Bloom Anew

Executive and Personal Coaching

Non-Profit Organizational Consultation

"He only earns his freedom and existence
who daily conquers them anew."
--Goethe

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate
for the stormy present... So we must
think anew and act anew."
--Abraham Lincoln

Since 1983, Jay C. Bloom has been providing executive and personal coaching to leaders, managers, and individuals in the private, philanthropic, and governmental sectors who are experiencing a transition in their lives or desiring to strengthen their professional skills and capabilities. Jay's organizational consulting is also highly sought-after. He provides leadership and management consultation to nonprofit and private organizations, with a special expertise in helping organizations develop effective partnerships.

Jay is passionately promoting his concept of "returnment," a term he's coined for aging boomers as an alternative to retirement. Returnment encourages older adults to spend their later years using their skills, resources, and knowledge to benefit the greater good. Through national advocacy and speaking engagements, Jay is working to develop opportunities for the aging boomer generation to engage in civic activities. He's also assisting nonprofit organizations locally and nationally in finding ways to more effectively utilize this growing new resource.

Jay is currently serving as the interim President/CEO of United Way of Columbia –Willamette and is serving on the board search committee to find a new chief professional officer. He was the recent director of the innovative Task Force on Vital Aging sponsored by Multnomah County in Portland, Oregon. The task force researched best practices for employing and civically engaging older adults and completed a report in March 2008.

Jay served for 13 years as President/CEO of Morrison Child and Family Services, a $20 million nonprofit organization that annually serves more than 5,000 children, youth and their families throughout Oregon and Washington.

Jay has undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology and has attended executive management programs at Yale and Harvard Universities. He has lectured at the graduate schools of business at the University of Portland and Portland State University as well as undergraduate schools at Reed, Anna Maria and Lewis and Clark Colleges.

Currently, Jay is on the Leadership Council of Life by Design Northwest after serving four years as its chair, and is a member of the Nonprofit Association of Oregon steering committee after serving as one of the founding co chairs. He also serves on the boards of the Leaders Roundtable, Hope Meadows, Elders in Action, Oregon Gerontology Association and Children First.

Jay is also an active team leader and peer reviewer for the Council on Accreditation. He's completed more than 60 on-site reviews in the United States and Canada.

E-mail: jay@BloomAnew.com
Cell: 503-381-2649

"Many times a day I realize how much my own
inner and outer life is built on the labors of other men,
both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself
in order to give and return as much as I have received."
--Albert Einstein