Minneapolis (MN, US): Org Topologies™ Practitioner

Join this two-day practical workshop for executives, managers, and consultants - all influencers excited and challenged about designing, assessing, and elevating org design to be fit for purpose with the challenges of the future.

Time & Location

23 Oct 2025, 09:00 – 24 Oct 2025, 17:00

West End Conference Center, 1600 Utica Ave S suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55416, USA

About the event

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, it is more important than ever for organizations to be fit for purpose. This implies taking ownership of your org design to provide the desired organizational capabilities (e.g., adaptability). We have developed a practical two-day course for executives, managers, and consultants to learn about org design and its application. 

The course will give you the skills to design, assess, and maintain any ecosystem. We discuss revolutionary organizational designs with Business Agility at the enterprise-wide level to solve complicated challenges. We teach how to create high-performing organizations within your existing context without implementing new frameworks.

PARTNERSHIP

This training occasion is hosted by collaborativeleadershipteam.com

Interested in becoming a partner and hosting such an event? Talk to us: [email protected]

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN DURING THIS TWO-DAY WORKSHOP

Org Topologies™ will enable you to own and master your path toward a state more fit for purpose. Whatever direction of development is suitable for your context, after the training, you will know how to make your organization more focused, allowing you to stay relevant for your customers and stakeholders in the long run.

The course explores the uncharted higher states of high adaptability. This territory is often referred to as Business Agility. By embracing business agility, organizations can compete and thrive in the digital age by seizing market shifts and new opportunities. We will explore organizational capabilities, behaviors, and methodologies that enable companies to achieve these aspirational goals with freedom, flexibility, and resilience. 

Before making organizational changes, a solid understanding of the existing system is necessary. Taught by the creators of Org Topologies™ in an innovative format called “Org Design Studio” that allows participants to sketch, prototype, iterate, evaluate, and improve different org design options with ease.

TRAINING CONTENT

1. Why change is hard: understanding why organizations stay in the status quo.
   
2. The essence of OrgTopologies™: Two key org design drivers determining two organizational development dimensions.
   
3. Four recognizable Archetype groups that demonstrate the key differences of the Archetypes.
   
4. Sixteen archetypes of organization design for product development.
   
5. Four distinctive Org Topologies capturing the most recognizable dynamics in organizational design.
   
6. Applying the MADE method for establishing sustainable change.
   
7. The capability gap and product gap: The difference between internal narrow products and broader customer value.
   
8. Practice: participants learn to assess their organization to find the (mis)fits between strategy, capabilities, and organizational design.
   
9. A case study discussing profound organizational change towards the higher-level archetypes.
   
10. Personal transformation journeys of product managers, engineering managers, and team members.
    
11. Elevating Katas™ - practices and experiments to guide your organizations towards the higher-level archetypes.
    
12. Applying Org Topologies to elevate organizations for Adaptiveness and other System Optimization Goals.
    
13. Practice: participants discover and present the options for improving their organizations in the light of Org Topologies™ body of knowledge