Jon Farley most recently served in the same role with the IDEALS Institute at Johns Hopkins University. There he brought his expertise in helping startup organizations scale their revenue and impact to achieve mission goals and operational stability. Farley implemented structures, processes, and policies that enabled the organization to achieve 367% funding growth in four years. This fueled the Institute’s ability to expand its operational infrastructure to both enable greater funding and to serve more people. This effort turned IDEALS into the only profit-center within the School of Education and provided 60% of the School’s annual funding.
Farley’s background as an analyst, operations leader in both private and non-profit sectors, and military officer provides a unique lens to solving problems that hinder organizational excellence. He believes that while analyzing data and current processes can define the path that needs to be taken, getting a team to enthusiastically adopt change and adapt their behaviors requires different skills, and Farley brings a belief in Serving Leadership combined with logistical expertise and person-center approaches together to help achieve organizational greatness.
Farley has an entrepreneurial background and is most at home helping to structure rapid growth and developing high performing teams by taking projects and organizations from strategic planning to execution while reducing costs, increasing profitability, and sustaining growth.
Farley previously served as a crime and intelligence analyst with the Annapolis Police Department and managed operations for two market research startups. COMSORT, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co. Inc. and Community Analytics.
Prior to that, he served as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps and left the United States Marine Corps Reserve with the rank of Major.