The 2022 Women Leaders In Technology: Mimi Brooks

Mimi Brooks is CEO of Logical Design Solutions (LDS). Under her leadership, LDS provides solutions that harmonize, humanize, and create a working nexus for business assets and ecosystems, maximizing technology investments, and realizing new value differentiating organizations by enabling new ways of working, connecting and conducting business. Mimi's expertise helped create and deploy onboarding and career journey strategies that reduced turnover and advanced career mobility for 10 Fortune 500 companies. She has also been instrumental in creating a successful strategy that led the transformation management office for a large public utility that reasoned the strategic resource plan for the future of work and workers/employees, essentially changing how 12,000 people will work in 2025.

A digital transformation and future of work expert, Mimi leveraged her experience to create an innovative methodology for worker research that helps organizations in transformation determine their future of work goals. In 2021, Mimi was named to the Advisory Board for the Seton Hall University "Transformative Leadership in Disruptive Times" program. A well-recognized industry thought leader, Mimi contributes to discussions on curriculum and actively participates in mentoring program participants.

What do you consider your greatest personal or professional achievement?

The idea that I've had the professional freedom to spend the vast majority of my career doing innovative work with smart and highly creative people around me every day is by far my greatest professional achievement. To do that, too, while having the opportunity to partner with leaders across all major industries and markets, and the great privilege to meet with their workers "up close and personal" in every imaginable work environment, has been fascinating and delightful.

What advice would you give a professional just beginning a career in consulting?

Work to learn…you'll be a better consultant and you'll never be disappointed in the time you spend in consulting.

What have you loved most about your consulting career?

The diverse, interesting, passionate people who make businesses work, and work happen, around the world every day. I'm forever impressed and inspired by the people who imagine, design, serve, build and sell…applying their crafts every day and especially over these many recent years characterized by challenging, dynamic change. I love watching how people find both planful and scrappy ways to make their companies great every day.