A Bit More on Jess’ Style

With over 15 years of experience, Jess has coached and managed dozens of professionals ranging from early career to executives, led an international board of directors, and led hundreds of staff through influence in highly matrixed organizations. As a certified executive coach, she believes in setting high standards with clear expectations while providing support and accountability. She is a strengths-focused, habit-change enthusiast who helps clients build sustainable practices for long-term success.
Jess applies her professional and graduate background in research and evaluation to your strategic opportunities: she asks lots of questions and considers the latest research and both quantitative and qualitative data sources to assess and meet your needs

Jess uses a facilitative leadership approach in small and large settings drawing on her experience facilitating the following types of trainings, workshops, and meetings ranging from 3 to 200 participants, both in-person and on Zoom:
- Building team charter, values, norms
- Annual and quarterly planning
- Executive team alignment and strategy meetings
- Team retreats (team building, orienting to strategy)
- Data-driven decision-making workshops (e.g., how to interpret quantitative or qualitative data and take appropriate action)
- Quarterly and annual board meetings
- Creating a learning or research agenda
- Conducting focus groups and designing surveys
- Workshops on early career skills including networking, communication, teamwork, and more
- Workshops on understanding personal identity at work; interrogating identity-based biases and power in program and project design
- Team and individual role clarity and goal-setting
As an avid reader (50+ books/year) and podcast listener, Jess stays current with the latest research and best practices in leadership, management, and organizational development. She maintains a comprehensive "second brain" database system in Notion that covers everything from professional learning and client work to life management, household systems, and her ever-growing collection of restaurant recommendations and travel plans.
Drawing on her experience in scaling organizations and implementing strategic initiatives, Jess knows what it’s like to operate today’s business with yesterday’s systems and what it takes to build tomorrow’s systems at the same time. She can help you figure out what strategic projects you need to invest in now and how to structure your people and processes to build the data-driven culture and outcomes you want
She skilled in seeing how seemingly disconnected challenges fit together and breaking down the work into a strategic action plan based on the foundational habits and systems that already exist within your personal or organizational practices
For CliftonStrengths enthusiasts, Jess’ top five strengths are: Strategic, Responsibility, Connectedness, Learner, and Communication

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