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Key Points for Josh Reid Jones

Josh Reid Jones is the Founder of the Just Be Nice Project, a social enterprise creating pathways for housing, employment, and better mental and physical health outcomes.
With decades of experience in social impact and non-profit leadership, Josh has helped tens of thousands of people through practical, sustainable change.
Drawing on his lived experience and diverse career spanning business, trades, academia, and community work, Josh brings authenticity, depth, and humour to every audience.
From classrooms to corporate stages, Josh equips individuals and organisations with tools to build resilience, lead with empathy, and make doing good part of everyday life.

Topics for Josh Reid Jones

Mental health
How to build supportive and resilient communities, and a personal practice of improved mental health for yourself and others.
Character-led leadership
How to turn values into principles, and principles into character. Leadership that you can measure, communicate, aspire to and develop over time - real practical tools and frameworks for people and organisations who genuinely want to lead, not simply manage.
Social impact literacy
Josh is the creator of Social Impact Literacy, tools and frameworks to recognise, build, support and measure social impact. Beyond the SDG's and transactional nature of many CSR programs and ESG reports, Josh teaches gold standard social impact frameworks for better outcomes for the communities you seek to serve.
Character-led organisation
How do you make sure that values aren't just something you write on your webpage and office walls? How do you turn values and good intentions into an organisation that looks after its people and the community, and builds trust, reliability and character into all its operations? Josh will teach you and show you how.
Helping people, help people
A lot of people want to do good, and look after others, but they aren't sure where to start, Josh will teach you how to start or advance your journey of having a positive impact in the world. Building community, doing good, and making it sustainable and accessible.
Equality of opportunity
Helping to bridge the gap between where people are, and where they want to be. How do we navigate personal responsibility with community and cultural support? Material help and encouragement? Engaging young people in a positive future, and ensuring more experienced people have the tools to guide and support them? Josh tackles the ways and means to advance equality of opportunity and to help everyone find their place in the process.
What are they not getting?
Sometimes there are communication, understanding and cultural gaps between people that need bridging, in order to solve community problems. Josh works with communities and organisations to improve codesign, collaboration, communication, execution and socially impactful program delivery to ensure the best outcomes and maximum understanding between all parties.

Testimonials for Josh Reid Jones

Josh was absolutely FANTASTIC!! The crowd loved him, he was well prepared, took initiative and was lovely to deal with. It was a real pleasure working with him on all levels, and we would 100% use his services again and recommend him to others.
Dental Health Services Victoria

Josh - you are a credit to the JBN Project - you made it look so easy. So impressive. Your nature and your speaking style is - to name a few things - inspiring, engaging, emotional, relatable and down to earth. And funny too! You've got a great sense of humour while dealing with such complex material. We are just so happy with the whole event, and you and Lindy were central to it all.
Auspost

Josh provided an engaging and valuable presentation for the projects team at Metro Trains on the topic of mental wellness. Communication was wonderful and there was nothing but positive feedback from everyone in attendance. The enthusiasm and passion shown really resonated with everyone and they have taken away a lot from the presentation. We would love to work with Josh again in the future.
Metro Trains

Josh Jones has been an R U OK? Community Ambassador since February 2017. An organisation most well-known for R U OK?Day, a national day of action committed to encouraging and equipping everyone to regularly and meaningfully ask “are you ok?”, of anyone who might be struggling with life. Josh is passionate about improving the lives of others with a strong dedication to supporting the less advantaged in the community. Through personal experience he has been inspired to give back and to bring positive change to those he meets. He has given up his time to help deliver the R U OK? message on countless occasions throughout Melbourne; schools, workplaces and community events. His high energy, motivation and commitment shines through on anything he does and is a huge asset to our organisation.
RUOK Day

Just wanted to say thank you again for presenting last Thursday. It was so well received and I myself definitely learned and have taken on board the things that you spoke about.
Telstra

The boys are rarely so engaged by speakers and have thoroughly enjoyed your work. They have taken away a lot and the way you handled their questions was fantastic.
Melbourne Grammar School

Thank you Josh!!! You were so excellent. I’ve had really positive feedback and I loved the way you talked about a topic that is often confronting to broach.
Nova 100

Josh has such fantastic engagement with the kids and delivers such practical and important information in such a digestible manner. With at-risk youth it’s important to be able to keep them interested, field difficult questions and deal with tough topics, no easy task, yet handled so well by Josh. He is a credit to the Just Be Nice Project and the fantastic work they do in community development and tackling real issues faced by at-risk youth.
Stonnington Council

One of the most inspirational speakers and people that I have ever met, Josh presented so wonderfully, opening my eyes to the possibility of impact and using my skills in a way that I had not thought possible. I have never had disadvantage and opportunity spoken about in a way that really challenged what I thought I knew and left me wanting to learn so much more. I wish everyone could have the chance to listen to him.
Count Financial / The Next Step Financial

We had Josh Jones present at one of our Professional Development Days in Melbourne. Josh is a very inspirational and engaging speaker which made our audience not only think about their clients but also their family and friends wellbeing. This topic is always relevant and his guidance, ideas and subtle conversation techniques were key takeout’s for our audience on the day.
BT Financial Group