Org Chart Maker

SlideModel's Org Chart Maker turns a list of names into an organizational chart you can edit and present. Paste whatever you have, such as an indented list, a ChatGPT answer or a spreadsheet range with a Manager column, and the chart appears straight away. Fix mistakes right on the chart, pick a style, and download a PowerPoint slide where every card and line is a real, editable shape.

How to make an org chart

1. Paste or type your team. One person per line, with each report indented under their manager. Name | Title | Department puts the title and department on the card.
2. Check how it was read. The line under the text says how your paste was read, for example Read as a table · 24 people · 4 levels. Use Swap if names and titles are reversed, or Read as to force a different format.
3. Fix it on the chart. Drag a card onto another person to change their manager, click + to add a report, double-click to edit. The text on the left updates to match.
4. Pick a style. Start from Corporate Classic, Clean Outline, Header Cards or Minimal, then change the cards, colours, palette, background and connector lines. Or click 🎲 Surprise me for a new look that keeps the chart readable.
5. Download. Get an editable PowerPoint slide, a PNG or an SVG with a free account.

Paste anything: Excel, Google Sheets, ChatGPT, PowerPoint

The text box reads the formats people actually have, and never refuses a paste. Anything it had to guess is listed under the text.

What you paste	Example	How it's read
Indented list	Ana Ruiz then Tom Lee on the next line	Each indent is one level down. Tabs, spaces, bullets and numbering all work
ChatGPT or Markdown answer	A tree drawn with ├── and └──, or nested bullets	The tree is read; the introduction, code fences and closing sentence are skipped
Excel or Google Sheets range	Columns Name, Title, Manager	Needs a name column and a manager column (Manager, Reports to, Supervisor, Parent). Managers can be names, emails or employee IDs
CSV export from an HR system	Employee ID, Name, Manager ID	The same as a spreadsheet; extra columns such as Email or Location become properties
Arrow list	CEO > CTO or Tom Lee -> Sara Kim	One reporting line per row; chains like CEO > CTO > Engineer work
PowerPoint SmartArt text	Copied from the SmartArt text pane	Read as an indented list

On each line, Ana Ruiz | CEO | Executive gives a name, title and department. A semicolon, a dash or brackets work too: Ana Ruiz (CEO) or Ana Ruiz - CEO. Mark people with [assistant] to place them beside their manager, [vacant] for an open role, and [collapsed] to hide a team.

Edit right on the chart

The chart isn't a picture of your text; it's a second way to edit the same document. Every change on the chart rewrites the text on the left, and every keystroke on the left redraws the chart.

To do this	On the chart
Change someone's manager	Drag their card onto the new manager
Add a report	Click + under a card, or press Tab
Add a peer	Click + beside a card
Rename, retitle, add notes	Double-click a card, or press Enter
Remove one person	Delete: their team moves up to their manager
Remove a whole team	Shift + Delete
Hide or show a team	Click the toggle under a manager, or press Space
Undo and redo	Ctrl/⌘ + Z and Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + Z
Zoom	Ctrl/⌘ + scroll, pinch, or the + / − buttons; drag empty space to pan; ⛶ for full screen

Right-click a card for everything else: duplicate, move under another manager, promote, sort a team by name, mark as vacant or add an assistant. On a big chart, selecting a card whose text is too small to read zooms to it, and zooms back out when you're done.

How to make an org chart in PowerPoint

PowerPoint's own tool is SmartArt (Insert → SmartArt → Hierarchy). It's fine for a small team, but every person is typed by hand, large charts become cramped, and changing who reports to whom means reworking the layout. Building the chart here and downloading it is faster for anything beyond a dozen people:

• Every card is a native PowerPoint shape with its text inside, and each set of connector lines is one shape. Recolour, resize, move or animate them like anything else on the slide.
• The speaker notes hold the full outline, including each person's notes and properties. To change the chart later, paste the notes back into this tool and download again.
• The layout is done for you: reports centred under their manager, assistants beside the line, small teams stacked in a column.

If you'd rather start from a designed slide, browse SlideModel's org chart templates.

Turn your org chart into a team deck

With SlideModel Pro, one click turns the chart into a whole presentation, the kind of who's-who deck that usually takes an afternoon to build:

Slide	What's on it
The org chart	Every card is a link: click a person in a slide show to jump to their profile
By the numbers	People, departments, open roles, managers and levels as big numbers, with people per department, locations and spans of control as bars
Team slides	Each manager with their direct reports; collapsed teams show how many people they hold
Profiles	1, 2, 4 or 6 people per slide: initials, name, title, department, location, start date, and a bio or the notes

Each profile links back to the chart and to the person's manager, and the deck is grouped into a section per department, so it works like a small intranet inside PowerPoint. Contact details are left out unless you include them.

AI bios fill the profiles: from short notes such as "ex-consultant, leads EMEA, based in Madrid", the AI writes a short third-person bio using only the facts you gave. The bio lands in your text as an editable line, so you can polish it before downloading.

Org chart examples

The Examples menu above the text box loads six ready-made charts. Each one shows a different shape of organisation:

Example	What it shows
Startup	Founders, a small engineering team stacked under its manager, an executive assistant and an open role
Small business	An owner, an operations manager and two shops, each with its own staff
Marketing agency	Client services, creative, strategy and media teams under a managing director
School	A principal, assistant principal, grade leads and student support staff
Hospital unit	A nurse manager with day and night charge nurses, a medical director and support roles
Nonprofit	A board of directors above the executive director, with development and programs teams

Who uses an org chart maker

• Onboarding. A who's-who slide for new hires: names, titles and departments, with private notes such as start dates kept out of view.
• Board and investor packs. Show two levels to put the leadership team on one slide; collapsed cards still show how big each team is.
• All-hands meetings. Introduce a new team or a new leader with a chart in your company's colours, built from the list HR already has.
• Client proposals. Show the project team a client will work with, from account lead to specialists, as an editable slide in your proposal deck.
• Re-organisations and integrations. Draw the current structure and the new one side by side; dragging people between managers is quicker than redrawing boxes.

Types of org charts

Type	Shape	Good for
Hierarchical	One person at the top, reports below in levels	Most companies, schools and hospitals: the default here
Flat	A leader with many direct reports and few levels	Startups and small teams; stacked teams keep it readable
Divisional	A top level split by product, region or market	Larger companies; colour by team to make each division stand out
Matrix	People report to a functional manager and a project manager	Consultancies and engineering programs; draw the main line here and note the second manager
Horizontal (left to right)	Levels run across the slide instead of down	Deep organisations, or when names are long

Tips for a readable org chart

1. One slide, one message. Leadership on one slide and each department on its own reads better than 150 tiny boxes.
2. Keep titles short. "VP Sales" fits on a card; "Vice President of Global Sales and Partnerships" wraps to three lines.
3. Colour with a purpose. Colour by department when the story is the functions, by level when it's seniority, one colour when it's just names.
4. Show open roles. A dashed [vacant] card shows where you're hiring without leaving a gap.
5. Put assistants beside the line. [assistant] keeps them close to their manager without taking a level.

Mapping how work moves between teams rather than who reports to whom? Try the Swimlane Diagram Generator.