The OD CollectiveDesigning organisations future back
Redesigning your organisation, starting with yourself.
Organisation design is a leadership skill, and we teach it
The OD Collective is a boutique organisation design consultancy and community, founded by Carla Henry and Jill Foley. We help leaders design and refine high-performing organisations, and we teach them to do it for themselves.
Leaders are taught how to manage people, develop strategy and run the finances, and very few are ever shown how to run the engine that carries the business towards what it’s trying to achieve: the operating model. Our philosophy is that the best people to design your organisation are the people inside it, with the right method and someone alongside them.
You’re in the right place if you know there’s something about your operating model that isn’t working as well as it should, and the time has come to work out how to fix it. You might be thinking about a redesign and not sure where to start, be in the middle of one and want it to go better, or have been asked to guide the business through one.
Ways to work with us
The OD School. Our ten-week programme for leaders redesigning part of their organisation, guided by the Circle Line, with six live workshops, three one-to-ones and a small peer group. We also run a bespoke version for in-house project teams who are actively involved in a redesign. Explore The OD School
The OD Health Check. A facilitated diagnostic of your operating model across the eight steps of the Circle Line, working with your leadership and senior teams. Together we find where organisation debt has built up, where the pain points and opportunities are, and whether the answer is a full organisation redesign or a few targeted operating model shifts. Talk to us
OD Full Circle Support. Phased consulting through a redesign. We look after the method, the process and the plan, we coach and develop your teams to facilitate the method with their teams, leaving you with the capability to keep designing when we step away. Talk to us
Let’s Circle Back. Our monthly live conversation with a leader who has led a real redesign, part podcast style and part webinar, with time for your questions. Register for the series
The Circle Line: eight questions every organisation has to answer
The Circle Line is our eight-step organisation design method, created by Jill. It runs from the strategic to the tactical and from the external to the internal, and it puts the work before the structure. Answer the eight questions on purpose, roughly in order, and you save yourself a world of grief.
More than fifty years of designing organisations, from consulting and from inside
Between us we have led organisation and operating model redesigns in aviation, telecoms, consumer goods, shipping, financial services and foundations, as consultants, as the people inside asked to make someone else’s design work, and as the people asked to lead it.
“Their Circle Line method gave us a shared language and framework.”
Tom Bellamy, Chief Transformation Officer, Swire Shipping
