Highlighting Recent Australian Prime Minister Visit to DCFR 2024
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Jennifer has been involved in communications, strategy and market development across decades. She has identified and been involved in the development of many of the important long-lived stories of the day, whether in written or spoken form. She helps clients and organizations convey and communicate the value of their offerings in projects or as an in-house advisor. Concept Elemental was created to express significant developments in the economy and those of global consequence — communicating them on behalf of others. Much of it is captured by the idea of thought leadership. Transformative developments in energy, technology and the related infrastructure have been active themes in work.
A few highlights include:
Developing one of the first knowledge (thought leadership) sites for a university (c. 2003);
Recognizing the global impact and deep-dive chronicling the U.S. shale booms since 2006; and
Integrating developments in land, resources, energy and tech, c. 2022 to present;
And speaking to investors and various audiences about her work, outlook and findings.
DCFR holiday event, Dec 12 ‘24
Recently, she played a bespoke strategy and communications role in the success of a globally-significant event. Jennifer also served as CEO of Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations (DCFR) from late 2010 to spring 2013 and continues as a Fellow. In addition to expanding the reach of DCFR, she produced 20-25 globally-focused, high-level speaker events annually. This included hosting ambassadors, counterterrorism czars, theoretical physicists and many thought leaders cutting across global disciplines and in geopolitical hot zones.
Jennifer is published in various academic, policy and business publications such as Far Eastern Economic Review, Economist Intelligence Unit’s Executive Briefing, Journal of Structured Finance, Lloyd's List, D CEO and others. Since 2019, she has been a contributor for DCEO’s annual energy edition and related frontier developments. (See publishings page.)
In 1989, she graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) with an M.Sc. in European Studies (emphasis economics). She graduated with honors from the University of Denver with a double major in Finance and Marketing. While in London, after the LSE, she studied fine art and architecture with Sotheby's, with an equivalent BA degree. She also studied Russian for four years throughout her university days. Jennifer is a Fellow of the Next Generation Project at Columbia University. She has grown up on the Internet, using Mosaic with government and scientists in its nascent days and building her own website in 1996.
How all the work builds and threads together
Recent Speaking ENGAGEMENTS:
• Upcoming: Montana World Affairs Council tour, March 24-27, 2025
• Investor Summit 6/18, NYC, Seeking Alpha, fin-tech platform
• Reindustrialization keynote, University of Montana, Apr 16 2024
• IVYFON Investor Conferences: San Francisco, New York, and Austin SXSW, 2022-24
• Keynote “Chronicles in Energy and Geopolitics” University of Montana/ World Affairs Council, Oct 2023
• Geology, Geopolitics and Capital, panel moderator, D CEO, Oct 2022
• EarthX E-Capital Summit panel moderator, St. Maarten’s Prime Minister Jacobs, April 2022
• Infrastructure Development Paths: To Iraqi leaders, State Department, 2010
“Editor’s Note 11/24:
For Warren’s latest deep-dive, we felt it was important to keep things at a high level of sophistication and give readers the value that only she can deliver. She spent months doing research and interviews before fitting the puzzle pieces together. “I was turning myself inside out, trying to thread it all together in a coherent way, with so much to capture,” she says...
Driven by intellectual curiosity, she operates in a left brain-right brain world. She is wildly creative but equally as passionate about unearthing data to confirm (or disprove) her ideas.
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Thought leadership & knowledge work past, present
My work life began on the Internet pre-1995, a date which marks the Internet’s beginnings. In 1996, I built my own site (and never again). From the late 90s onward, I worked between the CEO and executive-level CMO in a strategy and data analytics role in financial services products and national marketing. The products were complex, expensive and required considerable education to market and sell. Through R&D efforts, I helped creatively translate findings into product development, business strategy and successful integrated, marketing campaigns. This early thought leadership work was put uniquely into action through 2000-2010 in this large family-owned business that partnered with major insurers such as Allianz, Travelers and others. From this knowledge, an evolving white paper spanning ~20 years, was presented to the largest pension funds in the world. I still own domains specific to the work related to portfolio development. Since then, other domains have been collected.
In 2003-2004, I helped developed an award-winning knowledge site for a leading business university. I serve as its editor to this day.
An iteration of this approach was holistically applied to client and project work c. 2022-24.
“I don’t say it enough, but many thanks for all you do. Your work is very important to us—not just the mar/com department, but to the faculty. It’s so important for them to work with someone who “gets them.” Thank you for continuing to stick with us. — ”