Speaking & Media
Jared has represented mission-driven work publicly as a keynote speaker, congressional witness, panel leader, and executive voice in national civic, policy, and higher-education settings.
Areas of Public Leadership
How education systems connect to employers, communities, and economic mobility, and why the handoff between education and work is the central institution-building question of the next decade.
Leading nonpartisan institutions in a low-trust era. What it takes to build standing across sectors, administrations, and political coalitions, and why public trust is now an institutional asset to be earned.
What it takes to grow mission-driven organizations with relevance and credibility: governance, operating discipline, fundraising, and the long-horizon work of compounding institutional trust.
Growing chapter-based, member-driven, and network organizations nationally. What scale actually requires when communities are the model.
What boards owe long-tenured executives, incoming leaders, and the institutions they share. Governance during succession, growth, and the kind of moments that test the seriousness of a board.
How philanthropy, business, government, and the nonprofit sector partner around shared outcomes. Building durable corporate, foundation, and public partnerships that compound over years rather than quarters.
Jared Lyon at TEDxFSU, featured on TED.com
“Rethinking Our Expectations for Post-Traditional Students” — on why the students American higher education was originally built for are no longer the students it actually serves.
Selected Public Engagements
SVA NatCon Keynotes (2016–2026)
Annual keynote address at SVA's national conference, the organization's flagship convening of student veterans, higher education leaders, corporate partners, and government agencies. Watch the 2026 keynote →
Congressional Testimony (2016–2026)
Multiple appearances before the U.S. House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs on policy, implementation, workforce outcomes, and student veteran success.
American Legion National Convention
Featured speaker at the American Legion National Convention on veterans' education, student veteran success, and the future of military-connected higher education.
VFW National Convention Address
Keynote address at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention on veterans' education and the future of military-connected students in higher education.
Howard University Veterans Center Ribbon Cutting
Keynote remarks at the ribbon cutting for Howard University's on-campus Veterans Center — expanding support for student veterans at one of the nation's premier HBCUs.
Tomb of the Unknowns — Arlington National Cemetery
Wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns on behalf of the nation's fallen servicemembers — representing Student Veterans of America at one of the most solemn traditions in American civic life.
Media & Interviews
Available to Comment On
Jared has been quoted, profiled, and interviewed by national and trade outlets across the higher education, workforce, veterans, and policy spaces. He is available to comment on the topics below. Recent and prior named-outlet appearances are documented in the downloadable biography and on LinkedIn.
- Education, Workforce & the Future of OpportunityFederal higher education policy, education-to-employment, post-traditional students.
- Veterans & Public ServicePost-9/11 GI Bill, federal veterans policy, civilian transition, military-connected higher education.
- Institution Building & Nonprofit LeadershipGrowing and governing national membership organizations, leadership transition, unrestricted capital deployment.
- Board Governance & Nonprofit FinanceHow boards govern through growth and succession, how to read nonprofit financials, the limits of the Form 990.
- Civic Leadership Across DifferenceBuilding nonpartisan institutions, public trust as institutional asset, cross-sector convening.
For speaking inquiries, panel invitations, and media requests, please use the contact form.