Jesse Rhodes Jr.
Speaker Coach & Cultural Architect
Speaker coach. Cultural architect. Author. Restaurateur. The person who held the room together.
The Story
Speaker coach and cultural architect with 25+ years of leadership experience across Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Target, Walmart, and Amazon Web Services. Jesse's expertise spans strategic risk management, talent development, inclusion & diversity, and organizational culture design. He transitioned from corporate executive to helping leaders find their authentic voice and build cultures that attract the right people. The kind of range that makes him the person you want in the room when the stakes are real.
Ventures & Work
Helping leaders and organizations find their authentic voice, design intentional cultures, and build the kind of rooms people actually want to be in.
Acquired in January 2022 on Capitol Hill. Mediterranean-focused with the POCO philosophy: Purposeful, Organic, Captivating, Optimistic. Celebrated as a safe space for cross-cultural experiences. Vegan and gluten-free integrated throughout.
A practical guide for professionals navigating career transitions through values-based personal development. Not theory - lived experience distilled.
"Where Are We Now" Podcast
Host
Conversations on personal branding, career decisions, financial planning, unconscious bias, and workplace diversity. Available on Spotify.
Key Highlights
Community & Impact
In the Press
Why They’re in The Future
Jesse spent 25 years in corporate leadership, chaired the CTC Board of Governors, wrote the book on values-based leadership, and bought a bar on Capitol Hill because he believes culture happens over food. Now he coaches speakers and architects cultures for a living. That's not a career pivot - that's a man who kept every lesson and turned them into his life's work.