–Derek Jones– Email & Phone Number

★ I have a passion for helping organizations solve their toughest strategic, operational and organizational challenges by adapting leadership and complex problem-solving expertise and experience gained over 25 years as a U.S. Army Special Forces “Green Beret”. ★ As a Green Beret, I successfully led or served as a senior executive in a myriad of matrixed organizations, from 12 to 1200 team members in complex, ambiguous, chaotic and high-risk environments to solve some of our nation’s toughest problems. ★ I am a school trained design thinker with over ten years of real-world application of design thinking. I have successfully developed, executed and assessed visions, strategies, campaign plans and operations. I close the gap between strategy and execution that challenges many organizations—big and small. ★ I am a self-motivated, life-long learner, with a passion for teaching, coaching and consulting. I enjoy empowering and mentoring diverse teams of problem solvers to develop and execute innovative and revolutionary solutions with a bias toward action, not admiring the problem. ★ I value people, challenge, initiative, collaboration, integrity, accountability, discipline and smart work.  ☆ Strategic Leadership SkillsVision Casting • Decision Making • Risk Mitigation • Organizational Optimization • Empowering Teams • Change Agent • Coaching, Mentoring & Developing • Cross-Organization Collaboration • Strategic Communications • Stakeholder Relations • Negotiations • Poise ☆ Design Thinking and Complex Problem-Solving SkillsUnderstanding and Visualizing Complex Problems • Problem Framing • Problem Solving through Strategic and Operational Planning, Execution, and Assessment • Risk Mitigation • Experimenting to Learn • Ideation☆ Security Clearance - TS/SCI with a CI Poly

Listed skills include Leadership, Writing, Defense, Public Speaking, and 46 others.