Jimmy Leppert
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Managing Partner / Co-Founder
Jimmy is a strategy execution, growth and business turnaround expert. He works with executives and leadership teams to drive alignment and speed by accelerating the execution of their most critical strategic priorities. The initiatives Jimmy has led have delivered over $1.6 billion in employee-led, incremental revenue and cost enhancements.
To drive this scale of results, a pillar of Jimmy’s work is creating a culture of peak performance in a sustainable and scalable manner. Along with quantifiable business results, Jimmy’s clients see employee engagement scores going from - in some cases - industry laggard to industry leader levels and earning best places to work awards. Peak performance and a solid culture are not mutually exclusive. You can and should have both.
Prior to co-founding Empactful Advisors, Jimmy was a Managing Director at John Kotter’s strategy execution firm, Kotter International, where Jimmy led the firm’s largest, most complex global engagements. Prior to Kotter, Jimmy was a researcher and consultant out of MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he was Peter Senge’s Chief of Staff. Over the last 13 years, Jimmy has worked with some of the most recognized corporate, non-profit and government leaders around the world. In all of these contexts, Jimmy’s work focuses on enabling leaders to drive better performance in high stakes situations.
Jimmy’s client list includes Boeing, Coty, Chromalloy, Chevron, ExxonMobil, HMS, NetApp, On Semiconductor, Rolls Royce, Starbucks, Unilever, United Way, Walmart, and XL. Additionally, Jimmy is a well known thought leader in the leadership and results space including published articles, guest lectures at Harvard and MIT, and keynote speeches for large audiences. He earned his master’s degree from Harvard and the University of Virginia, where he also earned his undergraduate degree.