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Jennifer Garvey Berger

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Chief Executive Officer at Cultivating Leadership
📍 France

Jennifer Garvey Berger is the CEO of Cultivating Leadership, where she coaches senior leaders from companies like Google and Microsoft to thrive in complexity. An acclaimed author and holder of a doctorate from Harvard University, her work focuses on adult development and creating more thoughtful, effective leaders.

Jennifer lives in the French countryside in a communal home with a dozen friends, an arrangement she calls "The French Experiment." She enjoys baking, walking, and spending time with her mother who also lives there. She previously lived in a small seaside village in New Zealand with her family.

She co-purchased a large property in France with eleven friends to create a unique communal living and learning environment.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Chief Executive Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
France
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Thriving in Complexity
This is the central theme of her work as a coach, speaker, and author, focusing on helping leaders navigate ambiguity and uncertainty.
Adult Development
Her coaching philosophy is deeply rooted in adult development theories from her doctoral research at Harvard, focusing on how leaders grow their internal capacity.
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Career

Work history

8-2010
Chief Executive Officer
Cultivating Leadership
12-2006 - 8-2010
Chief researcher; Manager, organisational learning
New Zealand Council of Educational Research
12-2004 - 8-2010
Partner
Kenning Associates
6-2002 - 6-2008
Associate professor
George Mason University
1997 - 1999
Editorial board member and officer
Harvard Educational Review
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Media appearances

31: Jennifer Garvey Berger – Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps (CEO, Cultivating Leadership). Featured in YouTube
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A Day in the Life: Jennifer Garvey Berger, CEO of Cultivating Leadership. Featured in Idealog
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Education
1997 - 2002
EdD
Harvard Graduate School of Education
1996 - 2002
Ed.D
Harvard University
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