Jeff Jorge Biography

Jeff's flexibility as a speaker, professional, and human being come together to provide extremely distinctive, relevant, and action-inspiring keynotes, thanks to a varied mix of experiences, viewpoints, and skills. He is recognized for providing events that are jam-packed with profound insights, inspirational ideas, and actionable tools that attendees can put to work right away to help them achieve their professional and personal goals in an increasingly global world. Jeff's exceptional upbringing, non-linear life path, and ethnocultural diversity have helped him to create a very distinctive perspective on business and life – specifically, where possibilities abound. His broad understanding of worldwide business, development strategy and the distinctive characteristics (both good and negative) of start-ups and giant Fortune 500 corporations alike provides him with unusual insight and credibility in his business and life-related lectures, talks, and seminars. Jeff oversees the worldwide consultant group at GDP | Global Development Partners, which provides firms in a variety of industries and foreign markets with breakthrough growth plan design, execution, and turnkey international market entrance support. Jeff and the GDP team help their clients accelerate their growth by unlocking the latent potential to capture sustainable market growth while benefiting people, the planet, and profits. Their clients include an eclectic mix of established corporations and start-ups, as well as deep mindfulness for social responsibility. Jeff, a Brazilian native, learned early on the need for flexibility and tenacity in facing the hardships of living in a third-world nation. Because obstacles frequently lead to opportunities, Jeff began his work at a young age, aiding an international trading firm in South America at the age of 16. With such an early start in a profession, comes the inherent understanding of acquiring market traction when items and organizations entered overseas markets. The patterns of success were obvious, from consumer items to automobile components, clothes to raw industrial resources, and a career committed to worldwide market expansion started. Jeff became one of the youngest workers to head large-scale worldwide projects for two Fortune 500 organizations thanks to the personal and professional lessons he's learned since then. Jeff was responsible for the introduction and international market success of a variety of business units, including medical devices, electronic modules, and automated vehicles, in a variety of roles. He has a unique understanding of what it takes for successful international ventures to take flight as a result of the experience and results he gained as part of increasingly complex international assignments where he led corporate strategy, new facility development, operations, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, marketing, and sales. Following his experience working with both publicly listed and privately owned firms, Jeff founded GDP | Global Development Partners, a growth acceleration organization that helps businesses develop globally in a turnkey manner. Overall, Jeff and the GDP team have assisted businesses in achieving double- and triple-digit yearly growth rates as well as operational development into over 20 international countries, with a focus on the Americas and fast-growing emerging economies like Brazil. Jeff is a well-known speaker and author who also serves as the chief fund-raiser for a number of non-profit organizations and socially conscious causes in the United States and overseas. He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and has been featured on a number of NPR broadcasts as well as other major news sites. Jeff holds a Distinction in his MBA from the University of Michigan. He is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. He received his Bachelor's degree in Design Engineering from Middle Tennessee State University, Cum Laude, where he was recently honored with the Young Alumni Achievement Award, the University's highest honor bestowed upon a single Alumnus annually, and which he shared with fellow recipients Al Gore and James Buchanan (1986 Nobel Prize – Economics). Jeff is a board member of Automation Alley's International Business Advisory Council, one of the United States' most renowned international trade and economic development associations. He is frequently invited to speak with lawmakers and policymakers on global growth and international business issues. He is also the United States' Deputy Executive Director of the BRICS-PED Chamber (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa Chamber for Promotion and Economic Development). Jeff, a devoted husband, father, and triathlete, became a citizen of the United States in 2008.

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