First and foremost I am a family man. I have been blessed with 3 amazing boys and fortunate enough to marry my best friend. My goal in life is to have as many experiences as possible, spending less time accumulating stuff and more time engaged in what life has to offer. My family and I love to travel and when we aren’t outdoors in the mountains you can bet we are at a nice sandy beach running around in the sand and splashing in the ocean.
Leader – Building High Performing Teams
It’s simple, I provide my team a strong vision, their resources and tools while allowing them to be innovative and accountable. In return, they are high performers unsatisfied with the status quo taking ownership in driving results. Together we learn, celebrate, fail and grow!
Innovator – Unparalleled Creativity
My blood is 91% creativity and 9%, well… other blood stuff. My mind is a constant creator of improvement whether it be a product, a process or conceptual idea. This has been instrumental in finding lean solutions through organizational development and refining processes. A curse for me as I can’t shut it off, but companies I have worked with have improved bottom lines, increasing profit margins, expanding product offerings and eliminating inefficiencies.
Author – Self Help, Humor, Poetry
Most known for my book assisting thousands through navigating change is LIFE, Learn. Inspire. Forge. Evolve. but equally known for finally creating a book dudes will read about parenthood, the book “From Dude to Dad.” Delving into two of my life’s passions, I wrote the book “InCorporate Poetry” which is a nice blend of training concepts through poetry. One of my favorite books I’ve written is my own poetry capturing some of my life’s experiences in “Skyler Wolf Jones The Man Behind the Pen.”
Speaker – Dynamic, Engaging, Humorous
I love facilitating and speaking to any group and any size, from c-suite to frontline. My style is energetic and proven to be inspiring. People must be engaged, and they will not be engaged without energy, knowledge, humor and awareness. I have been fortunate to impact thousands of individuals willing to listen!
Content Developer – Award Winning Content
Creating fresh content is where I am a powerhouse. My creativity is endless and I have a knack for taking complex processes and products and simplifying them into perfect consumable content pieces. Someone once told me I could find the angle in a perfect circle that would connect with an audience and drive them to take action. Whether I am leading a team or doing a solo mission, the content I create be it video, web, print or more is awesome and you will love it.
Learning and Development Wizard – Unorthodox and Effective
Because my background isn’t comprised of a formal education I am extremely passionate about taking advantage of and creating opportunities for solid learning experiences that fosters the development of individuals, teams and companies. There is no graduation to the evolution of knowledge, only checkpoints. This makes it critical to constantly be creating learning programs that will advance the current workforce’s capabilities to perform confidently and quickly while companies pivot to survive, thrive and lead in their markets.
Project and Program Manager – It’s Not The Tools, It’s The Details
Too much time is wasted on evaluating project management and program management tools. The tools are useful sure, but if they are too complex, take too much time to update, or simply aren’t convenient they won’t give you the data you are looking for or help drive projects to completion on time and on budget. My goal is to always alleviate those who are fulfilling the work by asking them for the smallest amount of time as possible in providing predictable and precise updates and let them focus on what they do best while I manage the project scope – hence the project manager or program manager. It’s not the tool driving projects forward, it is the details within the workflow.
Business Consultant – Sales Enablement, L&D, Certification, Onboarding, Skill Development
+Created an Online Education Center and Sales tool featuring virtual cartoon mentors, interactive courses, on demand webinars, live discussion groups, and mentoring. There were two portals, one for customers and one for employees. One of a kind for their niche market increasing software adoption by 14.5% while dropping attrition by 24%. 6 month post implementation survey returned a 75% favorable tool rating.
+From the ground up, built an entire training and company culture for a company working with the intricacy of insurance processing. 50% cut to insurance industry standards in aging receivables.
+Created user manuals, quick start and reference guides, release notes, P&Ps, job descriptions, web content and sales/marketing materials for Fortune 500 to software to startup companies.
+Oversaw 300+ Independent Trainers delivering online and in-office training on complex software products. Managed the certification process, software and internal applications, and seminar coordination.