You crave innovation.
We help build creative cultures to thrive in our new world of work.
Achieving creativity with discipline is deceptively difficult. Gallup cautions us that 85% of today’s employees are disengaged at work. And only 29% strongly agree that they’re expected to be creative or think of new ways to do things at work. Burnout signs are up by 33% and distributed workforces are forced to navigate our new normal.
How We Help
Spring Street Solutions offers a unique combination of creativity and business know-how. Our coaching, workshops, learning programs, and strategy consulting engagements are designed to inspire an enviable culture.
Calling All Startups: Culture Building and Activation
For those ready to define or refresh your purpose, mission, vision and values. Hypotheses are built and tested through objective stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and employee surveys. Through story development and culture activation, we craft tangible examples of how your company values are lived in action. The Creativity Culture Guide serves as our roadmap.
Interactive Workshops, Keynotes and Offsites
Interactive (live or virtual) workshops that reveal fresh perspectives and inspire changed behavior. Areas of focus include creativity and innovation, leading remote teams, purpose and meaning at work, change agility, the growth mindset, emotional intelligence, career conversations, corporate storytelling, entrepreneurial strategic thinking, unconscious bias and inclusive leadership.
Workshop Bundles and Leadership Development
Ideal for companies and firms that aim to drive sustained skill building and learning application. Custom programming aligns, inspires, and strengthens team culture. Using an approach tailored to your unique environment, we enable collaboration, discovery, aha! moments and connection. Typically bundled with custom coaching for more sustainable learning.
Coaching and Strategy Consulting
Culture and people strategies that guide you through change and transformation. We examine the competitive landscape, share how you show up within it, listen to your employees’ experience, and offer practical ways to take action. Executive coaching provides support for emerging businesses and leaders.
Who We Are
We are business builders, culture creators, artists and entrepreneurs. By blending innovative thinking with analytical rigor, we inspire an adaptable growth mindset and instill disciplined principles for your team.
Anne Jacoby, Founder + CEO
Anne Jacoby is founder and CEO of Spring Street Solutions, a culture consultancy dedicated to cultivating creativity at work. Through culture assessments, workplace strategy, leadership programs, and coaching, Anne partners with leaders who crave more connection, innovation, and inclusion across their teams. Anne applies her 20+ years of experience to help leaders create the cultures they crave. As an early employee at Axiom, she helped create a new category of disruptive professional services firm where she hired, developed and led teams to establish a best-in-class engagement management program, scaling the firm to hundreds of new clients and thousands of employees in 3 countries.
An MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and ICF-certified coach from NeuroLeadership Institute, Anne has delivered innovative solutions to the world’s most dynamic companies. She has launched offices in Chicago and Southern California markets, helped rebuild a companywide learning and development function, launched a popular internal podcast series, activated a new corporate brand, and facilitated continuous improvement initiatives. She has served hundreds of clients including F100 investment banks, international media firms and emerging tech start-ups, and led internal workshops in dozens of locations around the world. Her leadership roles have spanned from General Manager and VP of Sales Effectiveness in a high-growth private company to the head of Learning, Development + Culture at a multinational public company of 4000+ employees. She currently serves as a business advisor to Dangerous Ventures, Ambient, an AI tool for Chiefs of Staff, and Messier, an app to boost creativity.
Before her transition to the corporate world, Anne spent 15 years as a professional singer, actor, dancer and voice-over artist in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City. She has performed from coast to coast, appearing on stages from Radio City Music Hall to the Paramount Pictures studio lot. Her healthy obsession with storytelling began in her youth, and she attributes her creativity, curiosity and grit to her climb from waitress to business leader and entrepreneur. Anne is an advocate for arts education for young people and proudly served on the board of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Her bestselling book, Born to Create: How Creativity Sparks Connection, Innovation, and Belonging in Our New World of Work (Fast Company Press: 2024), features creative artists, business leaders, and entrepreneurs, and was the #1 new release on Amazon in management science, change management, communication skills, work-life balance, and leadership training. She has guest lectured at the University of Southern California’s Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the Executive Education program at HEC Paris, and Pepperdine University’s Graziadio’s Business School, among other leading higher education institutions. When not partnering with clients to transform organizational culture, Anne’s most meaningful role is Mom to two creative kids.
Why Spring Street
“Anne Jacoby is one of the most effective and high-energy leaders I’ve come across in business. She’s not just creative, she’s reliably creative, which is a rare gift. ”
“Anne Jacoby helps us transform our team’s lofty ideas/aspirations into actionable steps. She asks insightful/probing questions along the way to stretch us and to challenge our assumptions that may be holding us back from seeing things in a fresh/better way. These valuable sessions are like rocket fuel to help us take this program to greater heights.”
“The stakes have never been higher for C-suite leaders to build high-performing, creative, and collaborative teams. Anne brings that rare blend of creative thinking and business acumen to enable meaningful organizational change. Her culture consultancy, Spring Street, equips today’s leaders with a values-based strategy to propel their business—and their people— forward.”
“Anne’s approach to the workplace is a refreshing reboot to any organizational culture. Her facilitation style is full of joy and intention, and she easily leads teams to discover their own authentic source of creativity in their culture. I had the pleasure of working with Anne through a core value facelift, and subsequent development of a Leadership Academy, which Anne developed after taking the time to get to know our team and what matters most in our organization. Her leadership is a tremendous asset to any organization that desires a fresh outlook on what teams need most!”
“I was lucky to work with Anne for nearly 10 years and witnessed her evolution into a very effective and compassionate business executive. Anne and I worked on many projects together - some big, some small - but with each one Anne brought a rare combination of team-first mentality and an ability to execute with precision. Nothing falls through the cracks with Anne. Her creative background comes through in how she approaches problems and does business, and this feels especially relevant as we transition to the digital age where we need more humane, out-the-box problem-solvers with high EQs.”
“Anne Jacoby is an extraordinary leader and developer of people and culture. She has the highest level of integrity and a collaborative, professional and inclusive style. She is humble and authentic. I would trust her with anything, knowing it would be accomplished with a strategic approach and thoughtfulness around the impact on those involved. Anne’s abilities to communicate, gain buy-in and execute on strategy are exceptional.”
“You are in safe, reliable hands with Anne from the minute you meet her. Her rare combination of well-honed business acumen and compassionate creativity enables people to take smart, courageous risks that lead to giant leaps forward.”
“I have had the pleasure of knowing Anne over the course of a decade and have followed her ascendant career with awe. In creating Spring Street, she has married her talent for connecting and inspiring people with her talent in the creative arts to bring visionary tools to corporations seeking to infuse their cultures with innovation and creativity. Her three-part series on Cultivating Creativity in Uncertain Times left participants feeling inspired and eager to embrace ‘the growth mindset.’”