Jonas Kieffer

Jonas Kieffer is a strategist for leaders, organizations, and brands at the highest levels of business, philanthropy, culture, and beyond.

He is Executive Director and a member of the Board of Directors at West Wing Writers, where he was a Partner before selling his ownership stake to the company’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in 2023. Since he joined the firm in 2012, Jonas has driven growth and transformation, leading a number of partnerships and investments in new businesses and services.

West Wing’s mission is to help good ideas get heard, good organizations lead meaningful change, and good people make a difference in the world. Founded in 2001, the firm specializes in leadership, executive, and brand and product communications—and helps its clients to shape, share, and amplify their stories.

Previously, Jonas served in President Barack Obama’s administration as Director of Speechwriting at the United States Department of Transportation. As a presidential appointee and aide to Secretary Ray LaHood, he led the agency’s team of writers.

Before that, Jonas was a senior executive-communications advisor and chief speechwriter to Dr. Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation—and, earlier in his career, the speechwriter for New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine.

Jonas started out as an organizer on local, statewide, and presidential campaigns. A magna cum laude graduate of Brown University, and proud native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, he lives with his wife and son in New York.