Kates Kesler Organization Consulting

(Re)Designing the HR Organization (Kates, Human Resource Planning, 2006)

Amy Kates’ article on new models for structuring the HR function was awarded the HRPS Walker Prize for outstanding article of 2006. (Human Resource Planning) Read More →

Designing Strategic Organizations: The New Work of Executives and HR (Kesler and Kates, People & Strategy, 2010)

One of the most difficult challenges for new general managers, who have been promoted after leading functional teams in marketing, sales or operations, is to make their leadership impact scalable across...

Why the Leadership Bench Never Gets Deeper (Kesler, Human Resource Planning, 2000)

After decades of succession planning practices most companies remain frustrated with the depth of their leadership bench. Ten Insights About Executive Talent Management Read More →

Design Your Governance Model to Make the Matrix Work (Kesler and Schuster, People & Strategy, 2009)

Cisco, P&G, Nike and others have made the matrix a source of competitive advantage. Find out how these companies govern in the complexity of the matrix to move quickly ahead of competitors. Read More →

Organization Design and Leadership Strategy

Kates Kesler is an organization design and leadership strategy firm. We work with successful companies to:

Guide leaders and their teams to make sound choices about the design of their organizations
Coach CEOs and senior executives to be more effective leaders
Develop the skills of managers at all levels to succeed in complex, matrixed, and global environments
Build the capability of the human resource function to support organization effectiveness

The Kates Kesler team serves as organization design advisors to leaders in business, government, and non-profits around the world.

Amy Kates and Greg Kesler, managing partners of the firm, contribute to the fields of organization design and leadership development through their research, writing, and teaching.

Featured Blog Post

Greg Kesler and Larry Bossidy talk org design

Greg Kesler was recently a featured speaker at the World 50 Supply Chain executive forum, where he and Larry Bossidy spoke to members on how organization… read more