Jake Jacobs

Over the past 35 years, Jake has worked in 61 industries, from high tech to manufacturing to hospitality to entertainment to financial services. He has consulted 100s of organizations, from Fortune 50 to national non-profits and community theaters. He also supported more than 210,000 people directly on important changes to their business. What kinds of changes? Everything from strategy implementation to culture change to mergers and acquisitions and leadership development.

Jake has written articles for Strategy and Leadership, Executive Excellence, Leader to Leader, Strategic HR Review, the OD Practitioner, Consulting to Management and been featured in The Huffington Post and Inc. magazine. He has also authored eight books including his latest best-seller, Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results.

Education

• Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
  MSOD, Organization Development

• University of Michigan
  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology