The entrepreneurship literature emphasizes the importance of imprints founders leave on companies; those imprints can change at transformational events such as the initial public offering (IPO). Prior research has found that objective measures (such as structure or...
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Last updated April 24, 2026 As businesses continue to navigate the ever-evolving challenges of today’s dynamic landscape, we want to remind you of the valuable resources available to support you and your organization. The shift to remote and hybrid work models, the...
WEBINAR: Accelerating Microsoft’s AI Transformation: An organization design and development systems approach
View Slides In partnership, The Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) & Organization Design Forum (ODF) presented Accelerating Microsoft’s AI Transformation: An organization design and development systems approach with Ewa Kacewicz, Head of Organization Design...
WEBINAR: AI and Beyond: The Strategic Challenges Facing HR Today
View Slides Two of the most respected voices in HR leadership - Susan Kelliher, former CHRO of Chemours, and Patrick McLaughlin, former CHRO of PepsiCo Foods North America had a candid, forward-looking conversation grounded in decades of experience leading world-class...
Using AI to Transform Organizations: The Promise and the Barriers
https://vimeo.com/1139023447/412bde228b?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci View the Slides AI is bringing a tsunami of change, challenge and opportunity to organizations. Everything from product development and backend operations, to the basics of how work is organized...
Podcast: Who has the Best People Analytics Team? And what does the Future hold for Alexis?
In this podcast episode, host Cole Napper interviews Alexis Fink, former leader at Meta, Microsoft, and Intel, about her “post-corporate season,” where she now runs the People Analytics Board for I4CP, collaborates with USC’s Center for Effective Organizations, writes, teaches, and helps organizations navigate AI and the future of work. She also discusses the upcoming SIOP Leading Edge Consortium, the evolution of people analytics beyond dashboards, and the importance of balancing I/O psychology with data science and business acumen to drive meaningful organizational value.
Podcast: The Future of HR: Exploiting the Ambiguity
The role of HR continues to evolve, yet ambiguity still surrounds its true impact at the executive level. In this episode, John Boudreau explores how courage and clarity can reshape the CHRO’s position in modern organizations.From bet-the-badge moments to building credibility with boards and senior teams, he highlights why courage is essential to turning ambiguity into opportunity.
USC CEO Webinar: Driving Organizational Change with Data – in the Age of AI
Over the past quarter century, workforce/people analytics has become central to the work of HR. Yet good analytical work often fails to gain traction. And even though AI is poised to transform how analytics is conducted, it cannot solve the challenge of integrating data-based insights with effective organizational change. Integrating analytical practices with organization development and change practices can help each of these HR specialties be stronger, driving better overall outcomes for the organization, and make the best use of what AI has to offer.
Uncertain Times Call for Analytics
We are living through a tornado of change in organizations. When things change, our old practices often don’t work as well – or, we’re worried that they won’t work as well. So, we change them – often on pretty shaky evidence. But most of the time when we do this, we are looking at a symptom – not at the root cause. Like a Sisyphean game of whack-a-mole, that root cause keeps throwing up problems in new places.
Using Analytics and AI to Drive Org Change
As some astute commentators have noted, many features of what we today call “artificial intelligence” have been around in a number of forms for many years. Prior to the launch of ChatGPT and the global explosion of people using generative AI models, we had machine learning and other forms of highly sophisticated computer-based modelling that provided many of the features of genAI behind the scenes, invisible to us end users. So in one sense, the current genAI models are like a coming out – or coming of age – party for a technology that now is clear to everyone.
AI’s Impact on Analytics, OD and Strategic HR
AI is going – and has already started – to transform how work is done within organizations. Anywhere people are asked to weigh in on decisions has the potential to be disrupted by AI. And in these early days, it’s really hard to say for certain what the limitations of AI will be in most cases.
Podcast: Energy Engagement with Theresa Welbourne
In this podcast of Out of the Comfort Zone with Wanda Wallace, Theresa Welbourne challenges conventional wisdom around employee engagement.