About Us
Blanton Group, Inc.
HIGHER PURPOSE:
Making Work Meaningful
The fact that the majority of individuals do not find working meaningful is an atrocity. We spend the majority of our waking hours at work, preparing for work, and thinking about work. Work should provide the opportunity for everyone to express their unique and best selves providing joy and happiness while providing financial security.
COMPELLING VISION
To Use the Influence of Business to Positively Impact the Communities We Live In
Business has the greatest influence in society today. It has a responsibility to move beyond profit to positively impact the planet and people in equal measure to profit.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
HOPE: To provide a process to help individuals, leaders, and teams to discover, execute, and deliver in a manner that creates not only success but significance.
INSPIRATION: Ignite the passion of the team to create the sense of urgency for the difficult journey required to do big and challenging things
PURPOSE: To align work to a greater meaning that enrolls all the stakeholders
TEAM
A “High Performing Team” provides the ultimate embodiment of the principles of Jailbreak Leadership. The ability to collectively deliver on a purpose greater than the sum of its parts in a community built on trust, commitment, and capabilities.
Jailbreak Leadership
Jeff Blanton, CEO & Founder
Jeff Blanton is the founder of Jailbreak Leadership, a strategic facilitation and leadership consulting firm helping organizations align, engage, and execute during times of rapid change. With more than 30 years of experience leading complex strategic projects across Fortune 100 companies, startups, and consulting environments, Jeff specializes in strategic planning, AI implementation leadership, organizational change, and team alignment. Known for his highly engaging facilitation style, Jeff combines Appreciative Inquiry, Xchange methodologies, Gallup Strengths, and deep project leadership expertise to help leaders mobilize possibilities, strengthen culture, and turn vision into measurable results. He is also the host of the Conscious Curiosity SD podcast, where he highlights leaders and organizations using business as a force for positive impact in the community.
Louis Cruz
Louis Cruz is an experienced operations and organizational leader with more than 25 years of experience supporting growth, improving processes, and building strong service-focused teams across higher education and nonprofit environments. He is known for a collaborative leadership style, thoughtful problem-solving, and an ability to bring people together around shared goals.
Throughout his career, Louis has helped organizations strengthen student and member engagement, implement more effective systems and workflows, and expand programs to better meet community and organizational needs. His work has included operational leadership, program/technology implementation, employee engagement initiatives, and strategic planning across multi-location and online environments.
In addition to his leadership experience, Louis has taught coursework in higher education settings and remains committed to doing the kind of steady, behind-the-scenes work that helps institutions and the people they serve. He holds a Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership, where his research focused on how workplace processes influence organizational outcomes.
Sanjiv Prabhakaran
Sanjiv Prabhakaran is an experienced executive with over two decades of leadership across a wide range of industries and technologies. He is dedicated to helping others achieve their goals by solving complex operational challenges through the development of bespoke software and AI solutions. His expertise spans technology architecture, process management, and AI engineering within the MedTech, IoT, FinTech, and healthcare sectors, as well as corporate real estate and financial markets.
In early 2002, Mr. Prabhakaran founded Bytes, Inc. to provide rapid software solutions, quality assurance, verification and validation (V&V), and Quality Management Systems (QMS) services. Before founding Bytes, he served as Vice President of Engineering and R&D for an e-business software company, delivering enterprise-level asset and financial applications to F1000 customers in the telecommunications and energy industries.
A recognized innovator, he holds 9 U.S. patents in the fleet management and vehicle mapping segments. Throughout his tenure at Bytes, he has received numerous prestigious leadership awards and accolades, reflecting his commitment to inspiring teams and driving technological success.
