About Jovan

 
 

Strategist. Advisor. Speaker.

Jovan Hackley is a strategy and communications executive with 20+ years of experience leading brand, marketing, partnerships, and change-management efforts across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Most recently, he served as the founding Communications Practice Director for the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University, where he led communications, program design, data delivery, and events that supported more than 2,000 mayors and city halls and the Public Innovators Network.

 

Today, he serves as an advisor and consultant helping reshape operations and engagement for startups by leveraging his senior leadership experience from Realtor ® associations, Trulia.com, and Grambling State University — where, as Associate Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Chief Marketing Officer, he helped secure $17 million in funding for the first digital library at a Historically Black College or University, and the University’s 2019 participation in the Ivy Park and Adidas private "Homecoming Weekend" events.  

 

Throughout his career, his work has generated more than $5 billion in business impact, and he has delivered 500+ keynotes, training sessions, and workshops to audiences across three continents.

 

Background Highlights

  • 15 years of executive leadership across finance, associations, and higher education

  • 20+ years of communications and public relations expertise

  • $5B+ in business impact 

  • 500+ training sessions and workshops delivered

  • $17M secured for the first digital library at an HBCU

  • Partnerships with Adidas, AARP, the National League of Cities, Prudential Financial, PolicyLink  

 

Advisory Experience

  • American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)

  • Black, Gifted, and Whole Foundation & Scholarship Fund

  • The Bayou Classic 

  • Code for America

  • Council for Advancement Services in (CASE)

  • Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative (COHI)

  • CollegeBound Foundation 

  • International Association for Blacks and Dance

  • Lousiana HBCU Day on the Hill

  • NAR REACH Accelerator, National Association of Realtors’s Secind Century Ventures

  • University of Louisiana System 

  • Realtor ® Day on the Hill

  • Virginia Realtor ® Political Action Committee