The Busch Lecture 2025
The Future of Work: The Peopletecture Model with Dr. Tiffany McDowell
November 6 | 6-7pm | 4th Floor Programming Room
Join us for the 2025 Busch Lecture featuring Dr. Tiffany McDowell, partner at EY Consulting and author of Strategies for Organization Design: Using the Peopletecture Model to Improve Collaboration and Performance. Dr. McDowell will explore the future of work and the Peopletecture Model, a framework for creating human-centered workplaces that foster stronger relationships, collaboration, performance, and employee well-being.
The first 25 attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Dr. McDowell’s book.
About the Featured Speaker
Dr. Tiffany McDowell has more than 25 years of global industry and consulting experience in organizational transformation. She takes a distinctive approach to implementing organization, governance, workforce, and technology adoption strategies, placing humans at the center of technology to create purpose, improve business performance, and enhance the employee experience. Over the course of her career, she has partnered with dozens of CXOs to drive innovation in organizational models, technology implementation, workforce strategies, and stakeholder engagement. As companies pursue AI, productivity gains, and future-of-work initiatives, she builds strong business and technology relationships to guide leaders through transformation. Dr. McDowell holds a BA, an MBA, and a doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and previously spent seven years in the Banking and Capital Markets industry.
Full Bio
CXO-Led Transformation
Dr. Tiffany McDowell works with C-Suite leaders of large companies to drive their
transformation agendas, often running transformation offices at scale. She spent 18
months working directly with the CEO of a Fortune 6 company to design and implement
an agenda that aligned purpose, strategic intent, and a complex operating model. This
included designing new leadership roles, governance structures, interaction models,
and performance metrics—such as creating a chief consumer role to drive transformative
growth and realigning traditional business units into new horizontal roles. Her leadership
helped deliver large-scale transformation through talent and technology optimization
and deep engagement with business leaders.
Since joining EY, Dr. McDowell has supported two global CEOs in advancing their transformation strategies. Most recently, she spent a year working with EY’s new global leadership team to design top leadership roles, streamline governance within regulatory boundaries, and accelerate adoption of AI-driven initiatives. As part of this work, she developed a proprietary method to double the pace of AI adoption, projected to generate hundreds of millions in productivity gains for the firm.
Her transformation expertise extends beyond EY. At a Fortune 20 client, she led the design and implementation of a new governance and organizational model for a core business unit. This included benchmarking, role analysis, automation opportunities, and global implementation of a transformation management program designed to increase adoption of new technologies with supporting policies and processes.
Prior to joining EY, Dr. McDowell led Deloitte’s Organization Transformation practice, supporting hundreds of clients and working closely with Deloitte’s global CEO. She collaborated extensively with global and U.S. leaders to align technology and business strategies with operational needs worldwide.
Organization Transformation Thought Leader
Dr. McDowell has dedicated her career to transforming organizations to deliver stronger
business outcomes and better employee experiences. Her work culminated in her book,
Strategies for Organization Design: Using the Peopletecture Model to Improve Collaboration
and Performance. As a business operations leader, professor, academic, consultant, partner, and author,
she has built strong relationships with CXOs, industry thought leaders, and leading
technology alliance partners. This breadth of experience enables her to bring innovative,
human-centered strategies—grounded in research and informed by diverse perspectives—to
organizations navigating transformation.
About the Busch Lecture
The Busch Lecture, which is supported by the Anheuser-Busch Foundation, features business leaders at the forefront of innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives who are of interest to the academic, business, and civic communities.
The Anheuser-Busch Foundation also designates a Busch Scholar, a faculty member who conducts and publishes high-quality research in a business discipline. John Michel, Ph.D., associate professor of management is the current Busch Scholar.
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