This project has big dreams to advance bold, inclusive organizational design research and practice. Here’s what’s taking shape in our labs:

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Patterns

🌸 goal: create a diverse inspiration library of organizational design choices

📍status: inspiration library prototype launched in 2024. working on adapting to new forms: card deck! pattern language! seeking more curators and AI partners.

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Sequencing

🌸 goal: map the organizational design choices of 300+ organizations. use data to improve our ability to predict high-fit constellations of practices for any organization.

📍status: prototype developed. seeking grant funding.

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Trailblazers / Equity Exchange (name TBD)

🌸 goal: connect leaders that are intentional about building equitable, inclusive workplaces for a facilitated experience to share inspiration and learn from each others experiments.

📍status: first cohort launching summer 2024


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Guides

🌸 goal: connect folks facing organizational design questions with expert facilitators who can help

📍status: building out a directory

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Ideas

🌸 goal: publish research and thinking that advances the field

📍status: research partnerships with University of Michigan and University of Oregon.

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Futures

🌸 goal: explore hypotheses for organizational designs that don’t exist today

📍status: speculative workshops launching fall 2024