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Lead a Thriving, Values-Driven team

Leading teams through change—whether it's growth, internal shifts, or external pressures—is never easy. But you know it’s essential to build a team that achieves lasting success and puts people first.

I’ve seen how organizations like the Navy, McKinsey, and Google wrestle with this tension—how to treat people as valuable assets without overextending them, and how to stay true to values while meeting business demands. It’s not easy, but it’s essential for creating a culture where both people and mission thrive.

If you’re leading a values-driven team through change and want to ensure both your people and your mission thrive, I can help. Let’s talk. Schedule a free discovery call today to explore how we can make that happen.

Services

  • Leading a values-driven team through change requires more than just strategy—it requires a thoughtful approach to talent that aligns with your organization’s goals and culture. I provide tailored talent advisory services to help you navigate growth, shifts in team dynamics, and new challenges. Whether you're restructuring, scaling, or improving talent acquisition and retention, I offer strategic guidance that ensures your team’s success aligns with your mission.

  • Change is most effective when it’s actively engaged with by your team. I specialize in designing and delivering interactive, impactful workshops that help organizations transform. From leadership development to team alignment, I create custom workshops that not only educate but inspire actionable change. These sessions can be tailored to address specific organizational challenges, enhance team dynamics, or align leadership with core values and goals.

  • Whether it’s a conference, corporate retreat, or team-building event, I offer engaging speaking sessions on topics like values-driven leadership, navigating organizational change, and building sustainable, thriving teams. My approach blends insights from my experience in the Navy, McKinsey, and Google to provide audiences with practical strategies that resonate and inspire. Let me help you spark meaningful conversations that lead to actionable results.

Clients

Helping Values-Driven Organizations Thrive

  • Enabling Purposeful Talent Development

    Created a comprehensive, custom competency framework for a mission-driven boutique consulting firm to inform better career development conversations with junior consultants, identify specific upskilling opportunities for team members, and incorporate talent development goals into employee staffing decisions.

  • Leadership Training Design and Development

    Designed and developed of a two hour seminar for diverse audiences based on client leadership philosophy, including Facilitator and participant guides (seminar script, job aids, handouts), seminar presentation slide deck, facilitator coaching session and facilitation tips and best practices.

  • Global Health Nonprofit Governance

    Revised governance procedures, redefined leadership roles, and improved organizational processes (e.g. election of new board president, resolution of relationship with global health NGOs and funders.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    Spearheaded transgender inclusion training for human relations and compliance personnel; cultivated and coached high-potential veteran and LGBT prospective hires; served on In the Service, Out of the Closet panel at Harvard Graduate Schools’ LGBTQ Conference.

  • Public Sector Capability Building

    Led innovative capability building programs contributing to 34% reduction in processing times, 50% increase in service level agreement attainment, and a 75% decrease in unresolved customer issues.

  • Education & Workforce Subject Matter Expertise

    Provided subject matter expertise and advising on product road map, features, and design, including design and facilitation of “voice of the customer” R&D panel and assessment and interfacing with technical vendors on prototype mock-ups.

About me

Jimmy Pearson, M.S.Ed

The Navy views its sailors as their most valuable asset, and provides them with training, healthcare, and other benefits. But treating humans as assets can also look like use, taking advantage of their talent and neglecting their humanity.

McKinsey & Company has a dual mission to "help clients make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people." But it doesn't always grapple with how the client-facing and talent-facing missions can be in tension, or what to do when they conflict.

Google was famous for "Don't be evil," and encouraged employees to derive meaning and identity from their work. When it matured into a multinational corporation responsible for delivering shareholder value, these practices backfired in waves of outrage and employee disengagement.

As I made my way through each of these organizations, I developed an expertise in talent strategy while actively engaging as a student of the organizations themselves; what they owe team members, what team members owe in return, and what it means to run a values-driven organization. This work is difficult, but vital for all of us who want to make an impact on this world, and thrive while doing it.

If you’re working to build a thriving, sustainable organization that makes a difference, let’s connect—I’d love to help.

Contact

If you’re ready to address your talent challenges and create a sustainable, impactful organization, let’s connect. Together, we’ll craft solutions that empower your people and amplify your mission.

Use the form at right, send me an email, connect with me on LinkedIn, or schedule a complimentary call and let’s see how I can help.