Jessica Skon

Throughout her more than 20-year career at BTS, Jessica has pioneered the application of enterprise simulations for strategy execution, built the BTS leadership practice and delivered CEO and C-Suite advisory in service of transformations.
 
Jessica’s client experience is primarily software and tech, where she has helped clients lead and execute through growth pivots, strengthened their leadership culture, shifted from waterfall to agile, and from software to Saas, including clients such as: Microsoft, Salesforce.com, SAP, VMWare, New Relic, Uber, Atlassian, Twitter and others. She has also worked with fortune 50 healthcare, oil and gas, and financial services organizations (eg. McKesson, Fidelity PI, Chevron) to support their transformations, working with the C-Suite and driving leader readiness throughout the organization over multi-year engagements to drive change.
 
Jessica has been published in several outlets, such as World Forum Disrupt, where she wrote ‘Strategy Made Personal’: the Advice This CEO Offers America’s Top Business Minds, and Influencive, where she published both How this Leadership Mindset Can Make or Break Your Company in the 21st Century, and What is More Important for Leaders Today, Define Reality or Provide Hope? In Forbes, Jessica wrote: What Some of Today’s Best Executives Have in Common with Music Producer Jimmy Iovine and Stop the Madness: Take a Moment-Based Approach to Leadership Expectations. In Tech Republic, she writes on How to Use Data to Promote Workplace Diversity. Jessica has published the following on bts.com: A Data-Driven & Mindset Approach to Increasing Diversity, Is the Pursuit of Purpose the Latest Management Fad? Nope. But it is Getting More Personal…, Finding Your Personal Purpose, and Closing the Purpose Gap. Jessica is also featured in the following interviews: Inside the C-Suite: Meet Jessica Parisi, CEO, BTS USA in Progressive Women’s Leadership, Is Speed the New Currency? published on ZDNet, and How One Company Balanced the Gender Books in The Globe and Mail. Most recently, Jessica was featured on Fearless Thinkers, the BTS podcast, in episodes Meet Jess and Big Hearted and High Performing. She also co-authored this whitepaper on MESSY Leadership with Jerry Connor, Global Head of Leadership at BTS, and Stephanie Peskett, SVP and Partner at BTS.
 
Jessica is the recipient of a Bronze Stevie Award for Woman of the Year in the 2017 Stevie International Business Awards.