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business strategy. outcomes. board readiness. competitive edge. leadership impact.

WIN WHEN THEY SAY YOU WON’T

IT'S TIME TO SHIFT

How do I know? If you're like me, you're experiencing the rapid change and nearly daily innovation occurring all around us. It’s disrupting how we live, work, play and how we compete in business. As a business leader, you're expected & compelled to see ‘around the corner’ all of those looming changes that threaten to upend your status quo. That disruption--which we expect will help create better access to information, customer experience, internal productivity and cycle time improvements-- can and will require a shift in business strategy. As a leader, you want to ensure you drive to know “what must be true for me or my organization to achieve success?” Do you develop T shaped leaders? Is your organization intellectually curious, and is a conductor of a collaborative ecosystem? Business transformation also requires a shift in organizational competencies and the corporate culture to help set you up as the benchmark in your market.

At my core, I'm an Accelerator, and I make the Complex -> Simple in this digital world where time-to-value separates the first-to-market from the market-laggards, I help companies find their Digital “True North” and execute on it . I help & equip leaders to be authentic & effective digital leaders who guide others to achieve their greatness. And I inspire and empower audiences with my experiences—given via stories and easy to remember quips . My Fortune 50 business & digital background is worldclass – and I’ve used my experiences and continuous learnings to help companies achieve financial growth, improve internal productivity, and lead the markets they serve. Are you ready for the shift? Let’s go!

 
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TRANSFORMING

Transformation. That is becoming an increasingly common word, but actually transforming is not very common, and appears to be quite elusive.  Many companies that are driving  digital transformation, tend to focus on digital – but not on the transformation itself. The three key  strategies  required to successfully transform your business include

  1. TRANSFORM WHY YOU ARE IN BUSINESS  by reimagining the central idea or strategy that will be critical for you to differentiate yourself in the market.

  2. TRANSFORM HOW YOU WILL DO BUSINESS to drive seamless customer fulfillment and internal operational efficiencies

  3. TRANSFORM WHAT IT WILL TAKE within your culture that includes digital literacy and willingness to change to take advantage of the tools and new thinking required to win.

With 30+ years in Fortune 50 companies as a digital and business  leader and currently serving on the board of 3 corporations, I’ve had a 360 view of what success looks like and how to achieve it in a VUCA world. My team and I provide advisory service to help companies stop talking about transformation , and actually start transforming. 

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BOARD COACHING

Through the diverse and highly experienced set of leaders in The Board Curators, Daphne and the team provide senior executive level coaching for those leaders who desire to learn and demonstrate the actions, knowledge & mindset required to serve as a board member on 'for profit' boards. The Board Curators provides the senior leader to choose from any of the 3 coaching service as follows:

  • The senior leader, at their own rate and their own pace will be provided 4 web based training modules, provided by The Teachable (TM) platform. Each module the student goes through will consist of board readiness information done in a presentation format, with video, voice overs and resource reference.

  • 1) The leader's coach is known as their "Concierge" and for approximately 6 months, will engage with the senior leader(in person, or virtually)  to dynamically teach them about the stages of board readiness--from understanding boards through the final stages of interview prep, and being ready for 'day 1'. Concierge will conduct mock interviews, review skills matrix, identify if the leader needs to refresh their bio and more. Each Concierge is trained and given The Board Curators Concierge Playbook to ensure quality, consistency, while allowing the Concierge to use their wisdom, experience & savvy to meet the senior leader where they are in their board journey.

    2) In addition to the Concierge relationship, the leader is given free access to The Board Curators Online -- where they can review the course at their own rate and their own pace pre/post meeting with the concierge, enabling them to get preliminary understanding to ask deeper questions of the concierge.

  • The stages of board readiness is provided to organizations that want to train their leaders together--driving shared learning--in a 10-12 hour course for 20, 200 or 500 leaders.

  • If there are specific board-related learning needs that a company or individual has, The Board Curators also creates custom classes to meet the needs of the company or individual. Whether it is for Technology leaders, lawyers, CHRO's, Cyber Security, or Board digital literacy, The Board Curators can provide it.

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SPEAKING - Enriching Capabilities, Encouraging the Heart. 

Companies and individuals are looking for new ways to look at old and new problems, to see things through a new lens and perspective.  Through inspirational  instruction, informative and empowering talks, Daphne E. Jones speaks from years of experience in Fortune 50 companies as a Senior Vice President and CIO, and partners with you to ensure your team ‘gets it’!!

Her topics include:

  • A barrier-breaking business leader and seasoned Fortune 50 executive, Daphne E. Jones developed and implemented disruptive digital strategies that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars generated for global organizations, including General Electric, Hospira (now Pfizer), IBM, and Johnson & Johnson, and positioned these companies as first-to-market innovators and industry leaders. In this talk, Jones offers tailored tactics for how organizations can find their digital “True North” and execute it to reimagine and transform their businesses and set the pace in their industries. She highlights the ways any company can leverage digital transformation to enhance the customer experience, optimize internal productivity, and catalyze innovation and growth. 

  • An Immigrant’s Journey to the C-Suite. Business transformer and accelerator Daphne E. Jones’ path to becoming a disruptive C-suite leader was anything but typical. The odds were stacked against her, what with her being an immigrant and woman of color working to make her mark in the STEM field, where no one else looked like her. She reflects upon her own career journey of shattering glass ceilings in the business world and keeping the door open for those that came after her to share powerful lessons for how anyone can take ownership of their career, rewire their mindset, and overcome the challenges in front of them to achieve their vision of success and find fulfillment in their work and life.  

  • How Your Company Can Become More Cyber Secure & Ready: As an expert in spurring digital transformation to help organizations reach their next iteration, Daphne E. Jones possesses authoritative insights into the cybersphere and the threats and opportunities that exist within it. In an immersive session that is sure to change the way audiences view the digital landscape, she empowers groups to embrace the possibilities digital transformation presents to their organizations while briefing them on what’s at stake as new challenges arise in the cybersphere. The insights Jones shares shine the light on the key role boards, management teams, and digital leaders play in helping their companies be more secure and ready — helping them move from cyber insecure to confidently more cyber secure.

  • Slowly but surely, the makeup of corporate boardrooms is changing. They’re becoming more representative of the customer base, and inclusive of the diverse groups that keep the workforce moving, but there are still challenges and barriers to entry for nontraditional board candidates. In addition,  the contemporary challenges that face corporations are reflected in how boards have to reimagine their competencies and actions to optimize shareholder/stakeholder value.  In this talk, Fortune 50 business leader and sought-after board member Daphne E. Jones illustrates the ways in which the board room has evolved in recent years while putting forth solutions for how we can continue to progress toward board rooms that are wholly reflective of the workforce and can be equipped to handle new and dynamic risks. As part of this interactive session, she demystifies the path to board positions for candidates from all backgrounds — especially women and people of color — and shares valuable tips in preparation for leaders working toward earning their seat at the table in the board room.

  • We are in the 4th Industrial Revolution , which is continuing to blur the lines between the physical, the digital and the biological.  This Revolution, unlike those before it is  being powered by the cloud, social, mobile, genetic engineering, blockchain,  IOT (Internet of Things)  AI (artificial intelligence), and of course, massive amounts of data, growing daily.    Join Daphne as she discusses what you should know, what you should think, and what you should do in your business to explore and exploit the capabilities of AI as part of your overall digital business strategy.  Engage with her as she reviews how BUSINESS STRATEGY, CULTURE, COMPETENCY, & TECHNOLOGY  are critical components to drive success with AI.  Her 4 part methodology – E.D.I.T. (Envision, Design, Iterate, Transform) as taken from the software development world, helps you easily understand how to systematically envision a strategy, design it, execute it, and transform to scale to enable a win in your marketplace.

  • Artificial intelligence (AI), including ChatGPT, has  ushered its way into management conversations, employee homes and on the desktop.  AI can provide an organization with a competitive advantage or make its operations more efficient. But the technology also poses legal risks, and board members need to ask the right questions to ensure those risks don’t outweigh the benefits.  How can a board enable ambidextrous leadership where, on the one hand, the management team is free to explore new capabilities using AI, while on the other hand, ensures that  AI doesn’t pose a legal, regulatory or security threat to the business.  Jones will share insights on how to strike the balance that is right for your organization.

  • As a leader, your response in times of crisis will trickle down your organization and set the tone for whether you and your people will come out on the other side as the disruptors or the disrupted. A retired Fortune 50 executive who has navigated her teams through countless business hardships, Daphne E. Jones draws from her real-life experiences leading her companies to thrive in the face of disruption to provide actionable steps for how organizations can reset during times of crisis and adapt to seismic shifts in the market as they strive to compete at the highest levels in their industries.

  • “Win when they say you won’t.” That’s the mantra that founder, Fortune 50 C-suite executive, board member, and digital transformation expert Daphne E. Jones has carried this with her throughout her trailblazing career. In this eye-opening talk, she shares the unique four-step E.D.I.T. methodology that has provided the playbook for her to keep leveling up her success and can have a similar impact for organizations and individuals looking to reimagine and transform their brands. Jones inspires groups to: 

    ⬩Envision: create their unique vision for success 

    ⬩Design: focus on how, when, and with whom you will accomplish the vision 

    ⬩Iterate: get feedback from the environment, and decide to pivot or persevere

    ⬩Transform: sit with the change and get ready for the next level

    With this methodology, anyone or any group is capable of adopting the winning mindset that will motivate them to stop talking about transformation and start actually transforming themselves, and those around them.