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Laura Fisher
Laura Fisher is Leadership & Organizational Development Leader at JetBlue Airways, providing strategic direction for leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and change adoption across the airline. She studied organizational psychology at Columbia University after relocating from the Pacific Northwest to New York, and previously worked in learning and organizational development at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
Making the Implicit Explicit
Laura describes her team's core role at JetBlue simply: making the implicit explicit. Whether designing leadership programs, advising on organizational structure, or supporting the adoption of change, she believes raising awareness of what's just under the surface, unstated assumptions, informal power structures, unspoken norms, helps leaders make more informed and intentional decisions and reduces unintended consequences down the line. She's built her team's practice around embodying and driving growth mindset and inclusive behaviors as a natural extension of building great leaders and organizations, rather than treating those as separate initiatives.
Topics Laura speaks on
- Making the implicit explicit in organizational decision-making
- Growth mindset and inclusive leadership behaviors
- Change adoption and organizational design
- Leadership development in a large, operationally complex organization
- Lessons learned scaling skills strategy across a workforce
Sessions with Achieve
Laura is a featured panelist on the Achieve webcast "Skills@work 2025: Panel Discussion: We Tried That... Now What? Lessons From the Skills Trenches" (October 15, 2025), alongside Jenna Filipkowski of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Jo Mills of Fuel50. The panel shares real lessons from skills strategy initiatives that organizations have tried, what worked, and what they'd do differently.
Connect
Want more on what it takes to make the implicit explicit in your own organization? Learn more about the Achieve Leadership Network.