Leah Jones Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Independent focus group moderation and event facilitationChicago-based, well-traveled.Natiiv Facilitation offers expert independent focus group moderation, specializing in servicing mid-size employers, health care systems and non-profits. With decades of experience in focus group management and event facilitation, our staff handles the heavy lifting, so you can spend more time on what you do best: building your business.Clients include: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The AV Club, SAP CX LIVE, Wellington Counseling Group, Mesirow Financial, Kellogg at Northwestern University, ASUG, Golin, JFNA and FedLAB, and Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel Congregation.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Revamped strategy and supported rollout of updated open enrollment, health and wellness communication for a Fortune 20 company. Designed and facilitated research process including focus groups and executive interviews• Active member of new business pursuits to secure relationships with healthcare clients including GE Healthcare, higi, SHIFT life, and Rx Precision• Collaborated with Federal Health and Commercial Health teams at ICF, the parent company of Olson Engage• Active member of internal committees

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Developed the work process for “quick wins” or Right-Time Engagement that is used to bring ideas to market in a matter of hours• Member of a winning new business team that includes McDonalds, Cars.com, Royal Canin, Cabela’s, Kraft, Oscar Mayer, GoPro, and ExactTarget • Manage incremental growth by providing creative and social media support to existing accounts• Supervise a social media team of 9 across two offices and help mentor all PR professionals on the use of social media for marketing. • Accomplished public speaker

London, England, Gb

Positive East provides services for HIV+ people on the East End of London and my group worked to analyze services provided and needs of service-users over the age of 50. - Facilitated and synthesized data from four focus groups- Created a survey to be distributed among 50 and older, HIV+ population- Developed a plan including a range of evidence based interventions to improve services and meet current needs of the aging population including, but not limited to, a therapy garden, lowering stigma among physicians, providing more social opportunities to service users and updating a central calendar

I started Natiiv Arts & Media in February 2009 and focus on training artist, writers and musicians on how to use social media tools to do their own marketing. I'm also partnering with small agencies, non-profits and other groups to provide trainings and social media strategy.

San Francisco, California, Us

Employee number 2 of a technology start up - helped with product development, IKEA furniture selection and building, customer research and helped set up our first couple customers on the system.Best moment? Seeing sales explode at the Bagel Cafe in Santa Barbara after the PanHellenic breakfast bagel competition was launched.

New York, Ny, Us

• Trained Edelman colleagues around the global network on how to use social media tools in public relations• Authored the globally circulated Friday5 for two years – a weekly email highlighting a new topic of social media• Determined the usefulness of new platforms for client communications• Developed industry standards for social media marketing • Created a system to use blogs as research data for our clients. This research was done by hand before tools like Radian6 and Sysomos were launched

New York, Ny, Us

As the Conversation Analyst in Edelman's me2revolution, I did research on behalf of brands across all forms of social media and helped build strategy based on the results.

New York, Ny, Us

Admin in the Food & Nutrition Group at Edelman PR

I made neighbors happy with the swift delivery of ice cream, chocolate and coffee. I also wrote training manuals on the art of scooping ice cream, managed inventory and staff schedules.

Chicago, Il, Us

IES Abroad is one of the leading providers of academic study abroad programs for college students in the US. I worked with programs in Chile, Argentina and Japan to manage the academic programs alongside the Academic Deans and Program directors. Responsibilities included updating the curriculum guides, ensuring students were properly enrolled and providing transcripts to alumni. In addition, I helped with pre-departure orientation materials and staffed the semester launch in Tokyo.

Managed an international student residence in London with 300 students from the US, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. With a staff of four resident assistants, we provided educational and social program, provided emergency services and helped students have a successful experience while studying abroad.

Recruited, trained and retained volunteers for the county's rape crisis hotline. Lead workshops for students of all ages to work towards child abuse prevention.

Durango, Co, Us

As a Residence Director, I kept 150-200 students alive during their first year of college while trying to provide a safe, educational and fun living environment. I worked with four outstanding RAs each year to offer creative programming, answer life's tough questions and enforce university policy.

Master’S Degree, Health Communication

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Chemistry, Spanish