Jane Ayres

­­­­­­­­­A multichannel marketing and communications expert, I help companies increase
digital presence and brand visibility to drive sales growth.

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CEO Robert Flexon discusses a culture refresh that helped restore Dynegy to an energy powerhouse

I created this video and case study article for Senn Delaney as part of a CEO interview series on creating high-performance cultures. A Houston energy powerhouse in the 1990s, Dynegy ran into significant financial and leadership challenges that pushed it into bankruptcy in 2011. Just two days after the company emerged from bankruptcy court, the new CEO Robert Flexon unveiled a cultural overhaul that became an important pillar of its successful strategy to create a fast-growing, agile company with people re-energized by a One Team, One Goal strategy.

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A Proven Methodology for Organizational Change

One is a series of articles I wrote and designed for Senn Delaney for a lead generation campaign for the business development team. There is a homespun adage declaring: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But when it comes to culture change, a more proper thought might be: “If you plan to fix it, make sure you don’t first break it.” When culture change “breaks” it is often due to disconnected and short sighted approaches. And it often results in squandered resources and time at best and, at worst, increased cynicism and diminished trust levels across the organization.

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You Can Change a Large, Global Organization’s Culture Quickly

One is a series of articles that I wrote and designed for Senn Delaney's business development team as part of a lead generation campaign to senior executives. It is said that to properly view an organizational culture, you need a telescope and a microscope. The former to identify its orbit and the latter to study its DNA. Because you can’t change one without affecting the other.

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Beyond diversity to inclusion: A leadership podcast

A leadership podcast I created that features Heidrick & Struggles’ culture-shaping expert Bill Bradley and David Casey, vice president of workforce strategies and chief diversity officer at CVS Health. In this conversation, Casey discusses the distinction between diversity and inclusion and why gathering together the right skill sets and perspectives is a crucial business capability.