Mimi Brooks

CEO, Industry Thought Leader, Author, Speaker

Strategic Advisory

Delivering targeted results by revealing proven business strategies that leverage human capabilities and ingenuity in close collaboration with their machine counterparts

Leadership Transformation

Translating aspirations into reality through practical and systemic approaches to change expressly designed for those who must lead with agility and purpose in times of uncertainty

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Executive Coaching

Developing leader adaptation and resilience while identifying barriers to transformational change and setting the foundation for long-term impact and value

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Mimi's Speaking Topics

Mimi regularly presents to Fortune 500 leadership teams and at industry conference events around the world on relevant and impactful topics. 
  • Digital Transformation & Business Strategy

  • Future of Human Work

  • Building the Org of the Future 

  • Strategy-to-Execution Approaches

  • Building 4th Industrial Revolution Businesses

  • Governance & Sustainability of Global Digital Programs

  • Transformation Management

  • and more!

About Mimi

Mimi Brooks is the CEO of Logical Design Solutions (LDS), a consulting firm that envisions and designs enterprise digital solutions. Since founding the company in 1990, she has led LDS to become a recognized brand among technology-focused management consultancies and a trusted partner to Fortune 500 business clients. Mimi is a former AT&T executive with a career-spanning focus on organizational design, technology-driven business transformation, and research on the changing behaviors of business users.

Mimi is recognized as an industry thought leader and has authored articles and white papers on topics such as the future of work, organizational transformation, and digital business strategy. She frequently presents to Fortune 500 leadership teams and at industry conference events around the world.

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Mimi Brooks, CEO of Logical Design Solutions

About Mimi

Mimi Brooks is CEO of Logical Design Solutions (LDS), a consulting firm that envisions and designs enterprise digital solutions. Since founding the company in 1990, she has led LDS to become a recognized brand among technology-focused management consultancies and trusted partner to Fortune 500 business clients. Mimi is a former AT&T executive with a career-spanning focus on organizational design, technology-driven business transformation, and research on the changing behaviors of business users.

Mimi is recognized as an industry thought leader and has authored articles and whitepapers on topics such as the future of work, organizational transformation, and digital business strategy. She frequently presents to Fortune 500 leadership teams and at industry conference events around the world.

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Leaders need to think about the big picture. We're in a momentous, important time of transformation, undoing a lot of system structures and ways people were successful and rewarded in the past. So we need to figure out how to engage leaders and workers in new value creation that they honestly believe in. That's when it works. 

          —Mimi Brooks, Organizational Change - Adapting with Action Panel

"Leaders need to think about the big picture. We're in a momentous, important time of transformation, undoing a lot of system structures and ways people were successful and rewarded in the past. So we need to figure out how to engage leaders and workers in new value creation that they honestly believe in. That's when it works." 

—Mimi Brooks, Organizational Change - Adapting with Action Panel

Industry Conversations

In dialogue with thought leaders and innovators on future-leading topics and concerns.

The New Digital Divide: From Access to Agency

Today, the digital divide is no longer just about access to devices and broadband. It’s about who gets to augment their thinking, extend their capabilities, and collaborate alongside intelligent systems. In a world increasingly run by autonomous systems, this raises a critical concern: who is empowered, thrives, and gets to benefit from AI—and who gets left behind?

From Headcount to Human Capabilities: Rethinking Workforce Strategy

Mimi and Dr. Beverly Tarulli, a seasoned HR strategist, educator, and expert in people and analytics, explore the shift from job-based planning to capability-driven strategy, the growing role of analytics in decision-making, and how HR can become a true strategic partner in times of disruption and change.

Strategic Capabilities at the Epicenter of Organizational Design 

Mimi and Karl Johnson, former Global Head of the Strategic Capabilities Practice at Mars, Incorporated, unpack how organizational capabilities form the infrastructure that allows companies to adapt, thrive, and lead in a time of digital disruption, AI acceleration, and evolving workforce dynamics. 

Transcending the Noise: Leadership, Humanity, and the Long Game

Drawing on Faisal Hoque’s unique fusion of Eastern philosophy and American entrepreneurial spirit, Mimi and Faisal explore what it means to transcend as a leader, how to build organizations that thrive through cycles of change, and why the inner life of leadership is more important than ever.

Organizational Change - Action with Impact Panel

Mimi joined the Institute for Digital Transformation: Digital Dialogue panel to discuss actionable strategies that make organizational transformation a reality. 

Leading a Purpose-Driven Organization in a Digital World Order

Mimi joined the Texas McCombs School of Business: EMBA Speaker Series to discuss, among other things, the four key principles business leaders must adopt to systematically innovate and harness the full potential of the evolving infrastructures evolving in this Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Lessons Learned & Current Business Imperatives of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Mimi led a session at Procter & Gamble's WINnovation Summit on lessons to take into the future and imperatives for the next stage of digital transformation.

 

LDS On: Drags on Institutional Innovation

In this episode of "LDS On," Mimi shares the top-ten list of common obstacles that impede—and even stall—successful transformation initiatives.

The RecruitingDaily Podcast: The Human Hub in the Future of Work

In this RecruitingDaily podcast episode hosted by William Tincup, Mimi and William discuss topics surrounding "The Human Hub in the Future of Work."

Building Organizational Capabilities to Win in the 2020s

Mimi delivered a keynote presentation at the Conference Board's 17th Annual Change & Transformation Conference discussing lessons learned in the first ten years of digital transformation.

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Reimagine Your Organization

Take part in our bi-weekly Bold Agendas podcast conversations with industry thought leaders on topics of strategic interest for decision-makers who are guiding their organizations through transformative change.

Bold Agendas Podcast

The most influential principals and policy makers consistently use innovative approaches to drive transformative change while reimagining and redefining human work. Join Mimi on her bi-weekly Bold Agendas podcast for conversations with industry thought leaders as they discuss digital transformation and the challenges that lie ahead for organizations, leaders, and workers.

Mimi's Latest Thinking

Mimi regularly publishes thought leadership on organizational transformation, the augmented worker, leadership transformation, and ways executives can lead their workforce into the future.

Winning in the Age of Intelligent Autonomy White Paper

Winning in the Age of Intelligent Autonomy

Designed to answer key questions for business leaders, our latest white paper explains how Agentic AI will dramatically shift how businesses operate, compete, and grow using its capacity to autonomously reach decisions, execute strategies, and adapt to situations in real-time.

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It Takes an Ecosystem White Paper

It Takes an Ecosystem

Explore a bold blueprint for an integrated workplace where human-machine collaboration drives the scale, agility, and innovation required to thrive in a complex, ever-changing environment.

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Organizational Debt Article

Organizational Debt

In Mimi’s latest article, we make the case that organizational debt is the real barrier to transformation and the sustainable momentum needed for long-term success.

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Mimi's Speaking Engagements

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Building Organizational Capabilities to Win in the 2020s

Mimi presents on Lessons Learned and Current Business Imperatives of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Proctor & Gamble's WINnovation Summit

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Shaping Business in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Have Mimi Speak at Your Next Event

For detailed information on Mimi's presentation topics or to request her to present to your leadership team, please email info@LDS.com or call 973-210-6300. 

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