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Jess Rimington
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Bio
Jess Rimington is a leading voice in the next-economy movement. With two decades of experience as a small-business practitioner and inclusive-economy strategist, she advises organizations and businesses in efforts to transform their work practices to be in alignment with social justice. Jess’s work focuses on awakening the economic imagination of individuals and groups to step out of business as usual and into more just and resilient economies, one practical step at a time.
Her practice is informed by her experience leading three nonprofit organizations, place-based activism for economic justice, advising philanthropy and directing capital toward enterprises and groups building an inclusive economy, and running a small consultancy business. In her roles as an Executive Director and Managing Director, Jess built cross-cultural, global staff teams with innovative work cultures rooted in post-capitalism.
She served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Global Projects Center and co-director of the Beloved Economies research initiative, learning alongside more than sixty organizations and companies that were boldly breaking out of business as usual and generating forms of success that audaciously prioritized well-being, meaning, connection, and resilience. Based on this research, Jess co-authored Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work (Aug 2022) which was shortlisted for the 2022 Porchlight Business Book Awards.
Jess is co-founder of the Futuring Collective which supports business leaders and culture-makers to build wildly imaginative futures rooted in well-being for all. Jess is also an Executive Producer of the scripted, speculative fiction podcast The Light Ahead.
Jess is driven by her belief that our collective liberation is inextricably bound with one another.
Speaking Topics:
The 3 Most Important Questions for Managers to Self Reflect on in Order to Create Leaderful Teams
Based on a decade of qualitative research, Jess shares essential characteristics of stand-out teams in which every team member is actively engaged as a leader. A leaderful team operates on principles of collaboration, shared decision-making, and mutual support, enabling the collective strengths and abilities of all members to be harnessed and utilized effectively. Such teams promote a sense of ownership, accountability, and shared purpose among members. This talks focuses on the inner-work and reflection managers can do to best prepare themselves to create these empowering team ecosystems. Jess provides practical steps for how managers can get started in this exploration.
The Future of Work: What Will the Employees of Tomorrow Want and How Can You Start Building It Today?
Since the pandemic and Gen Z entering the employment scene, workplaces have shifted significantly. Jess offers a take on emerging trends in employee desires and how organizations can make changes today that will set them apart. This talk is informed by a decade of research exploring what isn't working about work and how workplaces can change in response.
5 Ways to Quickly Increase Employee Engagement
For eight years Jess researched alongside sixty organizations and companies that had stand-out success in cultivating meaningful engagement within their internal teams, and even amongst external stakeholders. In this talk, she shares the research findings, and 5 ways to you can increase employee engagement using these learnings.
7 Ways to Create Innovation That Breaks Out of the Status Quo
Based on research alongside organizations and companies that are boldly breaking out of business as usual, Jess offers an imagination-expanding vision of what innovation can be. She shares seven practices that can be implemented across a wide array of industries by teams who wish to generate breakout innovation –forms of success that audaciously prioritize well-being, meaning, connection, and resilience alongside conventional metrics like quality and financial success. When teams and groups break out of business as usual in these ways, they create transformative change that is far-reaching, enduring, and imaginative in its departure from the status quo.
Workshop Offerings:
Speculative Fiction as a Tool For Organizational Change
Based on extensive research and rooted in the praxis of grassroots social movements, this workshop will invite participants into an imagination space where we’ll utilize speculative fiction writing and dreaming to explore the future of a team, department, or entire organization while posing practical questions of how to weave such potential futures into our present through organizational change. This is a highly participatory workshop. Be ready to channel your inner writer, artist, and futurist!
Speaking Topics
- The 3 Most Important Questions for Managers to Self Reflect on in Order to Create Leaderful Teams
- The Future of Work: What Will the Employees of Tomorrow Want and How Can You Start Building It Today?
- 5 Ways to Quickly Increase Employee Engagement
- 7 Ways to Create Innovation That Breaks Out of the Status Quo
Workshop Offerings:
- Speculative Fiction as a Tool for Organizational Change
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