Anne Jacoby, Spring Street Solutions

Mar 7, 2022

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Anne Jacoby

Anne Jacoby has spent over 15 years cultivating creativity in business. In her role as founder of Spring Street Solutions, Anne partners with leading companies to build innovative, connected and inclusive workplace cultures, offering custom workshops, executive coaching, business culture strategy and learning program development. She previously served as employee #7 at Axiom, a global leader in on-demand legal talent, which she helped launch globally across 14 offices. She has also served as VP of Learning, Development and Culture at RGP, a global consulting firm with 5,000+ professionals. Before her transition to the corporate world, Anne spent 15 years as a professional singer, actor, dancer and voice-over artist, developing a healthy obsession with storytelling.

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Today, we ignite and unlock your own creativity, but also the high-performance culture, happiness of your own teams inside and out, clients, the whole sort of stakeholders. In today’s episode, we chat with Anne Jacoby

Anne is a professional keynote speaker, author, entrepreneur, and Founder + CEO of The Spring Street Solutions Company. She’s on a mission to cultivate creativity at work, through corporate culture strategy, custom workshops, and leadership programs.

Anne grew up in the theater. She was a performing artist, a singer, an actor, a dancer, prior to getting into business. She went to Northwestern University to study theater as she was determined to create a career out of the performing arts. When she went into business, she thought that her creative background was actually a liability she tried to hide it. Later, she went to business school, where she realized creativity at work is essential.

Through her company, she helps leaders and individuals build creative cultures to thrive in this new world of work.

When she’s working with companies or clients, she starts by finding out what the organizational purpose is, the why behind why your company exists, and what you're aiming to do in the world. Everyone is creative at work, everyone has the opportunity to make incremental, positive change, to reinvent that, is essential in business across the organization. Thinking that only the marketing department is creative, is the kind of thinking that's blocking a lot of ingenuity and innovation that can rise within all parts of your company.

Some steps you can take in your company or even personally if you want to implement something new and different can include:

Psychological safety and really getting a good read on whether your team members feel comfortable sharing their ideas.
Forming those human connections across our organization.
Belonging is a big lever for organizations to build community, to drive up employee satisfaction, understanding if people feel like they belong and, feel included.

With the new way of work, it's now an opportunity for leaders to use this as not a liability but as a strength and a way to differentiate themselves and their organizational culture.

Research done on creativity and the benefits in the workplace include, increased productivity and increased feelings of belonging & improving the feedback loop which lets leaders understand what people are craving, what people want out of their work experience.

For individuals trying to increase their creativity, they should build a connection with their audience, with the person that is consuming your art. It's about building that connection to really listen and to connect the dots. keep at it, keep refining, keep getting that feedback from whoever the audience is, keep reinventing.

In conclusion, from working with leaders across many different companies, there's a change in leadership, they are starting to recognize what employees want out of their work experience and they're open to change, while now prioritizing employee wellbeing.