Blue Water
Engaged by billion dollar Scandinavian Corporate Foundation as program designer and project manager for an Oceans Regeneration and Marine Pollution initiative. Scope included program research, methodology, launch/initiation, integrated capital development strategy, network mapping, stakeholder alliance/engagement, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms
Social Capital Markets
Circadian developed full program tracks for multiple Social Capital Markets’ (SOCAP) annual conferences (2200 institutional impact investors). Our programs focused on new media currencies, impact brand-story campaigns and digital storytelling for social change. The programs demonstrated how creativity and strategic collaboration can help evolve new modalities that disrupt and repurpose content to create meaningful change.
SOCAP- Oceans
Oceans was anchored by a set of multi-stakeholder convenings that brought together over 80 diverse ocean entrepreneurs and environmentalists, along with 1700 innovators from the business, investment, and startup worlds. We created an open platform for entrepreneurs to collaborate with community stakeholders – from impact investors, to large institutions and foundations, to entrepreneurs – to help uncover opportunities for innovation and collaboration across disciplines. By examining the relationships between livelihood, technology, and food security we built a map of the ecosystem, illustrating patterns of interdependence in complexity.
To solve complex problems and create trimtabs for systemic change in the oceans, we need to change the story. Circadian brought together storytellers, mappers, and creators from across the ocean ecosystem to create an innovative set of narrative tools and transformative learning experiences for communicating about the oceans that surround us. By leveraging the wisdom across the oceans space, we designed strategic interventions along the supply chain that tell new stories about the planet’s largest natural resource.
Ketamine Research Foundation
Jeff serves on the board of directors of the Ketamine Research Foundation (KRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the research and development of therapeutic modalities and practices. Jeff is particularly engaged with the Foundation’s Conscious Dying, Conscious Living Program as well as its ongoing Diversity initiatives.
Enthea
Jeff has served as business advisor and strategist for Enthea, a non-profit, benefit plan services company for psychedelic healthcare.
Technology and Society (International Student Pugwash)
Jeff Leifer is the founder of International Student Pugwash, a non-profit organization which for 3 decades offered programs and international gatherings focused on the Moral Dilemmas of Technology and Democracy. The organization facilitated truly intergenerational dialogue and related initiatives in over 40 countries. Jeff secured significant funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for it’s earliest programs. Grants from the McArthur Foundation ($700,000) and the Ford Foundation ($650,000) as well as the Pew Charitable Trust and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund subsequently enabled Jeff to establish a full time center located in Washington DC. The proceedings of the first convening were published by Addison-Wesley as a textbook entitled ’Science and Ethical Responsibility’.
Rana Creek Institute (RCI)
Jeff serves as a member of the board and executive committee for the newly developing Rana Creek Institute (RCI). Located on 11,000 acres in the Carmel Valley area of Northern California, RCI’s focus will be part Psychedelic Residential Care Facility, part research institute, with focus at the intersection of indigenous wisdom and innovative, multidisciplinary science-based approaches to physical and psycho-spiritual healing.