ABOUT JESS

Jess Mally (they/them) is an anti-racism practitioner, consultant, organiser, keynote speaker, and Strengthscope®-accredited coach. They are the co-founder of the AWETHU School of Organising and host of the Third Way Podcast, where they explore their framework Healthy Humans for Social Change in conversation with organisers, activists, and changemakers. Jess is a writer and thinker engaging deeply with questions of equity, justice, and culture.

 Jess supports individuals, teams, and organisations to foster cultures of equity, accountability, and care. As a facilitator and educator committed to working through an anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens, they design and deliver workshops and keynotes on anti-racism, organisational health, and leadership development.

Through their consultancy practice, Jess helps organisations transform culture and systems by using original frameworks:

• The Cultural Transformation Framework: A model for embedding desired values and behaviours into daily operations through enhanced communication, accountability practices, and long-term cultural sustainability.

• The Anti-Racism Framework: A lens that assesses organisational systems across six key pillars—history, data, lived experience, ideas, policies, and power—to uncover systemic inequities and provide a clear roadmap for meaningful, measurable change.

• The Healthy Humans for Social Change Framework: An approach that positions mental health, well-being, and resilience as foundational to a thriving workplace. This framework provides practical strategies for building individual and collective capacity, enabling teams to navigate

In their coaching work, Jess combines the Strengthscope® tool with an anti-racist lens to help individuals, teams, and leaders understand their strengths, navigate complexity, and align on shared goals. Their facilitation enables people to bring their best selves forward in service of collective and organisational success.

Jess has worked with a wide range of organisations. From the nonprofit, grassroots, and cultural sectors to large corporate and agency clients, Jess has extensive experience in supporting teams and leaders to build resilience, embed equity, and strengthen organisational health. They ensure their frameworks and approaches are both rigorous and adaptable across diverse organisational contexts, always tailoring to the unique needs and contexts of each.

In addition to strategic consulting, Jess is a sought-after keynote speaker and facilitator, delivering engaging and thought-provoking sessions on organisational health, inclusive leadership, building anti-racist workplaces and more.

To enquire about working with Jess as a speaker, facilitator, coach, or consultant, please use this contact form.