Steve Jarding

Steve Jarding is a lecturer, writer, and political consultant. Since 2004, he has taught at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where, in 2016, he was voted Teacher of the Year by the Kennedy School student body. Steve also teaches at the IESE Business School in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, and has been teaching political campaign management and media training at the RAPS organization in Brazil and in the Aspire program in Romania. Steve is the founding partner and CEO of the international consulting company SJB Strategies International, which advises candidates and causes and offers communication training to presidents and prime ministers as well as other elected officials, business leaders, and political organizers all across the globe. Over a forty-year career, he has managed and worked on numerous statewide and national campaigns in the United States including an impressive list of winning U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races. Steve also served as communications director and senior advisor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington, D.C.