Organization redesign for the agentic AI age

Org design first, then AI. Turn AI speed into results across the whole organization.

Over two days, you will map a real organization, uncover where work gets stuck between teams and departments, and develop a practical redesign direction with first steps you can start testing as soon as you return to work.

Why AI alone is not enough

AI can make people and teams dramatically faster. It does not resolve conflicting priorities, dependencies, unclear ownership, long handoffs, or limited decision rights. When added to yesterday's organization design, it can accelerate local output without improving the performance of the system as a whole.

This is therefore not a technical AI bootcamp about tools, prompts, or implementation. It focuses on the structures, team mandates, and management choices that determine whether faster work actually produces better business results.

What you will take away

• Use organization design as a practical lever for performance.
• Map the current organization and distinguish between Resource, Delivery, and Adaptive topologies.
• Understand why repeated reorganizations, agile transformations, and AI initiatives often fail to stick.
• Align strategy, structure, mandates, learning, and incentives so they reinforce one another.
• Build an AI-ready vision for your organization and a realistic path toward it.
• Use AI to broaden skills and mandates instead of automating today's constraints.
• Design an organization that learns faster, adapts better, and performs at a higher level.

How the course works

Three threads run throughout the course:

• focused inputs on Org Topologies™ models and principles,
• a realistic end-to-end story from the 10X Org book,
• hands-on work in small groups on a real organization using the Org Design Studio.

The Studio brings strategy, evidence, and organization design constraints together on one shared wall in three parts: Business, Analysis, and Org design. You leave with a shared redesign direction and first experiments to test in practice.

Topics

• Organization design as a strategic discipline
• What AI and agentic work change in roles, team scope, and decision rights
• Galbraith's Star Model: aligning strategy, structure, processes, rewards, and people
• Mapping the current organization design with Org Topologies™
• Team mandates and how they shape human and artificial intelligence in the organization
• The M.A.D.E. loop: Map, Assess, Design, Elevate
• Multi-learning and team cognitive load
• AI as an amplifier of human learning and adaptability
• Vendor pressure and AI FOMO: owning your organization's direction
• Elevating Katas™ for small, repeatable, high-impact changes

Who should attend

• Senior leaders and executives
• Organization design and transformation consultants
• Product and engineering leaders
• HR leaders involved in strategic change
• Enterprise coaches and transformation leads
• Independent consultants working with leadership teams

Path to C-OTC accreditation

The course is the first step toward becoming a Certified Org Topologies Consultant. After completing it, you receive a certificate of attendance. You then apply Org Topologies in a real organization, collect maps, assessments, and design decisions, and submit an experience report within three months. Mentoring support is available as you prepare it; once the report is accepted, you receive the C-OTC accreditation.