Leadership Development
Strong leadership shapes every part of an organization, from the quality of decisions and communication to team performance, culture, and business results.
Every organization has different goals, leadership expectations, and business priorities. That's why every engagement begins with understanding where your leaders are today, where the organization is headed, and the capabilities that will have the greatest impact.
From there, Jill designs customized leadership experiences that combine executive coaching, leadership advisory, workshops, team facilitation, and practical application to strengthen leaders, align teams, and improve organizational performance.
Executive Coaching
Strong leaders benefit from having a trusted thinking partner. Jill partners with executives, senior leaders, and high-potential talent to strengthen leadership judgment, communication, decision-making, influence, and strategic thinking. Coaching focuses on the real challenges leaders are navigating, whether stepping into larger roles, leading through change, managing complexity, or preparing for what's next.
Engagements are tailored to the individual while supporting the broader goals of the organization.
Leadership Workshops
Leadership development is most effective when leaders can immediately apply what they learn. Jill designs interactive workshops that strengthen the capabilities leaders need most, including strategic thinking, communication, influence, decision-making, accountability, navigating change, emotional intelligence, executive presence, and leading high-performing teams.
Each workshop is customized to your organization's priorities and designed to create practical change.
Leadership Cohorts
High-potential leaders grow faster when they learn alongside peers facing similar challenges. Jill facilitates cohort-based leadership experiences that combine coaching, facilitated discussion, practical application, and accountability to strengthen leadership capability across the organization while building stronger connections between leaders.
360 Leadership Assessment
Great leaders seek perspective as intentionally as they pursue results. Through a comprehensive 360 assessment, leaders gain meaningful insight into how they communicate, influence, make decisions, and show up across the organization. Together, we identify strengths to build on, opportunities for growth, and practical actions that strengthen leadership effectiveness, executive presence, and organizational impact.
The result is greater self-awareness, stronger leadership, and a focused development plan aligned with both individual growth and business priorities.
Why Organizations Partner With Jill
With more than 25 years of executive leadership experience, Jill brings a unique combination of business strategy, organizational insight, leadership expertise, and strategic HR consulting. As a SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP), she understands both the business and people sides of organizational performance, helping leaders, teams, and organizations navigate growth, change, talent strategy, and today's evolving workplace.
She helps organizations strengthen the leaders behind the business results, creating teams that think better, make better decisions, and lead with greater confidence through change.
Smart, Intentional Leadership When Everything Is Shifting.
Working with Jill is like adding an experienced executive strategist to your leadership team. She moves seamlessly between business strategy, leadership, talent, communication, and organizational challenges, providing the perspective leaders need when the stakes are high. Whether she's advising executives, strengthening teams, facilitating critical conversations, or solving complex business problems, Jill becomes a trusted strategic partner.
If you're exploring executive coaching, leadership workshops, strategic HR consulting, or organizational advisory, let's start a conversation.
"With Jill's guidance, our non-profit organization created a strategic decision-making framework to assess opportunities based on impact and relative level of effort. This tool has been transformative in the way we prioritize our work, how we think, and how we plan/evaluate initiatives. The work we did with Jill is having a genuine and positive impact."
- Midge Iorio, Executive Director, Bedford 2030
"We hired Jill as the keynote speaker during Disability Awareness Month to speak about Invisible Disability. Jill is a dynamic and relatable speaker who helped our audience understand the impact of invisible disabilities on the individual, the co-worker, and our company and what we can all do to create a more inclusive environment. The feedback from attendees was phenomenal. The audience was engaged, laughed, asked many questions, and was moved by Jill’s story. I highly recommend having Jill speak at your organization."
- Nicole Sitek, Director, New York Life Insurance Company
"Jill hosted a series of Gallup CliftonStrengths workshops for our teams. She brought high-level strategy, plus individual and group coaching, that people are still discussing today. Jill is organized, adaptable, and, most importantly, incredibly attuned to the needs of each individual. This has contributed positively to team morale, management understanding of their direct reports, and high-level team growth. Looking forward to having her back for additional in-depth coaching for our teams. Truly cannot recommend her enough."
- Emily Fernandez, Executive Operations, Notion Labs
Jill D. Griffin
Leadership Strategist | Executive Coach | Trusted Advisor
About Jill Griffin
Jill Griffin is a leadership strategist, executive coach, and trusted advisor who helps leaders navigate complexity, strengthen their leadership, and make better decisions with clarity and confidence.
With more than 20 years of executive experience leading growth, strategy, and innovation for organizations including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Hilton, Samsung, Citibank, and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Jill brings a practical, business-first perspective to leadership development. She has worked with leaders across more than 50 organizations—from emerging managers to C-suite executives—helping them lead through organizational change, career transitions, team challenges, and high-stakes decisions.
Jill is known for asking the questions that help leaders see what they can't see, uncovering the patterns that influence how they lead, and creating the clarity needed to move forward with confidence. Her approach combines strategic thinking, thoughtful challenge, and practical application to help leaders expand their influence and lead more effectively.
Her work has been recognized by Advertising Age as one of its 25 Women to Watch, NewsCred as one of the 50 Most Influential People in Content Marketing, and by the New York State Assembly as a Woman of Distinction. She is a Forbes contributor, host of The Career Refresh podcast, and the creator of the Next Era Leadership framework.
Jill believes the quality of an organization is shaped by the quality of its leaders' thinking. Better thinking leads to better decisions, stronger teams, and organizations that are built to thrive through change..
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