Jennifer’s work over the past 25 years has been focused around Talent Management. This has been done in the context of executive assessment and development, coaching, succession planning, leadership development, executive recruitment and career transition support. Jennifer works as an independent Senior Associate with Renaud Foster.

Previously Jennifer worked for a number of professional service organizations and industrial psychologists including Oliver Wyman, Peat Marwick, Pulvermacher Stevens and Shack, Watson Wyatt and André Filion and Associates as well as having previously managed her own consulting practice for over 15 years as well as a family business in Executive Search. Jennifer has experience in a variety of industries in Fortune 100 companies as well as a broad range of government departments, crown corporations and not for profit agencies.

Throughout her career Jennifer has completed over 600 assessments of senior executives in the private and public sectors for purposes of development, leadership coaching, placement, succession planning, team building and recruitment. She has also provided extensive behavioural and career transition coaching.

The following projects provide a representative sample of her experience:

• Royal Canadian Mint – Executive Assessment, Succession Planning and Recruitment ongoing since 2009
• Government of Nunavut – Assessment of 26 senior executives for designing developmental requirements to support future leadership practices aligned with evolving strategic objectives
• Mt Sinai Hospital – Developing psychometric leadership profiles for over 80 executives to support leadership development
• Federal Government of Ontario – Conducted over 200 assessments of senior executives (EX1-EX4) in a broad range of departments for purposes of career placement, transition and leadership development.
• Public Service Commission, Personnel Psychology Centre - conducted simulated assessments for a selection of over 50 executives ( Selex and EX3)
• Dell – Provided career outplacement services to over 50 Dell mid and senior level executives
• CIBC World Markets – Assisted with the reviewed of key talents, interpersonal skills, critical values and success factors for senior position as part of a transition process

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto, a B.Sc. in Clinical Psychology from Dalhousie and a M.Ed. in Counselling from the University of Ottawa. She is certified with a broad variety of psychometric tools including the EQ-I, MBTI, the FIRO –B, LEA and NEO-Pi personality instruments that help examine work behaviours, personality and interpersonal preferences. She has completed mediation training with the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation. Jennifer is also certified in Strategic Leadership DevelopmentTM an integrated process to develop leaders and align leadership practices with business strategy. She has most recently completed the Family Business Meeting Facilitation program with the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise.