Jewel Kinch-Thomas, COO and Co-Founder of the Jazz Leadership Project, has over 20+ years of experience in executive management. Her work is designed to optimize leadership capacity and accelerate team development for heightened workplace engagement and high-level performance. She is the co-author of Reimagining American Identity. Jewel is an alum of Columbia University’s Arts Leadership Institute, New York Foundation for the Arts Leadership Circles, and the Women & Power: Leadership for the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.