The experience behind our work
4.9 / 5
From 75 healthcare executives on relevance to leadership and culture change
Novant Health
6.9 → 11.4
Span of control after a utility-wide redesign, with no involuntary reductions
Constellation Energy
45,000+
Employees on one job and career architecture
dentsu
60%
Critical senior roles filled internally, against a 50% target
dentsu Americas
$3M
Lower annual cost from one talent function built from 250 agencies
dentsu
Where are you starting?

Pick the sentence that sounds most like your last leadership meeting.

Where we would start

Organization Design

Structure comes first. Roles, spans and decision rights have to fit the new strategy before anything else moves.

First step

An Organization Diagnostic, then a defined redesign project.

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Our practices

Three practices that have to move together

Organization Design

Your strategy changed. Your structure didn’t.

  • Operating model and structure
  • Spans, layers and decision rights
  • Integrations and centralization
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Workforce Planning

You can’t hire, build or automate your way to a plan you don’t have.

  • Job and career architecture
  • Skills, critical roles and succession
  • AI exposure by role family
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Leadership and Talent Development

A new structure with the same leadership habits gets the same results.

  • Leadership programs and coaching
  • Team effectiveness
  • Capability academies and learning analytics
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Why order matters

Most companies start with training. We start with design.

We start here

1. Design

Decide the structure, roles and decision rights the strategy needs.

2. Plan

Size the workforce, define the jobs and skills, and name the critical roles.

Where most start

3. Develop

Build the leaders and capability to run what was designed and planned.

Training people for roles that haven’t been designed yet wastes the budget and the goodwill. Every engagement checks the order first.

How we engage

Three ways to start

Organization Diagnostic

Four weeks, fixed fee

A structure, workforce and leadership readout with a 90-day roadmap of decisions.

Fractional advisory

Two to three days a week

Senior leadership embedded for three to six months, with specialists added as needed.

Defined project

8 to 16 weeks, fixed fee

A redesign, an architecture or a leadership program, handed over ready to run.

How we engage

Selected work

One example from each practice

6.9 → 11.4
average span of control
Organization Design

The largest redesign in a utility’s history

Constellation Energy (BGE). No unit over four layers, and no involuntary reductions.

45,000+
employees on one architecture
Workforce Planning

One career architecture for a global network

dentsu. More than 100 job families became 13 families and 10 levels.

Executives work a simulated rescue by headlamp in the Cave Rescue ExperienceLeadership and Talent Development

Leadership under pressure for 75 executives

Novant Health. 100% rated it Excellent, 4.9 out of 5 for relevance.

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Todd Walther, founder of Walther Advisory Group
About the firm

Senior judgment, the right team

Founded in 2023 by Todd Walther, former Global Chief Learning Officer at dentsu, with talent and organization leadership at Merkle, Under Armour and Constellation Energy. Every engagement has a senior lead, and we bring in certified coaches, leadership development designers and learning technologists as the work requires.

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