Jude Jennison

Inspirational speaker on leadership, teamwork, courage, confidence, compassion, leading through uncertainty, wellbeing

Jude Jennison is a courageous, inspiring and astute business woman. A free thinker and a maverick, who is known for her profound and life-changing ‘Leadership with Horses’ workshops, talks and round tables. Challenging, compassionate, eccentric, surprising and ahead of the curve. She joins the dots that nobody sees.

Jude inspires leaders to create more human connection in a high-performance culture at a time of substantial change and uncertainty. She develops senior leaders and helps executive teams align so they can lead change with courage and confidence.

Previously in IBM, Jude managed a budget of $1billion and saved 25% over two years. She combines sixteen years’ senior leadership experience in IBM with extensive coaching and leadership expertise, to help leaders identify their leadership behaviours and transform themselves into a courageous and hugely influential, non-verbal communicator. 

Renowned for challenging the status quo, she is a seasoned author, international speaker, executive coach and pioneer of ‘Leadership with Horses’. Her methods are unconventional, yet hugely successful. One of her clients turned their business from an operating loss to a profit in just 3 months, with a return on investment of 4,000 % after working with her for just one day!

Keynotes include: Every board needs a horse, Leading through uncertainty, Wellbeing is a leadership issue

Jude hosts a ‘Leading through uncertainty’ podcast series https://www.judejennison.com/podcasts/

Jude is author of the books Leadership Beyond Measure and Leading Through Uncertainty.

She has a regular slot on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire radio and has been featured on BBC2, Radio 4 and in the FT, HR Director magazine and regularly blogs about leadership issues.

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