The Community’s
COO.

The Community’s COO:
Leading organizations through growth, complexity, and consequential change.

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When the organization needs a different way to operate.

An organization can outgrow the systems that made it successful.
Departments become disconnected. Decisions accumulate at the executive level.
Technology adds expense without improving execution.
Expansion introduces responsibilities the existing structure cannot carry.
In other organizations, those pressures become a crisis.
I work across these conditions to identify what is constraining performance, establish what must change, and lead implementation across the organization.
The responsibility extends from diagnosis through execution: aligning leadership, management structures, workflows, technology, governance, and resources so the organization can function at the level its responsibilities demand.

President / Chief Operating Officer

Building organizations that can perform and expand beyond their dependence on individual executives. This includes establishing management infrastructure, clarifying decision authority, coordinating business units, and aligning resources with growth.

Operating Partner / Portfolio Operating Partner

Strengthening the operating infrastructure behind enterprise performance. My focus includes management capacity, executive dependency, technology economics, organizational scale, and the execution of value-creation priorities.

Chief Transformation Officer

Leading change across people, processes, technology, governance, and accountability. I connect strategic priorities to the organizational structures, implementation decisions, and performance systems required to execute them.

Turnaround / Restructuring Executive

Leading through interconnected operating, leadership, governance, and technology failures. The work begins with stabilization and extends through restructuring, implementation, and the establishment of durable operating controls.

Chief Operating Officer | Chief Administrative Officer | City Manager | Senior Operations Appointment

Translating policy, authority, and public responsibility into functioning operations. My focus is the alignment of administrative systems, departmental coordination, implementation, accountability, and continuity of public services.

Business Implementation Facilitator

Navigating otherwise complex business strategies, concepts and realities via workshops and speaking engagements with companies, corporations, organizations and institutions for public, private and government sector audiences.  

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The Community’s COO

How I Lead

Growth, transformation, and institutional complexity require leadership that connects strategy to execution. Explore how Dr. Jazzmine Nolan‑Echols, The Community’s COO, aligns people, operations, technology, and accountability to strengthen organizational performance.

Diagnose the whole operating environment.

I examine how decisions, resources, people, technology, and governance interact. A visible problem in one department may originate elsewhere in the organization.

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Establish authority and accountability.

I clarify who owns decisions, who is responsible for implementation, and how performance will be evaluated. Organizational change requires defined responsibilities and the authority to act.

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Connect redesign to execution.

I translate findings into operating structures, workflows, management practices, and implementation priorities. Change must reach the way work is performed and decisions are made.

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Build continuity into the organization.

I establish the management capacity, reporting, and operating discipline required to sustain performance beyond the immediate intervention.

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Testimonials

Word on the street

Jazz came highly recommended and with the standards of the women we used to watch from across campus scared to speak to. I’m elated to have her on my management team.

Dr. Alex Ellis
Founder/Owner @Tied To Greatness

We need more Jazz’s in the Entrepreneur Ecosystem to say what we can’t as leaders and do what most won’t to get businesses to grow. I am committed to finding more ways to deeply involve her in the real work of building Black Businesses.

Lakesha Mathis
Director  @Diverse Business Accelerator

“Let me just take a minute to acknowledge a bomb woman Jazzmine Nolan. I had my first business meeting with her yesterday and when I say she is a beast at what she does.... whewww I’ve never met someone who I can just spill my brains 🧠 too and they connect the pieces for me!!! My futures looking real sunny 🌞 😎 over here

Shamel Robinson
Founder/Owner @Sonder Lush

I am always looking forward to her Facebook Lives because she says what nobody else is willing to say about business. I took her Masterclass and I’ve been hooked even before that 🤣. 

Suhailah Waheed
Founder/Owner @GivingGeeks
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Who is Dr. Jazzmine Nolan-Echols, The Community's COO?

Dr. Jazzmine Nolan‑Echols is an Executive Operating Partner and the founder of Marie Management. Her work focuses on enterprise transformation, operations management, turnaround and restructuring, organizational systems, and Government Operations.She connects leadership, people, processes, technology, governance, and accountability to address complex organizational challenges.

What does an Executive Operating Partner do?

An Executive Operating Partner works with organizational leadership or ownership to improve how a business operates and executes its priorities.Dr. Nolan‑Echols’s focus includes management infrastructure, operating-model design, executive dependency, technology modernization, performance management, and organizational scale. The scope of responsibility and authority is established for each mandate.

How does she approach enterprise transformation and operating-model redesign?

Dr. Nolan‑Echols examines how an organization’s structure, processes, technology, people, and decisions support its objectives.She identifies operational constraints, defines the required changes, establishes implementation ownership, and leads execution. Operating-model redesign may include reporting relationships, departmental responsibilities, workflows, resource allocation, and performance measures.

How can an executive recruiter, board, or appointing authority contact Dr. Nolan‑Echols?

Use the contact button at the top of the website to share the organization, proposed role, operating challenge, reporting relationship, scope of authority, location, and anticipated timeline. Include the compensation range or structure where available.Organizations seeking a commercial engagement for operational transformation, restructuring, or expansion can contact Marie Management.

What executive leadership roles does Dr. Nolan‑Echols consider?

Dr. Nolan‑Echols considers Operating Partner, Portfolio Operating Partner, President, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Chief Transformation Officer, Turnaround Executive, and Restructuring Executive opportunities. Her public-sector interests include Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), government COO, City Manager, and senior Government Operations appointments. Each opportunity is evaluated against its responsibilities, qualifications, decision authority, and intended outcomes.

What is her focus in private equity and portfolio operations?

Her focus is translating value-creation priorities into operational execution within portfolio companies.Relevant capabilities include strengthening management teams, reducing founder and executive dependency, improving technology and resource efficiency, coordinating business units, and building repeatable operating systems that support growth.

What turnaround and organizational restructuring opportunities does she consider?

She considers mandates involving operational disruption, leadership instability, structural inefficiency, unclear accountability, or interconnected failures that threaten organizational continuity.Her focus includes diagnosing root causes, stabilizing essential operations, restructuring responsibilities and resources, implementing controls, and establishing a sustainable recovery process.

What is her focus in government and public administration?

Her focus is connecting policy, public authority, and institutional responsibilities to administrative execution.Relevant areas include departmental coordination, organizational structure, implementation planning, resource alignment, performance reporting, accountability, and continuity of public services.Her background includes graduate education in public administration and business administration. Experience is evaluated against the requirements of each government leadership position.