Jon-Paul Bowles Email & Phone Number

United States

We help make tourism work for rural communities and develop trails systems that connect people to nature and each other. We believe in local agency. We believe planning should be rooted in local values. We believe in making it easier for people to walk and ride to local businesses, trailheads, neighborhoods, and parks. We get projects off the ground. We work in three areas. Destination Management strategies, Active transportation infrastructure, and regional trails systems. Clients include destination management organizations, county and municipal governments, inter-agency coalitions, private foundations, and non-profits intent on optimizing their impact and effectiveness.

Nw Oregon

United States

Sustainable Travel International is dedicated to helping tourism benefit local economies, communities and eco-systems. I managed relationships and projects with business, destination clients, and local communities in Africa, Latin America, and North America. In addition to designing programs, I built strategic partnerships with organizations like National Geographic and the Inter-American Development Bank, presenting models for sustainable development and community engagement around the globe.

The World Heritage Alliance was created to promote sustainable tourism around World Heritage sites in a way that conserves the natural environment and local culture. In my role, I created strategies to engage local destination managers, business owners and non-profits. I also represented the Alliance at global conferences and events, promoting the brand and the ethos of sustainability and local engagement behind it.

As part of World Vision's global headquarters, I worked with a team of experts to design, pilot and mainstream a new partnership based programing model for programs worldwide.We started by establishing a Global Office of Strategy Management, where my role was to develop communications infrastructure to support nealy 100 offices in as many countries, and major regional offices across the globe. I enjoyed liaising with executives to design corporate strategy development processes, criteria and materials. I also promoted organizational strategy as spokesperson during presentations, video based production materials, broadcast presentations and capacity building materials. Next step: join a team of sustainable development gurus to implement the strategy by creating and piloting a partnership based model for community engagement and cross sectoral partnership. I managed input to help create a toolkit and for local level staff, then globe-trotted to facilitate capacity build workshops and gather input to continuously the model.

Washington, Dc

Managed approximately $25 million portfolio of government and private funds invested in sustainable development programs throughout the region. My main role was to liaise between in-country staff, and US based marketers and executives to ensure program quality. Facing the field, I managed relationships with in-country executive directors, advised staff on growth and global alignment strategies and resource leveraging, built capacity and supported program design, monitoring and evaluation. Back in the home office, I liaised with advancement and marketing departments to increase project funding and translate technical elements into digestible communication for donors and investors.

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Baptism by fire: to kick of my international development career, I worked with a coalition of organizations focused on eradicating the worst forms of child labor. Where to start? Create a case for donors to become involved through a marketing and awareness campaign, then gather local non-profits, communities, government and businesses in a partnership of invested stakeholders to increase incentives for kids to go to school and put up barriers to exploitation.

M.A. Public Communication, Communication/Strategic Planning

Ba, Political Science And Communications

Activities and Societies: Varsity Track and Field