Tim Jaasko-Fisher, M.A., J.D.

Founder and Principal Consultant
TJF Consulting

Tim works with people and organizations to build capacity to thrive in complexity. He catalyzes positive change on a strategic, systemic, and individual level. Through the use of Liberating Structures and other tools, he helps groups to meaningfully include everyone in exploring the complex challenges they face, and provides concrete, meaningful ways to unleash a groups full potential to maximize return on investment. Tim serves as the Director of Internal Capacity Building for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children’s Bureau’s Capacity Building Center for Courts, where he provides consulting, coaching, and advice to a team of national experts working to build courts’ capacity to respond to child abuse and neglect on a systemic level.

Tim served as the Senior Director of Curriculum and Program Development at the Civility Center for Law at Seattle University School of Law and was the founding director of the Court Improvement Training Academy (CITA) at the University of Washington School of Law. He was a member of the federal Quality Improvement Center on Youth Representation curriculum team. In 2010, he was awarded the Lee Ann Miller Individual Award for outstanding leadership in furthering the goals of the Washington State Children’s Justice Act, and he led the Court Improvement Training Academy to receive the Lee Ann Miller Team award in 2014.

Tim worked as an Assistant Attorney General for 11 years. He has litigated at all levels of the justice system in Washington State, including administrative tribunals, the Superior Court, the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court. He presents nationally and internationally on issues relating to leadership, civility, and engaging groups in complex problem-solving. 

To learn more about Tim’s work, visit www.TJFConsulting.org.