N. Dean Meyer

In the field of organizational design, Dean Meyer is both a visionary and a pragmatic engineer. His vision is based on the businesses-within-a-business paradigm, where every group is an entrepreneurship that produces products and services for customers inside and outside the firm (the Market Organization). He has implemented this vision in corporate, government, and non-profit organizations through principle-based design of an organization's ecosystem: its structure, resource-governance processes, culture, and metrics. Dean has written eight books, and numerous monographs and articles. His book, Principle-based Organizational Structure, defined a new science of organization charts and cross-boundary teamwork processes. His book, Internal Market Economics, applied principles of market economics inside companies to design non-bureaucratic, business-driven resource-governance processes. And he developed a behavioral approach to corporate culture that leads to meaningful change in less than a year. His most recent book, How Organizations Should Work, is the capstone of his career. In it, he presents a clear picture of how organizations should work, and explains how to implement that vision through participative change processes. Dean coaches executives on organizational issues, and facilitates transformation processes. He is a native of San Francisco and resident of Connecticut. He received a BS from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from Stanford University. For more, see ndma.com.