Two Workforces. One Operating Model.
AI is creating a human workforce and a digital workforce. Leadership must redesign the system in which both contribute.
Read the essayEnterprise CHRO · Transformation Executive · Writer · Founder, Blackert Enterprise Advisory
The Discipline
of Better.
Ideas on leadership, organizational performance, and the responsibility to build better.
LeadershipOrganizational performanceWhat becomes possible next
01 / The Discipline of Better
Leadership is the pursuit of better.
Leadership carries the responsibility to create the conditions in which people and organizations can thrive.
The Discipline of Better is about the responsibility leaders assume when an organization is entrusted to them: to understand it as it is, recognize what it could become, and strengthen it through the way they lead.
That responsibility is becoming more consequential. Organizations are entering a period of structural change in how work is performed, how value is created, and how people contribute. The decisions leaders make now will shape their institutions well beyond the initiatives or technologies prompting them.
For nearly two decades as an executive leader and enterprise CHRO, I have led through moments when organizations were redefining their strategies, operating models, and futures. That experience has convinced me that insight creates greater value when it extends beyond the organization in which it was earned, particularly while the questions remain unresolved.
I am sharing this work to bring perspective to the leadership responsibility we have in shaping the future of organizations.
Possibility is everywhere. Better is the discipline of pursuing it.
02 / Ideas & Writing
Questions that matter to leaders now.
Ideas about the conditions that shape what organizations and people are capable of becoming.
Selected writing
A place to begin.
Trust Is an Operating Asset
Trust determines how quickly truth moves, decisions get made, and organizations adapt.
Read the essayClinical Leadership Is a Strategic Asset in Value-Based Care
The quality of care depends not only on clinical judgment, but on the leadership conditions surrounding it.
Read the essay03 / A Working Model
Enterprise Performance Architecture.
Philosophy establishes the responsibility. Architecture gives leaders a way to examine how an organization converts strategy and intent into performance.
The operating discipline
Four dimensions shape how the organization works.
- 01Decisions
How choices are made and authority is exercised.
- 02Ownership
Who is accountable, empowered, and equipped to deliver.
- 03Structure
How roles, resources, and work are organized.
- 04Execution
How priorities become coordinated and sustained action.
Executive experience
The scale behind the work.
Leadership at scaleexperience across enterprises of more than 300,000 employees
$19B+cumulative transaction value
Complex environmentsFortune 10, public, private equity, ESOP, and nonprofit
Enterprise changegrowth, transformation, integration, restructuring, and reinvention
About Lara
Ideas grounded in enterprise leadership.
Lara Blackert is an enterprise CHRO, transformation executive, and writer whose work examines how leadership choices shape organizational performance and what becomes possible next.
Across nearly two decades, she has led through growth, acquisition, integration, succession, operating-model change, and reinvention in healthcare, construction, engineering, manufacturing, and mining.
Today, she brings that experience to her writing, The Discipline of Better, and Blackert Enterprise Advisory, where she works with leaders navigating consequential change.