Mastering the Cube: Overcoming Stumbling Blocks and Building an Organization that Works

Reed Deshler is a principal with AlignOrg Solutions and a leading organization design and change practice leader with extensive corporate and consulting experience. He has worked with leaders at some of the largest and most respected companies in the world. Leaders appreciate Reed’s expertise in the science of organization design and change coupled with how he artfully diagnoses organization misalignments and facilitates the insights needed to drive business change and growth. Reed is a regular presenter at industry conferences and is a noted educator of organization design and change management skills with business executives around the world.

Kreig Smith is the founder of AlignOrg Solutions and a principal with the firm. He has consulted with a wide range of organizations-from Fortune 50 corporations to small businesses, for profit and nonprofit organizations, and domestic and international enterprises-for nearly thirty years. His expertise centers in the alignment of organizations to marketplace positions. Kreig focuses on large-scale change efforts, strategy clarification, organization design, and education. A presenter at many national and international conferences on organization design and change, Kreig is also a certified GE Crotonville instructor.

Alyson Von Feldt guides major organization design initiatives with AlignOrg Solutions at enterprises ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies. With a background in both the profit and nonprofit sectors, Alyson has led business unit design teams charged with aligning structures, workflows, and systems to strategy. As a writer, she develops robust tools and training programs that showcase and simplify powerful design techniques, and she documents the stories of intriguing high-performing organizations. Alyson is an author of Running into the Wind: 5 Strategies for Building a Successful Team.