The work, from the beginning.
Stanford MBA. For 36 years — as advisor, strategist, coach, and for the last 13+ years as a Vistage Chair in Los Angeles — the focus has been the same: helping CEOs and senior leaders build organizations that outperform.
The current work is Vistage and Infiniti Leadership. Jed chairs CEO and C-Suite peer groups in Los Angeles, runs monthly 1:1 coaching sessions with members, and facilitates leadership workshops and offsites for organizations of all sizes. He is certified in The Six Types of Working Genius and facilitates The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
Earlier in the career, the work was in entertainment — not as a filmmaker, but as a strategist and advisor to CEOs navigating major capital and distribution decisions. At Lucasfilm, Jed advised the CEO on the deal structure for the Star Wars prequels (Episodes I, II and III), generating more than $50 million of incremental revenue. At Lionsgate, he developed the business plan, built the financial models and participated in the roadshow that raised the studio's initial $105 million of startup capital.
Those engagements required the same things the leadership work does: understanding how organizations make decisions under pressure, where leaders get in their own way, and what it actually takes to build something that runs without them. The industry was different. The problems weren't.