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About Jacqui
Jacqui Fanelli is a Leadership and Organizational Coach as well as an Executive Development Consultant. She partners with coaching clients to help them uncover their edge and achieve their goals in programs tailored to their priorities and circumstances. While she enjoys working with a wide variety of clients, Jacqui specializes in working with leaders identified as high potential and/or successors to senior-level roles. With a background in Talent Management in complex, global organizations, she understands the dynamics at work in large organizations and their effects on employees and others.
She has worked with multiple clients wrestling with priorities in their professional and personal lives in this post-pandemic work environment. She has also worked with executives facing major career transitions, building personal and professional brands, and navigating significant internal and external organizational changes and challenges.
Jacqui’s previous career experience includes more than 15 years in HR Business Partnership and Talent Management, most of that time spent at The Hershey Company and TE Connectivity. She also served as the first Talent Management leader for a venture capital-backed Privileged Access Management (PAM) start-up. These experiences forged her interest in Executive Development, as she partnered with senior-level leadership to deliver talent strategy and succession plans, design Leadership Development Programs (including Women’s Leadership Development Programs) and develop leadership pipelines (General Manager and others).
Jacqui holds a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in Organizational Dynamics, Leadership & Organizational Coaching (LOC) Concentration as well as a certificate in Leading & Managing through Change. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Honors Program at the University of Delaware in Psychology and Business Administration. Jacqui is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and also a member of the Institute of Coaching (McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School).
She has had a long-standing focus on psychometric assessments; and is certified in both Hogan Assessments, as well as multiple Korn Ferry tools, including the Korn Ferry Assessment of Leadership Potential (KFALP) and 360. She also utilizes tools such as DiSC, MBTI, and CliftonStrengths (formerly Clifton StrengthsFinder) based on client use case and context.
Jacqui’s adaptive and individualized approach stems from her Systems and Complexity Theory research and its impact on client experience and the coaching field overall. Her current academic work expands upon this approach and examines how traditional academic coaching programs and practice-based coach training can be combined to elevate coach education and credentialing. She continues to support Penn’s Leadership and Organizational Coaching program through a leadership role in the Field Placement and Coaching Supervision workstreams.