Jeff Barnum is a co-founder of Reos Partners. He helps leaders address some of the world’s toughest social problems and is an accomplished artist.
As a process designer and facilitator, Jeff helps businesses, government and non-government organisations achieve tangible progress on their most important problems and opportunities. He has expertise in process design, facilitation, dialogue, and creative process and creativity, and uses these skills to help organizations imagine and work towards their larger social and systemic aspirations.
Prior to his work with Reos, Jeff was an associate of Generon Consulting in Cambridge, MA. While on the east coast, he co-founded Cambridge's first wireless and fair-trade cafe. From 1996-1999, Jeff designed and facilitated creative processes for business, government, and cultural leaders at "learning festivals" and conferences with IDRIART, the Institute for the Development of Intercultural Relations through the Arts, with whom he remains in active contact today. In this context, he designed and managed interdisciplinary and intercultural conferences focused on peace and solidarity in the Balkans after the Bosnian-Serbian conflict and organised international events for young people. He continues to be keenly interested in the creation of new culture in service of greater social transformation.
Jeff completed a bachelor’s degree in Art and Art History at Rice University (Houston) in 1993, and a master’s degree in Fine Arts from Maine College of Arts (Portland) in 2003. In 1995, Jeff completed the Goethean Studies program at Rudolf Steiner College (Sacramento), a year-long course exploring the links between contemplative practice, scientific observation, and artistic work.
His blend of artistic and consulting practices finds expression in twenty works of art included in Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change by Adam Kahane, a fellow co-founder of Reos Partners.
Jeff continues to make art, write, and raise a family in Northern California. View his art and writing at jeffbarnum.com.