When the goal is stronger performance, I can help you get there.
Whether you’re building something new, stress-testing what you have, or trying to make the science work in the real world — here’s how I work.
My work operates at the strategy level: identifying what needs to change, why it matters, and what the path forward looks like. The leaders and organizations I work with have the internal capacity and authority to act on strategic guidance and are looking for the research depth, independent perspective, and organizational thinking to inform that action.
Strategy & Organizational Assessment
For leaders who need an honest, evidence-based picture of where their human performance strategy stands — with a clear path forward.
AdvisoryOrganizational Design & Leadership Advisory
For leaders ready to build the governance, culture conditions, and systems that make human performance sustainable.
ResearchResearch, Evidence & Value Demonstration
For organizations who need their work to be credible, measurable, and clearly connected to outcomes decision-makers care about.
InitiativeExpert Community Leadership & Initiative Development
For professional associations, academic institutions, and mission-driven organizations that want to convene thought leaders around an important question — and actually produce something from it.
CurationKnowledge Curation & Convening
For organizations who want to design learning experiences and expert gatherings that actually advance thinking.
EventsFacilitation, Speaking & Executive Events
For event producers, corporate learning teams, and organizations who need someone who can hold a room of senior leaders and move the thinking forward.
Strategy & Organizational Assessment
For leaders who need an honest, evidence-based picture of where their human performance strategy stands, with a clear path forward. I bring independent expertise, proven assessment frameworks, and the research depth to benchmark against what's actually working across the field.
Useful when a C-suite leader is asking harder questions and needs answers that will hold up to scrutiny.
- Organizational assessment and benchmarking
- Gap analysis and strategic recommendations
- Measurement framework development
Engagements result in clear strategic direction and recommendations. I can provide referrals to other qualified practitioners to support program management or implementation support.
Start a conversationOrganizational Design & Leadership Advisory
For leaders and organizations ready to do something ambitious: building the governance, culture conditions, leadership behaviors, and systems that make human performance sustainable.
I work best with people who know they want something forward-thinking and science-grounded but aren't yet sure what it looks like. I can help you figure that out and lead you there.
- Strategic planning and governance design
- Leadership advisory and behavior change
- Organizational systems design
I help leaders define what ambitious looks like and build the strategic case for it. Implementation of organizational change is carried forward by internal teams or specialist partners.
Start a conversationResearch, Evidence & Value Demonstration
For solution providers, consulting firms, and mission-driven organizations who need their work to be credible, measurable, and clearly connected to outcomes decision-makers care about.
I translate complex science into language that moves people, from white papers and evidence reviews to measurement frameworks and business case development.
- Evidence reviews and research translation
- White paper and business case development
- Measurement strategy and outcome frameworks
Expert Community Leadership & Initiative Development
For professional associations, academic institutions, and mission-driven organizations that want to convene thought leaders around an important question — and actually produce something from it. Leading a group of credentialed experts requires more than facilitation. It requires intellectual leadership, project discipline, and the ability to build consensus among people who are used to being the smartest person in the room.
I design and lead initiatives from the ground up — recruiting the right people, setting strategic direction, managing the work through to publication or implementation, and ensuring the final product is rigorous enough to stand up to scrutiny and useful enough to move the field forward.
- Research committee leadership
- Multi-stakeholder consensus and policy development
- Collaborative publication projects
- Strategic initiative design and direction
Engagements result in published guidance, research frameworks, or strategic initiative design, not ongoing program management.
Start a conversationKnowledge Curation & Convening
For nonprofits, academic institutions, and solution providers who want to design learning experiences and expert gatherings that actually advance thinking rather than just fill a program agenda.
I bring research literacy, facilitation depth, and a track record of building conferences and convenings that leave people with sharper questions and better answers.
- Conference design, curation, and agenda architecture
- Expert convening and speaker guidance
- Post-event synthesis and field resources
Facilitation, Speaking & Executive Events
For event producers, corporate learning teams, and organizations who need someone who can hold a room of senior leaders, and move the thinking forward, not just fill the agenda. I've opened and closed national conferences, moderated expert panels, emceed multi-day summits, and delivered keynotes that connect research to what leaders are actually wrestling with.
The work sits at the intersection of intellectual rigor and room dynamics, knowing the science well enough to go off-script when the conversation goes somewhere important.
- Keynotes and executive briefings
- Corporate workshops and conference emceeing
- Expert panel moderation
Bring Jessica into the room where sustainable performance and organizational change need a clearer path.
Whether you need an advisor, keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, or trusted media voice, the next step is a focused conversation about what your organization or audience needs most.
