Introducing the founder

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Jon is a retired Senior Intelligence Officer with more than 20 years of experience in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and over 30 years of experience in a goal-oriented team setting. Fast paced environments, challenging situations, and foreign travel to both begin and hostile locations have refined his abilities to identify, create, and then implement change.  He has a unique depth of experience teaching leadership, creative problem-solving, and design thinking in the Federal Government, and was the senior Program Manager for a groundbreaking Facilitation Program for the Intelligence Community.  That program included active members from multiple agencies and used many methodologies to help offices address challenges ranging from cultural change, personnel challenges, and mission outcomes.   As a leader for CIA both in the United States and abroad, he has a proven track record of building focused, productive, programs and teams.

Jon has many performance awards in the CIA, had been nominated numerous times for the DO’s Excellence in Leadership Award, and had been nominated for the DO’s Instructor of the Year. He is school trained in Intelligence Operations and holds a master’s degree in applied mathematics.