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Jesse is focused on partnering with people who believe sustainable innovations are mission-critical to the future of their business.

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Solving Problems I Find Meaningful

I help manufacturers use sustainable materials and clean technologies

Every company has the opportunity to lead its stakeholders (customers, investors, employees, suppliers, governments, and communities) towards a sustainable future.

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Check out how Jesse is driving sustainable solutions across industries

A Focus On Impactful Outcomes

Reducing toxins and pollutants supports healthy ecosystems

Carbon dioxide has become a controversial (political) topic that divides instead of unites. Everyone can get behind the reduction of toxins and pollutants that harm living things.

My Thesis on Material Innovation

Optimize For Regeneration

I focus on increasing the adoption of feedstocks that can be quickly regenerated by planet earth.

Bio-based Feedstocks

Crops, mushrooms, algae, microbes, and enzymes can create the products we know and love.

Waste Feedstocks

Agriculture, industrial, food, and textile waste create opportunities for large emission reductions.

Recycled Feedstocks

Recycled plastic, metal, glass, paper, and building materials create local circularity across the world.

Life In The Fast Lane

Always moving and always adapting

I love traveling and exploring! By the time I was 4 years old, I had already lived in 4 different states. Planet Earth is the best playground that has ever been created. I believe travel is one of the best ways to experience the textures of the universe.

Ireland

Prague

Thailand

Italy

Colombia

Greece

Turning Weaknesses Into Strengths

I was the worst communicator in every room i walked in

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.

Check Out My TEDx Talk

Competitive Sports

As a kid, I invested many years into hockey, volleyball, track, and cross country.

Business Clubs

As a kid, I participated in case competitions to improve communication skills.

Stage Acting

As a kid, I did singing, acting, and dancing to help overcome my stutter.

Side Hustles

As a kid, I was selling things like scrap metal, candy, and lead pencils.

Developing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Using College As A Vehicle To Expand Knowledge & Impact

I attended Florida State University where I studied Entrepreneurship and Sales. During my time at FSU, entrenched myself in the local entrepreneurial community.

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Started a Koozie Company
Started a Video Production Company
Lead The Young Entrepreneurs Society
Lead My Fraternity Executive Board
Became A Student Senator
Did a Presentation at TEDx FSU
Developed the FSU Chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization
Became Grand Chapter President of The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization
Developed The FSU Office of Entrepreneurship & Innovation (As a Bureau of Student Government)

Destroying Limiting Beliefs and Patterns

National speaker for Tony Robbins doing corporate tranings

My first job out of college was hosting 1-hour peak performance workshops for Fortune 500 companies multiple times a day. My training sessions were focused on uncovering the limiting beliefs and patterns that hold us back from tapping into our highest potential.

Check Out The 274 Things I learned From Tony Robbins

Finding The Intersection of Psychology & Finance

Chief of Staff at Intersection Capital working with Oren Klaff

Intersection Capital is a botique investment bank in San Diego California.

During my time there, I managed deal origination, negotiations, operations, client & partner relationship management, wire transfers, outreach, event logistics, podcast production, & social media strategy.

Oren and his team have built an amazing business off his book Pitch Anything (1M+ copies and counting)!

I loved the time I spent developing compelling narrative arcs that were integrated throughout the capital raising and enterprise sales process.

This experience gave me a deep understanding of how to develop messaging that makes a positive impact.

Check Out My Deep Dive On Lessons From Oren

Confronting Intergenerational Conflict

Bridging the divide between digital natives and digital nomads

During my time working with Tony and Oren, I saw many systemic problems within companies. The massive differences in perspectives between the different generations was starting to ripple into all the areas of each customer.

Acknowledging Our Differences

Awareness is 90% of the solution

Each generation has a rhyme and reason behind their psychology and philosophy. Bringing awareness to the ideologies that drive a handful of generations is important to successfully operate in the 21st century.

Check Out My Book On Our Multi-Generational Workforce

Materials To Decarbonize & Reinforce Durable Goods

High-Performance Carbon-Negative Plastic Additives

In 2020 I founded Heartland Industries to help large manufacturers and chemical companies integrate reliable supply chains of sustainable materials.

Building A New Product Category

Heartland Industries manufactures natural fibers to reinforce plastic

Heartland developed a natural fiber pellet (referred to as a masterbatch or concentrate) that can reduce the CO2 of plastic products and packaging without retooling costs.

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Sustainable Solutions Are Nuanced

Commercializing sustainable materials (and other clean technologies) can cost a lot of time and money

I have spent many years focused on the problems and solutions associated with finding, testing, and commercializing sustainable innovations. These are some of the problems faced by producers and consumers of sustainable materials.

Producers of Sustainable Materials Consumers of Sustainable Materials

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Multiple Stakeholders

Companies that buy raw materials have many departments that all care about different things.

R&D = Performance

Material scientists and mechanical engineers are looking to determine if an alternative material can meet the required properties (mechanical, thermal, electrical, physical, chemical, optical, magnetic, etc).
Sustainablility = CO2

Sustainability departments care about carbon footprint reduction, responsible sourcing, and the message the company gets to tell its stakeholders (with approval from marketing, legal, communications, etc).
Procurement = Price

The procurement team cares about how much materials cost, how much they weigh, how they're shipped, and how you scale. Procurement teams need to understand how you become a reliable supplier.

Externalities Beyond CO2

Communicating other side effects of using or replacing a material creates unique anchors.

Reducing Pollutants

Creating materials from petrochemicals releases pollutants like Arsenic, Mercury, Lead, Benzene, Formaldehyde, Methane, Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides, Carbon Monoxide, VOC’s, Uranium, and other types of particulate matter. Reducing these pollutants is important.
Reducing Toxins

Exposure to most household chemicals disrupts our body's hormone production and natural rythm. Reducing these toxins is important.
Unknown Unknowns

Figure out the unique angles that your product adds value to the world. This can be all the little benefits that your solution provides to the world.

3rd Grade Language

Seize the opportunity to take really complex topics and explain them in a way that is repeatable & unique.

Easy to Understand

Can an elementary schooler understand what you do and how it works?
Repeatable

Can someone repeat what you do to a coworker or family member? If not, how do you expect word to spread?
Memorable

Is what you're saying memorable? If not, it will just blend in and become another 'me too' type of offering.