Jyoti Jani — 'Creating Culture: Empowered Leadership For Systems Change'

Third Place Books is delighted to welcome former Boeing leadership strategist and KEXP DJ Jyoti Jani to our Seward Park store for the release of her new book, Creating Culture: Empowered Leadership For Systems Change, a guide to using empathy, creativity, and empowerment to build strong and sustainable workplace cultures.

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This event is free to attend. For important updates, registration is highly recommended in advance.

Creating Culture: Empowered Leadership for Systems Change offers a transformative approach to building organizations that not only succeed but also nourish the people within them. In a world where traditional power structures often stifle creativity, performance and equity, this book shows how innovative leadership can drive meaningful change at every level.

Author Jyoti Jani draws on over two decades years of leadership experience at Boeing and beyond while bringing her unique perspective as a woman of color, engineer, and social scientist. Through candid stories, exclusive interviews with industry leaders, and a focus on intersectionality, Jani unveils how empathy, creativity and empowerment are powerful tools for driving systemic change.

With research-backed frameworks, actionable tools, and reflective exercises designed to inspire anyone committed to creating meaningful change in their organizations and beyond, Jani provides a roadmap to building cultures where innovation thrives, power and resources are distributed effectively, and everyone has the capacity to contribute their best, most impactful work. This is more than a book. It’s a blueprint for transforming our organizations and our world.

Jyoti Jani is a systems change practitioner, cultural strategist, and author of Creating Culture: Empowered Leadership for Systems Change. With over 20 years of experience as a leadership strategist at Boeing and as a KEXP DJ, Jyoti blends her expertise in engineering, creativity, and emotional intelligence to help leaders and teams unlock their full potential. She is the founder of Spille:Play, a consultancy dedicated to creating immersive, play-based leadership experiences that build cultures of trust, creativity, and collaboration. Jyoti's work is rooted in the belief that culture is energy and creativity is how we move it—transforming workplaces and communities into spaces where everyone can thrive.

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