WHO + HOW + WHY
The HeartHeaded™ Coherence Architect
“For decades, I have worked at the intersection of vision, strategy, and human dynamics, shaping the conditions that enable aligned decisions under complexity. This is the domain where leadership clarity determines whether growth strengthens a system or fractures it.
HeartHeaded™ best expresses the living philosophy and embodied practice that has taken shape through my life and work, and continues to guide how I live and lead. I hold this, admittedly, with a touch of hardheaded conviction.
Across sectors and geographies, organizations rarely struggle from a lack of intelligence. They fracture when decision and action fall out of alignment. I respond to that fracture with a disciplined HeartHeaded™ approach.
This Paradigm did not emerge from theory, but from operating within complex systems where decisions carry institutional weight and from sustained real world observation and a life lived across East and West, truth and conditioning, intuition and intellect. It is where my personal and professional paths converge, where modern leadership practice and systems thinking are grounded in ancient Chinese wisdom that has been very much alive in me.”
CAREER CHAPTERS
Chief of Staff
Served as the strategic partner and right hand to the President of The Apollo, one of the most iconic performing arts institutions in the world. Advanced critical priorities and provided strategic insight across long-range planning, institutional recalibration during a period of growth, physical footprint expansion, and a $65M+ capital campaign. Stewarded executive alignment. Led special initiatives. Championed, architected and operationalized organization-wide culture transformation.
Managing Director
Served as Producer & Managing Director of the flagship annual Independent Film Week, presented by IFP—the nation's largest and oldest membership organization dedicated to independent film and the nonprofit behind the Gotham Awards. Produced, rebranded, and reimagined the international convening, contributing to New York's media infrastructure, shaping what later became the Made in NY Media Center.
Producer
Produced and ran large-scale multi-disciplinary arts and culture initiatives across New York and San Francisco, leading citywide performing arts festivals, high-visibility concerts, and theatrical productions at some of the nation’s most iconic stages. Aligned vision, strategy, and execution within complex, cross-cultural stakeholder environments.
Cross-cultural bridge builder
Led negotiations and joint-venture initiatives within complex multi-national corporate and government frameworks. Supported early market entry and strategic expansion for international enterprises in China. Navigated business, policy, and culture dynamics to forge sustainable partnerships.
JING WORKS AT THE LAYER MOST STRATEGIC PLANNING DOES NOT REACH
WORK WITH ME
“At its core, my work begins with shifting perspective and mindset. My role is not to impose ideas, but to stay with what is real: listening for what the system is revealing and discerning where coherence can be most effectively restored. You will be challenged to hold truth and accountability with clarity, and supported in navigating the human realities that ultimately determine whether strategy lives or dies.”
STEADY PARTNER THROUGH CHANGE