Letter from Mimi Brooks, LDS' CEO

It's important to us to hire people who come and stay at LDS for all the right reasons. Over the past two decades, we've learned a few good lessons about how to help ensure that happens. We believe, for example, in transparency in our hiring process. We want you to know everything you need to about our company, our culture, and our expectations before you make a decision. To this end, let me offer a perspective that you might find helpful as you consider whether LDS might be the right place for you.

Our Company

We've been around for a while, and our core executive team has been together for a minimum of seven years. This says a lot about the maturity of our model, the confidence of our leadership team in the success of our business, and in our ability to successfully adapt our company through many changes in our industry.

Although change is a constant in the consulting business, our value proposition to our clients has transcended these transformations. We are a technology savvy organization, no doubt. But we are a business solutions company first – always have been – and our long and deep reputation of creating people-centric, technology-innovative solutions is a legacy we are known for and proud of.

This focus is the gravity of just about everything we do. We have an acute and personal commitment to our clients' success. We have a constant sense of responsibility and sensitivity to care and design for the people who ultimately use our solutions every day. We are dissatisfied with anything that is less than a compelling and smart solution.

Our Culture

We value smart people who bring tenacity to solving hard problems, with an eye to innovation in which good and new ideas are given balanced consideration. Because we rarely solve the same problem twice, our best practices and experience inform our approach more than they inform our solution. As you might expect, then, we need people who can do the "think globally and act locally" thing: forward-looking, but actionable today.

You'll find few layers or boundaries within our organization. People move horizontally across LDS to get whatever they need done. This creates a culture of personal responsibility for problem solving and decision making, within a highly collaborative network in which smart people are all around. If you connect in, you'll find the intellectual bandwidth and diversity of knowledge here one of our greatest strengths and defining cultural characteristics. And, behind all the knowledge and experience is a collective sense of honesty, integrity, and a "one for all" spirit that binds us.

Our Expectations

We want you to bring us new ideas, a different perspective, and strong expertise in your area to bring value to our engagements and to our clients. We'd like you to be an active contributor, a thought leader at times, and someone who knows the difference between a valuable discussion and unproductive churn.

We need you to roll-up your sleeves, get involved and lend a hand to a colleague when you can.

We'd like you to come to LDS anticipating that your commitment is intended to be a long-term one, not a "passing through" one. And, if you do, we hope that you'll see that we will hold up our end of the bargain by affording you the opportunity to experience the challenge, the fun, and the satisfaction of being a part of a great team and a great company.