Over the years, I have been fortunate to work with smart, dedicated, committed colleagues, clients, partners, and collaborators. All have enriched my understanding of complex social and environmental dynamics and, on a practical level, on ways to build effective projects, partnerships, and collaborations, and to deliver results. I am thankful for their partnership and friendship over the years, and for their kind endorsement of my work.

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“For over two years, Jean-Louis and I worked together and with others to design and launch a strategic initiative to increase philanthropic funding in Texas. This complex project involved data collection, partnership development, communication and outreach, and holistic thinking about how trust and collaboration between organizations really happens.

Jean-Louis has a broad worldview and creative outlook that brought value to our initiative. At the same time, he is able to translate the big picture to practical implementation steps and follow through on execution. I value his insights, advice and creativity. Our project was successful and all the better for Jean-Louis's involvement.”

— Marilu Hastings, Executive Vice-President, George and Cynthia Mitchell Foundation, Austin, Texas

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“I had the pleasure of working with Jean-Louis at ClimateWorks and shared many wonderful experiences -- working closely on our journey to building a new area on the climate and health front, his leadership in building out a new communications plan for the organization -- new website, editorial work plans for our communications effort, and deep interest in collaboration.

Thoughtful, warm, kind, strategic and considerate, friendly and disciplined -- these are the many qualities he has and working with him was a true pleasure. A colleague I enjoyed working with and miss. I wish Jean-Louis great success.”

— Surabi Menon, Vice President, Global Insights, ClimateWorks Foundation, San Francisco, California

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“I had the pleasure of working with Jean-Louis while he was working at a partner organization, and while the focus was climate, it was clear in my conversations with him throughout the years that his vision extended past it to a more holistic approach of building capacity for scale of impact.

Our paths crossed again most recently, and I was thrilled to see how his passion was shining through in this new endeavour of his. Jean-Louis' experience and aptitudes are the perfect combination to support high-impact initiatives and create opportunities for his clients through partnerships and strategic communications.”

— Cristina Jorda, Vice President, Global Insights, ClimateWorks Foundation, San Francisco, California

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I and my firm had the good fortune of being hired by Jean-Louis when he was with ClimateWorks. At the time, they were undergoing a significant strategic shift and refinement of their operating model. Our engagement was primarily focused on brand strategy and design.

But Jean-Louis had the vision and courage to make this work what it should be—about creating the strategic alignment between aspirations, communications, and operations needed to increase organizational cohesion, capacity and impact. The process was engaging, exciting, and unusually effective—which is what you get when you have a thoughtful, empathetic, committed, smart, and capable partner to collaborate with like Jean-Louis!

— Matt Schwartz, CEO, Constructive, New York, New York