Who We Are

STEPHEN A. JACOBS Founding Chairman and CEO Stephen A. Jacobs has over 35 years of professional experience in government affairs, issue management, communications and organizational consulting. For over twenty years, he has headed Jacobs & Company and JACOBS & COMPANY/ Public Affairs, two consulting companies headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York, Paris and Washington, D.C. His clients have included international and national corporations and non-profit institutions, the White House, Cabinet level agencies of the federal government and organizations in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Middle East.

As a strategist and consultant in the arena of cultural change, Mr. Jacobs has provided expert advice and influence a number of national policy issues affecting health care and education, drug awareness, driving safety, energy and alternate fuels, federal emergency planning, and volunteerism. He has served as a consultant to the White House, and the US Departments of Education, Energy, Justice, Transportation, and Treasury; as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the U.S. Synthetic Fuel Corporation. Currently, he is playing a lead role in the visioning process of the Volunteers of America to create a future where volunteerism can have a more effective impact to altering systemic social issues. Mr. Jacobs also had a lead role in designing and crafting the White House National Drug Policy in 1983-88, which represented a major shift in the federal government’s effort to combat drug problems in the US. He worked extensively on development and implementation of this national policy, as well as with other federal officials and partner companies in the private sector throughout the presidency of Ronald Reagan. He designed and implemented numerous public/private partnerships during the Reagan Administration and is today responsible for developing more of these types of projects than anyone else in the US. While working with President Reagan, Mr. Jacobs had the opportunity to prepare an important White Paper distributed and used by the White House. His White Paper, entitled Peace, served as context for developing U.S. policy and accurately predicted the end of the Cold War. During President Bush’s Administration, Mr. Jacobs served as the lead consultant in the development of the President’s Points of Light Program and the White House Office of Volunteerism. Prior to his work in the Administrations of President Reagan and Bush, Mr. Jacobs served as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy as an appointee of President Carter. In this position, he was also a member of the White House Economic Council. He was honored for his culture-altering, youth-oriented creative energy conservation programs and their national implementation and was personally invited to the White House by President Carter to celebrate his accomplishments. It was during this period that Mr. Jacobs pioneered the concept of public-private partnerships (joint governmental/ private sector activities) and implemented several projects, which became part of the private sector initiative programs of the Reagan Administration. Mr. Jacobs has served as a communications, marketing and government affairs consultant to health care and higher education institutions, medical equipment manufacturers, as well as other private sector companies. He has been a national spokesperson for corporations and government agencies, including the White House. Prior to his government service, Mr. Jacobs was Vice President for Public Affairs, New York University; Managing Director, Ruder & Finn (Israel); Manager, Corporate Relations, MacMillan Inc.; Staff Consultant, DuPont; and, Manager, Public Relations, Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT). For the past 20 years, Mr. Jacobs has developed a public relations and governmental affairs model consulting program with Loma Linda University & Medical Center in a variety of areas, including public affairs, marketing, communications and management consulting, and government relations. Today, LLU&MC is amongst the best-known academic medical centers in the U.S., and for the past six years, has consistently been the most successful recipient of federally appropriated funds. Additionally, Mr. Jacobs serves as Special Assistant to the President of LLU&MC. Mr. Jacobs graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in business and journalism. He earned an MA degree in Communications from The American University. He co-founded Legacy XXI Institute in 2003. He is the Chairman and Acting President of Legacy XXI Institute.