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Since launching her firm in 1992, Jamie and Ivy Sea have helped a wide variety of organizations and enterprise leaders sort through the vision for and pathways to conscious enterprise, organizational transformation, and effective (and mindful) communication. Ivy Sea's clients have represented for-profit and nonprofit organizations, solopreneurs and large corporations, well-known and unknown companies, and visionary and traditional enterprises. In addition to being the founder of Ivy Sea, Jamie's work includes the typical requirements of owning and running a big-vision enterprise, as well as sharing her experience, creativity, resourcefulness, humor, and strategic counsel with Ivy Sea clients and collaborators. Jamie's also the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief for the firm's award-winning public-service website, Ivy Sea Online Center for Conscious Enterprise, and the author of the new handbook for conscious, human-scale enterprise: Big Vision, Small Business: 4 Keys to Success Without Growing Big (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco). In her work with clients, Jamie might act as a catalyst, bridge, advisor, way-shower, mentor, coach and guide to conscious enterprise, positive transformation and highest potential. She helps Ivy Sea clients clarify their vision and values, look at the possibilities, identify strengths and opportunities for improvement, and outline a strategy to bridge from the current-state towards their ideal. And she offers support and inspiration along the way. If needed, Jamie provides counsel on how to communicate the "new ways of being and working" to employees, customers and other stakeholders through effective, authentic employee and marketing communications. Prior to starting her own enterprise in 1992, Jamie helped establish Virginia's Superfund Community Relations Program for the Commonwealth’s Department of Waste Management. When she joined VDWM, the community-relations program didn't exist; when she left, she had established a thriving, highly regarded program with outreach to more than forty cleanup communities.In addition to building the VDWM program framework for grassroots outreach, Jamie spearheaded efforts to assess issues, and devise and implement communication strategies for public participation around complex, intense, emotionally turbulent hazardous waste site cleanups in several dozen Virginia communities. Typical site cleanup outreach initiatives included one-on-one and large-group workshops and meetings; a wide variety of traditional print communication materials; sensitive-issues management; and interaction with and balancing the often conflicting interests and information needs of local, state and federal elected and regulatory officials; corporate officials; community residents; special-interest groups; and members of the local, state and national media (print, radio and television). After three and one-half years, the program director said that, through her diligent and effective efforts, Jamie had "helped make Superfund hazardous waste cleanups a non-issue in Virginia." In the earlier years of her career, Jamie held marketing-communications roles with a San Francisco environmental consulting firm and a Los Angeles cosmetics manufacturer, was an aide on the legislative staffs of California Assemblywoman Lucy Killea and New York State Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink, and held a guest-relations stint with a New York Holiday Inn (Exit 1, I-84). She is a past-president of the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (SF/IABC), and is a member of several professional associations. Author of many print and web articles, Jamie wrote Big Vision, Small Business: The Four Keys to Finding Success and Satisfaction as a Lifestyle Entrepreneur, which launched in hardcover format in October 2001, to positive acclaim, including being awarded the "Best Book of the Year" distinction by CEO Refresher. In researching the book, she interviewed some seventy small-business owners and advocates from around the country regarding their visions and journeys as small-business owners wanting to make a positive contribution to the world via their small, conscious, independently owned and community accountable enterprises. In early 2002, Jamie completed work on an updated and expanded manuscript for the paperback edition of Big Vision, Small Business: 4 Keys to Success Without Growing Big, released November, 1 2002 by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Review more information about Big Vision. In addition to her interest in conscious enterprise and exploring the possibilities, Jamie has equally strong passions for hanging out with her husband, cats and close friends; cooking; tracking down the best chocolate; studying ancient schools of wisdom and reading about archaeological finds of ancient civilizations; learning new tidbits about wellness and nutrition; surfing the web; and wandering the great outdoors (preferably with her camera). She's also a sucker for a spirited conversation and an avid baseball fan (you'll find her cheering for the San Francisco Giants from April through October.). Since 1981, Jamie has participated in both formal and "in the trenches" education in business, management, coaching, facilitation, change leadership, crisis communication, media relations, public participation, and interpersonal and organizational communication. Jamie is graduate of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, where she earned a B.A. Degree having focused her studies on Political Science, English and Religion (though she says that owning her business has been the most challenging and fruitful education). She lives in San Francisco, California, with her husband Tom and their two cats, Uri and Josephine. Send Jamie an email, or return to Ivy Sea "People & Partners" page. |
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"Walters is a prophet of an emerging new economy of intelligent, caring, cutting edge entrepreneurs who seek to make a living — not a killing. Big Vision, Small Business is a must-read for all who believe that business can and should be fun, life serving, and human-scale." — David C. Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World and board chair, Positive Futures Network, Seattle, WA "I’ve known and admired Jamie for many years. Her brainchild, Ivy Sea, along with her unique perspectives and insights, provide the fuel for our continuing dialogue on progressive organizations and the requisite communications strategies that will bring them to fruition. As an organizational psychology scholar, I eagerly anticipate my encounters with Jamie to share her latest visionary observations." — T.Q., Senior Consultant, PG&E, CA "Jamie Walters is an entrepreneurial visionary — wisely focused, inspirational, calm and infectiously motivational. She regularly challenges my notions, educates my methods and opens my ears. You can't walk away from a conversation with her without experiencing re-energized clarity and feeling compelled to rethink some key part of your process. She is an entrepreneurial wizard." — S.T, Enterprise Owner, Ivy Sea Visioning Program alumna, and Ivy Sea Network Collaborator, Oakland, CA "When you’re running a business, you spend all your time putting out fires. Jamie was able to pull us away from the day to day and get us to look at the bigger picture. Now the biggest "fire" is not always the client that is yelling the loudest, but the things that promote our larger goals." — P.R., Founder and COO, and Ivy Sea Visioning Program alumni, Berkeley, CA "Where can a business owner go when the sleepless nights set in? Do what we did, and contact Ivy Sea, an enlightened, empowering organization designed just for us! Timely, practical, thoughtful advice, at the touch of a button. Thank you, Jamie Walters!" — K.B., Co-Founder and Partner, Boise, Idaho "Ivy Sea stepped into a complex scenario requiring a strategy to communicate with diverse and large groups during a major change process. Ivy Sea quickly learned our message and strategy, and helped develop and implement a communications plan, helping to avoid titanic reactions. Thank you Ivy Sea!" — C.W., PharmD, Kaiser Permanente California Back to Jamie's bio-snapshot page |
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