Bio
Jen is an Organization Development leader with a successful track record for leveraging strategy and sustainable talent engagement to produce company growth and success. She has held in-house and consulting roles for 20 years, leading large-scale initiatives and culture development in pioneering companies as eBay and Johnson & Johnson and across diverse industries.
Jen is blazingly passionate about creating leaders, teams and cultures that produce radical and extraordinary engagement, fulfillment and performance. Seeing leadership as an agentic and dynamic process, and through applying the last hundred years of psychological identity theory, she wrote a thesis entitled Curating The Self: A Proposed Intervention for Positive Identity Crafting Through Self-presentation in which she examines how our physical bodies, our emotions, our cognition and our sense of purpose influence and support our impact as leaders.
Jen holds a degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology and a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied under Martin Seligman and Angela Duckworth (founders in the field). She is a practicing organization certified coach through Newfield Network and has logged over 1800 hours of coaching in organizations in 12 years, earning her the International Coaching Federation’s “Certified Professional Coach” or CPC distinction. Jen is also one of a very select group of individuals who is certified to deliver Brene Brown’s “The Daring Way” curriculum.
