Jeff Thomas

About Jeff Thomas

I have a deep personal connection to the cancer community and am ready to deploy my constellation of business, financial and leadership skills to make a meaningful personal and professional impact in the world. How can I help you and your organization make that kind of impact? Instead of waiting for a prospective employer/connection/friend to ask ME questions to get to know me better, I took the liberty of putting together some \"icebreaker questions.\" Leaders are usually good story tellers, and there\'s a short story behind all of these. You will know me well in very short order, and then I\'d like to get to know you.1. How did a communications major, whose only mathematics class in college was,\"Fun with Modern Math\" end up founding and running a business?2. Can you explain some of the differences between the employee/owner culture at Peoplexpress Air Lines and the \"contract employer\" relationship you had with Xerox?3. What do you think you did well with regard to managing your work/life balance as you grew the business? What could you have done better?4. What was your initial reaction when you were diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer in 2011?5. What coping methods did you utilize during your Cancer Journey?6. If you had to pick one thing that was MOST important to your survival back then, what would it be?7. What was the biggest lesson that your Cancer taught you about yourself?8. Other than the obvious (having Cancer yourself), what skill can you bring to the Cancer survivor world that we can\'t find in greater quantities from anyone else?9. Why would we consider you instead of someone with a longer career trajectory?10. Can you tell us the \"Jump, Panther, Jump\" story and explain why it says so much about you?

Experience

1. Consultant

   Lucid Diagnostics

   Sep 2024 — Present

Education

• Mind Edge Learning

  Certificate, Non Profit Leadership

• University of Pittsburgh

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Writing