Andrea Jacobs, Ph.D. Founding Partner

Trained as a sociolinguist, Dr. Andrea Jacobs knows that language creates our reality: the words we use can limit or liberate what is possible. Using her language expertise, as well as her 20+ years experience as a facilitator, researcher, program director, and consultant, Andrea helps individuals and organizations see beyond existing structures, territorialism and power differentials to realize new possibilities.

Harnessing her training in the performing arts, Andrea’s willingness to experiment and innovate unleashes the transformative power of creativity that’s underutilized in business and organizational sectors. She supports her clients to create plans and processes that bring their vision to fruition.

A dynamic facilitator, Andrea creates workshops that enable people to translate ideas from theory into daily practice. She listens to the wisdom in the room and reflects it back, giving people not only a new way of understanding the issues they’ve been grappling with, but also a path forward.

Prior to founding Rally Point, Andrea was the Director of Education at Keshet, the national Jewish LGBTQ organization. From 2005-2012, she developed and expanded Keshet’s diversity training into a nationally recognized professional development program. Andrea consulted to over 500 organizations supporting organizational growth and commitment to diversity.

Andrea believes fostering shared understanding is the key to creating an integrated whole previously unimagined. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, an M.A. & Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Andrea lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.