PUBLIC SPEAKING
Jason has 20+ years experience in entrepreneurial coaching throughout the US and Europe, with an emphasis on strategy and design. He’s a 6x founder and creator of three business accelerators. He has helped over 500 ventures start, grow, and altogether achieve multiple 9-figure success.
His work has received international design awards, and several design and engineering patents. Jason has had various ideation, creative, and innovation roles, including Fortune 100 companies such as Cummins, Google, and a special consultant to The White House. He has helped start dozens of social impact initiatives supporting things like art, literacy, hunger relief, fair trade, clean water, and medical work in the developing world. Relief work on 4 continents. Jason is a 2x author, ordained minister, former Firefighter, Hazmat Technician, NCAA First Responder, and DHS Incident Commander.
POTENTIAL TOPICS
Design-thinking Principles & Practices
Ideation & Brainstorming Techniques
Placemaking Space Design
The Intersection of Design & Psychology
Growth-Hacking
Small Business Acceleration
Entrepreneurship Playbook
Time Management
Internet of Things & Physical AI
Branding & Marketing Principles
EXPERIENCE
Brokering Innovation distance lecture broadcast on 5 continents (US, Africa, India, Netherlands, Colombia)
Keynote Purdue’s first TEDx “Initiate Innovation”
Guest instructor for all 700 introductory students in the largest School of Technology in the country
Entrepreneurial Bootcamp for disabled Veterans
Guest instructor and participant in multiple NSF grants in Purdue’s Mechanical Engineering program, ranked by U.S. News and World Reports as #7 in the country in 2012.
Other courses In which I've lectured:
ME553 “Product and Process Innovation”
ME497 “Design Thinking” lecture series
ME444 “Computer-Aided Design” toy workshop
ME463 “Senior Engineering Design”
MGMT646 “New Product Design”
MGMT423 “New Product Development”
TECH120 “Technology and the Individual”
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