About Jess
Jess Mack is a creative strategist + narrative coach with 20 years of experience in global impact.
She has designed and led transformative advocacy, communications, and philanthropic strategies all over the world for the likes of UN Women, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, Planned Parenthood, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and others.
She is a sought-after advisor and speech writer to powerful changemakers. She is a dynamic speaker. She holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University and has coached hundreds of leaders – founders of movements, presidents of organizations, executives running billion-dollar initiatives – to find their voice and use it to catalyze real change.
Her writing on leadership, reproductive rights, and Buddhism has been published in Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Lancet, Tricycle Magazine, Ms. Magazine, the Guardian, and Al Jazeera among others. Her one-of-a-kind plant-inspired meditations, which blend biomimicry with mindfulness in the middle of the city, have been featured in the LA Times and VoyageLA.
Underpinning her high-powered global work is her ability to hold exquisite space for individuals navigating vulnerable in-betweens. A philosopher at heart, she is a Buddhist practitioner as well as a certified yoga and meditation teacher.
She has trained as a death doula and miscarriage doula and most recently providing mindfulness support for those undergoing fertility treatment. She designs creative experiences that enable others to come into greater presence and peace with themselves. Jess is a watercolorist whose commissioned placenta paintings offer new experiences of healing and wholeness in postpartum.
Jess leads a life inspired by the holy trinity: curiosity, deep listening, and humor. Her joy and superpower lie in accompanying people through transitional moments, whether professional or personal. She supports clients along a vast gradient, from results-oriented leadership and communications – delivering global keynote, launching businesses, or amplifying executive presence – to more esoteric inner work such as navigating grief or uncertainty. She possesses a unique blend of spunk, heart, creativity, and the ability to deliver powerful results.
Jess is based in Santa Monica with her husband, two small children, and many happy houseplants.
“Jess has a rare ability to excavate what you are here to say. And it goes so much deeper than words — it's about who you are here to be. She builds a deep knowing in you of how to show up with power and clarity.
Across industries, across teams, across the full spectrum of what leadership actually demands — she brings a precision and depth I have never experienced in anyone else I've worked with. Not once in fourteen years.”
Jessi Duley, Founder, Reckless Optimists