Jennifer co-authored the book Great Work, Great Career with Dr. Stephen R. Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The book offers a practical, mind-shifting path to greatness for those seeking employment or questioning how to re-engage in their current careers. Jennifer’s blog, Executive Mama, encourages realistic optimists to make conscious choices about their leadership style, strive for executive influence in influential organizations including business and government, and to provide a map for women as to the decisions to be made in order to earn the right to be called both “executive” and “mama” in the same lifetime.

Jennifer made a career switch in the Spring of 2011 and is a VP of Wisdom at DaVita, a kidney care company.  She contributes to the DaVita Village  through a focus on DaVita University administration, learning technology strategy, and culture.

In 15 years at FranklinCovey and five years at Accenture, Jennifer worked behind the scenes at some of the world’s largest companies as an executive coach, consultant, and catalyst for high performance at all organizational levels, from front-line to CEO and has spoken to over 30,000 people in 42 US States and 14 countries.

Jennifer directly influenced sales and operations as an EVP and the Chief Operations Officer at FranklinCovey through business process simplification, change management, organizational and leadership development, and global sales.

Jennifer is known for making complex ideas and strategies understandable and executable; approaching opportunities with a whole person paradigm of body, mind, heart, and spirit; and for engaging, action-oriented keynotes, facilitation, and coaching.