- 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 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. When working with others, Jess believes it’s important to set high standards with clear expectations and provide support and accountability along the way. She is a strengths-focused, habit-change enthusiast.
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- 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:
- Team and individual role clarity and goal-setting
- 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
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging workshops: understanding personal identity at work; interrogating bias (e.g., race, gender, etc.) and power in program and project design
- Jess is an avid reader (50+ books/year) and podcast listener and is constantly tinkering with her “second brain” database system in Notion for all things personal and professional learning, life and household management, and keeping track of restaurants and travel
- 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 organizational practices
- For CliftonStrengths enthusiasts, Jess’ top five strengths are: Strategic, Responsibility, Connectedness, Learner, and Communication