I love my clients and value their opinions.
See what they have to say about me and my work below:
I greatly enjoyed working with Jennifer as a DEI Facilitator. Jennifer is passionate about her work and exhibits this through her planning, facilitation and attention to detail. I appreciated that Jennifer's leadership style fostered open and honest communication. Jennifer modeled authenticity and vulnerability and when discussing how to facilitate conversations about diversity and equity. This modeling allowed our team to develop relational trust in a very short time frame.
Sheri TIamiyu
Principal, San Francisco Unified School District
Jennifer is like a breath of fresh air. She is one of the most dynamic and approachable consultants I have had the pleasure to work with as she takes the time to build strong relationships, understand the needs of a project and brings a sense of optimism and humor into the work. Jennifer has a superpower of taking complex and adaptive problems and finding new ways of thinking to solve them and is able to quickly synthesize information to get projects up and running. Jennifer exceeds my expectations every single time; her coaching, design and interpersonal skills are top notch. There's a reason she is always top of our consultant list!
Alison Kerr
Executive Director of Program and Innovation, Citizens of the World Charter Schools
Jennifer's true north star is team culture. Every document she writes, every facilitation move she makes is intentional--and in service of building and maintaining an inclusive and diverse team culture. I've seen this tenacious intention turn a group of strangers into a trusting and successful team in a matter of weeks. I credit our team focus on StrengthsFinder and our shared traits with significantly increasing my self-awareness and my ability to leverage my Strengths when working with others!
Richel Raich-Cantu
Director of On-Demand Training, IDEA Public Schools
I had the privilege of working with Jennifer in various ways over our 6 years. As her direct manager, I was consistently struck by Jennifer's sharp strategy and planning chops, her uniquely strong systems orientation, and ability to build a strong team culture while keeping the day to day work of the team going smoothly. Bottom line, Jennifer is an exceptional team leader, a uniquely gifted culture builder, and someone who synthesizes and builds compelling communication and comprehensive tactical plans. I - alongside so many others - have benefited greatly from being her colleague. She has been a huge asset and would be a valued member, contributor, and leader within any team. Plus, she really knows how to have fun!
Monique Moore
Founder, Monique Moore Consulting
Jennifer’s coaching fundamentally changed who I was for the better, both as a professional and as a person. She entered my life at a very difficult and shifting time. Jennifer acknowledged my crisis and guided me to reflect on the values that I hold and strengths that I have in order to persist through the initial challenge. From there, she found opportunities for me to build my skill set in alignment with those aforementioned values and strengths, demonstrating a clear knowledge of who I was (even more than I knew myself at times). These novel opportunities allowed me not only to reinforce the reasons why I was doing what I was doing in the first place, but also equipped me with new leadership skills that allowed me to set goals for myself never thought imaginable. These skills materialized in a new setting when Jennifer became one of my supervisors a few years later, specifically in building team culture (both as a leader and as a team member). She modeled how to align everyone in shared sense-making of our team's objective, what success would look like, how we would get there, and how our strengths would contribute to our collective success.
On top of that, her ability to incorporate the human elements of humor and compassion helped keep our morale very high. Because of these experiences, I am now pursuing roles in government with the confidence and leadership that Jennifer’s coaching and modeling directly influenced. I absolutely would not be the person I am today without her, and I wholeheartedly recommend working with this incredible individual!
Ryan Swick
Site Director & Educator, Teach For America
I first met Jennifer in 2014, and I was inspired by Jenn’s authenticity, positivity, and deep thoughtfulness. Jennifer provided me with the space to reflect on my own practice and to determine my own goals, without judging what I chose or imposing a certain set of outcomes. Instead, she created detailed structures and systems to support my development in the direction I wanted to go in, fostering greater buy-in and long-term sustainability. The trusting relationships she nurtured in the type of 1:1 coaching she did with me extended far beyond into group facilitation. I witnessed Jenn lead dozens of training sessions across a variety of lengths (half days to year-long), topics (from diversity and equity to student success in the classroom), group sizes (five to over forty), and intensities. In every context, Jenn shined: she was detail oriented, thoughtful about both the overarching journey of the training and the minute-by-minute planning, and attentive to various learning styles and personalities, ultimately meeting dozens of needs, which for many could seem impossible. In fact, her ability to meet so many needs can be in part attributed to her power of connection. Jennifer marries credibility, authenticity, reliability, and vulnerability with consistency. She listens empathetically, honors each individual, and begins every relationship, whether it’s 1:1 or in a group, with the cultural values she wants to set and then builds every outcome from this foundation, which ultimately proves successful.
Nora Jendoubi
MBA Candidate at Wharton School of Business & Partner at Maslow Development Inc.
Jennifer's coaching is adaptive and cultivates the strengths of the people she's working with. Her reflective process can quickly narrow in on the root cause of your challenges while leveraging strengths of you and your organization to develop adaptive and technical solutions. As a coach, Jennifer builds trust and authenticity through a variety of listening and inquiry tools that I've been able to directly apply to my professional and personal life over the years. Most importantly, she approaches coaching through a lens of equity and empathy that resonate throughout her cycles of inquiry and feedback. The consistency of her feedback helped align the purpose of my work to the broader school and helped illustrate how accountability and empathy can be integrated when it comes to giving difficult feedback. Her coaching and tools are accessible for a range of new and experienced leaders. I highly recommend Jenn as a coach to anyone looking to build their coaching skills and leveraging strengths to improve outcomes for yourself and your organization.
Jacob Gran
Assistant Principal, West Contra Costa Unified School District