Hi. I'm Jason.

Forty years of helping leaders get through the moments that matter most.

From McDonald's to venture-backed startups and back — Fortune 100 boardrooms and founder desks, brand transformations and post-acquisition integrations, national fundraises and speeches that had to land the first time.

I don't come with your answers. I come with the pattern recognition that helps you find them — and the range to meet you wherever your problem actually lives.

Tell me what you're walking into See what I've done
Range

Different problems. Different rooms. Same person.

A short catalog of things I've helped leaders get through. If your situation isn't on this list, it probably rhymes with something that is. Tell me — we'll figure out whether I'm the right partner.

Brand transformation, at scale

Rebuilding McDonald's in the field

Thirteen years as US Field Communications Director during the brand's historic reinvention — landing a single transformation across 22 regional offices, 2,500 franchisees, and 14,000 restaurants.

McDonald's Corporation · 1998–2011

Fundraising a national mission

Raising $80M for MxD

Aligned a dozen Fortune 100s — GE, Rolls-Royce, P&G — with the DoD, the State of Illinois, and a dozen universities under one operating vision for President Obama's national manufacturing innovation hub.

MxD (UI LABS) · 2013–2016

Positioning through disruption

AT&T Wireless after the iPhone

Helping a Fortune 50 telecom find its voice in a market Apple had just rewritten — messaging, positioning, and the go-to-market to match.

Clareo Strategy · post-iPhone launch

Fortune 100 innovation, from scratch

Standing up an innovation function at Exelon

A three-year partnership with the CIO to build an innovation practice — from team funding through implementation to millions of dollars of documented value creation.

Exelon Corporation · 2016–2019

Founding through acquisition

Building and selling CartoFront

Seven years as President of a venture-backed climate-risk platform, from founding team and product through acquisition by Green Shield Risk Solutions.

CartoFront, Inc. · 2018–2025

Institutional voice

Speaking for a museum, and its exhibitions

Four years shaping the public voice of the Museum of Science and Industry — exhibitions, films, national press moments — while earning an M.S. in Communications at Northwestern.

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago · 1993–1996

Range is my strategy. Most senior operators are built for one environment. I'm at home in both — and my best work happens at the seams where they meet.
How I Work

I listen first. Then we decide together what the work is.

I don't lead with a menu. Every engagement I've done well started with the same question: what are you actually walking into? Once we know that, the shape of the work — a day, a week, a season, a partnership — follows naturally.

I've made every mistake worth making across forty years, and I've come out with a working belief: the best consulting is listening carefully, framing honestly, and helping the room find its own answer — with a plan the team can run without me.

The First Conversation is a gift.

Forty-eight minutes. No prep, no deck, no obligation. You tell me what you're walking into. Afterward you get a page and a half memo — what you said, what I noticed, and the two or three questions I'd pursue next. Yours to keep, whether or not we work together.

About

Forty years across corporate and startup — the person you meet is the person who does the work.

Jason Bennett Harris
Jason Bennett Harris · Los Angeles

Thirteen years at McDonald's during its historic brand transformation. Fifteen years running my own consulting practice — MxD, Exelon, AT&T Wireless, LifeSpace, and a long list of leaders through moments they couldn't get through alone. Seven years as President of CartoFront, through acquisition by Green Shield Risk Solutions.

Along the way I've been early to every wave — Internet 1.0 to AI. I saw the internet for the first time at Northwestern in 1995. It changed how I thought about work. AI is that moment again — and alignment is how leaders turn it into value.

I've gotten things right and I've gotten things wrong. Both. That's most of what forty years buys you, and it's most of what I bring into the room.

Off the clock: twenty-five years of photographic collage practice — shot on film, assembled by hand. Sometimes an engagement calls for a piece of the practice to close it: a collaborative collage the team composes together as a permanent record of what was decided. Sometimes it doesn't. The art lives at jasonbennettharris.com.

M.S. Communications, Northwestern University · B.A. Economics, University of Illinois · Los Angeles · Download the CV (PDF)

Let's Talk

Tell me what you're walking into.

The First Conversation is a gift — 48 minutes, no prep, no obligation. Afterward you get a page-and-a-half memo of what I heard. Yours to keep, whether or not we work together.

Email me
jasonbennettharris@gmail.com · 1.630.240.8213 · LinkedIn