AGL 200: Leverage Change with Jake Jacobs

About Jake

Leverage ChangeJake helps organizations, teams, and individuals make monumental changes. Over the past 35 years he has worked in 61 industries, from high tech to manufacturing to hospitality to entertainment to financial services. He has consulted to 96 organizations, from Fortune 50 to national non-profits and community theaters. He’s supported more than 210,000 people directly on important changes to their business. What kinds of changes? Everything from strategy implementation to culture change to mergers and acquisitions and leadership development. He’s partnered with CEOs, front-line workers and changemakers in middle management in organizations like Ford, Kraft and Marriott. He has also helped create change in the City of New York, U.K.’s National Health Service and the United States Army and Navy. People struggle with change.


Today We Talked About

  • Jake’s background
  • Change
  • 8 Levers
  • Slow change
  • Support for Change
  • Build vs. Buy = Both And
  • Design it yourself
    • What’s the purpose (“Why”)?
    • Outcomes / Deliverables
    • Roadmap
  • 5 Whys
  • Find Change Agents
  • What’s in it for me?

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