Emotional Mastery Educator, Author & Speaker

Dr. Orion Jones helps people understand their emotions, rebuild their identity, and regain control of how they respond to life. His work combines lived experience, more than 20 years of leadership, and doctoral research focused on healing, self-worth, cultural connection, and purpose.

Through True North Motivation and the Inside-Out Leadership Program, he teaches practical tools for emotional mastery, personal responsibility, resilience, and intentional living.

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Leadership Experience Grounded in Human Development

Dr. Jones has served as an executive leader, educator, collegiate coach, and organizational strategist. Across each role, he witnessed how identity, emotional awareness, accountability, and purpose shape individual performance and relationships.
His experience leading teams, mentoring others, and managing complex organizations helped shape the Inside-Out Leadership Program and now informs his work in emotional mastery, resilience, and intentional living.

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Experience & Education

Executive Leadership

More than 20 years of experience leading teams, managing multimillion-dollar operations, and guiding organizational change across higher education, infrastructure, renewable energy, and community settings.

Education & Human Development

Experienced educator, collegiate coach, mentor, and speaker with a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership, an MBA, and a career centered on helping people strengthen identity, accountability, resilience, and purpose.

Emotional Mastery & Inside-Out Leadership

Founder of True North Motivation and creator of the Inside-Out Leadership Program, which integrates lived experience, doctoral research, emotional awareness, self-determination, identity reconstruction, and intentional daily practice.

Education & Research

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Dr. Jones’s doctoral research examined healing, emotional regulation, identity reconstruction, self-worth, spirituality, Indigenous cultural connection, and the development of the Inside-Out Leadership Program through lived experience.

Cowlitz Identity & Cultural Connection

Dr. Jones is an enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Reconnecting with his Indigenous identity became an important part of his journey toward healing, belonging, self-worth, and purpose. His doctoral research examined how cultural connectedness, spirituality, masculine expectations, emotional regulation, and self-determination shaped his lived experience as a Cowlitz man.

He approaches this work with cultural humility, recognizing that every tribal nation and Indigenous community carries its own history, traditions, strengths, and priorities.

True North Motivation & the Inside-Out Method

True North Motivation helps people understand what is driving their emotions, rebuild their identity, and respond to life with greater purpose and intention.

The Inside-Out Method provides practical tools for:

• Recognizing emotional triggers
• Separating past pain from present circumstances
• Rebuilding self-worth and self-respect
• Strengthening emotional regulation and personal responsibility
• Making decisions aligned with identity, values, and purpose

This work is not built around temporary motivation. It is designed to help people create lasting change by developing greater awareness, emotional discipline, and clarity from the inside out.

Dr. Jones’s approach is grounded in lived experience, doctoral research, and more than 20 years of leadership, education, coaching, and mentoring.

The journey toward your True North begins within.