Studio Cozad is a small firm by design. Jarron leads every engagement. The team behind him brings expertise in digital transformations, project governance, member experience, training, and organizational design.
PRINCIPAL
Jarron is rarely the loudest, but usually the clearest. He has been working with credit unions for most of his career. Often he is brought in to solve a specific problem, earns trust quickly, and then is invited into the inner circle to make meaningful change across the full organization.
Jarron believes the best way to drive change is to educate, motivate, and entertain. People adopt what they understand, commit to what moves them, and stay with what keeps their attention. He built that belief over fifteen years leading teams across credit unions, fintech, global enterprise, and SaaS.
Jarron has serious credentials, but he doesn't wear them unless he needs to. What makes him effective is that he meets people where they are, whether that's a CEO or a day-one hire. You would never know that he is a Six Sigma Green Belt, speaks four languages, has worked across six of the seven continents, keynoted at CUNA, and coached Fortune 50 executives at Comcast, Verizon, Honda, IBM, and Oldcastle.
He walks into a room of nervous new hires and has them laughing within five minutes. A stressed-out branch manager leaves a conversation feeling like someone finally understood them. He states things in plain language that anyone can understand.
As VP of Talent Development at Mountain America Credit Union, he helped build the infrastructure that leveled up management and kept top talent. At IBM, he scaled a global sales enablement team from 60 to 200 and expanded the pipeline by 280%.
Kasasa, Mountain America Credit Union, IBM/StoredIQ, AMD, Vendavo, CircleCI, GE, Adobe Workfront. The range is not accidental. Each brought a different set of constraints, stakeholders, and failure modes. Studio Cozad draws on all of it.
CO-PRINCIPAL
Liz has spent eighteen years inside complex, regulated organizations. Credit unions, healthcare systems, public sector agencies. The kind of places where changing one system means understanding twelve others first.
She figures out where the operation broke, rebuilds it around the people who actually use it, and stays until the team can maintain it themselves. At Mountain America, she built the infrastructure that supported the credit union's growth from $9B to $15B. At Adobe Workfront, she redesigned customer onboarding and cut the timeline from nine months to two.
She is methodical, direct, and builds things your team can run without her.
Jarron brings in specialists based on what the engagement requires. They bring in additional specialists as needed in data analysis, compliance, UX researchers. The team scales to the work, and scales back when it is done.