Organizational Development Consulting

To help Harvard executives and faculty leaders manage complex changes and improve their organizational effectiveness, the Center for Workplace Development (CWD) offers organizational development consulting services.

Our organizational development consultants can help you and your team with challenges such as:

• Before and After-Action Review
  To prepare for change initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, you will learn to set expectations, capture learning, and build shared knowledge.

• Culture Change
  Support the overall strategic directives of a specific school or unit through targeted, cultural change.

• Change Management
  Learn to manage and proactively plan for large-scale changes.

• Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
  Build high-performing organizations that attract and retain engaged, motivated, productive, and diverse talent by cultivating leaders who inspire inclusion and champion diversity.

• Engagement
  Increase engagement by implementing strategies at the leadership, manager, and employee levels—thereby boosting productivity and bottom-line performance while reducing hiring and retention costs.
  • Promising Practices

• Executive Coaching
  Accelerate the performance and effectiveness of high-performing and/or high-potential executives and faculty leaders.

• Executive Onboarding/Leadership Transition
  Prepare new executives and faculty leaders for the social, cultural, and professional components of their roles.

• Innovation
  Empower schools and units to create new opportunities for growth by combining best practices from lean startup, design thinking, creativity tools, strategic communications, and innovation research.

• Organizational Assessment
  Address the challenges that impede individual and organizational effectiveness.

• Organizational Design
  Increase effectiveness by helping realize a new organizational strategy.

• Senior Team Effectiveness
  Resolve suboptimal team performance or dynamics and restore high performance.

• Strategy Development
  Establish priorities that are essential to an organization’s mission and reflective of the changing environment.

• Succession Management
  Enhance your ability to quickly fill senior-level positions by proactively identifying key roles and talent.

To learn more about our organizational development consulting services, please contact your Local Human Resources Office or the CWD Relationship Manager for your School/Department.