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Alexis Fink, PhD Named Director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the USC Marshall School of Business

Oct 6, 2026 | AI (Artificial Intelligence), Center for Effective Organizations, Digital Transformation, Future of HR, Leadership, Organization Design, Organizational Change, Transformation

LOS ANGELES — October 6, 2026 — The Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) at the USC Marshall School of Business today announced the hiring of Alexis Fink, PhD, a three-decade technology and people-analytics executive with senior roles at Meta, Microsoft, Intel,...

WEBINAR: Accelerating Microsoft’s AI Transformation: An organization design and development systems approach

Feb 20, 2026 | AI (Artificial Intelligence), Digital Transformation, Operating Model, Organization Capability, Organization Design, Organizational Change, Organizational Effectiveness, Strategy Execution

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

Dec 9, 2025 | AI (Artificial Intelligence), Center for Effective Organizations, Change Management, Employee Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Organization Capability, Organization Design, Strategic HR, Transformation

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

Nov 20, 2025 | AI (Artificial Intelligence), Change Management, Digital Transformation, Future of HR, Innovation, Operating Model, Organization Capability, Organization Design, Organizational Change, Organizational Effectiveness, Strategic HR, Strategy Execution, Transformation

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...