Today’s business leaders are recognizing the need to create a culture where employees are meaningful contributors with a stake in the organization’s success, and where each and every employee’s authentic voice is valued. Ian Jackson works with organizations to build such a culture of teamwork, equity, and inclusion.
Ian Jackson
Principal | Consultant | Executive Coach | Facilitator
With a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Master’s in Psychology from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and 25+ years creating and facilitating programs in team-building, diversity, inclusion & belonging, Ian brings a unique approach to learning, growth and change, focused on the twin concepts of “unique diversity and diverse unity.”
As an executive coach and consultant, he works with clients to build an inclusive workplace of authentic communication and community. For more than a decade he delivered in-person, online, and hybrid programs to Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education’s worldwide population of students and staff. Ian creates opportunities for the development of group dynamics through retreats, workshops, and ongoing team work. Past clients include ButcherBox, LeadvantEDGE, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Reservoir Church, and Victory Programs, Inc. As an executive coach for LeadvantEDGE, Inc. and Performa Consulting Group he has worked with senior leadership at Fidelity Investments, Northeastern University, Prudential Financial, HMFH Architects, Dräger, Aura Biosciences, and American Tower. He publishes a weekly blog showcasing ideas that anyone can use to create authentic community in their workplace, regardless of their role.
He has also worked for a number of challenge course organizations in the Northeast, facilitating experiential education challenge course programs for educational organizations: leadership teams, administrators, teachers, college students, high schoolers, and middle schoolers. For more than a decade he delivered in-person, online, and hybrid programs to Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education’s worldwide population of students and staff. He has also served as a senior faculty on Seven Stones Leadership’s public and corporate courses on antiracism, healing collective trauma, and intentional leadership.
Ian and his wife Angel have three children, a dog, two cats, and ten chickens. Ian loves to spend time outside, and walks 1,000+ miles each year. In his ‘spare time,’ Ian leads online writing and podcasting courses for middle and high schoolers, and is also the writer and host of a podcast for kids, which inspires and invites children to write their own stories.
Email me: ian@buildingbridgesleadership.com
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