“My dream for Romania is to inspire Generation Z to understand that the next great world leader can come from any nation and indeed could be one of them.”
Steve Jarding is an educator, lecturer, writer, professional communications trainer, and political consultant who consults and trains politicians and professionals from all walks of life around the world. In addition, until his retirement in 2019, Jarding served on the faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he taught since 2004. Since then, through his national and international consulting companies, Jarding continues to work, lecture, and provide communications training and political campaign management training to hundreds of candidates, campaigns and individuals in the US and around the world. His clients include presidents, prime ministers, business executives and professionals including to faculty at Stanford University, and to North American Uber executives.
As a member of the faculty at Harvard, Jarding’s teaching was recognized as “exemplary” by Kennedy School alumni, and his course on campaign management was twice nominated for the “Most Influential Course Award.” In 2016, Jarding was voted by the student body as “Teacher of the Year” at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
During this time, Jarding also taught at the IESE Business School in Madrid or Barcelona, Spain and for the past eight years he has been teaching leadership, political campaign management, and media training techniques to groups in Brazil and Romania.
In addition to his teaching, Jarding is the founding partner and CEO of two international consulting companies. He has lectured or consulted for clients, campaigns or causes in over 40 countries in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe.
Jarding is the author of numerous articles published in major U.S. and international publications and is the co-author of the book, “Foxes in the Henhouse” published in 2006. He also is the co-author of the “American” chapter on political advertising in the 2017 international textbook, Handbook on Political Advertising.
As a member of the faculty at Harvard, Jarding’s teaching was recognized as “exemplary” by Kennedy School alumni, and his course on campaign management was twice nominated for the “Most Influential Course Award.” In 2016, Jarding was voted by the student body as “Teacher of the Year” at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
During this time, Jarding also taught at the IESE Business School in Madrid or Barcelona, Spain and for the past eight years he has been teaching leadership, political campaign management, and media training techniques to groups in Brazil and Romania.
In addition to his teaching, Jarding is the founding partner and CEO of two international consulting companies. He has lectured or consulted for clients, campaigns or causes in over 40 countries in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe.
Jarding is the author of numerous articles published in major U.S. and international publications and is the co-author of the book, “Foxes in the Henhouse” published in 2006. He also is the co-author of the “American” chapter on political advertising in the 2017 international textbook, Handbook on Political Advertising.