Hi.   I'm jewel mlnarik. I also respond to jewels (@juellez), she/them, & friend. Yep, that's an L between the M & N. It's Bohemian.

I've been a cross-functional "project whisperer" & consultant for ±25 years—as an executive, entrepreneur, startup founder, & coach. Along the way, I've supported CEOs & founders through transition, ramped up revenues, scaled agencies, produced award-winning & international experiences, & founded communities I'm ridiculously proud of—alongside making art & music.

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v. to jewel is to

  1. shine as a lamp placed carefully for intimate illumination
  2. generate enough wattage to light a stage and a crowd
  3. cross-polinate curiosities & insights to increase our collective awareness—leaving every space/group/human better
  4. create global change by creating brave spaces for us to ignite our myriad truths —from "to be a verb"

©1995-present Jewel Mari Mlnarik. Professional CV | Art CV | Acknowledgement

Professional C/V

Prior to my shift into coaching and the healing arts, I was a leadership transition consultant, fractional and interim COO, and cross-functional "project whisperer"—adept at engaging teams & channeling chaos into creative growth through calm confidence.


Skills Summary

25 years digital products & projects ◆ Designer → Developer → Architect → Director, Technology → Director, Projects → Founder → CEO/COO → Consultant → Transformational Executive & Somatic Healer

  • Global, cross-functional & multi-vendor coordination & stakeholder alignment
  • Forecasting, planning, PNL & financial management
  • Talent strategy, recruitment, & development
  • Hybrid-to-fully remote team coordination, engagement, management, & best practices
  • Product Ops, PMO, process strategy & automation
  • Customer lifetime value, subscription revenue, analytics, reporting
  • Solutions strategy, sales support, proposals & contracts
  • Product requirements, needs analysis, gap maps & integrations
  • International localization & content management strategy
  • Architecting digital products and experiences to last* utilizing myriad methodologies, languages, frameworks & databases
  • Compliance: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, PII, SOX
  • Branding, identity & print campaign production
  • Event planning, coordination, communications

Speaking Engagements & Interviews


Event Founding & Management


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*View my resume for products & media I've built & produced, including Workfrom, Sony Pictures, Grammy's, Nike Run, Tarot.com, PartnerPath, Travel Oregon, .

Art Shows & Publications

  • Benefit concerts, Portland OR | June-July 2023
  • The Next Step, group show @ Buckley Center Gallery, Portland OR | Oct 2022
  • NWAA Benefit Concert, Portland OR | Oct 2022
  • Live @ Barrio, solo music show, Portland OR | Oct 2021
  • Watch Your Step, group show @ Buckley Center Gallery, Portland OR | Mar 2020
  • Live @ Barrio, solo music show, Portland OR | 2019
  • Lightleak 101, group show @ Camera Works Gallery, Portland OR | 2013
  • Strangers in a Strange Land, group show @ Streff Gallery, Marylhurst University, OR | 2012
  • Wanderlove greeting cards & jewelry, sold online & in boutique stores, Portland OR | 2011-2013
  • My Beloved, photographic novella, Volume 1 | 2011
  • Talk to Strangers: Portraits of America, solo show @ Echo Restaurant, Portland OR | 2009
  • “Lady with Big Dog and Candy” & “Flat Tire, I-80” photos published in Laurus | 2000
  • Group Show @ Rotunda Gallery, Lincoln NE | 1999

Collections

  • RACC Portable Works & Visual Chronicle Collections of Portland, Oregon

Land Acknowledgement

I'm currently residing in the White River watershed, just outside of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I'm privileged to reside on the ancestral lands of the Osage, Quapaw, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and Caddo who tended this land for thousands of years before European settlers began displacing and trying to erase them. I also acknowledge that a portion of the Trail of Tears runs through our town, and that the Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Chickasaw and Seminole Nations passed through what is now known as Arkansas during this forced removal.

This website is hosted on computers residing on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, the pre-colonial inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula, and an integral and active community in the Bay Area and beyond. I pay my respects to the pre-colonial ancestors of the land we occupy, utilize, and visit—and to the descendants, elders, relatives, and Spirits of their communities—and affirm their sovereign rights as First Peoples.