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Organizational Culture & Systems · Keynote

The Discretionary Effort Advantage

Discretionary effort is the work no organization can require: the extra thinking, the difficult truth, the initiative nobody assigned. People give it when the work is coherent, the decisions make sense and their contribution is visible. Trust in leaders is at an all-time low, and rarely because leaders set out to break it — the system quietly undermines them.

As the author of Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures, Jamie helps leaders understand how to intentionally evolve their culture amidst the changing environment of today.

What the audience leaves with
01Read culture and operating systems as one driver of business performance.
02Find where the system is undermining trust in leadership, without anyone intending it.
03Recognize what earns discretionary effort, and what erodes it.
04Hold the gains with bounded experiments that inspire performance and human experience.
Jamie Latiano Jacobs in conversation with a leadership team

Bring this talk to your event

Length45–60 min
FormatIn person / virtual
CustomizationBriefing call included
Strongest for

Leadership teams, teams mid-transformation, post-merger integration, high-growth operating teams, Leadership forums

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“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.”

Thermo Fisher Scientific
Chrisa MottGlobal Human Resources Executive, Thermo Fisher

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