Adrian Owen Jones, Cfre Email & Phone Number

Baton Rouge, La, Us

Success Labs is a strategic organizational and leadership development firm that works with organizations to grow better leaders, build better teams, and create strategy to drive results.The Success Labs team is just that – a lab consisting of problem solvers, forward thinkers, and possibility seekers. Individually, we bring expertise through years of experience in developing people and consulting organizations. Together, we help hundreds of organizations, and their people explore and achieve their potential.Success Labs has extensive experience working with business, industry, education, healthcare and community organizations around their strategic leadership and business initiatives.Services include:- Leadership workshops & team building- Succession and strategic planning- Strategic talent management and development- Executive coaching- Executive search and launch success- 360 reviews and leadership development

Leadership, organizational development, and technology consulting.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Us

Chief Growth Officer at ThreeSixtyEight - Creative Agency for Organizations Shaping the Future of Learning. From business development to strategy and operations, I worked with the team to leverage data, technology, and talent to grow and scale, all while continuing to produce truly uncommon creative work. This year, I helped the team become a certified B-Corp, the first in our region and a testament to their commitment to higher ethical standards.

New York, Ny, Us

Chief is focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders. It connects women in the C-Suite, senior executives, and accomplished VPs to strengthen their leadership, magnify their influence, and pave the way to bring others with them.

Making Baton Rouge the Creative Capital of the South.

San Francisco, California, Us

Speaking fellow #ODPS1. Learning to master storytelling frameworks, compelling narratives, and develop skills in public speaking, negotiation, and presentations.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Us

Provide strategic vision, leadership, and advocacy for development operations at LSU including the departments of Analytics, Information Services, Prospect Development, Records and Data Management, Gifts Processing, and Donor Relations. Serve on the LSU Campaign Steering Committee. Special focus on the areas of: • Transforming business by leveraging data and technology to enhance and improve strategy • Capital campaign preparation, planning, and execution• Prospect development including research, relationship management, and analytics• Board and volunteer management• Team development and coaching• Business process improvement and operational excellence

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Us

Leader of a ten-person team focused on research, portfolio development, training, data analysis and decision support. Member of campaign planning team. • Built our campaign pipeline. PD team tripled number of newly identified major gift prospects from 1,500 to 5,000. Developed prospecting plans, increasing average capacity of potential prospect pool from $160k to $225k. Resulted in an increase from $119M to $723M in total pipeline value

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Us

Brought art to the science of development by serving as a dynamic partner to fundraising teams. Utilized prospect data to provide strategic decision support on topics ranging from portfolio development to prospect strategy. Grew team from one to three in first year.• Fully operationalized prospect development, including: support plans for on-boarding through off-boarding fundraisers, training, standardized agendas and templates, menu of services, and custom reports • Fundraiser solicitations increased by 33% within first year of implementing regular pipeline review, 100% of managed prospect had regular strategy review

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Us

Key member of the Information Services (IS) team. Leveraged strong communication skills and comprehensive knowledge of fundraising management principles to translate and resolve highly complex operational issues, maximize the utility of LSUF technologies, and meet the philanthropic objectives of the LSU Foundation. • Partnered with database analyst to query, analyze, and visualize data for management insight and portfolio development. Developed new suite of board reports, still in use today• Served on the Relationship Management Council. Collaborated with development to create gift officer metrics and relationship management guidelines. Provided insight into best practices, and creatively assessed technical possibilities for executing these new processes. Built trust and rapport between IS and Development• Served as a critical partner on the Advance database revitalization project. Worked closely with vendor consultants to clarify end user needs. Wrote specifications and provided documentation for more than 100 views and reports. Developed and conducted UAT sessions and created training materials• Conducted reporting needs assessment made recommendations resulting in implementation of Advizor, an analytic and data visualization tool

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Us

Established a comprehensive stewardship and donor-relations program for the LSU College of Science, home to more than 2,000 of the universities most academically prestigious students. The College of Science raises more than $8M in private funds and more than $30M in external funding annually. • Within first six months, established “Thank a Donor Day”, including electronic system to collect impact information for 200+ beneficiaries, later replicated by two other colleges • 30% growth of leadership giving “Dean’s Circle” in two-year tenure through targeted solicitation and stewardship mailings

KFF is the largest private foundation in OKC, having granted more than $100M in its 30+ years of philanthropy. Oversaw grants process from initial contact through awards. Evaluated and reported on grant compliance. Provided programmatic and project management support for KFF initiatives. • Streamlined initial grants consideration process from two weeks to three days• Merged and scrubbed program evaluation data sets and partnered with IT to import into the database• Project Manager for three new Kirkpatrick Philanthropies websites. Handled design bids, needs assessment, budget, concept and content development, and trustee/organization buy-in• Team won Rod Frates Choice Award for Transformational Leadership

Intern to Field Director and Finance Coordinator. Served as liaison to prominent state and city officials, and as campaign surrogate at visibility events. Coordinated statewide field events and logistics. Monitored social media outputs including Facebook and Twitter. Maintained donor database and cultivated major gift donor relationships.• Coordinated and trained 300+ volunteers on phone-banking, letter writing, polling, and other voter contact• City-wide GOTV strategy resulted in 20% higher voter turn out than anticipated

Taught adult art education courses in Painting, Pottery, and Journal Making at publicly funded non-profit. Designed teaching modules for local educators to utilize in their curricula.

Master Of Arts, Leadership & Emerging Technology

Ba, Liberal Arts, Focus: Classical Studies