Jessy Lyons, MA, brings over 16 years of experience in training development, facilitation, management, and evaluation. She has worked at the national, state, and community levels, leading and facilitating a variety of training initiatives focused on leadership development, maximizing talent, continuous quality improvement, programmatic regulatory compliance, trauma-informed care, community engagement, and diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other topics. She has also managed several large-scale, national and statewide training and evaluation projects for government agencies, including the US Department of Defense, US Department of Health and Human Services, US Air Force, US Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, and many state departments of health, education, and human services.
Jessy is a highly experienced trainer who has designed courses for and trained thousands of individuals in a variety of settings including government agencies, small and large businesses, nonprofit organizations, K-12 schools, college campuses, the US military, and hospitals and health systems. She employs a constructivist approach to training and instructional design, believing that learning should involve a partnership between teacher and learner to create meaning and solidify skills together. Jessy is an engaging and inspirational training facilitator, focused not only on the transfer of knowledge and skills, but also on building the motivation and hope necessary to ensure learning results in real world changes.
Jessy is a certified facilitator of Risking Connections, a systematic approach to trauma-informed care; Green Dot, an evidence-based sexual and dating violence prevention program; and Mental Health First Aid, a program that equips first responders to properly and sensitively handle mental and behavioral health crises.
Jessy holds a Master of Arts degree in Gender Studies from the University of Louisville where she focused on public health approaches to the prevention of intimate partner violence. She resides in Louisville, Kentucky where, when she’s not facilitating trainings, you can find her baking pies, playing ukulele, and chasing after her two young sons.