Jody R. Weiss is a social activist, mass-consumer marketer, fund-raiser and brand expert, with a special focus on the transformation of consciousness through the lens of human rights.
Recently, Weiss was a founding member of a fund of funds in the cannabis/hemp space called Urth Fund. Weiss has working with leading brands/companies in the space including KannAInsight,
Vital Leaf & Phenomena Holdings.
Weiss is a brand expert. In 2002, she launched PeaceKeeper™ Cause-Metics™ and served as the company’s CEO. PeaceKeeper was one of the first cosmetics companies to offer 75%+ organic ingredients and to give donations to urgent human rights issues globally. PeaceKeeper sold in 500+ stores including Henri Bendels, Nordstrom, Fred Segal, ABC Home, Whole Foods, Wegmans, Sprouts, and many other national and international stores.
Weiss worked with the World Bank on a gender equality campaign called WEvolve in India. Weiss was the New Business Development Director for a concert series and campaign called 1Future Presents Not Yet Free, which explored solutions for ending racism. Programming from this series was filmed for NHK/PBS and was aired on PBS in 2017. Weiss was an External New Business Development consultant for the PeaceBoat, which is a cruise liner run by Nobel Prize nominee, Yoshioka Tatsuya. Weiss was the Executive Producer of a TV show called Bigger Than Sports and she developed a campaign to advocate for ending violence on and off the field at sporting events around the globe with a project called TheSportsPledge.org. Weiss also served as an advisor to Nexus Global Sports for Good Lab. Weiss has worked with hundreds of NGO's and philanthropists on how to measure the impact of their use of funds through tangible and intangible indicators, which impacted their philanthropic engagement. In her early career, Weiss was a sports agent at International Management Group (IMG), representing 45 elite athletes.
Weiss has studied meditation practices since 1975, to gain a deeper understanding of techniques in non-duality and consciousness. She now teaches these techniques, at the cross roads of business, personal well-being and the transformation of consciousness, through a transformational coaching practice. To learn more visit Joylab.global..