Jessica Kiessel is systems and complexity-aware artist, facilitator, coach, and strategist committed to creating conditions for individual and organizational transformation in the service of a more loving, inclusive, just, and sustainable society. She founded (re)Patterning Labs with the hopes of encouraging playful experimentation and learning that may help social purpose organizations and leaders better live the patterns they hope to see in the world. Jessica shares her writing and art on this topic, and encourages others to do the same, at www.patternmaking.org, which is a community of people sharing their individual way-finding through writing and art. She also accompanies leaders and teams committed to systems and complexity aware strategy, learning and practice.

She is the former Senior Director of Learning & Impact as part of the Strategy Group at the Omidyar Network. Prior to this role, she served as the Deputy Director of Strategy and Learning at PATH, a non-profit global health organization based in Seattle. She was also the Global Chief Program Officer at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a non-profit research organization, overseeing the strategy and management of IPA’s 16 country programs and 7 strategic initiatives. Before that, Jessica was the Ghana Country Director for Innovations for Poverty Action; supported USAID education projects in Egypt, Zambia, Namibia and Pakistan for American Institute for Research; and a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, serving as a social studies teacher in Samoa.

An organizer and educator at heart, Jessica is a certified Advanced Practitioner in Emergent Learning, holds a Masters of Public Administration from New York University, and a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology from Kalamazoo College.