About Jamie

She kept asking the question no one else in the room would.

Jamie Latiano Jacobs is a speaker, entrepreneur, strategist and innovator who helps leaders rethink what is possible when they stop making decisions founded in assumptions of the past.

A former global executive, Jamie spent her career inside complex organizations leading through growth, transformation, M&A, culture and organizational change. That experience shaped a conviction that many of the constraints leaders accept—how work gets done, how talent is accessed, how organizations are structured and even what a career is supposed to look like—are choices, not inevitabilities.

She founded Gig Talent before fractional executives, executive entrepreneurship and flexible access to senior capability became mainstream. Today, Gig Talent is an Executive Talent Agency and Capability Studio that helps organizations assemble the right combination of leaders, experts and specialized capabilities around the outcomes they need to achieve—without being limited to traditional hiring or consulting models.

Jamie’s work explores the intersection of courage, leadership and the future of work: how leaders challenge inherited assumptions, imagine better possibilities and redesign the systems, organizations and careers that come next.

She is the author of Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures and host of The Courageous Choice podcast.

Studio portrait of Jamie Latiano Jacobs
An executive at companies including
Ingram MicroThalesFour Seasons Hotels and ResortsDolby LaboratoriesIngersoll RandRenovate AmericaQuantumAscentGoal Solutions
Advancing the profession through
National Human Resources AssociationNHRA Orange CountyUniversity of Southern CaliforniaNorth County Human Resources Society of San DiegoSHRMWebster UniversityDisruptHR
The through-line

Jamie speaks about moments when old assumptions or beliefs no longer serve—and the courage, curiosity, imagination and capability design thinking required to create what comes next.

Also
Founder and CEO, Gig Talent
Host, The Courageous Choice
Former President, National Human Resources Association
Former Professor, USC Master’s in Human Resources Management
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) · Hudson Institute Certified Coach
Jamie Latiano Jacobs holding Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures
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Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures

Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures by Jamie Latiano Jacobs

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