Driving Outcomes

How to Accelerate Business Results Through Culture

Sarah Plantenberg

Grow your business with a thriving workplace culture

Business outcomes are directly impacted by workplace culture. Misalignment within or across any level of your business creates friction—teamwork slows, and results deteriorate. But when culture shifts and employees unite in values, goals, and expectations, business thrives.

In Driving Outcomes, business leader and innovator Sarah Plantenberg harnesses her decades of experience working with leaders in high-pressure, rapidly changing environments to bring you effective tools to help you align both teams and leaders.

Plantenberg dives deep into the cognitive and emotional factors that shape culture, showing you how they influence business outcomes. She then gives you actionable steps to intentionally create the optimal conditions for success—a culture that reduces conflict, amplifies synergies, and fosters innovation. Through real-world examples and practical exercises, she illustrates how these strategies can be put into action. You’ll come away from Driving Outcomes equipped to build a culture that senses and responds to its own changing needs, keeping your organization high performing and competitive


Reviews

“Sarah Plantenberg’s Driving Outcomes is a compelling invitation for leaders to create a thriving, high-performance culture.”

“Chockfull of examples and exercises, Driving Outcomes is a powerful road map for making change happen in your organization and unlocking the full potential of your people.”

“Driving Outcomes reveals the true power of culture in turning team dysfunction into high-performance results.”


Sarah Plantenberg is an expert in the field of human factors who has worked at the intersection of human beings, technology, and business for more than twenty-five years. She has been in the roles of software designer, business designer, strategist, and innovator of technology and methodology. As co-founder of the IBM Garage, a lean cloud adoption consultancy, and its companion methodology, IBM Garage Methodology, Sarah has helped springboard hundreds of organizations into their digital transformation journey. Sarah brings together disparate points of view across even the most complex teams, teaching them to align on business outcomes, as well as design and maintain the culture needed to drive to those outcomes. Sarah is an avid inventor, and she holds nine technical and user experience patents through her employers.
Find her on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/sarah-plantenberg or visit her website at driving-outcomes.com.


ISBN 978-1-77458-560-3
$21.95 CAD $17.95 USD
Published January 22, 2025
5.5 x 8.5 272 Pages
paperback, ebook