Work Is Broken.
Organizational Design Is the Fix.
Today’s workplaces are broken. With 85% of employees disengaged, 23% feeling burned out and 37% believing that their job makes no useful contribution to society, work as we know it today is simply not working.
We’re stuck with organizational designs built for a slow, stable world that no longer exists.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
Work that actually works
A growing wave of organizations is rewriting the rules with bold, human-centric organizational design—built on purpose, trust, autonomy, and entrepreneurship.
The bold ones doing it right are reaping the rewards:
- Revenues: +80%
- Profit: +210%
- Productivity: +40%
- Accidents: -86%
- Absenteeism: -32%
Want in?
This isn’t your typical organizational design course. It’s not theory. Not fluff. It’s a 6-week, no-nonsense organizational design masterclass. A hands-on, practical org design bootcamp. Built by and for the people actually doing it.
If you're a founder, transformation lead, or changemaker tired of outdated BS, this is your shortcut to real results.
Welcome to the future of work training that actually delivers.
What will you learn?
If you're serious about replacing hierarchy, you need more than good intentions—you need better structures. That’s exactly what this organizational design course delivers.
This masterclass is the result of 8 years of in-depth research into the world’s most pioneering organizations. We’ve studied what actually works—and turned it into a 6-week organizational design masterclass.
You’ll explore progressive alternatives built on trust, ownership, and autonomy. No fluff. No recycled theory.
After the masterclass you will...
Know what to use instead of hierarchy—real structures that work
Understand what successful transformation actually looks like (and what to avoid)
Learn from pioneers through interviews with leaders of the world’s most progressive organizations
Be able to put your new knowledge into practice using tools from this hands-on organizational design course
Join a global network of 1,100+ changemakers in this growing organizational design training community
Why people love this Organizational Design Masterclass
300+ changemakers. 6 weeks. One powerful org design training experience.
Enroll nowDid you know?
The transformation approach taught in this organizational design masterclass has led to (on average!) the following results within just two years:
PROMOTION: LIFETIME ACCESS
If you enroll now, you get complementary lifetime(!) access to our membership platform. That means: lifetime access to all current courses, all future courses, all monthly online community events with pioneers, all recordings of past events.
Yes, you read that right. You only pay the one-time Masterclass fee of €5,000. There's no need to ever pay the yearly subscription fee of €948 per year. Not now, not next year, not ever.
Everything you need
from an organizational
design masterclass.
- Introduction
- Practical details
- Week 1: Purpose & principles
- Week 2: Building blocks
- Week 3: Roles & responsibilities
- Week 4: Information sharing
- Week 5: Reward distribution
- Week 6: Transformation strategies
- Upcoming cohorts
- Agenda - Fall '25 cohort
- Can’t make It? Join our Winter 2026 Cohort!
- In-House Masterclass
Introduction
This 6-week Masterclass contains the key things we've learned by visiting and researching 150+ progressive organizations. Everything is condensed in inspiring content (video and text), 12 live sessions, and 1 powerful assignment.
Practical details
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Where does the Masterclass take place?
The Masterclass takes place online. There are two live sessions per week. All other learning content can be accessed in your own time.
We use a highly interactive social media-like platform. It’s the place to access the learning material, communicate with fellow students, and work on assignments.
For the live sessions, we use Zoom. Once you’ve enrolled, you’ll receive everything you need to get properly onboarded.
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How much time should you invest?
Besides the two live sessions of 2 hours each per week, students roughly spend 4-6 hours going through the material and working on the assignments. Therefore, we recommend to schedule around 10 hours in total per week to get the most out of it.
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What's the price of the Masterclass?
The Masterclass costs €5,000 per person, excluding VAT. The requirement to pay VAT depends on your status as a business or an individual and your location. VAT will be automatically calculated at checkout.
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What's the class size?
A maximum of 30 students may enroll per cohort.
Week 1: Purpose & principles
Content
Week 1 is your introduction to progressive organizational design. There’s no silver bullet or one-size-fits-all solution, but there are several powerful alternatives to traditional hierarchy. We explore bossless organizations structured around different types of morality: community sharing, equality matching and market dynamics.
These different models come to life through real-world case studies featured throughout the masterclass.
In this first week, we introduce a practical framework with key components for replacing hierarchy and building modern organizations:
- Purpose
- Principles
- Building blocks
- Roles & responsibilities
- Information sharing
- Reward distribution
Live sessions
- Live session 1 is all about introductions. Getting to know your classmates, your facilitator, the founders of Corporate Rebels, the tools we'll be using, and more.
- In the second session, we reflect on the course content and specifically zoom into 'purpose and principles' and how to leverage them in a simple yet powerful way.
Week 2: Building blocks
Content
In Week 2, we zoom in on the “building blocks” of modern organizational design. One of the most important? Teams with real autonomy. We explore how to set them up, what works (and what doesn’t), and how to design your organization around empowered, decentralized teams.
Case study
This week's case study is one of the most iconic and successful examples of a bossless organization: Buurtzorg.
Buurtzorg is a healthcare organization with 15,000 employees and zero managers. We explore their principles and practices and deep dive into how they’ve set up their organizational structure and their 1,000+ self-managing teams.
Live sessions
- In this week's live Q&A, you can ask your questions directly to some of Buurtzorg's key members.
- As we reflect in this week's 2nd live session, we dive into the do's and don'ts of the building blocks of self-managing organizations.
Week 3: Roles & responsibilities
Content
The focus of week 3 is on 'roles & responsibilities', another key component of successful bossless organizations. This becomes even more important when scaling up.
We explore how to do it, how to share it, and how to set up a process to keep updating and refining roles as the organization evolves.
Case study
This week’s case study is Viisi, a self-managing financial services company. We explore their unique implementation of Holacracy, how they’ve moved beyond it, and how they have organized their roles & responsibilities.
Live sessions
- In this week's live Q&A, you can dive into all the details with Viisi's self-organization coach Marc-Peter Pijper.
- Roles and responsibilities is the main topic of this week's reflection session. What can we learn from Viisi? How can that be turned into an approach that works for your company?
Week 4: Information sharing
Content
Week 4 is all about 'information sharing'. Important in any organization, but even more so when running a highly decentralized and bossless one.
We explore the power of a clean and simple 'operating rhythm', the power of technology, and the potential of an internal marketplace.
Case study
What better example than Haier, the 80,000-employee manufacturing company. This global giant is pushing decentralization to the extreme with it's network of 80,000 entrepreneurs. We learn about their unique 'rendanheyi' model, microenterprises, microcommunities, and how they ‘export’ their model to other countries.
Learn from the successes and failures of the world's most pioneering company of our times.
Live sessions
- Ask all your questions directly to Haier's internal researchers and way of working experts in this week's live Q&A session.
- As we gather for another reflection session, we explore which elements from Haier's 'rendanheyi' model can be beneficial to your organization.
Week 5: Reward distribution
Content
Week 5 dives into reward distribution—one of the trickiest parts of modern organizational design. If you want your reward structures to truly reflect your values, you’ll need to do things differently than traditional organizations. And yes, it can be done.
Case study
We learn all about NER Group (a Spanish group of 25+ flat organizations). We discuss self-management, radical transparency, self-selected leaders, and their powerful approach to salaries and profit sharing.
In particular, we learn from Panelfisa, one of the pioneering manufacturing firms within NER Group.
Live sessions
- In the Q&A session, you can ask your questions to the person who has been leading Panelfisa for 30 years: Satur Ormazabal.
- The reflection session zooms in on what all participants have learned from Panelfisa's approach to running a bossless organization.
Week 6: Transformation strategies
Content
In the final week of the Masterclass, we explore several transformation strategies. From step-by-step approaches used by large corporates to the more radical strategies applied by small and medium-sized businesses.
Exploring several approaches, you'll get a good grasp of the details, pros and cons of each, and the do's & don'ts.
Case studies
We learn from Fujitsu and Bosch how they’ve successfully reinvented parts of their organizations to become more progressive. In more detail, we dive into the approach used by K2K. This Spanish company has transformed 50+ small and medium-sized organizations through a radical, but highly successful, approach to change.
Live sessions
- In this week's Q&A, you talk to one of the members of K2K to discuss all the intricate details of their transformation approach.
- The final reflection session focuses on the transformation of your (client's) organization. Turning the lessons into an actionable approach to change.
Upcoming cohorts
The next cohort takes place in:
- Fall 2025 with evening sessions (17:00-19:00 CEST) ideally for participants in the Americas, the Middle-East, Europe, and Africa.
There are two live sessions per week. All other learning content can be accessed in your own time. Recordings of the live Q&A sessions will be made available.
Agenda - Fall '25 cohort
Dates and times for the live sessions for the Fall '25 cohort:
| Tuesday | September 23, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Tuesday | September 30, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Thursday | October 02, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Tuesday | October 07, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Thursday | October 09, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Tuesday | October 14, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Tuesday | October 28, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
| Thursday | October 30, 2025 | 17:00-19:00 CEST |
Can’t make It? Join our Winter 2026 Cohort!
If the dates and times above don’t work for you, there’s a Winter cohort scheduled to suit participants in Europe, Americas, Middle East, parts of Asia:
- February 10 – March 19, 2026: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 15:00–17:00 CET
- Interested or ready to enroll? Just drop us an email at info@corporate-rebels.com and we’ll sort it out!
In-House Masterclass
Bring the Corporate Rebels experience in-house.
Run the Masterclass exclusively for your team—at a time that suits you.
Interested? Drop us a line at info@corporate-rebels.com
Practical content. Inspiring community. Powerful delivery.
Who are behind this?
We are Joost Minnaar and Pim de Morree. Together with a passionate team, we support organizations to radically reinvent the way they work. Our mission? To make work more fun.
What is Corporate Rebels?
In 2016, we left our frustrating corporate jobs. We were disillusioned with the slow, uninspiring corporate world and embarked on a journey to discover and study organizations that operate in radically different ways.
After creating a comprehensive list of workplace pioneers, we began traveling the globe to visit and research alternative work approaches. We interviewed management experts, explored over 150 self-managing organizations, and collaborated with academics who demonstrated that many organizations are structured in hopelessly outdated ways.
More encouragingly, we uncovered substantial evidence that success for both companies and employees is achievable—when we fundamentally rethink the way we work.
What does Corporate Rebels do?
We collaborate with an exceptional team to assist organizations to reinvent the way they work.
We operate an online Academy, with this Masterclass as its flagship program, and we connect pioneering organizations through a global network.
Continuing our worldwide research on self-managing organizations, we deliver keynote speeches, conduct workshops, and organize events internationally. We author books, blog posts, and a newsletter.
We also manage a private equity firm named Krisos, where we acquire small and medium-sized enterprises and convert them into highly progressive organizations.
Additionally, as a company, we donate 10% of our profits to the Corporate Rebels Foundation—a charity dedicated to eliminate inhumane workplaces.
Though our activities vary, our goal remains consistent: to make work more fun.
Questions 
Answers
Common goals of Masterclass attendees:
- Gaining in-depth understanding of new ways of working and self-managing organizations
- Getting unrivaled access to detailed and practical case studies of pioneering organizations
- Being able to transform their organization from a traditional management approach to a progressive one
- Learning proven strategies for organizational change
- Connecting with fellow changemakers
Around 50% of our 300+ alumni are founders, CEOs, transformation leaders, people leaders, or similar for small and medium-sized organizations. They use the Masterclass to make practical changes in the way their company operates.
Roughly 20% are transformation leaders, agile coaches, and new ways of working experts of large organizations, and another ~20% are coaches, consultants, and advisors seeking to use the Masterclass to help their clients transform. The remaining 10% are mostly employees seeking to personally develop themselves.
Most attendees are between 35 - 60 years old. They come from a diverse range of industries, including manufacturing, engineering, finance, technology, marketing, healthcare, education, construction, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, hospitality, entertainment, energy, and manufacturing.
The Masterclass consists of 2 online live sessions per week, each lasting 2 hours. Along with these sessions, the text, video, and assignments can be completed at your convenience, taking approximately 6 hours. Thus, the total weekly time commitment for the Masterclass is approximately 10 hours.
When purchasing the Masterclass, you'll have a full year access to the material, the platform, the community, and monthly live events.
Yes, we do. In addition to our 'open' Masterclass sessions, we also offer the option of running it in-house. Many organizations prefer this option as it allows their people to learn together and apply the lessons learned as a team. If you're interested in having us conduct an in-house Masterclass for your organization, please contact us at info@corporate-rebels.com for more information.
Great news! Many of our students have been able to secure reimbursement from their company. Most companies offer a budget for Learning and Development or education that can cover the cost.
To make it easy for you to do the same, we've prepared a template that you can use to convince your manager or HR department. It lays out the benefits of the Academy and how it can be used to increase productivity and performance. Check out the template here.
Reach out to us at info@corporate-rebels.com for any help or guidance.
Yes, we are committed to helping non-profit organizations in their transformation journey, that's why in every Masterclass we offer one scholarship for an individual working at a charity or non-profit organization. The scholarship winner will be awarded with a discounted tuition rate of €500. If you are an employee of a non-profit organization and would like to apply for the scholarship, please email us at info@corporate-rebels.com and let us know how taking the course will help you increase impact at your organization.
We run the Masterclass several times per year. Check out the upcoming cohorts (including dates and times) here.
Yes, we record the live Q&A sessions so you won't have to miss a thing.
Yes. Masterclass attendees get a full year access to all current and upcoming on-demand courses (worth €948).
Yes. There are various ways to connect with members in our community. Through monthly online events, direct messages, and our social media-like platform. These interactions allow you to exchange ideas, share experiences, and even collaborate on projects.
PROMOTION: LIFETIME ACCESS
If you enroll now, you get complementary lifetime(!) access to our membership platform. That means: lifetime access to all current courses, all future courses, all monthly online community events with pioneers, all recordings of past events.
Yes, you read that right. You only pay the one-time Masterclass fee of €5,000. There's no need to ever pay the yearly subscription fee of €948 per year. Not now, not next year, not ever.