Jason Schulist was a guest on the People Solve Problems podcast.
Listen to the 20-minute podcast here.
- Jason Schulist is executive director of the Fox Valley Data Exchange, a free community data platform for three northeast Wisconsin counties, organized around the “vital conditions for well-being” (work and wealth, health, housing, transportation, etc.).
- The Exchange’s purpose is to make local data easy and democratic to access, giving many stakeholders one-click insight into how people in the region are thriving across multiple dimensions.
- Schulist approaches this work—and his second nonprofit, Generative Local Community Institute—with a problem-solving mindset, aiming to design economic and community models that help people genuinely flourish.
- Drawing on experience across many industries, he emphasizes matching the problem-solving tool to the type of problem (clear, complicated, complex, or chaotic), rather than relying on a single favorite method.
- For complex community issues like poverty, he advocates many small experiments, collaboration across organizations, and continuous learning, rather than expecting one definitive solution.
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