Accelerating Microsoft’s AI Transformation – co-presented by ODF & CEO
Held on 02/20/26
In partnership, The Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) & Organization Design Forum (ODF) welcome Ewa Kacewicz, Head of Organization Design at Microsoft.
Ewa explains how Microsoft is approaching AI transformation through an organization design and development systems lens. The session offers a rare, practice-based perspective on how large, complex organizations can intentionally embed AI into the way work gets done, while strengthening trust, autonomy, and continuous learning.
Ewa will share how the company is accelerating its own internal adoption of AI tools. As “customer zero” in AI transformation, Microsoft is testing and refining AI-powered ways of working internally before scaling them externally. You will see what the company is calling “The AI-Powered Operating Model”, which builds on the work of Jay Galbraith, Amy Kates, and Greg Kesler to create a systems view of where AI can transform strategy setting, workflows, management processes, and organizational health monitoring.

