Dr Jesse Mears
Data | Design | Transformation
make work joyful
Data | Design | Transformation
make work joyful
Dr Jesse Mears is “not like the others”*. A transformation leader specialising in data strategy, service design and organisational culture, with dollops of caring challenge and joy to support you to tackle tough problems and do better.
With experience leading organisations and teams to use data for good, a PhD in Public Health from UCL, and design thinking and coaching skills, Jesse ensures that new technology and data deliver measurable and equitable impact on the ground. Jesse brings sharp challenge as a coach and expert advisor on data and digital strategy, data storytelling and user-centred design. As an expert facilitator, Jesse designs and delivers participatory workshops to help you reimagine and design how you work and to create a culture that will make the most of your people and technology.
Jesse works with clients with conscience. She is an ILM-accredited coach, Public Digital Associate and co-editor of the Collective Power Playbook.
Jesse brings plenty of privilege as a white, British, middle class and able-bodied intersectional feminist.
*Chris Fleming, Partner at Public Digital
Co-create a data strategy with Jesse. Jesse will use creative and engaging ways of understanding your organisation and how it could be using data to help achieve its mission. She will assess the data maturity of your organisation, help you define your data vision and the culture you need to embed your data strategy.
This approach will leave you with more courage to implement your data strategy in a way that brings the whole organisation along with you, so that every person unlocks the value of data and takes responsibility for using it well.
Doing things better requires designing new ways of working. Understanding problems and user needs, building empathy and the conditions to imagine something different are all part of designing or re-designing how you deliver a service.
Jesse’s approach to service design pulls on the methods of co-creation and design thinking. This results in better designed services and more joyful, higher functioning teams.
Jesse is a skilled facilitator and designs thoughtful and engaging workshops to build empathy and understanding of problems and design new ways of doing what you do.
Jesse designs and delivers training around data literacy, data storytelling, digital ways of working and more - everything you need to help embed a data culture within your organisation that will support your strategy and digital transformation.
Create the time and space to consciously work through a change. Jesse coaches in a probing, human-centred way, supporting you to design and develop the strategies you need to keep making purposeful decisions, as everything around us continues to change.
Jesse trained as a coach through an ILM-accredited course.
jesse@drjessemears.com