Dr Jesse Mears
Data | Design | Transformation
make work joyful
About Jesse
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
Services
Data Strategy
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.
Service Design
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.
Facilitation and Capacity Building
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.
Coaching
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.
What clients say
“Jesse is unlike anyone I have ever met before. She is bold, kind, compassionate, smart, thoughtful and genuine. She brings out the best in other people, she is direct and honest in the most incredibly positive and constructive way and she has tremendous impact everywhere she goes. She is brilliant.”
“You’re a special one, the kind where at the end of a workshop you are hugging the client...and it was about data.”
“Reaching out to you for coaching was one of the best decisions I made during a very confusing, overwhelming time. ”
“Jesse has been a joy to work with on the development of our data strategy. Her approach is open, collaborative and sensitive to the organisation’s ways of working while gently challenging us at the same time. She’s navigated us expertly through some difficult questions, and ultimately she’s helped us create a great product which will shape our work long into the future.”
“The techniques Jesse taught me were invaluable at the time and gave me more confidence, helped me move towards a more healthy work-life balance and also taught me to be kinder to myself. A year down the line, I still use techniques and strategies to help me today.”
Contact
jesse@drjessemears.com
