Jill draws on 25+ years of experience in education and business leadership to support executives to realize their full potential and create productive change in their lives and work. Her coaching focuses on the development of the whole person.

Jill’s early career experiences included global marketing roles with world-class consumer products companies, including Colgate-Palmolive and Polaroid Corporation, where she collaborated with a diverse array of leaders in highly complex environments.  Today, in addition to being an Executive Coach, she is the faculty lead of an innovative new global leadership development program within the Master of Global Business Administration degree at Tufts University’s Fletcher School.  In addition to creating and delivering the curriculum for mid-career leaders, Jill coaches the cohorts and integrates mindfulness and resilience practices into their leadership development goals.

Jill brings extraordinary breadth of experience to her role as a coach. Her career has spanned corporate, academic, and non-profit environments, as well as a variety of functional areas. Through her work across sectors and cultures, Jill has come to realize the vital importance of developing leaders who can collaborate across boundaries to address the increasingly complex challenges of today’s leadership environment.

Jill has held senior leadership positions in several institutions of higher education, including Tufts University and Babson College.  She has served on two executive teams and as the VP of Marketing for the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, a renowned wellness organization in Western Massachusetts. Through her roles as an executive, an educator and a dean, Jill has developed significant expertise in coaching, experiential learning and adult development.

Jill holds a BA in Spanish Literature and International Business from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MBA in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.  She earned her leadership coaching certification through the Hudson Institute of Coaching.  Her certifications in diagnostic instruments include the Leadership Versatility Index 360 and the Hogan. 

Jill is a certified yoga teacher, social entrepreneur, systems thinker, global citizen, local-food enthusiast, sea kayaker, and mom of two college-aged sons. She and her family currently live in the bucolic Berkshires, just a few minutes from Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.