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September 24 | 11 AM – 12:00 PM (ET)

The Organization Designer:
Conversations with Greg Kesler and Amy Kates

We’re delighted to announce the second in our three-part webinar series for organization design practitioners. Each session will feature Greg and Amy, two of the field’s leading thinkers and practitioners, and the authors of The Organization Design Practitioner, to be released Oct 1st. Their consulting, teaching, and writing have helped shape how organization design is understood and practiced around the world.

How must organization design evolve as the world around organizations changes? The focus this time is Organization Design, AI, and today’s changing business context.

In this session, they’ll continue the conversation we started in June and address many of the questions that came up in our first session. Together, we’ll explore:

How the context for organizations – and organization design – is changing
What AI may fundamentally alter about our practice, and what will endure
How the role of the organization design practitioner is evolving
How we can respond to demands for speed without losing depth and rigor

Their forthcoming book, The Organization Design Practitioner: Building Operating Models That Deliver, is yet another important contribution to the field: a practical framework for approaching organization design, enriched with the wisdom of reflective personal learnings.

ODF Board member, Marcia Murphy, will host the discussion with Greg and Amy.

The three topics in the series are:

The Organization Designer: The Profession and The Practitioner — held June 25
The Organization Designer: Organization Design, AI, and Today’s Changing Business Context — September 24
The Organization Designer: Organization Design Tools and Methods — mid-November

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.