Jeffrey Nielsen is a renowned consultant, life coach, and professor with a zeal for helping individuals, organizations, and communities find joy and purpose in their lives, workplaces, and neighborhoods. He has extensive experience in corporate governance, management, peer-based managing, moral decision-making, and strategic problem-solving models, making him an authority in leadership, ethical leadership, and corporate governance. Jeffrey is also a published author with a book titled "The Myth of Leadership: Creating Leaderless Organizations" and two upcoming books on the art of being human.

Jeffrey holds a degree in philosophy and ethics from Weber State University and Boston College, where he also taught before moving to Utah Valley University. He combines his teaching role with a consulting and coaching practice, where he helps executives and business teams develop personal programs of self-governance and graceful presence. Jeffrey is also engaged in spearheading a joyful revolution in how we live together in our many different relationships.

At Utah Valley University, Jeffrey is a Philosophy Instructor, having previously served as the Utah Democracy Project Program Coordinator at the Center for the Study of Ethics. He was also a faculty member training new centers for public life at Kettering Foundation and is a former Associate Instructor at Westminster College's Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business, where he taught courses in Ethical Leadership and Corporate Governance.