Jessica Resler
Transformative experiential
Why the only metric that matters is who the person is when they leave.
Selected coverage
Press & Speaking
01
TEDx
“Progress Through Creativity.” A TEDx talk, El Paso.
02 · 2021
NY Times
Sharks, in the Times’ look at who was taking New York real estate mid-pandemic.
03
Power Thread
Interview: co-founding The Participation Agency.
04 · 2019
CNN
For Those Who Tour: free rest stops for touring musicians. 460 artists and counting.
05 · 2019
Story Exchange
“Experiences should be bite-sized and meaningful.” How outlandish experiences became a business model.
06
Adweek
The agency that turned a vacant Lower East Side lot into a ’50s backyard.
07
Rock Center
“A private pool club has arrived.” Sharks opens at Rockefeller Center.
08 · 2021
Appear Here
“I’m inspired most by quality and dedication to pursuits of expertise.”
09
RemoteWoman
On hiring pregnant women, remote work and secret trips to New York.
10 · 2011
Wall Street Journal
The backyard for rent that brought in a thousand emails.
11
Adweek
Five mistakes companies are making in digital.
12
Rothman Pod
“A meditation on Jess Resler.”
13 · 2016
Radiche
“I have always been my own boss in some capacity.” The real participator.
14 · 2023
Farm Progress
On labeling lab-grown meat: “It has to be described on labels, for sure.”
15
WWD
What experiential marketing means for those who tour.
Speaking
Book a talk
Twenty years inside the room where the impossible thing gets built. Keynotes, panels and closed-door sessions for teams that want the version nobody writes down.
Autonomous formats
Seven staff-free locations in twenty-four months. What the Sharks playbook generalizes to.
Zero to one, then sold
Building, pricing and exiting creative companies without raising a dollar.