About Plinth Legacy

A business development firm for organizations that grew faster than their systems. We help them build the operations, culture, and leadership that let the business last.

Our Mission

Plinth Legacy exists to give organizations the standards, structure, and leadership they need to build something that outlasts any one moment and any one person. The work is business development: operations, culture, leadership, and the people who do the work. The goal is permanence. Every engagement, every program, and every conversation is designed with one question in mind: what are we building that will still be standing when we are gone?

The Name

A plinth is the base. The structural foundation on which everything above it stands.

Plinth Legacy builds that base, so what an organization builds on top of it lasts.

What We Do

  • Operations: an operating rhythm, digital documentation, and tracking for licenses, audits, vendors and renewals.
  • Culture: written standards, clear roles, and inspection that keeps standards in practice.
  • Leadership: coaching for owners and executives, and development for the next layer of leaders.
  • Employees: five programs on onboarding, communication, coaching, transferable skills, and inclusion.

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About the Founder

John Jones, Founder of Plinth Legacy LLC
  • 25+ years of enterprise leadership
  • Former Vice President and Chief of Staff at JPMorganChase
  • 4,600+ community members led

John Jones spent 20 years at JPMorganChase rising from systems engineer to Vice President, not by waiting for opportunity, but by building things that worked and developing the people around him.

He was the Chief of Staff for the Houston Market Leadership Team. He co-chaired BOLD Texas, leading over 76 volunteers and serving a community of 4,647 employees, growing engagement by 18% during one of the firm's most turbulent periods. His peers didn't call him a manager. They called him the Mayor.

Like Galileo laying the groundwork for Newton to change the world, John doesn't want to be the artwork that changes the world.

He wants to be what holds it up.

"Build Something That Lasts. Build Something to Remember."

Let's build something that lasts.

Start with a conversation about your organization and where it is headed.

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