Jody Johannessen is a strategic marketing communications executive and educator with global experience across industries.

A trusted adviser to organizational leaders, Jody has led international projects responsible for communications with as many as 100,000 workers globally. Her extensive consulting experience in Silicon Valley and elsewhere helps her bring clients practical insights on management strategy and innovation. She has lectured ambassadors and graduate-level rising officers from the Court of the Crown Prince and UAE government ministries on public diplomacy and public speaking. At the undergraduate level, Jody has taught Business Communications, Interpersonal and Intercultural Communications, and Public Speaking and Persuasion. She currently serves as co-chair of TEDxZayedUniversity. 

Jody holds an M.B.A./M.M. in Organizational Behavior from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she studied Leadership under Oprah Winfrey.

Her A.B. in Public and International Affairs is from Princeton University, where she wrote the Woodrow Wilson School's first thesis on corporate social responsibility, sponsored by the Target Foundation's Board of Trustees.