We Serve the Extraordinary
We believe that every industry has extraordinary organisations, or organisations on the journey to being extraordinary. They don't pretend - through marketing, branding, and chasing quarterly performance targets - to be extraordinary. For them, extraordinary is a way of being.
What it takes to be extraordinary
Customers expect flawless products and seamless services. Markets and investors demand short-term results and long-term value. Employees want solid compensation, psychological safety and autonomy. Regulators and the general public keep a watchful eye on the impact your organisation has on the planet and people.
To meet these competing demands, your organisation needs to balance agility with efficiency, autonomy with alignment, and sensemaking with decision-making.
To compete today, leaders need to continually adapt and improve all facets of their organisations - from shaping culture to redesigning organisational operating systems.
Purpose built
Mainstream consulting is story over substance, idealism over realism, post-graduates over practitioners, and exorbitant fees without accountability.
We are not mainstream.
They provide pristine plans and pre-packaged frameworks, leaving you to deal with the messiness of implementation. We're your travel companion, serving alongside you as a coach, thought partner and interface to the world's best research on organisational design & innovation.
They deliver documents and create dependence, we deliver change and cultivate capabilities.
What we're committed to
We believe organisations can be an incredible place to work, deliver awe-inspiring products and services, produce enviable financial gains and do so while positively contributing to the planet.
Our mission is to accelerate the evolution of organisations on the journey towards being extraordinary, and to be the essential partner for organisations on this journey.
Our vision is to, by 2030, have supported more than two hundred organisations with balancing two or more bottom lines - profit, people and planet - and for these organisations to be outcompeting their competitors.
Organisational Dynamics was founded in 2020 by a group of practitioners and consultants. Our core team have decades of experience with strategy, systems change, digital & agile transformations, service design, technology development.
Through our API for Expertise, we draw on a community of practitioners that support our teams when we need additional expertise, and a community of researchers to ensure we maintain a holistic understanding of the organisations we work with and the possible next steps they can take.
Our Founding Partners
Douglas Talbot
Doug is a passionate technologist. He has worked in technology forever, from coder to VP. He has led tech in startups, science, banking, government, and retail. He is obsessed by how to create the most amazing organisations from teams to C-level. Doug is an editor for InfoQ on Culture and Methods and spoken frequently on Agile and Organisation Dynamics.
Doug has led transformation at Ocado, Bank of New Zealand, and New Zealand MetService.
Doug is a New Zealander currently living in London and travels as much as possible to see the world the way other people see it and climb rock faces.
James Head
James is a seasoned technology leader with 20 years consulting experience in scale ups and large multinational organisations. He has lead numerous major technology initiatives in financial services, telecoms and energy. From engineer to CTO he has established himself as a trusted C-suite advisor on technology, commercial strategy and M&A, championing new ways of leading/ working and enterprise agility.
James has just spent 2 years building the digital insurer iptiQ on behalf of Swiss Re.
James is a regular speaker on technology and innovation in Insurance and has a keen interest in new and emerging technologies.
Mark McCoy
Mark is an unapologetic generalist with a passion for understanding and working with complexity at the level of individuals, organisations, and large-scale systems. Mark has led innovation, strategy and execution, and change transformation initiatives in his work with startups, scale-ups, Fortune 500s, and on multi-stakeholder systems-change initiatives.
Mark most recently spent a year on research sabbatical studying complexity theory, systems theory and developmental psychology.
Mark is an avid Canadian cyclist currently living in London. He has a keen interest in emerging business models, collective intelligence, and distributed organisations.