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I’m beyond excited to welcome Nikki J. Jones (she/they) and Corey Ford, two of the best media execs in the country, to our talented team at Rocky Mountain Public Media. Jones will support RMPM’s team through an ongoing digital transformation that continues to shape the way audiences engage with their media sources. Prior to joining RMPM, Jones was the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of change management consultancy, Changility LLC. She also served as Vice President of Change Management and Transformation at National Public Radio (NPR), Director of Program Management-Digital Marketing at SiriusXM Radio, and Technical Program Manager at National Geographic Society. In addition, she is a founding member of the D.C. chapter of the global women’s executive network, Chief, and holds a Master of Science, Information Systems Technology/Advanced Business Technologies from George Washington University School of Business. Ford will lead RMPM’s ongoing strategies to expand local content and experiences through human-centered design, which strives to ensure RMPM is directly addressing the needs of Colorado communities through our work. Ford will conduct this work in his continuing capacity as the founder and CEO of Matter Ventures, a company providing consultation, coaching, and instruction to media executives and entrepreneurs on innovation leadership, process, and strategy. Through Matter, he also founded the first media and journalism-focused start-up accelerator, investing in and supporting early-stage entrepreneurs and leaders at critical journalism institutions to foster a more informed, empathetic, and inclusive society. Throughout his career, Ford has worked to champion the concept of venture design, which enables organizations to build cultures, processes, and strategies to constantly understand the needs of its customers, leverage emerging technologies to prototype and test different solutions to those needs and build business models that appropriately sustain the organization to continue to deliver on its mission of solving for those needs. Ford also continues to lead the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School, the media industry’s top executive program. Ford’s roots are in public media. After graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar, he began his career in documentary television production at PBS FRONTLINE and National Geographic before receiving an MBA from Stanford. https://lnkd.in/g6AAPbyW

https://lnkd.in/gpHapYDN It was my pleasure to meet Dr. Temple Grandin and have her on Mid-morning jazz a couple of weeks ago. Tomorrow evening at 7pm you can see her latest documentary "An Open Door. Rocky Mountain PBS