Anne Jones

Anne Ylipahkala Jones grew up in Kiviniemi, Finland matriculating at the top of her class from one of the most successful educational systems in the world. The Finnish schooling is not based on testing and teacher control, but on both teachers and students taking responsibility. The Finnish school structure aims to produce independent learners, emphasizes broad knowledge, and teaches morality from a young age. Growing up in this kind of educational environment had an impact on Anne’s views on training up children.

Trying her wings in the United States, Anne ran track on a full athletic scholarship at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated with highest honors in systems engineering. She worked in performance improvement consulting prior to receiving her MBA from Harvard Business School. Before retiring from the corporate world, Anne worked for ten years holding progressively senior positions in finance, strategy, and organizational effectiveness with NYSE companies including Southern Company and Mirant in Atlanta. The year Anne met her husband she had deliberately left her full-time corporate job for a part-time consulting gig to allow her time to date and perhaps meet that special man. She did.

During the early marriage years, Anne and Mark revitalized Mark’s surgery business. Anne was able to apply what she had learned in the professional world to help the family business. With a baby in her arms, Anne, ever the engineer who seeks to be deliberate about her life, sought effective ways to raise a wise son. This is how she developed the way to use the Harvard Business School case method to train children in wise decision-making.

Anne, Mark, and their youngest son, Jupiter, reside in Buckhead, a neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia.