The Collective

  • Bob Gower

    Bob's path to org design ran through Zen training in Japan, a decade in newspaper design, and two decades at firms like The Ready and Rally Software.

    The through-line: how people and systems actually work, and what makes change real.

    He's the author of Radical Alignment and Agile Business — and wrote this essay about why he founded ST.

  • Hannah Keen

    Hannah spent eight years at Nitro, from startup to IPO. Beginning as a sales coordinator in Dublin and ending as Director of Business Operations and Strategy in San Francisco. She then joined Ignite as COO, embedding AI into the agency's operations.

    Her view: clarity is a company's greatest competitive advantage, and most AI strategies fail because the operating system underneath isn't ready.

  • Joe O'Connor

    Joe designed and led the world’s largest four-day workweek pilots.

    His view: most organizations are stuck in adoption, and what’s holding them back is structural, not technological. The work AI can’t do for you is the redesign.

    He’s the CEO of Work Time Revolution, co-author of Do More in Four (HBR Press), and a former research scholar at Cornell.

  • Julie Clow

    Julie has spent her career eliminating the friction between people, teams, and systems.

    She spent eight years as Head of Global People Development at CHANEL, four at Two Sigma Investments, and five at Google in learning and organizational development.

    She holds a PhD in Psychology from Auburn University and is the author of The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All.

Changing how organizations work, at places like:

John Deere

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Google

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Charles Schwab

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CHANEL

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GE

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Spotify

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Wikimedia

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General Assembly

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Ford

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Two Sigma Investments

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Intel

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Ignite

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Nitro

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WNYC

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PG&E

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Salesforce

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Slack

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John Deere | Google | Charles Schwab | CHANEL | GE | Spotify | Wikimedia | General Assembly | Ford | Two Sigma Investments | Intel | Ignite | Nitro | WNYC | PG&E | Salesforce | Slack |

Partners

  • Bree Groff

    Former Senior Advisor at SYPartners. Bree has partnered with companies like Google, Microsoft, and Pfizer on large-scale transformation. She is the author of Today Was Fun: A Book About Work (Seriously).

  • Brittany Martin

    President and co-founder of Chrysalis, a privacy-first AI identity infrastructure. Brittany is a former COO who thinks in systems — where governance, consent, and organizational design have to work together.

  • Caralanay Cameron

    Techstars and IDEO alum, founder of PartnerWork Innovations, and Adjunct Professor of AI, Caralanay helps companies move AI from concept to working product.

  • David Porcaro

    Founder of the Learning Design Alliance, a nonprofit bringing human-centered AI to learning design. David is the former VP of Learning and Innovation at General Assembly and Fulbright Fellow.

  • Erin H. Robertson

    An organizational diagnostician: she finds out why things aren’t working the way people think they should. Her view is that culture is operational infrastructure, and that ignoring it means reverse-engineering it later under pressure. Founder of Build Rise HR.

  • Jenny Blake

    The author of Free Time and Pivot, Jenny co-created Google's Career Guru program. She helps leaders and organizations redesign systems so people can do their best work.

  • Lisa Lewin

    Former CEO of General Assembly and, before that, Managing Director of Pearson’s digital learning business, with a thousand engineers and product managers across three regions. Lisa sits on the boards of Custom Ink and the Wikimedia Endowment and advises a small number of CEOs at a time. Managing Partner of Ethical Ventures.

  • Maaria Tiensivu

    A decade in tech as a service designer, building systems, then a coach who ran into the same wall as her clients: all the time going to the tools, none to the work. Maaria runs structured sprints that turn scattered pilots into working systems. Co-founder of Purpose Driven AI.

  • Patty Simonton

    Founder of the Big Table Institute Patty has spent her career spanning entrepreneurship development and economic policy, she helps mission-driven organizations design for sustainable impact.

  • Rajkumari Neogy

    Works on exclusion and conflict at the level of neurochemistry: what happens in people’s bodies when they feel undervalued at work, and what that does to trust, communication, and performance. Rajkumari has trained leaders at Google, Adobe, and Slack. CEO of ibelong.

  • Scott Meyer

    Co-founder and CEO of Chipp, a platform that creates private, secure AI tools based on your knowledge and files. Scott sees AI adoption as a practical enablement problem.

  • Sinéad Condon

    Former Chief People Officer of Guidewire Software, Sinéad is an advocate for human superpowers amplified with technology, tools and processes that work.

  • Tiani Jones

    Two decades in product and technology across aerospace, energy, healthcare, and flight simulation. Tiani works out why products, teams, and delivery models behave the way they do, and where a small, well-placed intervention changes the outcome. Founder of Proper Science.

  • Usha Gubbala

    An executive coach and organizational strategist, working with C-suite leaders at PepsiCo, Intel, the Ford Foundation, and more. Usha hosts Optimized for Humans, a podcast where leaders say what’s actually happening with AI inside their organizations.

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