Welcome
Accelerate Sustainable and Accountable Value Creation
Helping you design your organization and
lead your talent for success with OrgAlign® software!
What We Do
Our Belief in Organizational Health
We deeply believe that an organization's "health" directly contributes to the well-being of its owners, employees, families, customers, suppliers, and the broader community.
When organizations empower their employees to engage in purposeful, meaningful work that fully harnesses their potential, they set the stage for the entire organization to achieve its highest potential
OrgAlign®: Sustaining Leadership Excellence
Our OrgAlign® organization, talent, and work technologies enable the effective and efficient design and deployment of your optimized leadership system. When integrated with your existing HRIS systems, OrgAlign® ensures the sustained implementation and adaptation of your organization as its needs and challenges evolve.
Trusted by Leaders
Our goal is to be, as The Wall Street Journal described us, the “thinking manager’s resource.”
Optimized Organizations: Unlocking Full Potential
Optimized organizations create the conditions where people can work at their full potential and deliver maximum value in their roles. Employees feel valued and empowered because they are no longer burdened with wasting time and energy “working the system.”
These organizations are built on capable and efficient processes attached to logical structures, ensuring clarity in accountability. Everyone knows who is responsible for what, and those accountable have the necessary resources and authority to perform their roles effectively.
In optimized organizations, managers add value and lead with purpose. They create environments of trust where employees feel supported and are motivated to embrace accountability. Effective leadership ensures that individuals succeed, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.
OrgAlign®: Organization, Talent, and Work System Software
IT IS NOW POSSIBLE TO INTEGRATE A TOTAL MANAGERIAL LEADERSHIP SYSTEM WITH YOUR EXISTING HR IS SYSTEM
Readily accessible by managers and employees on their PC, tablet, and mobile phone, this revolutionary software opens to a dashboard with all critical information required to manage their own and their peoples' work, to develop oneself and employees, and to continually analyze opportunities to optimize his or her organization. Powerful GANTT chart views support the real-time tracking of progress of all initiatives which support the implementation of every aspect of a Strategic Organization™ transformation.
It provides a wide range of modules separately or as a fully integrated approach to Strategic Organization Transformation Initiatives:
Organization Charts:
- Classic Org Charts that can be configured in a variety of ways:
- Displaying 1, 2, or even three layers of management
- Selecting and juxtaposing different organizational units
- Providing a wide selection of organizational "nodes" including information about the roles and talent
- Role Complexity Org Charts that illustrate which roles are at different levels
- Identifying areas of bureaucratic "compression" and disconnecting "gaps"
- Organizational Design Tools that support designing strategically-aligned structures and processes
- Modeling structures for the near-, mid-, and long-term using sound engineering principles
Talent Assessment Calibrating Tools:
- Potential: Current and Future (5, 10, 15 years and career-end)
- Effectiveness in Current Role
- Degrees of Role Mastery, Extraordinary Initiative, and Disruptive Behaviors
- Talent Development and Deployment Tools: Coaching, Mentoring, Strategic Selection and Successions planning
Task Management Tools
- Initiative and Task Delegation and Monitoring
- "Line of sight" threads of initiatives as they cascade as tasks down the organization
- Powerful GANTT chart views to track the progress of overall initiatives
Our Approach
Leverage Potential™ and Kraines Consulting™ offer access to groundbreaking knowledge and resources to assist organizations in realizing their full potential.
We work directly with companies and consultants to efficiently and sustainably apply the principles and practices of Strategic Organization™.
With our OrgAlign® technologies, we have automated the critical processes for assessing and optimally redesigning your structures and processes, for assessing, developing, and deploying your talents, and for delegating and monitoring your initiatives and tasks.
We have the talent, software, and over forty years of experience to help you get it right!
ORGALIGN® MODULES
CLASSIC ORGANIZATION CHARTS
CLASSIC ORGANIZATION CHARTS
CLASSIC ORGANIZATION CHARTS
Seamless integration with client's HR IS system enables highly flexible visualization of org charts, connected to role specification, employee data, and task management information
ROLE COMPLEXITY CHARTS
CLASSIC ORGANIZATION CHARTS
CLASSIC ORGANIZATION CHARTS
Unique visualization of the levels of complexity of each role and whether they exhibit bureaucratic "compression" or hierarchy "disconnects"
ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL
CLASSIC ORGANIZATION CHARTS
ASSESSMENT OF ROLE MASTERY
Intuitive tools for guiding managers in assessing the current potential of their employees and then modeling their future 5-, 10-, 20-year and even career potential
ASSESSMENT OF ROLE MASTERY
ASSESSMENT OF ROLE MASTERY
ASSESSMENT OF ROLE MASTERY
Visualization tool for calibrating-- across managerial teams--the degree of Role Mastery their employees have, ranging from "not meeting the role's minimal requirements" to exhibiting "the complete package!"
ASSESSMENT OF ABOVE AND BEYOND
ASSESSMENT OF ROLE MASTERY
ASSESSMENT OF ABOVE AND BEYOND
Visualization tool for calibrating-- across managerial teams--the degree to which their employees exhibit value-add that is "Above and Beyond" their roles' Basic Role Mastery requirements with respect to intensity, integration, and innovation
ASSESSMENT OF DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIORS
ASSESSMENT OF ROLE MASTERY
ASSESSMENT OF ABOVE AND BEYOND
Visualization tool for calibrating-- across managerial teams--the degree to which their employees exhibit Disruptive Behaviors ranging from "none" to "occasional" to "consistent" to "persistent and serious"
About KRAINES CONSULTING™
Our Expertise
After almost 50 years of consultation and research, Kraines Consulting™ understands a great deal about how nature intends for people to organize, behave, and interact around different kinds of working environments. There is a genuine science, Strategic Organization™, emerging about the proper "anatomy and physiology" of highly capable, effective, and accountable companies and government agencies.
And, if these principles and practices are applied properly, any organization can be brought up to its maximum potential health and peak productive effectiveness. Instead of focusing on treating the symptoms, we help our clients apply these principles to diagnose and correct underlying causes. In medicine, accurate diagnosis is 90% of the cure. The same applies to helping an organization to reach its peak sustainable, performance.
Our OrgAlign® technologies provide a clear methodology for analyzing and designing strategically aligned structures and processes, for accurately assessing and developing the organization's pool of talent (their current and future potential and effectiveness), and for ensuring effective, accountable workflows led by value-adding, accountable managerial and teamworking leadership.
Our Technology
OrgAlign® technology brings together over thirty years of experience developing world-class software that provides the blueprint for implementing sustainable, accountable leadership systems!
It seamlessly guides organizations through the process of creating highly adaptable, strategically aligned structures and processes, systems for the comprehensive assessment, development, and deployment of its talent, and the tools necessary to support value-adding, accountable leadership. Our technology drives results!
Why Us?
We understand how frustrating and debilitating it can be to watch your employees spend more time "working the system" than it should take to get their "real work done!"
While there are no "simplistic" magical solutions to these problems, there are clear, scientifically validated, "simple" principles that you and your people can learn. We can help you apply these principles and practices systematically to "get it right" in the first place!
Our single objective is to enable you to sustainably leverage the full potential of your organization and your people!
Who We Are
Gerry Kraines, MD
Gerry Kraines, MD
Gerry Kraines, MD
Dr. Gerry Kraines’ career has focused on enhancing leadership and organizational effectiveness: as a psychiatrist, an executive for healthcare organizations, as a Harvard lecturer on leadership, as an executive coach, and since the 1980s, as a global consultant to senior executives about leadership systems. Gerry brings a systems perspective to all his research, education, and consultation.
Gerry consults worldwide to executives and to companies of all sizes. He has helped to integrate and implement many successful corporate reorganizations resulting from rapid growth, acquisitions, mergers, and consolidations.
His approach includes multiple perspectives: the human perspective (easing cultural shifts and the personal costs of change), the organizational perspective (designing structures and processes which are accurately, efficiently, and accountably aligned with strategic intentions), and the human-resource-system perspective (ensuring the systematic identification, development, and deployment of today’s and tomorrow’s talent pool).
Embedded in each of these approaches is a consistent set of leadership principles and practices, which reinforce common sense and establish a strong basis for trust, fairness, and mutual respect.
Cynsie Kraines
Gerry Kraines, MD
Gerry Kraines, MD
Cynsie Kraines is a senior vice president and director of training programs at Kraines Consulting™. She came from the healthcare industry, where she held key managerial positions, for more than 20 years, in both the private and public sectors.
She worked in high-level roles in marketing, epidemiological research, and international training. Her most recent positions were directing clinical research and, later, international training for a biotech company whose vaccine eradicated the most prevalent form of childhood meningitis from the Western world. In this capacity, she has written and authored numerous professional articles and chapters in the medical literature.
Ms. Kraines' primary focus at Kraines Consulting™ has been to establish the culture, practices, and resources to help organizations ensure robust, accountable managerial and teamworking leadership. She works with all levels of management to ensure a full understanding of how properly structured and managed work teams can ensure the efficient and creative implementation of strategic goals.
Ms. Kraines also directs the Kraines Consulting™' programs of diverse in-service training activities. These programs range from managerial training, coaching, team building, change management, communication, and problem-solving skill development, to more complex implementation of adaptive, cross-functional workflow processes. She also heads the firm's train-the-trainers program; in this capacity, she has trained numerous educators around the world.
WHO WE ARE
Dr. James Allen
Dr. Karen Rosene Montella
Dr. Karen Rosene Montella
Dr. James Allen spent nearly three decades in internal medicine, public and occupational health, and community development, much of it for a Fortune 50 company working internationally. He led multi-cultural teams in providing everything from innovative primary care to global crisis management, including for the Covid-19 pandemic. He was part of the company’s business leadership team responsible for expanding into new countries, and reorganizations throughout changing business cycles.
Jim served as adjunct faculty for physician and healthcare leadership training at the Levinson Institute in a joint venture with Harvard Medical. As founder of Health Systems Thinkers, LLC, Dr. Allen created an inclusive systems consulting service to connect comprehensive data with dynamic community engagement for co-creative community development.
Dr. Karen Rosene Montella
Dr. Karen Rosene Montella
Dr. Karen Rosene Montella
Dr. Karen Rosene-Montella had a long tenure in multiple healthcare leadership roles, She served as a Senior Consultant at the Harvard Medical School affiliated Levinson Institute teaching Leadership seminars and individual coaching work. She has a passion for working both one on one and in small groups of health care leaders to hear what is preventing them from being as effective as they would like to be. Her expertise in identifying opportunities and supporting program development has helped move diverse groups successfully forward.
Dr. Rosene-Montella received her medical school training at Northwestern University and residency and fellowship at the University of Washington. She is a professor emerita of medicine at Brown University where she served as Chief of Medicine at Women and Infants Hospital and as a Vice Chair of Medicine. As Vice Chair of Medicine she integrated quality measures, case conferences and multidisciplinary teams into all of her work. Dr. Rosene-Montella is a compassionate and highly effective leader who has developed and implemented many large integrated health-care programs.
WHO WE ARE
Mark Montella
Leslie Pickell
Leslie Pickell
Mark Montella, was senior vice president of External Affairs at Lifespan Healthcare System and has extensive experience in mapping and designing population-based services and integrating them into existing healthcare systems. His expertise is in developing clear strategic roadmaps and collaborating with healthcare and community leaders to implement them.
Leslie Pickell
Leslie Pickell
Leslie Pickell
Leslie Pickell has evolved from her initial interest in the individual to individuals in groups and the systems and relationships they form not only in business but in communities.
Leslie has over 20 years of experience in management consulting with special expertise in organization, management, and talent development. Since 2000, she has been a facilitator and consulting team member at The Levinson Institute. Prior to her work at Levinson, Leslie was director, global leadership development, North America, at Nycomed Amersham/Amersham Pharmacia Biotech (Now GE Healthcare).
Concurrent with her management consulting work, from 2004 to 2015, Leslie was co-founder and owner/operator of The Livery, Inc., an award-winning Benton Harbor, Michigan, microbrewery and entertainment venue. The Livery’s mission has always been to create award-winning craft beer, to be a community-gathering place, and to be an entity that shines a positive light on Benton Harbor.
WHO WE ARE
Mikael Gordon
My passion is helping leaders and organizations to succeed!
With three decades of management experience, I have had the pleasure of implementing Requisite Organization both in organizations I have been leading as well as for several clients.
International business has been my professional life during the past several decades. Most of my leadership experience comes from executive positions in the Medical Technology and Life Sciences industries for large corporations. Prior to my consulting career I held positions as President Global Markets for Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE:HAE) and several General Management positions in GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE). During the past decade I have worked as consultant mainly with high-tech clients and Hospital organizations in Sweden, Germany and the UK.
I bring executive leadership experience from General Management positions, ranging from strategic development to building high performance leadership teams, as well as running an international business.
WHO WE ARE
Larry Ramsdell
Larry Ramsdell
Larry Ramsdell
Larry Ramsdell is Director, OrgAlign® Client Support. He is the consummate technology guru, spending 15 years with Oracle and 10 years with Dell/EMC delivering authoritative solutions to complex problems to major organizations.
Sam Covington
Larry Ramsdell
Larry Ramsdell
Sam Covington is a world-class, truly innovative systems designer who has created state-of-the-art technology solutions for international businesses and government agencies.
He has advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering, with additional studies in Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Speech Signal Processing. At TRW Sam has been involved in the simulation of advanced systems, visual programming, visualization of scientific data, and development of high-speed signal processors utilizing parallel processing. During the same time frame Sam developed the first commercial single chip Digital Signal Processing (DSP) board and formed Causal Systems Inc. to sell the product.
After leaving TRW, he joined AND Communications to develop the Multimedia Text Processor (MTP), and chart a new course in Multimedia development, which led to the formation of Looking Glass Software. This area of information processing and analysis has led to the development of new data types, and new methods of information display incorporating all forms of media.
Among his clients are
- IBM, Toshiba
- CIA, FBI
- Ford
- State of Missouri
- Kaiser Medical, Mayo Clinic
- ESPN Sports
- SBC & Pacific Bell
- PC Magazine, Mc Graw Hill, Car and Driver
- SAIC
We wrote the books on Strategic Organization™
Accountability Leadership
REVIEWS
"Best book on organizational structure I've read or heard about!!! Clear, concise, and specific. Gives actionable guidance. If you have experience in a company that has fallen into the patterns described and warned about in this book, you will immediately recognize this info is rooted in real world experience."
"Dr. Gerry Kraines has captured in this book the concepts and examples that make his courses so useful for those faced with the challenge of leadership in today's corporations. Derived from the research and teachings of Elliott Jaques, Kraines' models of accountability in a hierarchical management system are a compelling framework for understanding how to engage and align employees in order to drive superior performance and results.
Filled with anecdotes and stories, the book provides the reader with key insights into successful development of individuals within a talent pool, and accountability within cross-functional performance improvement initiatives. Anyone who has a leadership responsibility within a corporation should read this."
Management Productivity Multipliers
REVIEWS
" In Management Productivity Multipliers, Gerry Kraines takes the scientific precision of his days as a physician and applies it to the dynamic world of organizational design, engineering a deep model for corporate strategy and structure. Similarly, his insights about human potential are ground-breaking. Of the many words of wisdom in this book, the two quotes I'll never forget: "Accountability without authority is fantasy and stress," and "Keep your word, no surprises, earn your keep."
"I had 'a-ha moments' from the very first chapter. It's obvious what's been missing now. Dr. Gerry Kraines knows his stuff and shares an actionable roadmap to help organizations become more productive by giving people what they need to be successful, beginning with accountability. Great book and a must-read!
STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION™: A FULLY INTEGRATED SYSTEM
Components of a Strategically-Aligned, Accountable Managerial Leadership System
Four Dimensions for Engineering an Optimally Capable, Efficient, and Accountable Organization
Four Dimensions for Engineering an Optimally Capable, Efficient, and Accountable Organization
Our team of experts will analyze your business to identify areas of improvement and develop a tailored plan to unlock your full potential. We will help you optimize your operations, streamline your processes, and increase profitability.
Four Dimensions for Engineering an Optimally Capable, Efficient, and Accountable Organization
Four Dimensions for Engineering an Optimally Capable, Efficient, and Accountable Organization
Four Dimensions for Engineering an Optimally Capable, Efficient, and Accountable Organization
We apply scientifically validated lenses to first understand how your business is currently organized to do its work and then support management in applying these principles to design and implement the optimal, strategically aligned organization.