Randall Kenneth Jones

I am my arts education. My career as an author, speaker, collaborator, innovator, educator and storyteller-for-hire all tracks back to my time spent acting, singing, dancing, public speaking, and, yes, marching across a football field with a saxophone in my hand. Today, as an author, speaker, podcaster, and communications consultant, I wear many hats, but the common thread connecting these professional chapeaus is storytelling. I've helped healthcare, technology, non-profit, retail, publishing, and entertainment organizations develop their most powerful stories for the online or traditional media best suited to deliver their message. From 2012 to 2016, I conducted over 100 best practices interviews for a personal-meets-professional-development newspaper column. Subjects included Barbara Corcoran, Sonny Jurgensen, Hoda Kotb, General Barry McCaffrey, Suze Orman, Vanessa Williams, and many more. With a Foreword by Peggy Post (The Emily Post Institute), my subsequent book,"Show Me: Celebrities, Business Tycoons, Rock Stars, Journalists, Humanitarians, Attack Bunnies & More," was published in late 2016. In 2018, Susan Bennett (the original voice of Siri) joined me in the launch of JONES.SHOW podcast. Described by recurring guest Erin Brockovich as "The best podcast and host ever," I continued my laser focus on looking for the BEST in people. Guests have included Pat Benatar, Bob Burg, Val Chmerkovskiy, Stedman Graham, Lisa Guerrero, Dr. Judy Ho, Norman Lear, Jenifer Lewis, Melissa Rivers, Nischelle Turner, Vanna White, Ginger Zee and more. In 2022,"Chicken Soup for the Soul's" Mark Victor Hansen discovered and published my first fiction book,"Ruby: Magic Comes from the Heart," described by Janet Evanovich as "the magic that happens when readers are free to feel—and embrace their own fairy-tale truths." In 2024,"Siri" and I rechristened the JONES.SHOW podcast, ON THE KNOWS with Randall Kenneth Jones—a nod to every inspiring guest's exceptional credibility.