A former schoolteacher who instructed students from preschool through high school at the Mount Madonna School in Watsonville, California, Neal Martin Zeavy also worked as an advisor with a number of charitable nonprofits and organized comprehensive fundraising projects for them. Continuing to work with charities, Neal Martin Zeavy now licenses fundraising software as the president of NZ Consulting in Seattle, Washington.

He concurrently serves as the president of his own real estate development firm. Based in Seattle, the firm has acquired key properties in Chicago, Illinois; Kansas City, Missouri; Charlottesville, Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Seattle, Washington.

He also serves as a co-owner and the head of development of Nic's Organic Fast Food in Chicago. America’s first certified-organic fast food restaurant currently supports two locations and is building two more. The company plans to expand into the California and New York markets by the end of 2019.