About the Episode

Today we’re going to talk about maintaining a great employee experience during tough economic times, and maintaining morale when teams are stretched thin, and often with higher expectations.

To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Anne Jacoby, Founder + CEO at The Spring Street Solutions Company.

About Anne Jacoby

Anne Jacoby has spent over 20 years cultivating creativity in business. As employee #7, she helped create a new category of disruptive professional services firm where she hired, developed and led teams to establish a best-in-class engagement management program, scaling the firm to hundreds of new clients and thousands of employees in 3 countries.  With an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business, Anne has delivered innovative solutions to the world’s most dynamic companies.  She has launched offices in Chicago and Southern California markets, helped rebuild a companywide learning and development function, launched a popular internal podcast series, activated a new corporate brand, and facilitated continuous improvement initiatives. She has served hundreds of clients including F100 investment banks, international media firms and emerging tech start-ups, and led internal workshops in dozens of locations around the world.  Her leadership roles have spanned from General Manager and VP of Sales Effectiveness in a high-growth private company to the head of Learning, Development + Culture at a multinational public company of 4000+ employees.

Before her transition to the corporate world, Anne spent 15 years as a professional singer, actor, dancer and voice-over artist in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City.  She has performed from coast to coast, appearing on stages from Radio City Music Hall to the Paramount Pictures studio lot.  Her healthy obsession with storytelling began in her youth, and she attributes her creativity, curiosity and grit to her climb from waitress to business leader and entrepreneur.  Anne is an advocate for arts education for young people and proudly served on the board of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.

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