Jesan Sorrells

Jesan Sorrells is the CEO and Founder of HSCT Publishing, a remote-first, video-based, training platform company, based in Fort Worth, Texas. Additionally, he is the founder and principal at EJD Advisory Group, a boutique consulting firm focused on working with organizations to solve difficult problems at the intersection of people, culture, and strategy. Jesan has a master’s degree in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, and is a Texas State Certified Divorce and Family Mediator. Jesan is a Certified DiSC Provider and trainer through Wiley and Sonsİ. Jesan has leveraged that background for the last 15 years into working with a wide variety of both public and private clients in a variety of economic sectors ranging from long-term care providers to public sector organizations.

HSCT Publishing is more than just a remote-first, video-based, software publishing platform company. We believe that all problems in organizations today can be solved through the effective application of leadership principles and our live, platform, and SaaS-based leadership development software and training tools exist to help you do that. We work with a variety of SMBs across multiple verticals to provide leadership, culture, and talent development training and support for managers and supervisors to make them better leaders. We help clients innovate on the most important part of any organization—PEOPLE!

Jesan previously served as the Membership Chair on the board of the Association of Conflict Resolution of Greater New York City, as well as Cornell University’s Cooperative Exchange board for six years. He served as a part-time lecturer in

Organizational Behavior at the School of Management at Binghamton University in Binghamton, NY. He was formerly an adjunct lecturer in Leadership and Conflict Resolution in the Madden School of Business at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY and currently sits on the LeMoyne College Madden School of Business Board. Jesan was involved extensively in developing the start-up ecosystem in the Southern Tier of New York State through connections with many entrepreneurial and start-up organizations before relocating to North Central Texas in late 2020.

Jesan maintains an ever-expanding social/digital content footprint on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, as well as a growing archive of inspirational and motivational YouTube videos through his channel, Jesan Sorrells Presents. Jesan hosted and produced The Earbud_U Podcast, for seven seasons (2014-2017). He currently hosts the Leadership Lessons from the Great Books podcast, as well as the Jesan Sorrells Audio Experience podcast.

Jesan has published two books Marketing for Peace Builders: How to Market Your Value to a World in Conflict (2016) and My Boss Doesn’t Care: 100 Essays on Disrupting Your Workplace by Disrupting Your Boss (2019) and is writing his third book, the upcoming 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation for Intentional Leadership, co-authored with Bradley Matican, to be released in April 30th 2022 in hardcover, softcover, and Kindle formats.

In 2015, Jesan was selected by Biz Events and the Central New York Business Journal as one of Central New York and the Southern Tier’s Top Forty Young Professionals Under 40.