Bestselling Author · Leadership Strategist · Builder
I work at the intersection of people and systems.
Developing leaders. Moving capital. And building the tools — including the AI — that make both scale. For three books, a global NGO across eight countries, Fortune 500 cohorts, and a growing set of ventures, the work has been the same: translate between worlds, and architect what's built to last.
About
A translator and an architect.
Jacqueline V. Twillie, MBA is a three-time bestselling author, leadership development strategist, and founder building at the intersection of human capability and intelligent systems. She has trained more than 10,000 professionals at Fortune 500 organizations across four continents — Foot Locker, American Express, and Allstate among them.
Her work spans worlds that rarely speak the same language: the negotiating table and the giving table, the leadership cohort and the codebase, the individual professional and the global institution. The through-line is the same in every one. She translates what an organization or a person is capable of into something they can see — then architects the structure, the program, or the technology that gets them there and keeps it standing.
She builds for durability, not novelty. That's true of the leaders she develops, the donor architecture she designs, the books that have become frameworks, and the AI agents she now builds to carry the work further.
“The ability to see what someone is capable of before they see it themselves.”
Ventures
What I'm building.
One company, several products, and a body of work that all runs on the same idea: see what's possible, then build the thing that makes it real.
The Work
Programs still standing in year five.
Corporate Philanthropy · Global NGO
130% increase in donation rates, sustained across leadership turnover.
130% lift in donation rates — sustained across four years and two leadership transitions.
A global humanitarian organization operating across eight countries had stagnating donor relationships and no cohesive partnership architecture. Giving was transactional. There was no strategic framework that could survive a change in leadership.
Jacqueline designed and led the We Imagine campaign — 20 dinners, 20 cities, 8 countries, 4 continents — building the institutional donor relationships and partnership architecture the organization had never had. She managed an eight-figure budget and built a program structured to outlast the leaders who launched it.
Leadership Development · Foot Locker BUILD
9.1/10 average session rating across 97 professionals. Participants implementing same-day — from navigating microaggressions to elevating executive presence — before the program ended.
A program for the leaders Foot Locker's structure wasn't built to develop.
BUILD @ Foot Locker — the company's ERG for Black professionals at a Fortune 500 global retailer — needed a leadership program that went beyond workshops. Participants were high-potential professionals navigating microaggressions, imposter syndrome, and blocked paths to management. Many were first-generation corporate employees with no internal framework for advancing in an environment that wasn't designed with them in mind.
Jacqueline designed and facilitated the Resilient Leaders Program — a multi-session global cohort built on her proprietary AHA Method (Attitude, Habits, Actions). 97 professionals enrolled across departments and countries, from early-career associates to senior managers. The program gave them the negotiation frameworks, executive presence tools, and resilience strategies to advance on their own terms — without waiting for the organization to notice them.
Institutional Partnerships · International Nonprofit
Senior executives — CFOs, CEOs, corporate counsel — moved into institutional relationships across 12 markets. The dinner-to-donor proof of concept that became the 20 Dinners framework.
A capital-adjacent donor pipeline built across 12 markets. The model that proved the framework.
An international nonprofit operating across eight countries with a $13M AUD budget had donor relationships but no systematic pipeline infrastructure. Capital was being left on the table because there was no architecture for tracking, converting, and multiplying high-value relationships at scale.
Jacqueline built a donor pipeline from scratch across 12 geographic markets — 22 senior women added, every contact logged, tagged by city and event, and entered into the CRM the same day they were added. The pipeline ran two simultaneous tracks: a U.S. dinner series and a European campaign, with six members already bridging both. The network included CFOs, CEOs, a Corporate Counsel from Amazon, and an academic from UCL — people who move capital. The dinner-to-donor model built and validated here became the foundation for the 20 Dinners framework that later produced a 130% increase in donation rates.
“An exceptional ability to hold ambitious vision and practical execution together at the same time, bringing people into meaningful long-term relationships that genuinely move systems and people forward.”
Sam Refshauge/Colleague, International NGO
Books
Three books. One mission.
Don't Leave Money on the Table
Negotiation Strategies for Women Leaders in Male-Dominated Industries
The go-to negotiation playbook for women who lead. Features the L.A.T.T.E. framework — a five-step method for building win/win negotiations in business and career. An Amazon bestseller praised for being "written for us, by us."
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Dear Resilient Leader
A Guide for Underrepresented Leaders
A powerful and practical guide for leaders navigating the modern business world. Built around the R4 framework — Risk, Resilience, Reset, Reward — it provides a roadmap for overcoming the unique challenges underrepresented leaders face on the way to the top.
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Navigating the Career Jungle
A Guide for Young Professionals
The early-career playbook. Grounded in the cornerstones of excellence, truth, ethics, and self-improvement — this is the book for professionals who want to lead with intention from day one.
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The Winning Season podcast.
200+ episodes. Forbes-featured. Conversations with leaders, builders, and changemakers about the long game — the habits, decisions, and resilience that compound over a career.
Also on Spotify · Apple Podcasts
Speaking
The talk your audience is still applying two weeks later.
Negotiate Like You Mean It
The L.A.T.T.E. framework for salary, promotion, and high-stakes negotiation — built for professionals in environments that weren't designed with them in mind.
Corporate · ERG · ConferenceThe Resilient Leader
How high-potential professionals build the habits, mindset, and strategic visibility to advance — without waiting for the organization to notice them.
Fortune 500 · ERG · Leadership SummitPhilanthropy Built for the Decade
Why most corporate giving programs don't survive a leadership change — and what it takes to build one that does. For CSR leaders, foundations, and institutional givers.
Foundation · CSR · Corporate BoardThe AI + Ownership Conversation
AI is changing who gets paid, who gets promoted, and who controls the narrative. This is the conversation most organizations aren't having — and should be.
Corporate · ERG · Executive TeamPast Stages & Programs
“She has a unique talent of coaching while presenting and leaves an audience with action items that will allow them to continue to learn from her lessons.”
Lawrence O. Brown, MBA/ERG Leader · Allstate
Philanthropic Partnerships
Cultivating philanthropic partnerships.
Moving people, capital, and commitment.
For foundations, companies, and institutions ready to build philanthropy that outlasts the leader who launched it. Campaign architecture, institutional fundraising frameworks, and donor pipelines structured to survive budget cycles and leadership change — built for the decade, not the announcement.
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