Jahn Ballard

Jahn’s mission is to co-create, with clients, enterprising environments in which everyone can give their gifts, bringing spirit to money and joy to work through whole-hearted unanimity.

Jahn is co-founder of Management Resources’ Management Operating System Upgrade business unit. Jahn (pronounced “yon”) founded Performance Management Institute in 2004, and is the inventor and integrator of multiple break-through contributions to the fields of management and accounting. A visionary and thought leader, he has developed such distinctions and methodologies as Value Creation Accounting, Three Bottom Line Performance, CEO Reality Check, and with partner Rob Lederer, the Management Operating System (MOS) Upgrade. He unifies enterprise senior leadership, and then their teams, around master measures, creating common language, and staff engagement in mastering operating cash flow and increasing value creation.

An MOS is the total set of tools and practices by which an enterprise runs itself and creates value. Jahn is a master learning designer, facilitator and coach, equipping client enterprises with MOS Upgrade methods and tools. Components of the MOS Upgrade have been developed by or applied to, organizations such as IBM, Georgia Pacific, and GE.

He, himself, has delivered Management Operating System Upgrade services to nearly 50 commercial and community enterprises, including Oklahoma Blood Institute, NAPA Auto Parts, Osborne Coinage, Indigenous Designs, and the Maryland Association of CPAs. He trains other facilitators of the method.

In 1997, Jahn developed Executive Finance for Operating Leaders and has since delivered professional education to more than 1000 CFOs, Controllers, and CPAs. He is a California Advisor to Bioregional Development Group in London, UK. He is also Director of Common Capital for Sustainable North Bay, and on the program committee for both Sustainable Enterprise Conference 2017 and the One Planet Youth Summit.