Jen McClure, Founder and CEO of JEM, Named to Business Insider's First List of "Power Players" in Management Consulting

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 21, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- JEM, a Silicon Valley-based global management consultancy and publishing group, announced today that its CEO Jen McClure was named one of the "Power Players" in a list of influential executives and leaders in management consulting by business and financial news site, Business Insider. Business Insider surveyed its readers, reviewed previous reporting and analyzed organizational charts at various firms to compile a list of executives who are disrupting the $130 billion management consulting industry. They were selected based on their impact on the industry and within their firms.

Jen McClure oversees the company's consulting and advisory services division, Consultants Collective and the media division, which includes Biznology, JEM's digital magazine and learning platform. The site features articles, podcasts, webinars and online training from Consultants Collective's member consultants, advisors and executive coaches, extending the firm's offerings and insights online.

Consultants Collective is a new kind of management consultancy comprised of nearly 40 former executives from world-class companies. Its member consultants include an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a five-time Apple MVP and Golden Apple award winner; former Chairman, Thomson Reuters China; former Chief Human Resources Officer, AARP; former Chief Marketing Officer, IDG; former Vice President of Customer Experience, Genesys; former Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, Pepsi; former Global Vice President, TAPFIN and senior executives from AT&T, Cisco, DowDuPont, Marriott, Raytheon, Wells Fargo, and more. Consultants Collective serves clients across a wide range of industries, including aviation, financial services, life sciences and technology. In 2019, the company became certified Women-Owned Small Business in the Federal Contracting Program, and is recognized as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) by the Department of Defense (DOD). It is one of a few women-owned management consulting firms with this designation.

"Our consultants understand the top priorities of senior management and boards of directors because we have been in our clients' shoes and faced many of the same challenges they do," said McClure. "We bring together the right experts at the right time to provide relevant, real-world experience and expertise to each client engagement."

McClure has more than three decades of management experience at public and private companies, primarily in the media and technology industries, with expertise in digital and social media, marketing and communications. She founded the think tank, Society for New Communications Research, which merged with The Conference Board in 2016 and now serves as a Distinguished Principal Fellow of The Conference Board. She is a Governance Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors, and has served on the boards of several Bay Area organizations.

Other Power Players on Business Insider's list include executives from a major consulting firms, including Accenture, Bain & Co., Boston Consulting Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, McKinsey, AlixPartners, Artemis, Hamilton Place Strategies, ICF, InnovationPoint, Umbrex, and some consulting recruitment companies.

"I am honored to be included among this group of accomplished executives from leading firms, but the credit goes to our collective of executive consultants, advisors and coaches who make our organization great and differentiate Consultants Collective as a truly innovative management consultancy," said McClure. "They provide unparalleled value to our clients to help them improve, innovate and transform. At this particular moment in time, we want to help our clients to move beyond resiliency and reacting to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, to focus on evolution and transformation. In keeping with our mission to help our clients successfully shape the future with a focus on bottom line results, driven by mission, purpose and values, we've been thinking about how we can help organizations to not just survive, but to truly thrive in the new normal that they envision and create. The COVID-19 crisis has presented significant new challenges to all of us, and it has highlighted existing systemic issues and problems that we now have the opportunity to address with better, bolder, more innovative models and solutions."

"It's likely that the management-consulting industry will come out of the pandemic stronger, thanks to some leaders who are going above and beyond," wrote Weng Cheong of Business Insider.

About JEM
JEM is a Silicon Valley-based global management consultancy and publishing group. JEM connects executives and innovators, experts and thought leaders from around the globe through its consulting and advisory services division, Consultants Collective and its digital magazine and online learning platform, Biznology.com. JEM is a certified Women-Owned Small Business in the Federal Contracting Program, and is recognized as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) by the Department of Defense (DOD). For more information, visit http://www.JEM.LLC.

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