Jen Walper Roberts,
MPA, ICF PCC), CEO & Lead Coach
Jennifer Walper Roberts is an experienced ICF PCC Executive Coach, nonprofit leader, and community development professional. She coaches leaders of progressive foundations and nonprofits committed to justice, equity, movement and power building, and political engagement. She also coaches senior leaders at the US National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the US Department of the Interior. In addition, she coaches hundreds of social work leaders across England through the through the UK-based nonprofit Frontline.
Jennifer believes that it’s important to be an active leader alongside having a coaching career. She leads the Conspiring Women Peer Coaching Cooperative and is the local hub worker for her community’s Climate Action Hub, leading community-driven action to address the twin climate and biodiversity emergencies from the ground up.
From the beginning of Jennifer’s career, she’s worked for a fair, equitable and inclusive society. In recent years, as organizations have responded to and adapted to important anti-racist and environmental movements, as well as the post-Covid culture shifts, she’s worked alongside executives to adapt their leadership approaches. She provides executive leaders with a safe space to absorb feedback, to examine their values, and to reflect on the impact of their leadership behaviors. She invites leaders to practice courageous, values-driven conversations and to experiment with new ways of being. She supports them to define organizational vision and structures in a landscape in which hierarchy and ways of working are rapidly changing.
As Senior Project Manager and Senior Consultant at Dare Mighty Things, Inc., Jen led teams to build the capacity of hundreds of nonprofit organizations across the country. Jen and her team provided coaching to executives and project leaders at these organizations to improve management and execution of critical projects serving low-income communities. Jen also spearheaded virtual affinity networks of nonprofit professionals across the country providing resource sharing, coaching, and collaboration. To do this work, Jen drew on her extensive nonprofit leadership experience designing mentoring and volunteerism programs.
Through her work at SEO-London and SEO-USA Jen coached hundreds of young people of color and women to leverage internships to secure competitive positions in fields including investment banking, corporate law, philanthropy and information technology. Jen is an expert in developing professional mentoring and sponsor relationships, as well as robust peer networks, which are critical to obtaining offers and advancing careers. Jen also led initiatives to support young people of color from NYC to graduate from high school and successfully complete college.
Jen completed a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from the City University of New York and a BA from the University of Maryland. In addition to her full ICF Coach Training completed in 2011, she has completed certificates in Coaching with Mindfulness, Climate Change Coaching, and workshops in Coaching Neurodivergent People, Trauma Informed Coaching and several workshops on infusing coaching work with anti-racist values.
Jen is the proud mother of four kids - a 14-year-old boy and twin 13-year-old girls and one 8-year-old daughter and is passionate about supporting people juggling caring responsibilities while thriving professionally. She believes that “citizen” ought to be a verb, and that we should make a difference wherever we plop ourselves up in the world. Jen grew up in Sharon, MA and Rockville, MD. Her life and career have taken her from Manhattan to Park Slope in Brooklyn, NY, to Washington, D.C. to London, UK, to Arlington and Alexandria, VA and she is currently in Leeds, UK. Jen continues to work with clients in the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
For more on Jen's professional background, please see her LinkedIn profile.
Jennifer Walper Roberts is an experienced ICF PCC Executive Coach, nonprofit leader, and community development professional. She coaches leaders of progressive foundations and nonprofits committed to justice, equity, movement and power building, and political engagement. She also coaches senior leaders at the US National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the US Department of the Interior. In addition, she coaches hundreds of social work leaders across England through the through the UK-based nonprofit Frontline.
Jennifer believes that it’s important to be an active leader alongside having a coaching career. She leads the Conspiring Women Peer Coaching Cooperative and is the local hub worker for her community’s Climate Action Hub, leading community-driven action to address the twin climate and biodiversity emergencies from the ground up.
From the beginning of Jennifer’s career, she’s worked for a fair, equitable and inclusive society. In recent years, as organizations have responded to and adapted to important anti-racist and environmental movements, as well as the post-Covid culture shifts, she’s worked alongside executives to adapt their leadership approaches. She provides executive leaders with a safe space to absorb feedback, to examine their values, and to reflect on the impact of their leadership behaviors. She invites leaders to practice courageous, values-driven conversations and to experiment with new ways of being. She supports them to define organizational vision and structures in a landscape in which hierarchy and ways of working are rapidly changing.
As Senior Project Manager and Senior Consultant at Dare Mighty Things, Inc., Jen led teams to build the capacity of hundreds of nonprofit organizations across the country. Jen and her team provided coaching to executives and project leaders at these organizations to improve management and execution of critical projects serving low-income communities. Jen also spearheaded virtual affinity networks of nonprofit professionals across the country providing resource sharing, coaching, and collaboration. To do this work, Jen drew on her extensive nonprofit leadership experience designing mentoring and volunteerism programs.
Through her work at SEO-London and SEO-USA Jen coached hundreds of young people of color and women to leverage internships to secure competitive positions in fields including investment banking, corporate law, philanthropy and information technology. Jen is an expert in developing professional mentoring and sponsor relationships, as well as robust peer networks, which are critical to obtaining offers and advancing careers. Jen also led initiatives to support young people of color from NYC to graduate from high school and successfully complete college.
Jen completed a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from the City University of New York and a BA from the University of Maryland. In addition to her full ICF Coach Training completed in 2011, she has completed certificates in Coaching with Mindfulness, Climate Change Coaching, and workshops in Coaching Neurodivergent People, Trauma Informed Coaching and several workshops on infusing coaching work with anti-racist values.
Jen is the proud mother of four kids - a 14-year-old boy and twin 13-year-old girls and one 8-year-old daughter and is passionate about supporting people juggling caring responsibilities while thriving professionally. She believes that “citizen” ought to be a verb, and that we should make a difference wherever we plop ourselves up in the world. Jen grew up in Sharon, MA and Rockville, MD. Her life and career have taken her from Manhattan to Park Slope in Brooklyn, NY, to Washington, D.C. to London, UK, to Arlington and Alexandria, VA and she is currently in Leeds, UK. Jen continues to work with clients in the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
For more on Jen's professional background, please see her LinkedIn profile.