Organizational Strategy & Change Leadership
Helping organizations navigate growth, transformation, and complexity by aligning strategy, leadership, and people.
As an organizational strategist, Jill partners with executive teams to strengthen leadership, guide change, and turn strategy into action.
Trusted by leaders navigating growth, change, and complexity.
From Fortune 500 companies to startups and growing businesses, Jill has helped leaders navigate strategy, innovation, organizational change, and leadership. Her experience includes organizations such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, Samsung, Citibank, Martha Stewart, and many founder-led and privately held companies.
Organizations Partner with Jill Because...
25+ years of executive leadership experience in Fortune 500, small businesses, and start-ups.
Organizational strategist specializing in change leadership
SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP)
Trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies, founders, and executive teams
Expertise spanning strategy, leadership, talent, and organizational transformation
Organizational Strategy & Change Leadership
Jill partners with executive teams through reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, leadership transitions, rapid growth, organizational redesign, culture change, and business transformation. She helps leaders create alignment, communicate effectively, build trust, and sustain momentum throughout the change process.
Examples include:
Reorganizations
Post-merger integration
Leadership transitions
Organizational design
Change communications
Business transformation
Strategic Planning & Executive Facilitation
Whether facilitating an executive offsite, annual planning session, board retreat, leadership or team meeting, Jill helps organizations solve complex challenges, align around priorities, and leave with actionable plans.
Examples:
Strategic planning
Executive retreats
Leadership offsites
Board facilitation
Goal setting
Decision facilitation
Leadership & Team Effectiveness
Executive coaching, leadership development, CliftonStrengths, communication, adaptive presence, accountability, conflict navigation, and team effectiveness.
Strategic HR & Organizational Effectiveness
As a SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP), Jill helps organizations strengthen leadership, talent, organizational design, succession planning, workforce strategy, and employee experience so people and business goals move together.
How Jill Works
Assess: Develop a clear understanding of the business, leadership, people, culture, and organizational dynamics to identify opportunities, risks, and priorities.
Architect: Design the strategy, organizational approach, leadership plan, and people solutions that align with your business objectives.
Transform: Guide leaders and teams through execution, strengthening leadership capability, driving adoption, and embedding the behaviors that create lasting business results.
Common Engagements
Organizations typically partner with Jill when they're experiencing:
• Rapid growth
• Organizational restructuring
• Mergers or acquisitions
• Leadership transitions
• Executive team misalignment
• Succession planning
• Culture transformation
• Strategic planning
• Team effectiveness challenges
• Scaling a founder-led business
• Executive communication challenges
Strategy succeeds when people do.
Whether you're planning what's next or leading through significant change, Jill brings the strategic perspective, leadership expertise, and organizational insight to help your people and your business move forward together.
Working with Jill is like adding an experienced executive strategist to your leadership team. She moves seamlessly between business strategy, leadership, talent, communication, and organizational challenges, providing the perspective leaders need when the stakes are high. Whether she's advising executives, strengthening teams, facilitating critical conversations, or solving complex business problems, Jill becomes a trusted strategic partner.
If you're exploring executive coaching, leadership workshops, strategic HR consulting, or organizational advisory, let's start a conversation.
"With Jill's guidance, our non-profit organization created a strategic decision-making framework to assess opportunities based on impact and relative level of effort. This tool has been transformative in the way we prioritize our work, how we think, and how we plan/evaluate initiatives. The work we did with Jill is having a genuine and positive impact."
- Midge Iorio, Executive Director, Bedford 2030
"We hired Jill as the keynote speaker during Disability Awareness Month to speak about Invisible Disability. Jill is a dynamic and relatable speaker who helped our audience understand the impact of invisible disabilities on the individual, the co-worker, and our company and what we can all do to create a more inclusive environment. The feedback from attendees was phenomenal. The audience was engaged, laughed, asked many questions, and was moved by Jill’s story. I highly recommend having Jill speak at your organization."
- Nicole Sitek, Director, New York Life Insurance Company
"Jill hosted a series of Gallup CliftonStrengths workshops for our teams. She brought high-level strategy, plus individual and group coaching, that people are still discussing today. Jill is organized, adaptable, and, most importantly, incredibly attuned to the needs of each individual. This has contributed positively to team morale, management understanding of their direct reports, and high-level team growth. Looking forward to having her back for additional in-depth coaching for our teams. Truly cannot recommend her enough."
- Emily Fernandez, Executive Operations, Notion.so
Training and Workshops
On-site | Virtual
Jill D. Griffin delivers custom workshops to help workers learn how to identify their unique talents, build positive team dynamics, and increase well-being. Sample workshops include:
Amplify Your Strengths: Assess the team’s strengths and know how to amplify them for any goal. Leverage strengths for talent mapping and future hiring.
Values & Culture Alignment: Develop positive team dynamics and increase employee engagement and retention. Create a common language for understanding and trusting one another capabilities.
Building Successful Teams: Build a strengths-based culture to increase performance, confidence, communication, and effective decision-making through quick and effective training.
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Workshop Facilitation
On-site | Virtual
Jill D. Griffin delivers custom workshop facilitation to help companies plan and implement strategic frameworks, goal setting, and annual planning. Jill applies her dynamic presentation skills, active listening, relatability, strong facilitation, group management skills, and a results-oriented approach to all workshops. Categories of expertise include:
Expertise and knowledge across advertising, airlines, automotive, alcohol and spirits, banking, beauty, beverages, consumer electronics, content, digital health, distilled beverages, energy, entertainment, environmental, financial services, fitness, government, healthcare, hospitality, insurance, marketing, media, non-profit, mobile, pharmaceuticals, retail, social media, software, sports drinks, sustainability, technology, travel, tourism, water, and wellness.
Jill D. Griffin
Executive Coach | Advisor | Speaker | Indivisible Disability Advocate
Jill D. Griffin has a 20+ year history of creating strengths-based cultures of innovation and is responsible for creating repeated and consistent results. Her passion is building inclusive workplaces and helping individuals, and teams increase well-being while developing positive and productive team dynamics.
Jill’s executive coaching, strategy, content development, and innovation have generated multi-millions in revenue for the world's largest agencies, start-ups, and well-known brands. She has worked with the brands we all know and look up to, including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Samsung, Citibank, Unilever, American Honda Motors, Martha Stewart, Mondelez, and Hilton Hotels.
Advertising Age recognized Jill as one of the "25 Women to Watch", and she was named one of the "50 Most Influential People in Content Marketing" by NewsCred. She’s also a two- time winner of AdWeek-Mediaweek's Media Plan of the Year.
As a founding member of 212, NY's Digital Advertising Club, Jill was a recent visionary award recipient along with the other founding members. Jill has written articles for HuffPost, Fast Company, Glassdoor, and Metro UK. She’s been featured on WorkLife podcast with Adam Grant, from the TED Collective, and quoted by leading media outlets like AdWeek, Advertising Age, Forrester Research, The New York Times, Newscred, MediaWeek, and The Wall Street Journal.
Jill hosts The Career Refresh podcast and is an experienced ICF® Professional Certified Coach and a Gallup® Certified Strengths Coach. She works with organizations to create strengths-based cultures to increase performance, profitability, productivity, and retention.
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