Businesses evolve. Leaders have to evolve with them.
Three keynotes and one executive briefing on leadership, courage, organizational evolution and the future of work. Each is customized after a briefing call about your audience.
Build the Organization for Where the Business Is Going
Businesses evolve faster than their organizations.
The organization that created today’s success may not be the organization required for what comes next. In Jamie’s flagship keynote, leaders explore how to continuously align leadership, people, culture, capabilities, systems and technology around where the business is going.
Transformation done well strengthens both business performance and human capability.
Best audiences: CEOs, executive teams, boards, PE portfolio leaders, CHROs, business leaders, leadership conferences and transformation events.
- Where you’re going changes what you need.
- Organizational readiness should be actively managed.
- Strategy sets direction; leadership creates movement.
- Culture and systems determine how strategy becomes action.
- Technology is increasingly part of organizational capability.
- The best capabilities may come from inside or outside the organization.
- External perspective can help leaders see what is difficult to see from within the system.
- People need to understand and participate in the evolution.
- Organizational change should create opportunities for people to grow into what the future requires.
The Courageous Choice
Leading When What Worked Before Is No Longer Enough
The hardest leadership moments often happen when the familiar choice is no longer the right one. Leaders are frequently required to act with incomplete information, competing priorities, real personal risk and no guarantee that the new path will work.
Jamie brings her own story, and the conversations from The Courageous Choice Podcast, to leaders facing inflection points. Courage is a business capability, and it can be built into teams and organizations.
- Fear and decision-making
- Moving before certainty
- Seeing reality clearly
- Letting go of approaches that once worked
- Challenging comfortable assumptions
- Creating environments where truth can surface
- Making courageous choices at inflection points
- Building courage into teams and organizations
- Helping others move forward through uncertainty
Work Is Being Rewritten
Leading Organizations in a Human + AI World
AI is changing much more than tasks. It is changing how organizations think about work, capability, talent, organizational design, leadership and the relationship between people and technology. Organizations are moving from:
Jamie focuses on the organizational and human implications of these shifts, where leaders make the decisions that matter.
- What humans should do
- What technology should do
- Where judgment and accountability should live
- How work should be redesigned
- How leaders preserve trust and human agency
- What capabilities people need next
- How organizations help people grow and move forward as work evolves
The Organization of the Future
A strategic, interactive session customized to the group in the room. Designed for boards, executive teams, PE portfolio leadership groups, strategy retreats and leadership offsites.
The best people for your business do not all have to work for your business. The conversation covers what to build internally, what to access externally, and how to bring people forward as the organization changes.
- Where work is going
- AI and agentic workforce models
- Changing leadership requirements
- Dynamic talent models
- Organizational readiness
- Capability-based organizational thinking
- Culture and performance
- What to build internally versus access externally
- How to bring people forward as the organization changes
Keynote
45–60 min, customized to the audience’s question
Workshop
Half or full day, design-led and hands-on
Fireside / panel
Moderated conversation or on-stage interview
Executive session
Closed-room work with boards and leadership teams
“Jamie has the ability to shift a room. She challenges people to see beyond the obvious, creates space for honest conversation, and leaves teams thinking differently about what is possible and what they are willing to do next.”
“Jamie understands that culture is not separate from execution—it shapes it. She helps leaders see how behaviors, decisions and systems are either accelerating performance or getting in the way, and what needs to change to move the organization forward.”
Talent trends and what organizations can do to attract and retain top talent, set against AI, transformation, and what it takes to become a Frontier Organization.
“Your talk was fantastic. Thank you for speaking and for your time after the session!”
Also DisruptHR San Diego, Work Rebooted, SHRM events, the EXHR Conference, the San Diego Business Summit, National Human Resources Association, USC, executive leadership forums and private corporate audiences.
What does your audience need to be ready for next?
Tell Jamie the audience and what they are wrestling with, and she will come back with the shape a session could take.