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Jessy Kirkwood
FOUNDER / Lead Consultant
With over 20 years of experience in communications, operations, and HR with advanced expertise in organizational leadership, marketing, and digital and business transformation, Jessy is our firm’s founder with a track record of strategic alignment successes.
Since launching J. Kirkwood Consulting in 2016, Jessy has leveraged her ability to translate complex technical and scientific concepts into their most simple and engaging essence to the benefit of her clients across the following sectors: enterprise software, cybersecurity, genetics, stealth startups, ecommerce, semiconductor, gaming, life sciences, and telecommunications.
More from Jessy Kirkwood: Oxford University - Saïd Business School post - climbing a haunted stairwell and other lessons on strategic leadership
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Allie Mangin
DIRECTOR / Lead Consultant
Engaging systems and process work, Allie has spent her career focused on how people grow and work together well. With over 15 years of experience, she develops and applies best practices to foster inclusive and thriving human-centered cultures, structures, and strategies.
As an organizational effectiveness practitioner, Allie advises leaders from all sectors in program management, strategic leadership training, change management, culture transformation, and social innovation research.
With a unique ability to foster trust and dynamic relationships among stakeholders, Allie values collaboration as a priority in empowering teams and maximizing potential to work well together.
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Our Team
Consultants
When you partner with one of our consultants, you are leveraging a team of reputable professionals with expertise in integrating communication, technology, and people into successful, measurable, topline strategies.
With varying industry backgrounds, our team successfully balances agency with nuance, and data with broad-based research in a way that delivers results in the midst of complexity. Our consultants challenge the status-quo while executing within the frameworks that best serve and support our partners.
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strategic communications
Our integrated, inclusive, and persistent approach to communications empowers stakeholders toward sensemaking and enlightened engagement.
Emboldened and aligned, these stakeholders become the accelerators and storytellers of the strategic objectives critical to business success.
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change management and digital transformation
Transformations introduce innovation. And challenges. Our change management model leverages dynamic frameworks, behavioral psychology research, and compelling narratives to ensure that your business’ established value-added advantages evolve in step with new innovations.
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organizational leadership and culture
Gain crucial alignment between your unique organizational identity, the external market, and the world at large. Whether your team is co-located, dispersed, or global, shape your culture and maximize your organizational architecture to drive performance, celebrate diversity, and expand opportunities.
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marketing and branding
Unhinged creativity, ruthless business parameters, data-drive insights, and a love of the craft define our approach to marketing and branding.
In the complexity, we find the essential. In the essential, we find the elegant. In all of it, we deliver something unforgettable. And, if possible, we find something cheeky too.