Meet Your Coach: Jeff Fajans, PhD

Hey everyone!

My name is Jeff Fajans (rhymes with "lions").

I help creators and entrepreneurs bring their biggest ideas to life.

My mission is to help 1 million creative people (like you) bring their biggest ideas to life, grow their impact, and become their best creative selves (aka become Creative Badasses).

The values that drive me are creativity, curiosity, compassion, and courage.

I’ve worked 1-on-1 with hundreds of creative people and presented to thousands of others across the world from every continent except Antarctica  (for some reason, penguins aren’t into self-development).

My clients come from all creative industries - from technology, design, marketing, software development, filmmaking, writing, art, music, architecture, content creators & influencers, professional speaking, academia, non-profit, and other small and mid-sized creative businesses.

These are people who are pursuing big goals like starting or leading a business (and scaling it to higher levels of innovation & growth), writing + filming a feature film (and it winning a Sundance award), building an app or product (and getting accepted into Y Combinator or getting VC funding), writing a book (and hitting the Amazon bestseller list) or even exploring a meaningful side hustle or passion project.

Here are 4 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Me

• Thing #1: My last name is a Polish last name. My Polish great-grandfather Kazimierz Fajans discovered the chemical element, Protactinium, and ate lunch with Albert Einstein at a table my parents now have in their dining room.  
• Thing #2: I have a PhD in Positive Organizational Psychology from Claremont Graduate University, where I studied under Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, world-renowned author of Flow.  My research focused on how to help people learn, develop, and lead more effectively to better achieve creative goals.
• Thing #3: I teach graduate-level leadership, organizational psychology, and change & innovation courses at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Me and Deion Sanders hang out every weekend. (Ok, that last sentence isn't true)
• Thing #4: I am an avid music creator, guitar player, and member of the Recording Academy - and since the birth of my amazingly curious, creative, and energetic 6-year-old son, Hendrix, I have been creating funky fresh kids' music under the artist name, MrBoodaddy, that captures the authenticity, joy, craziness, and fun of kids and parents experiencing the world together.  This is NOT anything like the typical cookie-cutter children's music out there.  My music has been described by music execs and supervisors as "Beastie Boys for Babies" 🤣.

Trusted by creators worldwide and leaders from:

"Working with Jeff has brought real change into my life.

In the three months since we began, he’s helped me put strategies in place to deal with my self-inflicted anxiety around creative work, helped me implement a plan for getting my freelance portfolio done and online (which it is!), and led me to address aspects of my life I didn’t even realize were slowing me down.

I know that it will be a long haul to accomplish my biggest goals, but with Jeff in my corner, it’s all beginning to feel possible. I highly recommend him!”

- Ryan, Web Design & Development Freelancer