Jen Jenkins, PhD
Jen's company, Executive Function was founded in 2012 and specialises in helping individuals to harness their full potential and supports organisations to future-proof themselves in our increasingly Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world. This is achieved through understanding and mastery of psychologically-informed tools.
Jen's work as a Business Psychologist has been built by combining her academic background in Psychology with over ten years' commercial experience in the pharmaceutical industry culminating in roles as International Director in the areas of Commercial Operations and Learning & Development.
As a business psychology consultant for the last ten years, Jen's approach is to combine simple insights from Psychology and Neuroscience with her commercial expertise to create people development programmes that are aligned with core business objectives and support a culture of productivity and wellbeing. Jen specialises in creating high performing, resilient teams, supporting clients to develop a growth mindset and cognitive flexibility which enables them to thrive in uncertain and challenging times. Jen is also a skilled practitioner in a number of psychometric tools which she uses to support coaching conversations and to provide insight for optimising individual and team performance.
Jen has worked with CEOs and senior leadership teams across a wide variety of sectors including, financial, legal, pharmaceutical, biotech, oil & gas, food & drink, luxury brands, travel, business consultancies and higher education. Jen has exceptional interpersonal skills and is known for her ability to build strong relationships and bring warmth and humour to her work.