Aligning Culture, Leadership, and Strategy
Organizations perform at their highest level when culture, leadership, and strategy are aligned.
When these forces are misaligned, organizations experience friction. Strategic initiatives stall, leadership becomes reactive, and culture drifts away from purpose.
Our work helps leaders bring these forces into alignment—enabling purpose and empowering performance.
We anchor this work in our proprietary Productivity Powered by P.E.O.P.L.E.® framework, which connects policies, processes, leadership practices, and workforce engagement to organizational outcomes—ensuring that strategy is not only defined, but consistently activated through how leaders lead and how work gets done.
At DB Latimore Professional Services Group, we partner with leaders who are committed to building organizations where people and performance thrive together.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help leaders align culture, leadership, and strategy so organizations can enable purpose and achieve performance.
Through thought leadership, leadership forums, immersive retreats, and strategic advisory partnerships, we support organizations navigating growth, transformation, and complex leadership challenges.
Our work integrates behavioral insight, leadership development, and strategic alignment to help organizations operate with clarity, collaboration, and purpose.
Our Leadership Architecture
Our work is guided by a leadership architecture that connects ideas, leadership dialogue, immersive learning experiences, and strategic partnership.
This architecture reflects our belief that meaningful organizational change begins with leadership insight and develops through conversation, reflection, and intentional action.
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The Intellectual Foundation of Our Work
Our books form the intellectual foundation for our leadership work.
The Leadership Trilogy
Human Capital at the Core
Explores how organizations align human capital strategy with business priorities to create sustainable performance.
You Should Be a Coach
Reframes leadership as a practice centered on developing people, building accountability, and strengthening leadership capacity.
The Power of Presence
Examines how leaders influence culture and decision-making through presence, communication, and strategic conversations.
The Path to Authenticity
Explores the inner work of leadership and the role of personal alignment, self-awareness, and values in shaping leadership effectiveness.
Together, these works inform the leadership conversations, retreats, and advisory engagements we design with organizations.
Leadership Conversations and Strategic Dialogue
We convene leaders to examine the intersection of culture, leadership, and organizational strategy.
Our leadership forums and summits create spaces where leaders from different organizations can exchange perspectives, challenge assumptions, and explore emerging leadership challenges.
Examples include:
• Leadership Transformation Summit
• Mission and Culture Advisory Forum
• Leadership Roundtables
These conversations allow leaders to step outside the demands of daily operations and engage in meaningful dialogue about the future of leadership and organizational performance.
Immersive Leadership Experiences
Our retreats and facilitated leadership experiences provide organizations with the opportunity to explore culture, leadership behavior, and strategy in a focused environment.
These experiences allow leadership teams to step away from operational pressure and engage in thoughtful reflection, alignment, and strategic decision-making.
Examples include:
• Leadership Team Retreats
• Culture Alignment Retreats
• Authenticity Leadership Retreat
These immersive environments create the space where leadership insight becomes organizational transformation.
Strategic Partnership
At the most advanced level of engagement, we serve as a strategic thought partner to leaders navigating complex organizational challenges.
Through advisory engagements, we work closely with leaders to translate insight into action and align leadership practices with organizational priorities.
Our advisory engagements include:
• Executive Thought Partnership
• Leadership Advisory
• Executive Coaching
These relationships allow us to support leaders as they guide their organizations through growth, transformation, and change.
Working With Us
Leaders engage with our work through leadership forums, immersive retreats, and strategic advisory partnerships.
If your organization is exploring how to better align culture, leadership, and strategy, we welcome the opportunity to begin the conversation.
Our hummingbird logo represents the potential agility of any workforce. We believe that minor adjustments to the way work is defined and delivered will improve the productivity of the individual, the team, and ultimately the organization. The hummingbird possesses the innate ability to adjust quickly to any situation by shifting its wings in motion either forward, backward, by hovering and, when necessary, upside down. Our methodology allows you to embed this ability within your organization, and experience significant gains in productivity and performance.
Daphne B. Latimore is the Founder and Managing Partner of DB Latimore Professional Services Group, a boutique organizational strategy and human resource management firm specializing in leadership alignment, culture transformation, and experiential retreats.
Executive Profile
Daphne B. Latimore
Founder & Organizational Strategist
DB Latimore Professional Services
Daphne B. Latimore is a best-selling author, founder, and managing partner of DB Latimore Professional Services Group, a boutique consultancy dedicated to aligning leadership behaviors with operational strategy to drive sustained organizational growth.
With over 25 years of experience across public and private sectors, Daphne has earned a national reputation as a trusted organizational strategist who transforms leadership teams and cultivates cultures of performance, equity, and accountability. Her firm specializes in culture transformation, leadership development, HR infrastructure, and executive thought partnership—serving mission-driven organizations, nonprofits, and private-sector companies across industries.
As the author of the acclaimed Leadership Trilogy—Human Capital at the Core, You Should Be a Coach, and The Power of Presence—Daphne distills decades of experience into actionable frameworks that elevate people strategy as a central driver of business success. Her work challenges traditional notions of HR and leadership by placing behavior at the heart of organizational performance.
Daphne’s work focuses on helping leaders align culture, leadership behavior, and organizational strategy so that purpose and performance move in the same direction. Through leadership forums, immersive retreats, and strategic advisory partnerships, she creates spaces where leaders can examine how their leadership practices, organizational systems, and culture influence performance.
Her proprietary Productivity Powered by P.E.O.P.L.E.® framework guides leaders in translating strategy into everyday leadership behavior—ensuring that policies, processes, leadership practices, and workforce engagement operate together to support sustainable organizational performance.
She holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Troy State University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Bethune-Cookman College, with advanced training from Oxford University-Said Business School, the University of Michigan, and the University of New Hampshire.
A champion for the HR profession and a mentor to emerging leaders, Daphne’s mission is simple: enable purpose, empower performance, and ensure people are an organization’s greatest asset.
Daphne is passionate about advancing Human Resources as a profession and is committed to ensuring that “PEOPLE” are an organization’s greatest resource. As a result of her commitment, she developed the Productivity Powered by P.E.O.P.L.E. ® workforce productivity framework based on her years of experience working with leaders at all levels to improve the workforce productivity of their organization.