Jennifer McCanna

Jen’s approach has been described as ‘incisive and insightful’ as she quickly gets to the crux of challenges, enabling change to happen quickly.

Jen is very focused on getting results for her clients and their organisations. She does this through putting clients at ease, listening, and using a variety of tools to encourage new perspectives and open up new possibilities. Having Jennifer on your team is like having a trusted ally who inspires and challenges you to do your best thinking and gain your best results.

With 20 years of work experience initially as a fundraising professional and later as a Learning & Development manager, Jennifer is a qualified leadership and team coach and accredited EBW (emotions and behaviours at work) practitioner. A focus on building emotional intelligence is often the cornerstone of her leadership coaching work. She is also an experienced and creative workshop designer and facilitator with experience of delivering a wide range of face to face and remote learning events on subjects including navigating change, management and leadership development and career development skills as well as bespoke team coaching programmes.

Clients seek out Jennifer for a variety of reasons, including: management and leadership challenges including leading teams through, and coping with change; career transition; return to work after maternity leave; challenges with particular professional relationships; building confidence and resilience or for focused, expert support in achieving their goals.

“Jen is incredibly encouraging, dedicated and supportive. Our sessions are focused and each have clear objectives. She expertly explores all angles with me and enables me to uncover perspectives I may have missed. Jen is the first person I call on when I’m facing a significant challenge or change. She’s been there every step of my leadership journey and has really enable me to perform to the best of my ability.” Jude Sadler, Head of Project Research and Information, Action Aid.

Jen coaches face to face in Sheffield, and has many clients based around the country and indeed globally, who she speaks to via Skype.