About Me
About Me
Meet Jake
With over 15 years of experience in coaching, teaching, training, and consulting and an M.Ed in Leadership and Organizational Performance from Vanderbilt University, I have dedicated my career to filling this gap. I founded Art of Leadership to extend the reach of these essential skills far beyond what I can physically achieve alone, offering effective methods and principles with sustained support.
Working with individuals in leadership roles is challenging but immensely rewarding. My goal is to offer more than any single book or class ever could, providing continuous support to help you and your team thrive. Whether you’re considering this journey for yourself or your team, rest assured that you’ll be supported at every step.
Unlock Your Leadership Potential with Jake
This course helped me a lot in understanding various concepts of Leadership. Highlights of the course was the micro session (15 minutes) every day and then an hour session on Friday to discuss all the concepts which were discussed in that week. The small groups where you can practice the concepts and provide feedback to other members and hear from them was helpful too. Overall, the course helped me deeply understand concepts which I already knew with different examples and learnt new ones as well. It was really great to hear everyone's thought process and especially the way Jake explains the concepts and gives you freedom to discuss / talk / debate about it is amazing! Thanks Jake! It was a great experience!
First of all, thank you for giving me this opportunity to participate and learn in this course, this leadership course helped me grow and at the same time helping others more efficiently, and now, when I work with the team, I do ask more questions to myself to find out, weather I work with any assumption with them or do I understand the perspective of the person on the other side of the communication. It helped me reduce some in discussions and be more productive. And during the course, it was not just learning concepts, I got chance to apply the learning and concepts in coaching session we had with smaller group and understand them better. Those session were great!
Hi Jake, I was very happy to be part of the "Art of Leadership" course. The course contents were awesome and found all the contents were simple to understand and if implemented has great potential to change the professional and personal life. I liked the way the course was conducted and designed with each principle discussed in 15 minutes that had lasting impact. I have started implementing some of them and will continue the same and surely benefiting from it.
Art of Leadership course as the title mentions "Art" which can be free form. There are no right or wrong steps to be a leader, but this course enables you on how to become an effective leader/person. The course offers different dimensions on how to approach easy or complex issues which tap into our minds. Personally for me this course validates some of the qualities or behaviors that are correct for leadership. There are some more qualities on which I need to work on and improve. We are equipped with many ammunition from the course and it depends on your personality on which type of ammunition you like to pick up and fire at the right time. I will definitely recommend this course and most importantly because of the presenter Jake. The calmness, effectiveness and confidence Jake portrays in these presentations gives us a very positive energy.
Hey Jake, It was a great experience knowing more about Leadership Program for 12 weeks. I enjoyed all the mini sessions and interactive sessions with other team members. It was an enriching experience. I have already started applying all my learnings in my day to day life and in my professional life. Thank You very much for your time and the extremely knowledgeable session. I shall be waiting for more such different sessions.
Dear Jake, Firstly, you are an amazing trainer and wonderful human being. I really enjoyed the Art of Leadership workshop and especially the group conversation sessions. Workshop was very well designed and executed flawlessly. This workshop has helped me to become a better leader. The program is very clear and helped me look at my weak points and understand how to mitigate them and improve on them.
This leadership course was one of the most engaging and interactive learning experiences I've had. Jake's structure and style put me at ease and made me feel as though I was part of something. I learned how to be an effective coach and get the best out of everyone on my team. It was very motivating to learn something different each day that I was actually able to put into practice and think about how I would approach throughout that day. I'm excited to have all these tools to use as I grow as a leader during the rest of my career!
The art of leadership is a course that everyone should take regardless if they are in a leadership position. I've learned from the course that leadership comes in all forms and you could be a leader at times and not know it. Those could be tasks, meetings, project planning, design, training... Whatever role you are in you will have to lead something. As a leader, you are the captain that will determine if and how the ship reaches its destination. You have to design elements, processes, and documentation based on who will use them and how to make them effective for use. The course teaches you to listen and obtain feedback from those around you to better understand their personal needs and to work and resolve problems and conflicts before they culminate. I recommend this course to all professionals and those seeking personal growth. Jake is absolutely necessary to having this course a success as he brings real-life examples, a can-do attitude, and a welcoming presence that will help in opening up and guiding discussions.
I would recommend the Art of Leadership program to anyone who is looking to understand core values of leadership, gain experience and learn leadership theory. Jake's training approach of daily mini sessions allows you to have full attention and understanding of the topic at hand. At the end of the week, he gathers you and your leadership classmates together to engage and apply the knowledge gained over the week in real life situations. Even with leadership experience, I learned several new lessons over the course of the program. I particularly liked that the positive environment allowed us to practice leadership skills and provide constructive criticism without fear of embarrassment if we made a mistake. Overall, this program allowed me to learn new leadership skills, practice those skills on a regular basis and feel more confident as a leader.
Jake has designed this "Art of Leadership" course based upon his rich experience in interacting with different kind of people in work hierarchy. If taken natural route ,understanding and refining leadership skills would take many years. But if one is enrolled to "Art of Leadership" course , Jake has explained all those key leadership skills in depth with examples.Not only the course discusses these principles but Jake personally checks the progress of students and gives advice to student how these can be used in day to day life, apart from workplace. I enjoyed this course and I would definitely recommend people to enroll into this course , who would like to enhance OR learn the aspects of leadership.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Art of Leadership course with Jake Vellinga. The format was great with mini lessons everyday and one discussion session every week. This course made me think in ways I had not thought of before. To be a good leader, you first need to know who you are, because that will dictate how you interact with your team. This course gave me the tools and different frameworks to be a good coach, designer and a good leader over all. I would highly recommend this to anyone I know.
The leadership course was challenging, but the way it’s designed is really good. I enjoyed your class tremendously. I have gone through the Leadership course for the first time, and it helped me a lot to improve my leadership skills. The way you presenting the pictures and stories to understand the concept are great and it helps to understand it faster. The 15 minutes sessions are Awesome and it covers everything in depth. Thanks for considering me for the course!!!
It was one of the best learning experiences I had with Jake on Leadership Journey training. I like the concept of delivering context in a short 15 minutes session, is a brilliant idea. I enjoyed Interactive sessions on Friday which made me think about possible scenarios, particularly in the workplace. Most interesting part of training was “Coaching Trios”
Hi Jake, I feel that it has been great 12 weeks of learning journey for all of us with you. I have learned many new leadership concepts and importantly this training has reformed my leadership skills. Throughout this training program, I have always realized that you are having great knowledge and expertise in leadership skills and you were always good facilitator, that you encouraged us to reflect on every topic and made us comfortable to share our thoughts. It would be great if I could join more such sessions and learn from you. Thank you
Thank you Jake for the organizing Leadership workshop. The workshop was nicely organized and very well structured. These 12 weeks of workshop completely changed my views about leadership and has helped me to improve my leadership skills. The way you have touched every minute details about leadership and its principles is commendable. I was really surprised to see the detailed content you have used during this entire session. Weekly group discussion sessions has helped me to interact with other leaders The most important aspect of this session was the way you have organized it in small sessions and useful discussion. It never appeared boring and lengthy at any point of time. You are an amazing trainer. Would like to be part of more such programs in the near future.
