Jeff Bulanda, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

JFF Ventures' Corporate Innovation Council is a group of forward-thinking leaders in talent management and development, workforce strategy, investing, and corporate social responsibility who advise tech entrepreneurs on how to tackle some of today’s most critical challenges related to equity, inclusion, and economic advancement.

I serve as global leader of Foundations, College, and Coaching team for Career Choice, Amazon's education benefit for frontline employees. My team's goal is to drive industry-busting persistence, completion, and career advancement rates for Amazon associates who participate in Language programs, High School/GED programs, and college programs. We work.

I served as the inaugural global leader of the Amazon Relief Fund, which was initially designed to offer support to non-employee partners across 13 countries impacted by COVID-19. I designed a scalable model to expand the Relief Fund to offer financial support for Amazon employees and non-employee partners (worldwide) impacted by natural disasters and.

Greater Seattle Area

I was the first single-threaded leader of AWS re/Start--AWS Training and Certification’s global corporate citizenship initiative, a workforce development program to provide cloud computing training to individuals outside the traditional tech talent pipeline (e.g., veterans, unemployed youth), which establishes a qualified pool of entry-level talent for AWS.

Greater Seattle Area

I conducted Voice of the Customer research to learn about current talent identification and management practices and needs across Amazon and implemented experiments on alternate mechanisms for talent designation.

Greater Seattle Area

I worked with cross-functional teams to design, launch, evaluate, and iterate a new global performance management program; I also co-led efforts efforts to identify design changes and launch the program in India. In this role, I also coached and provided process guidance to employees, managers, and human resource business partners in managing.

Sierra Leone

I led a research team to evaluate multiple projects with a total budget of $1.5 million+ (June-Sept 2016; April-July 2017) to promote rural education for 4000 children in 60 villages using a sustainable community income generation model and provide access to education for 7000+ street-connected children. My team analyzed data to determine whether proposed.

Greater Chicago Area

I provided instruction and designed curriculum for undergraduate social work students. I also contributed to the cross-discipline Academic Affairs Committee to ensure consistent curriculum standards and strategized on maximizing retention of the university’s predominantly first generation student population.

Freetown, Sierra Leone

I conceptualized and conducted a national mixed methods research study on the effects of Ebola Recovery Initiatives in the educational sector of Sierra Leone. I managed a research team of enumerators and analysts and wrote two research reports in inform future program and policy initiatives.

Freetown, Sierra Leone

I served as lead evaluator of IsraAID’s Ebola Recovery programs in Sierra Leone, including activities funded by a $1.8 million UNICEF grant. I also developed and led psychosocial support trainings for paraprofessionals hired to work with individuals affected by Ebola.

Aurora, IL

I taught undergraduate and graduate level classes on human behavior, community social work practice, policy analysis and advocacy, human rights, and research. I served as co-investigator for the monitoring and evaluation of a 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant from the Illinois Board of Education/U.S. Dept of Education to provide after school.

Freetown

I contributed to strategic planning for the development of the first social work training program in the country and designed culturally relevant curriculum and taught social work courses to the first cohort of social work students in the country. I conducted research on the mental health needs of university students in Sierra Leone and the.

I provided therapy services to adults, children, couples, and families.

Bronzeville Neighborhood, Chicago, IL

I worked with the Chicago Housing Authority, local social service agencies and schools, community residents and Loyola University to provide social services to youth and families in the Madden-Wells housing projects of Chicago. I supervised 20+ interns providing trauma-informed clinical services to youth and families. I co-wrote and co-managed grants from.

Maywood, IL

I provided intensive individual, group, and family therapy services to students diagnosed with severe emotional disorders and placed in an alternative school setting. I participated in the development of individualized education plans, completed social developmental studies, and advocated for pupils at educational planning meetings. I initiated the.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social Work

Dissertation: “Real Talk”: Findings from a Youth-Led Program Evaluation of an After School Leadership Development Program (passed with.

Master'S Degree, Social Work