Doing Good Better

Using Dysfunction as a Catalyst for Change for Smart Capable Organizational Leaders Who Have Gotten in Over Their Heads

Even strong leaders and well-intentioned organizations can find themselves caught in dysfunction. It usually doesn’t happen overnight. Small issues go unaddressed, difficult conversations get postponed, responsibilities become blurred, and eventually the way an organization operates no longer matches the values it claims to represent.

In Doing Good Better, Jessica Pettitt helps leaders recognize those warning signs before everyday dysfunction turns into a much bigger problem. With her direct, practical, and often humorous approach, Jess shows how to uncover what isn’t working, confront uncomfortable realities, and turn organizational challenges into opportunities for meaningful change.

Readers will discover how to identify patterns of dysfunction, have more productive conversations about difficult issues, strengthen leadership and workplace culture, and create greater alignment between an organization’s stated values and its everyday actions. Just as importantly, Jess explores how leaders can stop carrying the entire weight of an organization themselves and build cultures that continue to function effectively even when they aren’t in the room.

Doing Good Better isn’t about creating a workplace without conflict, stress, or challenges. It’s about creating an organization capable of addressing those challenges honestly. When people can say what needs to be said, hear what needs to be heard, and take responsibility for what happens next, dysfunction stops being something to work around—and becomes an opportunity to build something better.

Almost Doing Good

What if ‘almost’ could be your organization’s secret weapon for success?

This is not your typical crisis-management book. It’s an invitation to embrace disruption, tackle complexity, and move beyond good intentions toward real, measurable impact.

With her signature candor, humor, and no-nonsense style, Pettitt lays out a clear, practical framework for organizations to Prepare, Recognize, and Respond to challenges that can weaken or destroy them if ignored.

If you’re ready to do something to address the toughest problems facing your organizational culture, ‘almost’ is about to become a very powerful step toward lasting change. Almost Doing Good will inspire you to take action, even when the path forward isn’t clear, and give you reasons to keep going with more than 20 real-world case studies from clients who made good intentions worse—from ERGs to lunchtime yoga to Black Lives Matter non-demonstrations to breastfeeding stations—with reframes to help you make good intentions better. And it’s all from a crisis management expert who has spent more than 20 years helping more than 1400 organizations and half a million people “do the best they can with what they have some of the time.”

Almost Doing Good is an essential guide for leaders, HR professionals, and anyone passionate about building a workplace culture that doesn’t shy away from challenges, who understands that company culture and public perception can make or break organizations, and who is ready to embrace almost in the neverending quest to improve.

Good Enough Now

Sitting around pointing fingers and waiting for change to appear on the horizon—has it ever worked for you?

Do you feel imbalance between who you are and who you think you should be?

Do you see fulfillment, better relationships, and stronger teamwork as something to work for, but not possible now?

In her breakthrough message, author and speaker Jessica Pettitt reveals the truth about how we can be the best versions of ourselves now! By being our authentic selves, we can immediately improve our companies, relationships, and communities.

Good Enough Now is an innovative and practical guide to ridding yourself of self-doubt, self-limiting beliefs, and habitual excuses through:

• Being true to yourself
• Building on your strengths
• Supporting others in their strengths
• Building better teams
• Serving others

Read this revolutionary book and discover that you already have what is necessary to begin shifting the paradigm!