The society is incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation under the legal name, Global Society for Science-Based Management and operates under the style name of "Global Organization Design Society"

The society is governed by a board of up to nine directors who are the only members of the corporation. Six year terms are overlapping to ensure continuity.

Current members of the society's board of directors include:

Ken Shepard, GO President, Canada

George Weber, GO Secretary and Treasurer, Canada

Jerry Gray,  Canada

Barry Deane, Australia

Jack Fallow, United Kingdom

Donald Fowke, Canada

Judy Hobrough, United Kingdom

Harald Solaas, Argentina

As directors reside around the world, the most meetings are held by teleconference except at world conferences.

The society has adopted a set of by-laws and generally works through discussion of draft resolutions which become board policy.