Requisite organization and work levels-based learning events in Mumbai , January 2015

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Executive Briefing
Resolving the Organization Design Paradox -
Structure vs. Agility - through Requisite Organizaton

Herb Koplowitz, Ph.D.

Dr. Koplowitz in a founding member and Senior Fellow of the Global Organization Design Society and has played a lead role in designing and delivering the Society’s professional development programs in accountability and levels-based organization design.

He is President of Terra Firma Management Consulting. Terra Firma helps organizations develop the structure, staffing and leadership they require to reach their strategic goals in a trust-building manner. His consulting has been grounded in Global Organization Design concepts since 1991. He has consulted and trained in Canada, the U.S., Jamaica, Argentina, India, Russia, Ghana and South Africa

Herb specializes in helping employees, managers and executives learn ways of talking and thinking about organizational issues that help them find more effective solutions to their problems. He is skilled at making the concepts of Requisite Organization accessible to employees.

Herb holds a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Cornell University, a PhD in psychology from the University of Massachusetts and registration as a Psychologist in Ontario.

Ken Shepard, Ph.D.

Ken is a Senior Fellow, and Founding President of the Global Organization Design Society, a world-wide professional association of academics, business users, and consultants practicing the application of Requisite Organization concepts. He is also Chair of the Queens IRC Advisory Committee.

He was chief editor and contributing author of the book, Organization Design, Levels of Work and Human Capability: Executive Guide.

Ken held management positions in business, government, and not-for-profit sectors.

Dr. Shepard founded the management of change program at the Niagara Institute in 1981 and directed it for a decade during which he benchmarked best practices at major Canadian corporations and designed a wide-range of senior management development programs at the VP level.

As a consultant and Principal of the Canadian Centre for Leadership and Strategy for 24 years, Dr. Shepard worked with CEO's, Deputy Ministers, and seconds-in-command responsible for major change projects in Canada and abroad. Ken's practice was largely based on Requisite Organization concepts developed by Elliott Jaques complemented by state-of-the-art organization development processes. 

Ken met Dr. Jaques in l978, brought him to Toronto in l992 and produced 3500 participant days of public workshops in Requisite Organization with Dr. Jaques introducing these concepts to senior consultants and line managers.