Amy Kates
Owner, Amy Kates Organization Design Advisory
Amy is an organization designer. She 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. She was a co-founder of Kates Kesler Organization Consulting, which was acquired by Accenture in 2020. Amy served as a Senior Managing Director for Accenture, grew a global practice for the firm, and left in 2024 to return to her own business.
In addition to her consulting work, Amy taught organization design in the Executive MBA program at the Executive School of Business in Denmark and through Cornell University. Amy is a co-author of six books on organization design and the developer of the LinkedIn Learning organization design video series. She is a past editor of the journal People & Strategy. The organization design approach and tools Amy has developed with Jay Galbraith and Greg Kesler have become the standard internal design methodology used in dozens of major corporations around the world.
Amy also has a deep interest in regenerative farming and developed a farm-stay resort in Rwanda, called Ishobe, that highlights the value of local and traditional farming techniques for today’s environmental challenges.
Amy began her career as a planner and Urban Fellow with New York City. She has a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University. She lives in New York City and Vero Beach.
