Designing your startup’s org structure, with Tim Brewer (Functionly)

Many startups may have a great product or service and financial support to get going, but when hyper-growth hits, they find it challenging to grow the organisation to handle it.

In the early stages, most startups will adopt a flat org structure. This helps create faster expansion because it’s less structured than competitors that may have complex management hierarchies.

During the rapid growth stage, dealing with mass hiring can make a flat structure difficult, if not impossible, to maintain. Unclear communication and bad org design can create havoc.

In this session, Tim Brewer, CEO/Co-Founder of Functionly.com, will share the best strategy for developing a startup org structure, how to avoid common org structure mistakes, and what we can learn about org design from the world’s most successful companies.

So come along and start the day inspired!

**About Tim**
Tim Brewer is the Co-host of “The Org Design Podcast” and the CEO/Co-Founder of Functionly.com.

Functionly.com is org design software for leaders to fix the gaps, cracks, and overlaps that form in their own organizational structures. Thousands of leaders have designed & communicate what matters, aligned teams, built future plans, and easily adapted to change.

Before functionly, he got to work with some of the industry’s fastest-growing companies, such as Dropbox, ConnectWise & Anittel. Tim has accrued a list of angel investments in great entrepreneurs over the years and chairs JMARK’s board of directors in the midwest USA.

Tim has garnered a breadth and depth of knowledge across multiple disciplines and seen first-hand the ups and downs of entrepreneurialism, leadership, investing, start-ups, NPOs, and building grassroots communities.

Tim loves to share practical insights gained from his journey with others in his unique Aussie style.

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