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June 25 | 11 AM – 12:30 PM (ET)

Organization Design: The Profession and
The Practitioner

We’re delighted to announce a new three-part webinar series for organization design practitioners: The Organization Designer: Conversations with Greg Kesler and Amy Kates

Each session will feature Greg and Amy, two of the most influential figures in organization design, whose firm, Kates Kesler, shaped the field for two decades before its acquisition by Accenture. They have been working at the forefront of organization design: advising global organizations, building one of the most respected organization design consultancies in the world, and writing some of the field’s most widely referenced publications.

Their forthcoming book, The Organization Designer, is yet another important contribution to the field: a practical framework for approaching organization design, enriched with the wisdom of reflective personal learnings. Drawing on this content, and complimented by findings from ODF’s recent practitioner research, they’ll reflect on what it takes to deliver demonstrable value in a rapidly changing organizational landscape.

The three topics in the series are:

Organization Design: The Profession and The Practitioner — June 25
Organization Design, AI, and Today’s Changing Business Context — September, date TBD
Organization Design Tools and Methods — November, date TBD

In the first session, Organization Design: The Profession and The Practitioner, Greg and Amy will tackle some of the most pressing issues facing practitioners today, including how to build credibility with senior leaders, the “democratization” of organization design, the need for deeper business fluency, and the skills and knowledge required by organization design practitioners now and in the future.

ODF Board member, Marcia Murphy, will open the session with selected highlights from ODF’s recent practitioner research, before hosting the discussion with Greg and Amy.

The session will include 60 minutes of structured discussion, including audience Q&A, followed by an additional 30 minutes of open conversation for those who would like to stay on.

We hope you can join us for one, two, or all three of these events!

Amy Kates advises business leaders of successful companies around the world to design and activate new operating models and organization strategies.

Amy is an author of seven of the leading books in the field of organization with Greg Kesler and Jay Galbraith. The organization design approach and tools she has developed with her colleagues have become the standard design methodology around the world. LinkedIn selected her to produce their organization design video series for their learning platform.

In 2020, Accenture acquired the firm she co-founded, Kates Kesler Organization Consulting. After building a 150-person global practice for Accenture, she left in 2024 to focus on advisory work, speaking, teaching, and writing. She continues to work with Accenture on select projects through its Luminary program.

In addition to her consulting work, Amy has taught organization design in the Executive MBA program at the DTU School of Business in Denmark and through Cornell University. She has been an advisory board member for the Organization Design Forum and the Organization Design Community. She was appointed a Visiting Fellow to the government of Singapore for 2018 – 2020. In 2019 she joined the board of Educate!, a non-profit focused on secondary school curriculum reform in east Africa.

Greg Kesler A leading advisor, author and speaker on global organization design. Greg has spent more than 25 years helping the leaders of large, complex organizations design and build the operating models they need to execute their strategies. His work spans consumer goods, financial services, technology, healthcare, and the public sector.

With Amy Kates, Greg co-founded Kates Kesler Organization Consulting in 2010, building a firm known internationally for rigorous, research-grounded organization design practice. When Kates Kesler was acquired by Accenture in 2020, Greg led the build-out of a 150-person global operating model and organization design practice.

Marcia Murphy is a UK based consultant specializing in operating model and work system design. She works internationally with firms across a wide range of industries, from PE-backed rapid growth businesses to major multinationals, and her experience spans both external consultancy and senior in-house roles.