, health care, federal government, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, higher education, and law enforcement.
Gary is a partner of Change Xcelerators, LLC. He is the creator of The Change Kit® and the Team Performance Inventory©. He serves as adjunct faculty at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Gary has presented papers and symposia at the Ecology of Work (US and Europe), Organization Development Network, Organization Design Forum (US and Europe), and the Association for Quality and Participation. His published work appears in The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Changing the Future, People in Charge: Creating Self-Managing Workplaces, Discovering Common Ground, and Large Group Interventions.
Gary earned both his Ph.D. and MPA from University of Colorado. He received a BA at Ohio University.