Amy Kates is co-founder of Kates Kesler Organization Consulting, a boutique organization design firm acquired by Accenture in 2020. A thought leader and seasoned practitioner, Amy serves as a trusted advisor to business leaders in successful companies around the world, working with them to assess organizational issues, reshape structures and processes, and build depth of management capability. In addition to her consulting work, Amy teaches organization design in the Executive MBA program at the DTU School of Business in Denmark and through Cornell University. She is a Resource Partner to the Center for Effective Organizations at the Marshall School of Business at USC and is a member of the i4cp Thought Leadership Consortium. She has also co-authored numerous books on organization design, including the latest, Networked, Scaled, and Agile, published by Kogan Page in 2021.