What if you stopped proving your value and started shaping the future?

 

ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE
- For leaders and practitioners navigating large organizations on their own terms -

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Most of what shapes how we lead is not fully visible.

Most of what shapes how we lead, what we choose, and what we settle for is not fully visible to us. It was formed before we had the language to question it.

OII works at that layer. Through coaching, courses, and a serious peer community, we help leaders and practitioners in large organizations understand their patterns, read the contexts they operate in, surface their options, and move forward on their own terms.

1:1 coaching

Coaching for the Ones Asking Harder Questions

Working with a small number of people at a time. Some are practitioners and leaders in large organizations who have started to question whether the path they are on is genuinely theirs. Others are design leaders navigating the complexity of authority, visibility, and influence at a senior level.

In both cases the work is the same: psychodynamic, pattern-focused, and built entirely around your specific situation. We look at what has shaped your choices, what is keeping you where you are, and what a more conscious next move looks like. Six sessions. Enough to shift something real.

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Small group coaching

The Strategic Shift

A small group coaching program for practitioners and managers navigating the shift from craft excellence to strategic influence. Over eight weeks, we work with the patterns, behaviors, and blind spots that shape how you are perceived, and how much impact you actually have inside your organization.

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Peer-led

Design Mavericks Community

The community space is where members compare experiences, pressure-test ideas, and learn from how others are creating traction in different contexts.

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Interactive experiences

Organizational Intelligence Courses

Build the capability to navigate complexity, influence without remit, and create traction across teams and systems. Designed for in-house leaders working at scale.

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Who is behind the
Organizational Intelligence Institute?

collective of expert practitioners who've built, led, and transformed design functions inside complex organizations.

AI Transformation
Expert in data strategy and Machine Learning for product and service AI-enablement. Former The Guardian and Accenture.

Giulio Frigieri

Trainer

Design Leadership
Author of Design Leadership Chronicles, PhD in Organizational Studies, former Managing Director of Livework Studio. 

Marzia Aricò

Founder

Journey Management
Director of Customer Experience Design at Arvest Bank. Product innovation and enterprise transformation.

Mandy Giacchetto

Trainer 

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