Kates Kessler: Organizational Design: A View from the Consultants Chair

In both large and scaling companies, without organizational design, we measure the wrong things and then the wrong things become our priorities. Join Amy Kates and her colleagues from Kates Kesler as they share their experience guiding business leaders through the process of large-scale organization development, design, and change. Kates Kesler is a leader in the field of organization design and was acquired by Accenture in June of 2020.

About Amy Kates:

Amy serves as a trusted advisor to business leaders in successful companies around the world, working with them to assess organizational issues, reshape structures and processes, and build depth of management capability. She is a skilled diagnostician and designer and helps her clients to understand organizational options and implications, and to make sound decisions.

Amy is a co-author, with Greg Kesler, of the books Bridging Organization Design and Performance: Five Ways to Activate a Global Operation Model (2015) and Leading Organization Design: How to Make Organization Design Decisions to Drive the Results You Want (2010). Amy partnered with Jay Galbraith to write Designing Your Organization: Using the Star Model to Solve Five Critical Design Challenges (2007) and with Jay Galbraith and Diane Downey to write Designing Dynamic Organizations: A Hands-On Guide for Leaders at All Levels (2002). Amy has published numerous articles and book chapters on the topics of organization design and talent management. She is also a past editor for the journal People & Strategy.



Learn more about Amy and her other guest speakers:

Amy Kates, Managing Director, Kates Kesler Organization Consulting, Part of Accenture

Sara Watson, Managing Director, Kates Kesler Organization Consulting, Part of Accenture

Julian Chender, Manager, Kates Kesler Organization Consulting, Part of Accenture

Joanna Hendrickson, Manager, Kates Kesler Organization Consulting, Part of Accenture