OUR LEADERSHIP

Jesse Jacoby, Founder & Managing Director

Emergent was founded by Jesse Jacoby, a management consultant with extensive experience executing strategic initiatives and achieving business transformation goals. He provides thought leadership and expertise in the areas of organizational change, strategic communications, and stakeholder engagement. Jesse has helped numerous companies, including many of the Fortune 500, deliver successful people and change strategies across a range of initiatives including technology deployments, rapid growth, merger-acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and outsourcing. Before founding Emergent, Jesse spent nearly two decades in management and consulting roles and has led many successful consulting engagements for Booz & Company, Accenture, and Right Management. Read More >>


Carolyn Foss, Principal

Carolyn Foss is an accomplished organizational strategy consultant with more than 20 years of experience delivering quantifiable results to clients in diversified industries. Her unique blend of Fortune 500 corporate and consulting experience enables her to create and deliver strategies that reduce cost, accelerate innovation, improve process and increase performance with sustainable outcomes. Carolyn has significant experience in the areas of organizational change management, communication strategy, business performance optimization, program management, organizational effectiveness, facilitation, training and coaching. She has served in a variety of consultant and leadership positions at a variety of organizations including American Express, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, AT&T Global Services, Newmont Mining, Catholic Health Initiatives, Covidien/Kendall Healthcare, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, and Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals, and the Institute for Shipboard Education Read More >>