Jason Booher
Founder & CEO
Strategy & Business Transformation
The founder of Northwest Harbor Solutions – Jason is passionate about transforming strategy into results for his clients. As CEO, he leads a diverse group of career Special Operations and commercial experts and advises senior executives on executing corporate strategy and navigating transformational change – helping them accelerate innovation, enable whole-of-organization alignment, and create more adaptive, resilient, and effective teams. He has helped drive value creation across multiple industries: from middle-market through Fortune 500 companies to professional sports, and the local public sector to the most senior levels of the U.S. Congress.
Prior to founding Northwest Harbor, Jason served for 23 years as a Navy SEAL: as a Leader, Educator, Strategist and Innovator, building and leading elite teams in global, no-fail environments. An innovative problem solver, he was consistently handpicked to tackle critical challenges and develop new, cutting-edge capabilities for the SEAL Teams and larger U.S. Special Operations enterprise. He consistently delivered high-value solutions to fill critical operational gaps as the 10K-person SEAL enterprise navigated a full transformation. He commanded hundreds of operations, led the last phase of SEAL training, and spearheaded the integration of cross-functional intelligence teams, and foreign-born & female operator capabilities into the full spectrum of SEAL global operations. He developed and led x11 complex programs, created three “first-ever” capabilities, and designed, built & led two new SEAL organizations from the ground up - all of which became best practice within the Department of Defense. Jason led his team to two, back-to-back national-level civilian awards for Innovation in the Defense Industry and commanded an elite SEAL unit he created for five years, before retiring from the Navy.
Jason is an honors graduate from the University of San Diego and holds the international certifications for both Program and Portfolio Management. He has guest-lectured in the Graduate School Leadership Initiatives at Harvard and MIT, and built and taught a course on Merging Global Business Cultures at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a regular guest speaker to both corporations and at the highest levels of professional sports.
Jason currently lives in San Diego with his family where he continues his passion for service, staying very active in the San Diego community.
