Establishing an Org Design & Effectiveness COE as a Corporate Function

Webinar

Establishing an Org Design & Effectiveness COE as a Corporate Function

 31st October 2024, Thursday at 9am EST/2pm CET 

• Learning Outcomes:

• Understand OD Best Practices: Participants will learn how to apply key organizational design models and principles to establish a scalable and effective COE, aligned with global business needs.
• Identify Common Pitfalls: Gain insights into common mistakes organizations make when setting up an OD COE and explore strategies to avoid them.
• Enhance Business Engagement: Learn how to create meaningful engagement with business leaders throughout the COE’s development and activation phases, ensuring alignment with corporate goals.
• Activate the COE Effectively: Understand the steps necessary for launching and embedding a COE within a global corporation, including stakeholder management, communication strategies, and building long-term capability.

About the Speakers: 

Michele DiMartino is the founder of Michele DiMartino & Associates and co-author of Networked, Scaled & Agile: A Design Strategy for Complex Organizations.

As a consultant, Michele has worked closely with CEOs, executive teams, and Boards to develop bespoke organization solutions, and directed engagements for companies across a wide range of industries – life sciences, technology, consumer packaged goods, agri-business, retail, hospitality, energy, and financial services.

As a corporate executive, Michele served as Chief Human Resource Officer for Intuitive Surgical Inc. and held human resources and research leadership positions with iconic global companies, like Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, and Disney.

Michele loves to share her knowledge and stay close to industry. She is an adjunct professor at New York University on the topic of organization design and human resource management, and is an expert advisor with AdvisoryCloud and Tegus Network.

Michele lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with her husband and teenage son, where she enjoys doing yoga, gardening, cooking for her family and friends, and playing golf (poorly).

Dan Lamp has spent the last decade serving as a trusted advisor to global C-Suite and executive leaders, working with them to assess organizational issues, reshape organization architectures and processes, and build management capability. He leverages his strengths as a systems-thinker, skilled diagnostician, and designer to help leadership teams understand organizational options and trade-offs to make sound design decisions.

Dan has partnered with corporations across various industries, including retail, high tech, med tech, and financial services, serving as a program delivery lead, design advisor, and organization design trainer. Currently, he is the Global Director of Organization Design at Intuitive Surgical, where he established the company’s Organization Design Center of Excellence. Previously, he spent eight years consulting for Deloitte, Accenture, and Kates Kesler, supporting Fortune 500 companies with talent and organizational initiatives.

Dan has extensive experience working with global teams to develop solutions for managing complex matrix structures at scale, helping them to reduce bureaucracy, clarify ways of working, and simplify horizontal collaboration. Additionally, he has worked with global HR leadership teams to develop their organization design acumen, helping these leaders to better position themselves as strategic advisors to the business.

Dan has completed graduate course work through the Wharton School and is certified in both Human Centered Design (Human Factors International) and Design Thinking (LUMA Institute). Dan also has extensive experience leading global change initiatives and global leadership development programs. He earned his BA in English and Philosophy from Gettysburg College and resides in Lancaster, PA with his wife and daughter.

Hope you will be able to join us!