Alex Nates-Perez

Writer - Storyteller - Content Creator

United States

I am a communicator. Highly motivated by a job well done, my specialty lies in taking larger ideas and distilling them into manageable, digestible pieces.

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Vimeo
04/14/2020
How We're Different

This is "How We're Different" by JMReid Group on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Vimeo
05/16/2019
Discovery Process

This is "Discovery Process" by JMReid Group on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

JMReid Group
11/06/2020
The Unreliable Narrator | JMReid Group

Turns out, you lie to yourself all the time. Don't worry, it's completely natural - an evolutionary fail safe installed in our brains since consciousness evolved. However, these lies are rarely in your best interest. Developing the discipline to identify these lies is key in life and in business.

JMReid Group
01/22/2021
What is Culture? | JMReid Group

Wallace stated, "The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about." While his speech was initially intended to inspire the individual college graduate, I believe we can take the concept of "what is water" and apply it to organizational culture.

JMReid Group
12/01/2021
Is Your Organizational Training Fast Food or a Flavorful Meal? | JMReid

It's clearer now, perhaps more than ever, that traditional organizational training is ineffective. The traditional training approach is - write a book, start a training company, build learning that believes the model is the answer, and then require participants to sit, listen and absorb the trainer's wisdom.

gb&d magazine
04/28/2016
Event Recap: 2016 Mohawk Sustainability Summit - gb&d

Mohawk Group, a leading producer of sustainable commercial flooring, carpeting, and hard surface products, recently hosted its annual Sustainability Summit from May 9-11 in Seattle-a setting for relaxation, networking, and learning. The intimate summit of leading sustainable executives and designers included tours of award-winning spaces, innovative workshops, panel discussions, and networking dinners with a focus ...

Chicago Climate Festival 2016
07/29/2016
Complex Science Made Accessible: the Fog Lifts from Climate Change

By Alex Nates-Perez There is nothing simple about Climate Change. Not only does it involve complicated scientific concepts, but also the predicted ramifications of Climate Change are scary to think about. One local Chicago Museum has put together an exhibit aiming to explain Climate Change to families and, most importantly, children in an easy to...

Chicago Climate Festival 2016
07/23/2016
MoCP Exhibits Environmental Degradation: This time it's personal

I walked into the air-conditioned building into the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Chicago's Columbia College (MoCP) and felt I had entered an environmental sanctuary. Not only was I sheltered from the muggy 90-degree July day, I was also met with a refreshing example of art as activism.

environmental critique
09/27/2016
Tea with Judy Natal and a Conversation about Process, Grief, and why Science needs Art

By Alex Nates-Perez "Acclaimed Chicago photographer Judy Natal will talk about her recent work, Another Storm is Coming, and screen two moving new videos that were commissioned by the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University (CENHS). Commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina she dramatizes the effects of...