Hi, I’m Jen.
I’m a coach, facilitator, and entrepreneur.
I help curious, driven people become more regulated, resourceful, and creative. So they can better navigate what they can’t control and create a dope life with what they can.
I work with people who are willing to look at themselves honestly, and interested in growing. Not because they think they’re broken, but because they give a damn about how they show up in the world.
Getting strong. Staying soft.
I want our work to change something meaningful for you.
That usually starts with regulation. When your nervous system is overwhelmed, your options get smaller. So we build the skills to get steadier, understand what’s actually going on, see more possibilities, and choose what to do next.
The goal isn’t to become perfectly calm or endlessly optimized. It’s to become more resourced. To have more range. To get stronger without getting harder.
Sometimes it means having the hard conversation, changing course, asking for help, taking a risk, practicing acceptance, or loosening your grip.
Getting strong. Staying soft.
That’s the practice.
Before becoming a coach, I spent a decade leading marketing teams at high-growth tech companies.
In 2018, I founded Zest, where I still design and facilitate leadership and professional development programs for organizations across the country.
My coaching practice is shaped through two accredited coach-training programs and years of study in mindfulness, communication, behavior change, and the nervous system.
But this work also comes from how I live.
Dance and movement have taught me to trust the body. Meditation has taught me to stay with what’s here. Entrepreneurship has taught me how to take that next scary step. Parenting continually teaches me that control is mostly an illusion. Partnership teaches me that having the hard conversation can lead to deeper connection.
Again and again, I seem to be learning the same lesson: knowing when to act and when to let go. When to push and when to listen. How to weather the hard stuff without becoming hardened by it, while staying brave and creative enough to make more of the good stuff.
That’s what I bring to coaching.
How I Got Here
Training + Influences
I’m an ICF-trained coach and have studied across a range of coaching, mindfulness, communication, relationship, and therapeutic frameworks.
My education and influences include Georgetown University, Mindfulness Coaching School, Braver Coach, mentor coaching with Lyssa deHart, Relational Life Therapy, Nonviolent Communication, The Gottman Institute, Safe Conversations, Betty Martin’s School of Consent, Internal Family Systems, and more than 20 years of meditation practice.
I’m also deeply influenced by dance floors, Burning Man, entrepreneurship, motherhood, relationships, and my teachers, mentors, clients, and humans who have helped me see things differently.
My wish is for all people to have the skills & support needed to build lives they’re damn proud of — and leave the world a better place.
I’ a life and leadership coach that doesn’t care about titles. I believe leadership skills can and should be learned by all.
What matters is that you’re curious, motivated to make a change, and willing to own your life.
Maybe you’re navigating a transition. Maybe you’re successful but restless. Maybe you’re overthinking the hell out of something.
You don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what you want.
You do need to believe you can learn, experiment, change, and participate in creating what comes next.
Sound like you? Let’s talk.
Who I Work With
More to Explore
I have a free newsletter, available to all on substack. It’s called “Well, That’s Interesting” because it’s all stories from my life that have sparked my curiosity.
Subscribe to get occasional emails that include my personal reflections, self-coaching tips, upcoming events, resources, and more.
I respect your time, attention, and privacy, and aim to keep each email useful. 👇
Newsletter
Coaching
You’re invited to explore my coaching programs. If you feel called or drawn to who I am, I don’t think it’s an accident.
Book a free consultation so we can get to know one another. Or just read more about my current offerings.👇
Guest Speaking + Corporate Events
I founded Zest in 2018 to bring my corporate workshops, trainings and classes to organizations.
If you’re looking for a speaker for your offsite, a leadership coach for your executive team, a communication training for your managers, or monthly classes for employees to practice nervous system regulation… I offer all that and more through Zest. 👇