Jenny McDonald

Coach list: Chief executives and system leaders, Mid-level leaders of leaders

Email: jenny@continuumconsulting.co.nz
Phone: 027 499 3320
Website: continuumconsulting.co.nz
Location: Wellington
Face to face delivery: 
Locations without disbursements: Wellington and Wairarapa Region
Locations with disbursements: Rest of New Zealand
Virtual delivery: Zoom and Microsoft Teams

Jenny has a passion for effective leadership, believing that a combination of experience and reflection leads to learning and success. She is a senior leadership development practitioner, specialising in the neuroscience of leadership. She has a business and government background and began her career in the city of London, as a shipbroker and member of the Baltic and Mercantile Shipping Exchange.

For the last 15 years she has been designing and delivering senior public sector programmes, including the Leadership Development Centre senior leadership programmes, coaching senior executives and facilitating team and strategic alignment events.

Jenny’s held senior roles with the global organisation P&O Nedlloyd and her career has been internationally focused, encompassing London, Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand. She set up a coaching and leadership development consultancy in 2007 and works with government and private sector organisations and individuals.

She qualified as a Shipbroker in the UK and has a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Victoria University of Wellington, as well as an Master of Science in the Neuroscience of Leadership from Middlesex University, UK.

Areas of specific leadership coaching expertise:

  • Development, design and delivery of leadership programmes.
  • Senior executive coaching and facilitation: working with individuals and senior teams to support them in becoming more effective leaders of people and results.
  • Development and delivery of neuroscience of leadership programmes and workshops.
  • Using neuroscience principles to design and support organisational and individual change.
  • Brain-based leadership assessment diagnostics, including psychological safety assessments.
  • Using systemic team coaching methods for sustainable senior team development and impact.

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