Los Angeles · Workplace Culture Strategist & Author

I help organizations — and the people leading them — build cultures worth staying for.

I'm Jahleeka Morris-Jones. By day, I work in finance and people strategy at one of the world's largest tech companies. Alongside that, I've built a consulting practice, a healing collective, a nonprofit, and now a memoir — all pointed at the same question: what does it actually take for people to thrive at work and in life?

Jahleeka Morris-Jones, workplace culture strategist and author
Shine, Dammit! — memoir Ascended Strategies — consulting & speaking Queens Build — healing collective The Grounded Collective — nonprofit
About me

Every room I build starts the same way.

I've spent over a decade in finance, equity compensation, and organizational transformation — building teams and leading change at pre-IPO startups and global Fortune 500 companies, where I currently work in finance and people strategy. That work taught me how systems move. It also taught me what systems miss: the people inside them.

So alongside that career, I built the rooms I wished existed — a consulting practice that helps organizations design cultures people actually want to work in, a healing collective for trauma-informed movement and sound, a nonprofit rooted in community and legacy, and now, a memoir about what it took to become who I am. Different rooms, same builder, same standard: honesty first, healing always.

Finance & People Strategy, Fortune 500 Tech MHRM Candidate, USC 13+ Years, Finance & People Ops Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Founder, Ascended Strategies & Queens Build
Work with me

Four ways to bring me into your world.

Whether you're an organization, a reader, or a community looking for a partner — here's where to start.

Consulting & speaking

Ascended Strategies

Culture consulting, keynotes, and workshops for organizations ready to build healing-centered, human-first cultures.

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Wellness & healing

Queens Build

Trauma-informed yoga, sound bath therapy, and movement healing for individuals and organizations across LA.

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The memoir

Shine, Dammit!

My story of rebuilding myself, chapter by chapter — the honest version, not the highlight reel.

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Partner with the mission

The Grounded Collective

A nonprofit serving youth and adults in second-chance facilities — founded by Myjoi, supported by Queens Build.

See how to help →
Shine, Dammit! book cover, a memoir by Jahleeka Morris-Jones
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Shine, Dammit!™

Surviving was only the beginning — your light was there the whole time. Pre-order the memoir on its own, or bundle in the journal and the leadership companion book. Each tier includes everything above it.

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