Build more effective and engaged organizations.

Work Arts helps leaders articulate their performance aspirations, and to recognize and navigate the changes needed to make them reality.

When leaders need to make high-stakes changes to the way their business operates differently to perform effectively, it can be hard to know exactly where to begin.

With decades of hands-on global operating management experience across five continents and a diverse range of industries, you can rely on us to read between the lines and ask the unasked questions. We help you to implement creative and practical solutions to even the most complex challenges, engaging stakeholders from the start to ease change management and bring out the best in your team.

We collaborate with the most capable, trusted, and creative partners to deliver:

CORE SERVICES

ORGANIZATION & PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTICS

We quickly learn and assess complex organizations to form gap analyses that allow leadership teams to engage in productive action

ORGANIZATION DESIGN

We consult with management teams to make and implement design choices that enable your strategy, operating model, organization capabilities, and functional alignment

ORGANIZATION EFFECTIVENESS & DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY

We help organizations improve their performance by guiding teams to define needs, steward change, and build internal capability

M&A DUE DILIGENCE & INTEGRATION

We contribute to M&A transactions throughout the organization due diligence and integration process; we contribute to assessing key talent, organization alignment, value drivers and risks, and process management

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Brandon Curry

FOUNDER | MANAGING ADVISOR

I founded Work Arts after 20 years of diverse global experiences in industry. We hold a high view of work and are bold enough to regard what we give the majority of our lives to as our art. To appreciate professional performance as a creative act – with unique value.

With Work Arts, I serve as a creative advisor to management teams. We work in partnership with clients and their teams – outside-in and commercially minded – to build more effective and engaged organizations.

I work directly with each of our clients, taking a collaborative approach and draw on a resource pool of highly qualified, senior designers and practice leaders with deep business experience to deliver the highest value and most capable team for larger transformation projects.

Highlights

20+ years of extensive global executive management and transformation leadership experiences – building and leading teams from diverse organizations across five continents.This includes external consulting and enterprise, business unit and regional leadership appointments in human resources, organization development, talent management, and continuous improvement.

I have significant experience advising leaders in the automotive, industrial, chemical, technology, SaaS, fintech, biotech, consumer goods, homebuilding, omni-channel distribution, and non-profit organizations.

Certified Organization Design Professional (CODP)

I served seven years as Human Resource Development Special Lecturer at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and contribute to digital and connected technology transformations as Fellow at CGS Advisors.

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LATEST POSTS

Design with the Customer in Mind with Brandon Curry | Unpacking Organizations Podcast S03E17

Sep 3, 2025 Unpacking organizations: the practitioner’s podcast Are you designing with the customer in mind? 🤔 On this week’s UnpackingOrganizations, Rupert Morrison and Shradha Prakash are joined by Brandon Curry, CEO of Work Arts LLC and a practitioner with deep experience across performance improvement, OD, and HR leadership. And let’s just say—he gets org…

M&A Roundtable Column – Transition Service Agreements

Reblog from April 2024 HR M&A Roundtable Newsletter I’m about to work on my first deal with a TSA. Do you have any tips for me? TSAs are often needed to manage the transition of an acquired business for both the buyer and seller to be successful. For the buyer, a TSA can help to:●…

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