About JWConsulting
Services: Enhancing Your Bottom Line
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Your current and future individual and organizational development needs define the parameters of our consultancy. Our primary purpose is to help you to achieve -and to exceed - your bottom line and your artistic and creative goals:, pursuing each with equal vigor. We begin with an exploratory business and creative development plan that is further sculpted as we work together to rediscover the underlying passions that initially drove you to do the work that you do. We listen as you recall your own past performance and future goals. We then evaluate your most imminent new opportunities, and reconvene with a plan that is unique to your business and artistic endeavors. in alignment with your core values and future aspirations.
A Passion for Transformative Development and Mediation
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Our story began with a passion for helping artists, emerging businesses, and creative public-private partnerships to achieve their strategic, business and philanthropic goals. When conflicts inevitably arise, we support our clients through traditional conflict resolution, mediation and Ho'oponopono. Our transformational consulting services help you plot a course that will keep you ahead of the digital curve that continues to rapidly evolve and envelop us. We work with you to develop digital strategies that fit your business needs and optimizes your branding and digital marketing presence. Our goal is to assist you in leveraging and protecting your current IP assets, and to drive the value of your properties upward.
Approach: Listening and Handcrafting Solutions
Our consulting services include individualized strategic plan development, including marketing, branding, streamlining of operational systems, and brand launching. In our eyes, collaboration is key to the success. of our consultancy. We work closely with and listen carefully to our clients to understand their current challenges and future goals, and to develop solutions that are tailored to their unique needs. Our approach offers an array of creative solutions to problems that arise when an individual's business plan incorporates aggressive earnings goals, yet the client's philanthropic/legacy plans are not so bottom line oriented. We welcome these paradoxes, and utilize them in assisting our clients to break through seemingly firmly rooted barrier, to more fully integrate their transactional, philanthropic and creative activities.
Experience and Credentials
Academic and Business Credentials, Mediation and Conflict Resolution,
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
Phi Beta Kappa
Lesley University; Cambridge, MA
Internship Harvard Business School GPA 3.96
Master of Science in Management
Postgraduate:
Pepperdine School of Law; Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution; GPA 4.0;
Certified Mediator and humble Ho'oponopono practitioner (with gratitude to our ancestors), with extensive experience in music and film IP; confidential family dispute resolution and entertainment industry disputes.
Extensive experience in conflict resolution theory at UCLA-Rand Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior (and its Advisory Committee chaired by Henry Kissinger), and the UCLA Center for International and Strategic Affairs, now endowed as the Burkle Forum. Through the Burkle Forum Distinguished Speak Series, hosted the Bernard Brodie Lecture featuring U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan, former Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Secretaries of Defense William Cohen and William Perry, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker, Senator John McCain and Secretaries of State George Shutlz and Warren Christopher.
Business Experience
Energy and Environmental Engineering, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
Senior Vice President
Pasadena Symphony Association
Pasadena, CA
Director of Development
Creative Projects Group
Los Angeles, CA
Founding CEO
UCLA Campaign: International Development
Los Angeles, CA
Director of International Development
Malibu Foundation for Youth and Families
Malibu, CA
Executive Director
Boys and Girls Club of Malibu
Malibu, CA
Chief Professional Officer
Hathaway Children and Family Services
Woodland Hills, CA
Executive Director of Development and Communications
The Fulfillment Fund
Cen tury City, CA
Senior Vice President of Marketing, Fund Raising, Public Relations and Special Events
Personal
Navy Seal Trained SCUBA diver
Ashtanga Yoga Practitioner
Musician
International Traveler and Writer
Muse/Mentor
Kauai Lover of the Land
Special Training and Experience
Expertise in Music Production and Promotion and development, including working with multiple prominent producers including Quincy Jones, Gil Friesen, Ted Field, and Ken Kragen; and with artists including the "We are the World" Choir; Bonnie Raitt; Leon Russell; Marty Grebb and Black Swan, LLC; the Neville Brothers; Alicia Keyes; the Firehouse Five; Glide Church Choir; and Sonia Kazarova and the Rocky Mountain Orchestra.
Expertise in energy and environmental technology development from bench scale to commercialization /market
International, federal, state and local grant development
Advising Philanthropic and Venture Capital investors re: current investments and legacy planning considerations
Securing federal and private grants and contracts for sustainable energy and environmental development and developing evaluative standard and annual performance to goal scenarios to increase bottom line performance in the Middle East, North Africa and India/Pakistan.
Extensive experience in Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Superfund Cleanup as well as laser induced photochemical oxidative destruction of toxic organics and staged cascade fluidized bed combustion.
Philanthropic Commitments
JWConsulting has maintained decades-long relationships with selected public-private partnerships, 501(c)3 organizations and family foundations that have a serious commitment to programs that support civil rights, social justice and equality for all people, including seniors and children.
Our primary philanthropic mission is to establish investments in selected sustainable nonprofits utilizing listening as a foundational base for our philanthropic giving.