Meet Team JLCG

Jen Croneberger is redefining what leadership actually is—and where it truly lives.

For too long, leadership has been treated as a set of strategies, competencies, and titles. Jen challenges that thinking. Her work is rooted in a different truth: leadership is not what we say or intend—it’s how people experience us every day.

As the Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of the Human Leadership Institute, Jen is a leading voice in human systems architecture—how leadership lives inside an organization through the behaviors, relationships, and interactions that shape culture and performance. Her work focuses on designing those systems intentionally, so trust, connection, and accountability are not left to chance.

For more than 20 years, Jen has partnered with professional athletes, Fortune 500 companies, and government organizations including Nike, Samsung, Procter & Gamble, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She helps leaders and organizations move beyond surface-level change and into the deeper work of transforming how people relate, communicate, and lead together.

With a Master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology and executive education from Harvard, Cornell, Wharton, and Yale, Jen brings both scientific rigor and real-world application to her work. Her B.R.A.V.E. leadership model is backed by third-party research and grounded in a commitment to evidence-based, evolving leadership practices.

A 4-time TEDx speaker and bestselling author of Meet Them Where They Are, Jen is known for challenging leaders to rethink not just what they do—but how they show up, the systems they create, and the experience they leave behind.

Through the Human Leadership Institute, she leads executive advisory, immersive retreats, and organizational labs designed to help leaders intentionally architect cultures where people and performance don’t compete—they reinforce each other.