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SUMMARY:The Organization Designer: Conversations with Greg Kesler and Amy Kates (Part 3)
DESCRIPTION:Join an ODF Community ConversationNovember 18 | 11 AM – 12:00 PM (ET)The Organization Designer:Conversations with Greg Kesler and Amy KatesWhat does it take to grow and thrive as anorganization design practitioner today? In this third and final webinar in ODF’s series, The Organization Design Practitioner, Amy Kates and Greg Kesler welcome three designers who represent the next generation of practitioners in our field. Adam Lewis, Jonathan Hornyak, and Marie Esselman will share how they are applying foundational frameworks and methods in new and relevant ways to meet the needs of today’s business leaders.Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about building a career in organization design, the tools and methods these practitioners rely on, and how AI is shaping both their clients’ organizations and their own work. We’ll explore how they continue to learn, sharpen their skills and stay current, and ask their advice for others looking to deepen their practice. Bring your questions and add your perspective to the discussion.Sign up for the free Zoom linkTheir newly released 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.The three topics in the series are:Organization Design: The Profession and The Practitioner — held June 25Organization Design, AI, and Today’s Changing Business Context — held September 24Organization Design Tools and Methods — November 18We hope you can join us for one, two, or all three of these events!Adam Lewis is a Senior Organization Design Leader at Q5, a global boutique consultancy specializing in organization design and performance. He has been working in the field of business design for over 12 years, advising senior clients across sectors, both in the UK and internationally (Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East). He has worked in many Operating Model / OD contexts, including M&A, growth-focused  businesses, restructuring, and large-scale cost reduction programs.Adam also leads Q5’s Organization Design proposition and is responsible for bringing together external market needs and internal tool development to continuously evolve the practice of Organization Design at Q5.Jonathan Hornyak is a seasoned organization designer, executive coach, and managing partner at Kates Consulting, with over 20 years of experience helping executive teams reshape and transform their businesses. He specializes in implementing innovative models to execute complex business strategies that drive growth and efficiency.Jonathan has worked with some of the world’s largest Global Fortune 500 companies, as well as founder-led organizations aiming to maximize the potential of their leaders and structures to achieve growth goals.In addition to his consulting work, Jonathan lectures at Cornell University and New York University, sharing his expertise in building strategic HR capabilities with both students and clients. Previously, he served as a Managing Director at Accenture and was a member of the Kates Kesler consulting team. Jonathan holds a BA in Management Information Systems from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and is based in Fort Lauderdale, FL.Marie Esselman is an Organization Design Advisor at Chevron, where she advises business and HR leaders on translating strategy and operating model decisions into effective organization designs. Her work focuses on helping organizations navigate complex organizational change and building practical organization design capability.Marie brings a broad HR and business perspective to her organization design work. Prior to her current role, she led the HR function for Dion & Sons, a Chevron subsidiary, and held roles across Chevron’s refinery, upstream, corporate, and international operations, including an assignment in Kazakhstan. Her experience also includes leading labor negotiations and supporting organizations through acquisitions and significant workforce change. Marie began her career at Goldman Sachs (U.S./India) and holds an MBA in Human Capital and Leadership Management from The George Washington University.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. 


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