YEARS

Jessa Blades

Creative Leadership, Social Impact & Justice

ex-IDEO.org ,

ex-IDEO

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I believe in the power of creativity to drive profound change – from strategies that re-imagine entire systems to the design of tangible services & products that will directly impact people's daily lives.

Jessa’s expertise

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Skills

Business Design

Impact Design

Customer Experience

System Thinking

Service Design

Expertise

Strategy & Business Design

Service Design

Industry experience

Education

Healthcare

Non-Governmental Organization

Social Impact

Public Sector

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PASSIONS

Areas I'm passionate about

As creative leaders with a shared commitment to quality, collaboration, and creativity, we're proud to pursue out most meaningful work and deliver the best every time.

MAIN PASSION

🧒🏼 Children's Rights

🥬 Food Security

💰 Income Inequality

👨🏿‍🦱 Racial Justice

💸 Poverty

Offerings

Design Sprints

Shorter bursts of high effort support dedicated to making progress on a focussed aspect of your program or initiative.

Project Scaling

Business Design

Launch Strategy

Brand Strategy & Positioning

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Jessa in action

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Designing & Scaling a School Model in Peru

Projects

Designing & Scaling a School Model in Peru

Business Design

Business Innovation

As a business designer on the core design team, we developed an entire school model that considered the interplay amongst the business model, the student's learning & academic experience, the teacher and staff experience, and the operational considerations and levers for scale.

Projects

Designing for and with Girls

Content Design

This field guide was a culmination of over 10+ youth reproductive health projects aimed at increasing a young person's access to contraceptives. Our team at IDEO.org synthesized learnings and distilled the core factors for program design, scale, and considerations for local adaptation.