Optimae LifeServices is a team of teams at all levels. As an employee-owned S corporation with a “core” at the heart of our structure, teams across our regions and divisions are empowered to make decisions locally and collaborate across the company.
Rather than a top-down leadership model, Optimae uses a responsive leadership model with independent parts. This creates a “centerless corporation.”*
Through this centerless circle of organization, teams intersect as the circle rotates and they “dial in” other teams. When employees collaborate to ensure the best possible outcomes for our customers, colleagues and communities, they benefit from other team members with diverse backgrounds, job functions, skillsets and perspectives.
Optimae’s circle of organization includes:
- Core leadership
- Departments
- Service divisions and regions
- Service and support staff
- External stakeholders
- Customers
The core leadership team at Optimae has more than 150 years of combined experience in the health and human services industries. They have grown Optimae from a company offering limited services to a handful of counties to one serving individuals from more than 50 Iowa counties in central, southeastern, northeastern and south-central Iowa through a wide array of services.
Through strategic planning, they have in the past decade nearly doubled the number of workers employed and more than doubled the counties served.
* For more on the concept of a centerless corporation, refer to The Centerless Corporation by Bruce A. Pasternack and Albert J. Viscio.