Jeff is a process designer, facilitator, and artist. In helping to address our toughest systemic challenges, Jeff works to move a system’s potential for change into productive and creative action. He has facilitated such processes with business, government, and cultural leaders in international, national, and local social innovation challenges and contexts, most recently working in Colombia to support collective prosperity, the Netherlands to support sustainable development, and New Zealand to renew a health system.

Jeff is the General Manager and a Partner in Generon Reos, LLC, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jeff is also a prolific interdisciplinary artist for whom art represents a laboratory for learning about how to co-create new cultural, political, and economic realities. He is proficient in several visual and musical media and focuses his artistic practice on the application of creative practice to social innovation.

Before joining Reos Partners, Jeff worked as an artist, a teacher, and a manager, partnering with organizations that foster interdisciplinary problem-solving and intercultural learning in Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and the United States.

In 2003, Jeff earned a Masters in Fine Arts from Maine College of Arts (Portland, USA), and in 1993, he completed a bachelor’s degree in Art and Art History at Rice University (Houston, USA). During his studies, he wrote a thesis on the interdisciplinary application of the creative process, concentrating on the connection between individual and collective creativity and change. He continues writing about this work and its particular application and relevance within the field of social innovation.

Jeff currently lives with his wife and two children in Northern California.