Organizational Design | Sean Magennis

When teams, processes, and culture fully align with purpose, remarkable outcomes become not just possible but sustainable. I help create environments where structure serves strategy, enabling your people to do their best work while moving collectively toward shared goals.

Built to Last

Through my work with global organizations and startups alike, I’ve seen how the right structural foundations make the difference between companies that adapt and those that don’t survive market shifts.

This process begins with clarity about where you are in your organizational lifecycle. The team that launched your business is rarely the same one that will scale it to the next level. My approach helps you assess your current structure, identify gaps between today’s reality and tomorrow’s needs, and develop a thoughtful plan for evolution.

Build Your Ideal Organization

My Approach

Working together, we’ll:

Assess your current organizational structure against your strategic objectives
Evaluate whether you have the right people in the right seats with aligned expectations
Develop communication frameworks that support decision-making and accountability

Create operational cadences that provide rhythm and predictability
Implement proven frameworks like the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to strengthen your organizational foundations

Throughout this process, we’ll focus on the elements that create a strong organizational management model: clear values, compelling vision, appropriate standards, effective structures, measurable scorecards, and aligned stakeholders— whether they’re employees, investors, board members, or customers.

Creating Sustainable Value

With the right structure, teams become more innovative, conflicts become more productive, and leaders become more effective at supporting rather than limiting their people’s best work.

My clients report not just improved operational metrics, but a deeper sense of alignment and purpose. When everyone understands how their role contributes to the larger mission, engagement and commitment naturally follow.

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No one has made me feel more welcomed and inspired. Sean not only excels in entrepreneurial and leadership realms but possesses an innate ability to connect with others. He has challenged my conception of what a leader can be, demonstrating firsthand the possibilities of managing with both empathy and dependability.

- Meagan Hatton-Mishra,
Learning Content and Community Manager, YPO

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

- Joseph Campbell

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.

- George Bernard Shaw

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

- Brother David Steindl-Rast

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you’ll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. If you look at personal lives through that lens, you’ll see the same stunning and sobering pattern: people allocating fewer and fewer resources to the things they would have once said mattered most.

- Clayton Christensen

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

- Joe Batten

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter F. Drucker

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

- Albert Einstein

Let’s talk about what matters most

Whether you’re navigating growth challenges, considering leadership transitions, or building more meaningful connections within your team, I welcome the conversation and opportunity to collaborate. Share what’s on your mind, and let’s figure out how I might help you achieve your most important goals.

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