by Lisa Jasper | Sep 29, 2020 | CIO Concerns, DEI, Lisa's Blogs
I recently wrote about how company purpose is being tested and inspired by all the events of 2020. This topic is very real for us at Thought Ensemble. We’ve been thinking a lot about what really matters as we’ve navigated the challenges of this year. While we’ve had... 
by Lisa Jasper | Sep 29, 2020 | CIO Concerns, DEI, Lisa's Blogs
In August 2019, the Business Roundtable rewrote their statement of corporate purpose. I followed this with significant interest being that I have never forgotten the debates about corporate purpose in business school almost two decades ago. We were taught that the... 
by Lisa Jasper | Sep 16, 2020 | Change Management, DEI, Lisa's Blogs
I love working with companies who really want to make a difference, beyond just making money for their shareholders. I mean, making money is fun and all, but it is even more rewarding to join in on a just cause. Plus, as this HBR article explains, companies who have... 
by Lisa Jasper | Sep 14, 2020 | Consulting, Lisa's Blogs
I accepted a Zoom call with a college senior recently. He wanted to understand how I had navigated my career to reach the position I’m in today. He had looked at my LinkedIn profile and assumed I had made a series of calculated career moves to get to my current... 
by Lisa Jasper | Jun 18, 2020 | DEI, Lisa's Blogs, Other
Leadership in 2020 Everyone is saying that nothing is going to be the same again after 2020. I’d add being a business leader to that list. I’ll never be the same. In the first few months of the year, I was already working on being more expressive with my... 
by Lisa Jasper | Apr 28, 2020 | Lisa's Blogs, Strategy
About six weeks ago, I couldn’t stop thinking about the scenarios that we as a company might be navigating later in the year and in the coming years. Back then (which seems like forever ago), we were in the midst of more immediate reactions to the current pandemic,...