About Jess
Coaching was always at the center of my work, long before I formally became certified as an executive coach.
Throughout my career the throughline was the same: helping people grow, perform at their best, step more fully into their leadership, and be deeply fulfilled by their work.
More than any of the awards I received or the professional success I achieved, developing others became the work that felt most meaningful and impactful.
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Leadership Experience Under Real Pressure
Before coaching full time, I spent more than a decade in leadership roles leading teams of up to 150people in high-pressure environments.
First, as an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, I led projects in some of the most complex and high-stakes environments imaginable - the Amazon jungle, prisons, war zones, and across from world leaders and the biggest celebrities. My work demanded clarity under pressure, rapid decision-making amid uncertainty, and the ability to inspire teams to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
I then brought this experience into the corporate world as a senior leader at MasterClass, where I led a team through explosive company growth, unprecedented global instability, and a 40% reduction in force. Supporting teams through volatility, adversity and constant change deepened my understanding of what modern leaders face and what sustainable leadership really requires.
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Discovering Mindfulness as a Superpower
Throughout my career leading teams in high-stakes environments, I knew that I needed a way to manage the pressure. I discovered mindfulness with great skepticism, believing my mind was simply too active and my schedule too relentless for it to work.
When I finally learned through personalized instruction, something shifted immediately. Practicing mindfulness became easy, and the transformation in me was so noticeable that people in my life began jokingly referring to me as “Jess 2.0.”
Experiencing how dramatically mindfulness improved my leadership and life changed the course of my career. I undertook extensive training with world-renowned experts to become a certified teacher. For more than a decade I’ve taught mindfulness to more than a thousand individuals and organizational teams, specializing in making these practices practical, accessible, and sustainable for busy lives.
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From Leader to Executive Coach
Many of the executives I worked with began asking for deeper support with their leadership and performance. That demand ultimately led me to formalize what I had long been doing informally by undergoing formal training and certification in executive coaching.
I am credentialed through the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the global gold standard in professional coaching, and trained through The Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), one of the world’s most respected leadership development programs. I am also trained in Positive Intelligence, an evidence-based framework integrating neuroscience, psychology, and performance science to strengthen mental fitness and sustainable high performance.
My coaching combines real leadership experience, mindfulness expertise, and evidence-informed performance tools to help leaders thrive without burning out.
My Approach
Having walked in the shoes of a leader myself I understand the realities leaders face, including the relentless demands, constant juggle of competing priorities, and pressure to perform while sustaining both themselves and their people.
My work helps leaders become calmer under pressure, clearer and more confident in their leadership, and more effective without working harder or sacrificing wellbeing.
I help people access the version of themselves capable of extraordinary impact, sustainable success, and genuine fulfillment.