"I was the worst communicator in every room I walked into. Through high school and college, my social inabilities were defined by my stutter. I did a decade+ of speech therapy and stage acting to equip myself with tools to become a better presenter, communicator, and leader."
The brain can't tell the difference between talking and singing. But you can't stutter when you sing. This led me to stage acting.
It started when I was five years old. I heard that James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, had the same stutter I did. So I tried stage acting, and ended up doing it for 10+ years. Eighteen years later I gave a TEDx talk at Florida State University (in March 2015). After college, I worked as a speaker for Tony Robbins, and became Chief of Staff for Oren Klaff.
I have been blessed to get thousands of reps over the past few decades. In elementary school I was selling pencils. In middle school I was selling scrap metal. In high school I was selling insurance and candy. In college I was selling koozies and video production.
During college, I played a leadership role in the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, Young Entrepreneurs Society, and the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at FSU.
Each of these experiences brought with it a new layer of understanding about myself and the world around me.
Today, I'm the founder and CEO of ALT LABS, a technology and consulting company advancing sustainable production.
"In my free time, I enjoy going to the gym, eating healthy, learning new things, and going on adventures."
The Law
Thoughts become words. Words become things.
Products don't start with petroleum. They start with a thought.
The Architecture
Enlightenment emerges when Thoughts, Words, and Things become aligned.
Managing Partner / Co-Founder. Commercialized Department of Defense explosive-detection technology for agricultural use, and multiple data-compression algorithms. Ran alongside Heartland for most of its life.
Suppliers PartnershipBigger Than Carbon KeynotePlug and PlayBuiltWorldsBASF Sustainability DayPVC Formulation ConferenceTED NextStartup WeekTEDxFSUReal LeadersSoutheastern Entrepreneurship ConferenceGreentown LabsTEDxFSU
Spoken for
Material Transition
The intelligence layer for the physical economy.
Material Transition is a platform for mapping the material flow of a manufacturer. This allows companies to map the materials and packaging that goes in, and the products, waste, and emissions that come out.
We believe that sustainable production starts with using clean inputs and diverting waste from the landfill.
We are creating an intelligence layer so these companies can make decisions using the same data. Material Transition helps companies find new suppliers, reach out to relevant contacts, build artifacts, and create projects.
NO TOX is the platform for sustainable living: a podcast and education engine that helps people remove the toxins from their nutrition, fitness, mindset, communication, and business.
Every episode, we sit down with someone who has already done the work and ask them to hand over exactly how.
"The quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our questions."
About Jesse
Vision: lead the materials transition. Mission: regenerate the resources we rely on. Purpose: standardize sustainable solutions.
Openness. Playfulness. Respect.
A decade-plus of speech therapy and stage acting turned me from "the worst communicator in every room I walked into" into a TEDx speaker, a national trainer for Tony Robbins, and now someone who teaches public speaking.
"The Theory of Success," TEDxFSU, March 2015. Watch it →
Speaking & Booking
Three: keynotes (any topic, under an hour), workshops (half-day, hands-on), and emceeing, for corporate events, weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and other live events.
No. Rates depend on the format and the event. Reach out and we'll talk through it.
Two lanes: public speaking and communication mastery, and clean living and toxins, the "Bigger Than Carbon" and "Toss the Toxins" talks. I won the Audience Choice Award at Suppliers Partnership for the Environment's 2023 Innovation Summit, came back as a featured speaker in 2024, and spoke at Real Leaders Unite in 2025.
Yes. The full reel is in the Speaking section above, or jump there now →
Current Work
The intelligence layer for the physical economy: software that helps brand owners and materials companies find, compare, and switch to sustainable materials without years of manual searching.
The education arm of ALT LABS, and completely free: Holistic Alchemy helps you clean the toxins out of your life, and Speaker Alchemy helps you say what you mean so it actually lands.
The podcast at the center of ALT LABS. Every episode, we sit down with someone who has already done the work on clean living and ask them to hand over exactly how.
I founded and led Heartland, in Detroit, from 2020 to 2024. We raised over two million dollars and built Imperium Masterbatch, a carbon-negative, hemp-fiber additive that cut a product's carbon footprint by up to 70% without compromising cost or performance, reaching plastics, automotive, packaging, and building-materials companies. I moved on in 2024. Material Transition is the next chapter, built on everything that one taught me.
Cloud Nine Capital, a technology-commercialization partnership, ran from 2019 to 2024 alongside Heartland. ALT LABS (2025-present) is the current umbrella over Material Transition, ALT Training, and NO TOX.
The Writing
The five published here are the ones that were already live. A handful more exist as drafts, on foundational beliefs and sustainable living, queued for me to decide if and when they get finished.
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How can we work together?
Every message goes straight to my team. No third-party form standing in the middle.
Jesse Henry, quoted in CompositesWorld, September 2, 2026
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