About Jared

Jared is an entrepreneurial leader on a mission to make work better.

He is an organizational psychologist, entrepreneur, and employee experience practitioner with experience in the entertainment, technology, and pharmaceutical industries.

Jared has been obsessed with the human side of business from a young age. After founding several nonprofits and businesses, he became an internal entrepreneur at The Walt Disney Company for nearly a decade. At Disney, he created the company’s first full-time employee experience role. In this position, he led engagement initiatives for 1,200 employees within Disney’s kids’ television business and animation studio.

While at Disney, he laid a foundation of trust as a critical employee experience pillar through innovative employee-listening and change management practice and by implementing Search Inside Yourself, a Google-founded emotional intelligence training. His drive to improve the employee experience at Disney led him to become co-leader of the Disney Triathlon Team, the company’s largest employee-run organization.

Following his Disney career, Jared moved to HP Inc., where he led employee experience for the company’s Chief Transformation Officer. At HP, he built strategies to engage HP’s 54,000 employees worldwide around the company’s ambitious digital, cultural, and operational transformation initiatives.

Jared is currently a member of the Employee Experience team at Edelman, the world’s largest communications firm. At Edelman, he advises clients on decisions ranging from business transformations, to internal communication frameworks, to employee engagement strategy. He currently works with some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world to improve the employee experience through human-centered change management, culture alignment, and trust insights.

Jared has a B.S. in Marketing Communications from Emerson College and an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from William James College.