JLL Strategic Consulting GroupKey Responsibilities• Partnering with the client Workplace Executive to ensure that objectives and strategic direction are achieved and maintained.• Ensuring that the client's work environment (inclusive of office space, retail environments where the client's employees and members interact, and WFH) adheres to corporate standards and is meeting internal customer expectations and needs.• Leading and consulting on Workplace initiatives requiring strategic and tactical guidance.• Developing and supporting change readiness for major projects and pilots inclusive of support and creation of appropriate communications, graphics, and materials.• Providing workplace solutions for tactical planning requests from the business.• Measuring and reporting on the effectiveness of workplace, space utilization, and effectiveness of space.• Understand the activities and processes that individuals and teams at the client use to accomplish their work and ensure that the work environment supports optimal engagement and productivity.• Provide insight and research through sharing of Workplace information from internal and external sources: articles, trends, best practices, etc.Leadership Functions• Know how to evaluate external threats and capabilities, internal strengths and weaknesses, and logically establish a path forward that is consistent with both vision and reality. Adjust actions and decision-making for focus on critical initiatives and issues that will drive business performance.• Serve as a functional expert on enterprise initiatives. Lead strategy and visioning sessions and cross-functional initiatives related to the nature of work and business capabilities.• Partner with other client groups to co-develop enterprise work and workplace strategies or align to their strategies.

College of Business - Teach undergraduate Business students. Courses include Consumer Behavior; Principles of Selling; Principles of Marketing; Internet (Social Media) Marketing; Services Marketing.

College of Business, Department of Management & Marketing

* Lead a team of consultants in North America who share insights, conduct research, and facilitate workplace strategy for select customers wanting to transform their organizations. * Grow and enhance account management through consulting with customers as a trusted advisor.* Strategize with both North American field sales and Global Accounts. Engage with a team of sellers and sales leaders across the US and Canada to deliver the best approach for winning opportunities, growing competitively held accounts, supporting local dealerships, and strengthening our brand. * Sustain long-term relationships with customers, sellers, and organizational leaders.* Strong commitment to deliver energizing, collaborative, and inspiring leadership to both highly skilled internal team members and external colleagues. Dedicated to coaching and developing talent to ensure the best results for personal growth and client satisfaction. * Demonstrated track record to obtain repeat customers, using exceptional commitment to C-Suite executives by prioritizing organizational business goals.

Senior Strategist for Herman Miller’s Performance Environments. Performance Environments is a holistic approach that bundles services to customers to create and improve the performance and adoption of their spaces. As a Senior Strategist, Jesse is responsible for helping clients envision their futures and optimize their spaces based on their own business drivers. He delivers the entire Performance Environments offering. The typical suite of services includes:• Visioning• Pre and Post Occupancy Evaluation (Space Utilization, Surveys, Focus Groups, Observational Ethnography)• Change Management (Jump Start workshop, Leadership workshop, Implementation)• Place Making & Financial Modeling • Alternative Workplace Strategy ServicesThe Performance Environments suite of services is offered globally and can be expanded to include many areas not outlined here.

Fortune 100 Best Company to Work ForFast Company Magazine, Fast 50• Lead experiential marketing efforts to promote a Fortune Magazine Most Admired Company. • Collaborate with sales staff/dealers to reach target goals through quality customer service and enhance consumer product knowledge.• Conduct variety of presentations at multiple levels to internal and external constituents in order to increase growth/awareness.• Manage all aspects of budget to support financial goals.

Teach, present, train, mentor undergraduate students in the School of Business. Courses taught: Sales Management, Consumer Behavior, International Marketing

• Create and organize presentations, interactive lessons and projects for 120+ business degree seeking students. • Prepare students to comprehend critical marketing functions; identify products and services to meet consumer and organizational needs.• Provide students with current knowledge and skills to prepare them to be more effective performers in today’s workplace. Organizational Behavior elements include communications, motivation, management, teamwork, presentations, and leading ethically.• Conduct 250+ hours of instruction based on extensive academic and professional practice.• Utilize excellent verbal and written communication skills to offer best-in-class learning opportunities. Provide stellar organization and prioritization skills needed to conduct relevant presentations.* Courses taught: Business Principles, Principles of Marketing, Organizational Behavior, Business Communications.

Project Coordination, Program Planning• Delivered 16 city national product launch tour complete with workshops, tradeshows and promotional presentations for 2,400+ constituents to support an international wholesale travel and tour company. Managed temporary staff to support promotional campaigns.• Supervised 12+ temporary staff to carry out two multi-day, multi-site conferences for a Fortune 700 global pharmaceutical company providing products for specialty markets.

• Developed and implemented event marketing strategies to increase consumer-based brand awareness, product knowledge and increase sales/member engagement in five states.• Structured coaching, training and proficiency for team members around corporate identity and project organization.• Demonstrated critical experience in conflict resolution and problem solving to overcome challenges of a 130 year old company providing financial services to nearly 1 million people in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.• Increased customer loyalty by utilizing strong interpersonal skills to effectively work with a variety of people from various internal departments, outside vendors and constituents.• Able to motivate, gain support and participation of leadership.• Collaborated with staff in metro markets to maximize impact of partnerships and establish market differentials.• Optimized planning skills to develop action plans in support of project success.

• Project team leader for J.D. Power & Associates award promotional launch for Fortune 100 Company.• Negotiated sponsorship contracts with organizations and sporting events/teams exceeding $50,000.• Executed strategies according to business financial plan and monitored more than 12 promotional budgets for major metro markets totaling $1.3 million.• Designed and implemented national campaign of website launch on a regional level through e-communications, web registration tours and trainings for 4,000+ constituents. Reduced costs over paper/postal outreach.• Positioned, organized, and evaluated marketing promotion events and sponsorships that appropriately promoted company products. • Synchronized ad and collateral creative between sales, design departments and vendors. Coordinated distribution, design, and copy for events, sponsorships, and promotional campaigns.• Produced $300,000+ external multi-day/multi-site client business retreats for 150+ attendees.

• Developed and planned $1.8 million budget for a nonprofit health service organization.