Jay Whitehead (born April 8, 1959) is an American author and publisher most notable for publishing Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO) magazine.[1] As of January, 2023, he is the Chairman & CEO of ReentryCenters.com, Chair of the Reentry Leader Conference and author of Reentry Leader (Ingram Spark, 2023).[2]
Whitehead graduated from UCLA with a BA in History and earned a strategic finance certificate at the Harvard Business School.[3]
He co-founded The CRO Association.[4] He published Human Resources Outsourcing Today[5] and HRO Europe Magazines.[6] He co-founded The HRO Association.[7]
His magazine Corporate Responsibility Officer issues an annual list, The 100 Best Corporate Citizens,.[8] This effort was ranked by PR Week/Burson-Marsteller as the 3rd most influential corporate ranking in the nation.[9] In 2009 Whitehead was named #73 on Ethisphere Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics list.[10]
Whitehead is co-author (with Amit Chatterjee) of the 2009 book The Post-Carbon Economy.[11]
On May 4, 2012, Whitehead started serving as CEO of Charity Partners, Inc. and Tickets-for-Charity.com.
Whitehead is an avid marathon runner.