Top Organizational Design Leaders to Follow On LinkedIn

Organizational design is about more than reporting lines. It determines how work moves through a company, who makes decisions, and whether its structure supports its strategy. LinkedIn offers a useful way to follow practitioners who explain these challenges through research, frameworks, and experience.

These five leaders bring different perspectives to the field, from practical middle market redesign to the study of complex organizations. Follow them for ideas you can apply when your company is growing, integrating an acquisition, or rethinking how it operates.

1. Doug Pace - CEO, Stonehill

Doug Pace shares a practical view of organizational design for middle market companies. His central idea is that leaders should understand and improve how work gets done before drawing a new org chart. That means examining processes, handoffs, decisions, and accountability, then designing roles and reporting relationships around the work the business needs to perform.

Follow Doug for: Organizational design connected to process improvement, growth, and post-merger integration.

2. Amy Kates — Organization design consultant and author

Amy Kates is a co-founder of Kates Kesler Organization Consulting and an educator in the field. Her writing and teaching make organization design methods accessible to leaders and practitioners working through structural change.

Follow Amy for: Frameworks, design principles, and practical discussions about the craft of organization design.

3. Naomi Stanford — Organization design practitioner and author

Dr. Naomi Stanford writes about organization design as an ongoing management challenge rather than a one-time restructuring exercise. Her work explores how structure, culture, and change interact, with particular attention to the human experience of redesign.

Follow Naomi for: Thoughtful perspectives on organizational change, culture, and the realities of implementing a new design.

4. Nicolay Worren — Organization design researcher and author

Nicolay Worren brings research and systems thinking to the question of how organizations should be structured. His posts examine issues such as organizational complexity, the grouping of roles and units, and the use of data in design decisions.

Follow Nicolay for: Research informed ideas and questions that challenge conventional approaches to organizational structure.

5. Gregory Kesler — Organization design advisor and author

Gregory Kesler advises senior leaders on global operating models and organizational design. A frequent collaborator with Amy Kates, he has written extensively about translating strategy into an organization capable of delivering it.

Follow Gregory for: Perspectives on global operating models, executive design decisions, and the practice of leading organizational change.

The most useful ideas from these leaders start with a clear question about your own business: What work must the organization do well, and does its current design help people do it?

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    • Develop clear organizational structures that align teams, functions, reporting relationships, and responsibilities with the company's strategy and goals.

    • Design how people, processes, technology, governance, and capabilities work together to support the organization's future-state business model.

    • Clarify roles, responsibilities, accountability, and ownership to reduce overlap, eliminate gaps, and improve organizational effectiveness.

    • Establish clear decision-making authority, governance structures, and escalation paths so leaders and teams can make decisions efficiently and consistently.

    • Evaluate organizational layers, management spans, and reporting structures to identify unnecessary complexity and create a more effective organization.

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