Jack Myers

Jack Myers’ perspectives and deep understanding of organizations and business models have been honed over five decades as a Media Ecologist, observing and reporting on technological, generational, and cultural change. He has advised leaders of many of the world’s largest corporations including General Motors, Comcast/NBCU, Microsoft, CBS, TJX Corp, Aegis/Carat, Campbell Soup, and Walt Disney Corp. He’s written five books including his visionary 2007 book Virtual Worlds: Rewiring Our Emotional Future; Hooked Up: A New Generation’s Surprising Take on Sex, Politics and Saving the World (2012); and The Future of Men (2016). His TEDWomen talk on The Future of Men has generated more than one million YouTube views. His new book, The Tao of Leadership: Harmonizing Technological Innovation and Human Creativity in the AI Era, is being published in January 2025.

Jack is a Senior Lecturer on New Media Theory at the University of Arizona School of Information Science, author of The Media Ecologist column at Substack, and hosts the Legends & Leadership video series at MediaVillage. His honors include the George Foster Peabody Award, International Book Awards for Women’s and Youth Issues, Excellence in Education Award from the Global Forum on Education & Learning, Academy and EMMY Award nominations for documentary filmmaking, the Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival, and the World Music Award as its producer. He has been named a Top 10 Most Admired Leader in Tech by Pinnacle Tech Insights and is a recipient of the Mac Dane Humanitarian Award from the UJA.

As early as the 1990s Jack anticipated the need for businesses to invest in and prepare a diverse workforce, leading to his creating the MediaVillage Knowledge Exchange where today more than 100 educational partners connect with professionals, educators, students and job seekers who subscribe to free daily MediaVillage.org educational updates and rely on MeetingPrep.ai and The Myers Report for on-demand learning and professional development.

Jack began his career in advertising sales and marketing with Metromedia Outdoor, ABC Radio, CBS-TV and UTV Cable. He majored in Radio-Television at the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and has a master’s degree in Media Ecology from NYU Steinhardt, where he studied with Dr. Neil Postman. Jack is Chairman Emeritus of the International Radio and Television Society Foundation (IRTS), founder of the Newhouse 44 Mentoring Program, serves on multiple advisory boards.

Jack and his wife Ronda Carnegie share five children and five grandchildren and live in Tucson, AZ and Santa Barbara, CA, commuting regularly to New York.