Jalen Salazar
Strategic Advisor
Jalen is a seasoned senior leader and mentor who is passionate about creativity and its ability to catalyze and sustain meaningful change.
After a successful multi-decade tenure building and guiding design at the highly regarded LUNAR in San Francisco - receiving the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewett National Product Design Award in 2015, the same year it was acquired by the preeminent management consulting McKinsey & Co. – he became a Partner, and was responsible for ensuring the successful integration of design and for scaling the capability within McKinsey’s North American practice.
Over the course of his 30 years in industry, he embodied a unique marriage of Executive level Strategy and Storytelling, with deeply seasoned Product Development expertise.
At the start of 2020, a personal tragedy ‘ruptured’ life as Jalen (then Jeff) knew it. While he remained passionate about igniting the spirit of exploration to shape better futures for his clients, he was disenchanted by working for industry. He realized that meaningful impact comes when we first focus inwards and that truly authentic change must start there. He pivoted away from the only industry he’d ever known, and ventured into the new territory.
Since then, he has been on a journey to complement his 30 years of helping teams and companies innovate their way through change, by exploring the world of alter-states “inner” innovation. In 2024, he graduated from Psychedelics Today’s year long Vital training, and completed Internal Family Systems (IFS) level one equivalent training with the Moxie School.
📍 Based in the US
🔧 Strategic Advisor
