Jennifer Stephen. Jennifer Stephen serves as a senior consultant, adjunct faculty, and executive coach with The Wright Business Institute. As a coach, Jennifer has a keen ability to discern her client’s blind spots and to help them gain the clarity and perspective needed to become more effective in their current roles. She is a strong strategic coach and is particularly skilled in helping her clients assert themselves to have greater impact in their organizations.
Jennifer Stephen is a 25-year marketing and advertising veteran with a keen ability to grow lifestyle brands into category leaders. Holding senior marketing posts at Weber Barbecues, Stiffel Lamps and FlexRx Healthcare, she developed marketing and advertising strategies that spurred record growth. She blends key research insights, consumer’s emotional connections and a “nose for trends” to help position brands like Carefree (J&J) and Boca Burger (ultimately sold to Kraft General Foods). Jennifer embraced the holistic health and human potential movements in childhood, and one of her career trademarks has been to evolve new product platforms for global equities such as Vicks, Metamucil, Iams, Herbal Essences, Secret, Tide, Enfamil and Colgate under the wellness halo.
During her 12 years as VP for GIO Intelligence (a global marketing consultancy), she has worked with top consumer packaged goods companies, including Coca Cola, Clairol, Gillette, Unilever, Quaker, and Kraft General Foods in global competitive strategy, packaging and innovation. Jennifer has teamed with the P&G beauty portfolio, and particularly the Olay brand for almost 10 years, providing insights and international intelligence that has aided them in becoming a global mega-brand. She helped GIO Intelligence pioneer their proprietary methodology for understanding “selling at the shelf” best practices, and is a frequent speaker on Winning at Retail. She also consults with integrated marketing agencies, including Davidoff Communications, in brand planning and business strategy.
Jennifer has an MBA in finance and marketing from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and is currently pursuing Doctoral work in human and organizational development. As adjunct faculty for the Wright Business Institute, Jennifer coaches and trains executives and high performers toward greater authenticity, performance and excellence.
She and her husband, Scott, live in Chicago with their children Sarah (9) and Jack (2). She serves on the steering committee for the Interfaith Family School and volunteers as a financial planner in charter schools as well as being an avid gourmet cook.
