Jackie Pfeifer

Background

About Jackie Pfeifer

15+ years of making organizations work.I specialize in the part most companies underinvest in until it’s already a problem: the people infrastructure that determines whether a high-growth, high-stakes organization actually scales.My work lives at the intersection of strategy and execution, across multiple organizations and industries, and most recently in biosecurity and biodefense, where science, technology, and national security intersect. Complex, technical, and built without a playbook.I’m drawn to organizations with big ambition and people infrastructure that hasn’t caught up yet. That gap is exactly where I do my best work.Across my career, here’s what my work has produced:→ End-to-end org building — from compensation philosophy and operating model design to leading through ambiguity, driving decisions, and bringing leadership teams and stakeholders along through real change→ Built the kind of trust that’s hard to manufacture across organizations, with leadership teams, employees, and key stakeholders, including partners and vendors. I show up consistently, solving hard problems alongside people, and creating environments where engagement is real, not performative→ Leadership work that turns guarded, siloed teams into ones that actually communicate, collaborate, and execute together→ 94% business unit retention. 90%+ OKR achievement. Top manager effectiveness scores across the org.