Jason Blydell

Senior Consultant

Jason is an executive leadership coach, a former US Marine infantry officer and a two-sport DI collegiate athlete. He employs the mental performance conditioning tools and strategies used by professional athletes and leading-edge military units to help leaders create maximum impact for their organizations, their people and themselves.

Throughout his career, Jason has excelled in a range of high-stakes environments. Utilizing his unique background and skill set, he provides high-level coaching to C-suite leaders, business owners and SVP, VP, and director-level employees. Working hand-in-hand with his clients, he helps them chart their individual paths to success, generate peak performance and tap into their limitless potential.

Jason earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Dartmouth College and a Master of Business Administration from Suffolk University.

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EXPERIENCE

Jason Blydell is a Senior Consultant at FMG Leading, a team of advisors that creates world-class organizations at the intersection of humanity and high performance. An executive leadership coach with extensive talent management, sales and business development experience, Jason provides C-suite leaders, business owners, and VP-level managers with high-level, strategic coaching designed to help smooth their journeys toward transformational work and aspirational futures.

Jason has consulted and delivered on human transformation, organizational behavior change, professional coaching at scale, and new business development at the coaching platform Betterup Boston. He’s also worked as a Senior Account Executive and Talent Development Manager at the aerospace and defense technology company Shield AI, where he partnered with the company’s executive team to design and deliver new onboarding training for managers, and created a leadership development curriculum and strategy for the organization. Jason has also held leadership positions at Dell Technologies and co-led the launch and acquisition of startup Athletes of Valor, where he significantly contributed to the organization’s efforts to provide veterans with opportunities in higher education through college/university athletics.

Jason’s coaching approach is rooted in Ontology, the philosophical study of being. He is guided by the philosophy that high performance is best generated via an effortless state of being, achieved by slowing down and investigating the thoughts that source our ideas about options, motivations and choices. He focuses on helping executives become transformational, sustainable, authentic and values-driven leaders by guiding them toward this state of being.

Jason is a two-sport Division 1 collegiate athlete and a former US Marine. As an infantry officer, he developed and mentored junior officers and small unit leaders, trained and taught military tactics, advised senior leaders, and led combat missions. On three occasions, he was awarded the Navy/USMC Commendation medal for meritorious achievement and valor in combat.

ADDITIONAL PRACTICE AREAS

In addition to his role at FMG Leading, Jason has his own coaching business, Jason Blydell Coaching, which helps leaders, executives and potential high-performing individuals who strive to expand their impact in the world through service, leadership and transformation. Through Jason Blydell Coaching, he offers executives and high-potential leaders one-to-one coaching, group coaching, and leadership workshops.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

Jason earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Dartmouth College and a Master of Business Administration from Suffolk University. He completed Accomplishment Coaching’s accredited coach training program and is an Associate Certified Coach accredited by the International Coaching Federation. He holds a Mental Performance Mastery Certification and is a Certified Functional Strength Coach.

PERSONAL

Jason lives on a tiny island on the north shore of Boston with his wife and three children. When not working, he enjoys spending time in the ocean and running around in nature with his family.

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