Jen Grace Baron '21 C-Suite Advisor Since 2021

Jen is a People Strategy leader and entrepreneur with a 20-year track record of leveraging talent to produce business success and growth. She is a founding partner of InspireCorps, an inspiration strategy firm dedicated to helping companies grow through inspiring their people. Recent client partnerships include: Johnson & Johnson, Google, Pepsico, Aetna/CVS, Theravance Biopharma, University of Connecticut Medical School Hartford Hospital, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Law School, American College of Cardiology, and United States military.

Prior to founding InspireCorps, Jen spent her career growing teams and leading large-scale initiatives and culture development in market leading companies as eBay, Hewlett Packard and Johnson & Johnson. Through this experience, she realized apassion and specialty for developing leaders, teams, and cultures and witnessed the difference this makes in sustaining success. Jen holds a B.A. in Industrial Psychology from San Jose State University and a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has logged over 3000 hours of coaching through her career, earning her the International Coaching Federation PCC distinction, as a Professional Certified Coach.

From both an academic and applied perspective, Jen enjoys asking new questions and connecting ideas in novel ways about how people and organizations can grow faster and be stronger. She uses social science research as a springboard for innovation. Jen lives for the experience where a leader, a team or an organization breaks through to the next level of meaning, performance, joy, and fulfillment then she stands with them to catch the waves of positive impact that result.

Jen resides in New Haven, CT with her family and two dogs. She enjoys foraging for inspiration and potential locally at flea markets and in the woods near her house and on travels around the world.