Jared S. Lyon
Building Institutions That Serve Communities at Scale
Jared has spent his career helping organizations grow, adapt, and lead with greater scale and clarity. His experience spans executive leadership, board partnership, fundraising, public affairs, coalition building, cross-sector partnerships, and external representation.
As President & CEO of Student Veterans of America, he led the organization through a period of significant national growth and maturation, helping strengthen its position as a trusted voice at the intersection of higher education, workforce outcomes, public policy, and veteran success.
His next chapter applies that same playbook more broadly: helping mission-driven institutions across education, workforce, civic life, and public purpose grow with relevance, lead with credibility, and build durable impact over time.
Full executive profile
Where the Work Continues
Four areas where Jared works at the intersection of leadership, institutions, and public purpose.
Helping institutions connect education to opportunity. Building durable bridges between schools, employers, and the communities that depend on both.
Leading nonpartisan institutions in a low-trust era. Convening across difference, representing organizations credibly in policy and media, and earning standing across administrations.
Helping organizations evolve through growth, complexity, and leadership transition. Strategy, governance, fundraising, and operating discipline that hold up at scale.
Board, advisory, and partnership roles connecting philanthropy, business, government, higher education, and the nonprofit sector around shared outcomes.
Nonpartisan Engagement at the Highest Levels
Nonpartisan engagement in national, state, and institutional leadership settings.
