What people say about working with me
Karen Fraser, MBE/ Senior Director @ Ipsos
Jo is a delight to work with and I looked forward to every project we worked on together. She is incredibly smart, astute, insightful and has vast management experience in corporate environments. She is also exceptionally creative and brings out the best in diverse teams, managing with grace, flair and agility: a truly winning combination.
Peter Kirkby/ Partner @ OxfordSM
Always curious and leading for the creative answer to the challenge, with a humility that created the perfect conditions for real collaboration and partnership.
Joris Mercks/Author and Xoogler
In our days at Google Jo was always my go-to person when I wanted to find real insight in what made Google's culture unique. My team ran 1000 workshops per year for senior leadership of Google's largest clients. That audience doesn't accept a pretty story. What you offer them needs to be inspirational, unique, real and practical at the same time. Jo offers that view. She combines strategy and vision with deep understanding of humans and culture, and she makes inspirational things practical. She knows how to help professionals grow. Every collaboration with Jo is a boost of positive energy.
John Willshire, Smithery
I count myself as very fortunate to have worked with Jo on a complex project crossing many borders and boundaries with Unilever. She always sets an expectation for truly open, expansive collaboration in order to seek innovative solutions to any given problem. Best of all, Jo wears her incredible expertise and ingenuity lightly, ensuring any group benefits from collective creative efforts in achieving transformational outcomes.
Kerry Glazer, Chair AAR
I have known and worked with Jo for more than a decade. She is an exceptional person. Jo’s professional and personal qualities make her a true Renaissance woman, excelling in whatever she does, whether that’s leading a team or a company, managing a complex group of stakeholders, or coaching someone to achieve growth and success.
Highly strategic, intuitive, creative, and charismatic with one of the sharpest minds I have ever encountered, Jo is that rare being who combines high IQ with high EQ. She not only has the intellect and clarity of thinking to cut through extraneous detail to the nub of any issue, set the strategy and forward plan, she does so with empathy and humanity, ensuring that people are inspired to come with her. A genuine creative thinker, Jo always looks for new ways to approach a challenge. She is openly interested in, and curious about, people - their motivations, opinions and behaviour. Jo asks intelligent, open questions and, most importantly, she listens to the answers, considers them, and draws informed conclusions. This, in my experience, is quite rare.
She’s a hugely credible operator in any role she takes on, and her extensive industry and commercial experience positions her as a positive role model amongst her peers as well inspiring the less experienced. Transparently honest and immensely likeable, Jo also has a wicked sense of humour and is great fun to work with. Whatever you do, hire her.