Jayson Blair

About Jayson Blair

I help organizations unlock the leadership potential that\'s already inside them — building the conditions where leaders, teams, and entire functions perform at their best.My clients include senior executives, C-Suite leaders, HR and organizational development professionals, and the teams they lead. What they share in common is a belief that sustainable performance starts with understanding people deeply — their strengths, their blind spots, and the personality dynamics that shape how they lead and how organizations actually function.With more than 19 years of experience across healthcare, scientific research, international development, nonprofits, higher education, and the public sector, I\'ve partnered with organizations ranging from small mission-driven teams to institutions managing more than $30 billion in assets. I understand the complexity that comes with real organizational change because I\'ve been in those rooms, asked the hard questions, and helped navigate what comes next.My work sits at the intersection of leadership psychology and organizational performance. I design customized assessments, build competency models, develop leadership programs, and use systems thinking to connect individual growth to organizational outcomes. My background in psychology — including work at Ashburn Psychological Services where I brought coaching into the mental health arena — gives me a lens that most consultants simply don\'t have.I\'m a member of the Hogan Coaching Network, an elite group of 60 international coaches who are global experts in personality-based leadership assessment. Hogan is at the core of much of my practice — giving leaders and their organizations a powerful, predictive window into how personality drives performance, derailment, and culture.Before consulting, I was a journalist. That background shapes everything — I ask better questions, I listen differently, and I help leaders find and tell the stories that drive change.What I offer:Executive Coaching | Hogan Assessments | Leadership Development | Organizational Development Consulting | Facilitation | Team CoachingLet\'s connect if you\'re building something that matters.

Experience

1. Managing Partner and Principal Consultant

   Goose Creek Consulting

   Apr 2010 — Present · Centreville, VA, US

   I founded Goose Creek Coaching and Consulting in 2010 and built it into a multi-million-dollar practice serving some of the most recognized organizations in the world — across Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies, nonprofits, and global institutions.My work sits at the intersection of three disciplines most consultants treat separately: leadership psychology, organizational development, and behavioral science. That combination is what allows me to move fluidly between roles — as an executive coach working one-on-one with C-Suite leaders, as a facilitator designing and leading high-stakes team and organizational interventions, and as a strategic partner to HR and OD professionals building leadership infrastructure that lasts.As one of just a small group of members of the Hogan Coaching Network globally, I bring advanced expertise in personality-based leadership assessment — using Hogan\'s suite to identify performance drivers, predict derailment risk, and build individual and team development plans grounded in data, not intuition.My personal practice has involved delivering coaching hours, designed custom multi-tool assessment frameworks, piloted the Hogan Team Effectiveness Diagnostic, and conducted talent reviews for C-Suite executives across industries ranging from financial services and healthcare to defense and international development.I\'m also a frequent media contributor and speaker — appearing on platforms including The Science of Personality podcast, SIOP, The Today Show, and Fox News Sunday — bringing evidence-based perspectives on leadership, personality, and organizational performance to audiences well beyond the consulting room.

Education

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  Certificate, Psychological First Aid

  2019 — 2020

• Stanford University

  Certificate, Organizational Analysis

  2021 — 2022

• The Wharton School

  Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists

  2000 — 2000

• University of Maryland

  Journalism

  1995 — 1999

• Liberty University

  Journalism

  1994 — 1994

• Jones International University

  B.A., Business Communications

  2008

• Centreville High School

  General Dipolma

  1990 — 1994