As the Head of Design and Collaboration- Q Labs and network (maternity cover), Jen is responsible for ensuring the Lab meets its strategic objectives including working the Q Lab network, our partners, Q Members and other Lab participants to tackle health care challenges.
For the past 25 years, Jen has worked across business and civil society leading and implementing large scale innovation programmes. She is a co-founder of The Finance Innovation Lab which is now independent organisation enabling a financial system that serves people and planet.
As an experienced systems change practitioner, she has also been an advisor for the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity at the University of Surrey, an advisor for The RSA’s Economy and Enterprise Programme and a Fellow at Cambridge Judge's Centre for Social Innovation.
Before joining Q, her most recent leadership role has been as the Executive Director of The Psychosynthesis Trust, a mental health and education charity, where she brought together her interests enabling change at a personal, organisational and societal level.
She holds an MSc in Responsibility In Business Practice where her action research project focused the central role relationships play in enabling change.
In her spare time, Jen is core team member of Out In the Field – a programme that offers nature retreats to NHS staff to help them support their wellbeing.
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