Structure Drives Behavior: Designing Adaptive Organizations with Erika Jacobi
Update: 2025-08-14
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What if the real problem in your organization isn’t your people—but your structure?
In this episode of the Org Design Podcast, Erika Jacobi, Ph.D., Founder and MD of LC Global Consulting, joins Amy Springer and Damian Bramanis to unpack why structure drives behavior—and how most organizations are solving symptoms, not root causes.
Erika shares insights from 20+ years in organizational development, explaining:
• Why coaching and training often fail without systemic design
• How to spot when your organization’s structure is the real issue
• The critical breaking points in company growth—from 2 to 200,000 people
• Why adaptability and stability are not opposites in modern orgs
• How visionary CEOs can accidentally create chaos (and what to do about it)
Packed with clarity, candor, and a systems-thinking lens, Erika invites leaders to move from reactive reorgs to thoughtful, adaptive design—starting with their own thinking.
🎧 Whether you’re a founder at 5 employees or an exec at 50,000—this conversation will reshape how you think about scale, culture, and sustainable growth.
Erika Jacobi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erika-jacobi-ph-d-b5261611/
https://www.lc-global.com/
The Org Design Podcast
https://www.functionly.com/org-design-podcast
https://www.linkedin.com/company/orgdesignpodcast/
Functionly
https://www.functionly.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/functionly/
In this episode of the Org Design Podcast, Erika Jacobi, Ph.D., Founder and MD of LC Global Consulting, joins Amy Springer and Damian Bramanis to unpack why structure drives behavior—and how most organizations are solving symptoms, not root causes.
Erika shares insights from 20+ years in organizational development, explaining:
• Why coaching and training often fail without systemic design
• How to spot when your organization’s structure is the real issue
• The critical breaking points in company growth—from 2 to 200,000 people
• Why adaptability and stability are not opposites in modern orgs
• How visionary CEOs can accidentally create chaos (and what to do about it)
Packed with clarity, candor, and a systems-thinking lens, Erika invites leaders to move from reactive reorgs to thoughtful, adaptive design—starting with their own thinking.
🎧 Whether you’re a founder at 5 employees or an exec at 50,000—this conversation will reshape how you think about scale, culture, and sustainable growth.
Erika Jacobi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erika-jacobi-ph-d-b5261611/
https://www.lc-global.com/
The Org Design Podcast
https://www.functionly.com/org-design-podcast
https://www.linkedin.com/company/orgdesignpodcast/
Functionly
https://www.functionly.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/functionly/
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