Return-to-office mandates are highlighting a deeper issue with businesses: trust. These mandates could also adversely impact retention and performance, causing long-term damage to organizations.
Keryn Gold shared some thoughts about this on LinkedIn, and she has a career history of delivering 50x+ first-year ROI in less than 3 months to her clients, enabling her partners to improve outcomes while reducing costs without layoffs. This effectively innovate, improve engagement, and unleash the potential of their employees, and achieve greater work/life balance while delivering transformational business value.
Gold is an expert on the following topics:
- How Return to Office Mandates Can Backfire—The dangers of taking away people’s autonomy
- Why Remote Work Requires Mutual Trust
- How Remote Work Requires a Mutual Commitment to Each Other
- The Importance of Clear Expectations for Remote Work Success
- It’s Possible to Meaningfully Build Relationships Remotely—Strategies and Tips
Keryn Gold, Ph.D., is an award-winning business and consulting leader, advisor, and certified business and executive coach who empowers organizations to achieve the seemingly impossible and accelerate achievement of their multi-year plans 3x+ within months.
She served as CEO and COO of startups, ran consulting groups, worked in venture capital and private equity, and led Data Science & Product Strategy divisions and Centers of Excellence at multiple Fortune 50 and FAANG companies. She has a career history delivering 50x+ first-year ROI in less than 3 months to her clients, from start-ups to non-profits to the Fortune 10, across industries.
Her clients say she’s a “resourceful, perceptive, trusted advisor” who “proactively delivers transformational value with relentless compassion — phenomenally fast.”
She has revolutionized divisions, systems, and processes at dozens of companies, and enables partners to improve outcomes while reducing costs without layoffs, more effectively innovate, improve engagement and unleash the potential of their employees, and achieve greater work/life balance while delivering transformational business value.
Gold began college at age 14 and graduated summa cum laude at age 17 from a Top 15 university with a BA in Applied Mathematics, and earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences & Statistical Genetics from Washington University in St. Louis. She is also a member of Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society, and volunteers at youth and entrepreneur empowerment organizations.
Her cross-functional expertise ranges from the future of work, employee engagement and people empowerment strategies to cost reduction, process optimization, and sustainable growth, to data science and AI, to healthcare, education, and beyond.
Her business ecosystems —
OTBi Solutions is about uncovering transformational value from data and uncovering hidden profits.
FocalPoint Outcomes is about unlocking the potential of employees, and accelerating multi-year plan achievement while improving balance and autonomy for leaders and individual contributors alike.
SNAFU Guide specializes in implementable strategies for scalable transformation. Keryn is writing a book under this business, to be released later this year: The Leadership Playbook, Revisited. In it, she has synthesized over 100,000 hours of research, testing and refinement of tools and actionable strategies she’s designed and implemented successfully over the years at organizations from high-growth startups to Fortune 10 companies into high-value, rapid-impact 1-page “plays” to drive multiple-fold first-year ROI, like what Keryn has achieved for all her clients.
Awards—
Keryn was recently featured in the Top 100 Innovators & Entrepreneurs Magazine, and a subset of publications who proactively reached out and plan to feature her in their upcoming June-July issues include Top 10 Inspiring Innovators Pushing the Boundaries in Their Industries by LA Weekly, Top 10 Business Pioneers & Leaders Disrupting Their Industries by International Business Times, 10 Most Inspiring Business Women of 2023 by CXO Outlook Magazine, The Most Iconic Women Business Leaders to Watch in 2023 by The Enterprise World Magazine, 30 Most Inspiring Leaders to Watch 2023 by The Silicon Review.