Jennifer is an executive recruiter based in Madison, Wisconsin, who works with private, public and nonprofit organizations. She helps organizations assess needs, recruit, and hire leaders and future leadership, both organizational and for corporate boards. She is adept at working with selection committees, which requires exceptional communication, planning, and finesse. She is successful in her efforts to attract and develop a top-tier, diverse slate of candidates for roles because of her broad network and her innate ability to recognize people with interesting transferrable skills and talents. Clients and candidates comment that she makes the hiring process both a productive and engaging experience. She recruits leaders in health care, business services, manufacturing and nonprofit, working as a partner to help organizations meet their goals.

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Jennifer has deep experience as a consultant and advisor to clients: helping identify organizational needs, creating job descriptions, assessing teams, offering professional development as a key partner, coach and consultant. She uses Hogan personality assessments which convey valuable non-biased information about people’s innate skills and personalities, matching them with an organization’s culture and goals for future success.

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Having started her career in “sink-or-swim” commission-based advertising sales with the Business Journals’ Twin Cities publication, she understood early how to grow business by building authentic relationships. Jennifer has worked and lived internationally, giving her a broad understanding of people and perspectives. Her recruiting practice has evolved over the years from biotech recruiting, to recruiting engineers, product marketers and sales teams for consumer products manufacturers, to executive search, assessing organizational culture and assisting in the selection of leadership for successful succession and future growth.

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Jennifer is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism. .  She currently serves on the board of Tempo Madison for professional women. She was a Rotarian for five years with Downtown Madison Rotary and served on the alumni board for the Wisconsin School of Business for two years. She is also a marriage officiant and assists couples in marriage preparation. Other outside interests include spending time with family, Door County, guitar playing, downhill skiing, hiking and traveling.