Jaime Taets

Jaime Taets Speaking Topics

• Culture is the Leaders Choice. Not HR's job.

  Culture is not a problem that HR needs to solve, it’s a leadership gap that needs to be closed – one leader at a time. Company culture isn’t a program or an HR initiative—it’s a reflection of leadership. The most successful organizations understand that culture is built through intentional leadership, daily actions, and a commitment to core values.

  In this engaging and thought-provoking keynote, Jaime Taets challenges leaders to take ownership of their workplace culture, rather than outsourcing it to HR.

  Through real-world examples and actionable insights, attendees will learn:

  • Why culture starts at the top—and how leadership behaviors shape it.
  • The risks of not creating the right accountability for culture across the organization.
  • Strategies for fostering a high-performance, values-driven environment.
  • How to create a culture where employees thrive, innovate, and stay engaged.

  Leaders must go deeper than the business layer to get at the root cause of their recurring challenges. They must explore questions and strategies rooted in the people side of things.

  Whether you're a CEO, executive, or team leader, this session will empower you to make culture your competitive advantage—by choice, not by chance.

• The Leadership Resilience Code: Lessons from the Top of the Mountain

  “You don’t climb a mountain for the world to see you, you climb a mountain so you can see yourself and the world differently.” -- Jaime Taets

  As leaders we all have proverbial mountains that we have to climb in our careers and personal lives. But the journey to success and the top of the mountain can be full of obstacles and things that will knock us off course.

  In this keynote, Jaime shares her personal story of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa, and the lessons that she learned on the mountain that have impacted her personal and professional success.

  With a fresh and relevant perspective straight from the C-Suite of Fortune 100s, Jaime guides leaders and their people to embrace a new approach that can help leaders create environments where people can thrive. To successfully achieve this new future of work, leaders will need to address and deliver on the permanent concerns of human beings -- being known, valued, and connected.

  Leaders must go deeper than the business layer to get at the root cause of the challenges in today’s business environment. They must explore questions and strategies rooted in the people side of things. But in order to do that, they must first assess their own energy and ensure they have what they need to Climb the Mountain.

  Key Takeaways:

  1. The understanding of where our own beliefs and judgments impact us as leaders.
  2. Simple approaches to help us shift our perspective in our day to day lives to increase our energy and performance.
  3. Specific actions you can take to improve your mindset on leadership, life and the human condition.

• Igniting Greatness: The Climb to Success

  The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.” -- Mark Twain

  Each of us exists to live into our greatness, to the path that we were put here to follow. Yet so many of us fall short of achieving that purpose. We get lost on the path, distracted by what the world is telling us we need to be, what we need to do.

  We achieve – but still feel empty. We acquire a lot of things – but still don’t feel joy and happiness.

  It’s at that point that we realize that success and achievement might be the actual thing that’s holding us back. The world doesn’t expect more from us – we’ve already done a lot. Yet inside, we have new dreams and big ideas that we want to bring to the world. We just don’t know how to do it in the context of the successful life we have built. We get to the top of the mountain and think – is this it?

  It’s not – there’s another level of success that you haven’t achieved, and it takes a different kind of effort to find it. The journey there is difficult, but life changing, if you can learn how to Ignite your own Greatness.

  Key Takeaways:

  1. The understanding of how our purpose is impacted the more success we achieve.
  2. Simple approaches to help us shift our perspective and how we look at success.
  3. Specific actions you can take to overcome fear and uncertainty and create a greater impact.

• The Culture Climb: Creating a Culture that Maximizes Your Impact

  After a decade helping executive teams untangle their issues and improve their business, Jaime Taets noticed that most business problems are actually people problems. Underneath many operational challenges are more human-centered issues that often go unaddressed—leading to the same challenges popping up month after month, and year after year.

  Leaders must go deeper than the business layer to get at the root cause of these recurring challenges. They must explore questions and strategies rooted in the people side of things. Enter: Culture—the solution to human-centered issues. Whether you’re looking for incremental improvements or a next-level leap, a strong culture is how you make more impact.

  Using her Amazon-bestselling book "The Culture Climb" as the foundation for this talk, Jaime explains how to use culture to grow a healthy and sustainable business and gives you actionable takeaways so you can do something about your culture immediately. At the heart of "The Culture Climb" is the Impact Model, a proprietary framework illustrating all the elements that come together to create a strong culture in a simple yet comprehensive way. The model provides the why, what, and how of assessing, implementing, and measuring work culture in any environment.

  By the end of this talk, the audience will have a clear sense of the often-ambiguous term “work culture” and how they can use it to get their businesses unstuck, gain momentum, and make more impact.

  Key Takeaways:

  1. The importance of work culture in creating thriving, modern companies.
  2. A simple model for building a strong work culture at any size company.
  3. Specific actions you can take to improve your organizational health step-by-step.