Executive Coaching That Transforms Leaders and Teams
 
 

About Intently Leadership

Intently Leadership delivers outcome-focused executive coaching and team effectiveness programs to strengthen how corporate executives collaborate and lead.

About Jessica Kent, MSLOD, PCC

President | Executive Coach & Leadership Consultant
Values: Connection. Curiosity. Commitment.

MS in Leadership & Organizational Development; Certified Executive & Professional Coach, ICF-PCC; Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator.

Jessica partners with the C-suite and executive leaders to strengthen how they collaborate and lead. Jessica has a passion for helping leaders make meaningful change happen, achieve their goals, and reach their desired performance outcomes. Clients value her deep listening skills, strategic insight, evidence-based approach, and applied experience leading in both large, matrixed corporations and start up environments.

Jessica has over 25 years of business leadership, strategy, and relationship management expertise. Prior to her work in executive coaching, Jessica served as Senior Director of Dare to Lead programs at Brené Brown Education and Research Group (BBEARG), where she helped organizations build brave leaders and courageous cultures. Jessica spent the majority of her career at Deloitte, where she was a program leader and trusted advisor to leaders across 15+ countries. Jessica began her career in communications and served Silicon Valley technology companies during the internet boom era. 

Jessica’s executive coaching reach extends beyond her work with Intently Leadership clients. She is also an executive coach and principal with The Boda Group, and a leadership coach with the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. Jessica is based in Houston, Texas and works globally with clients virtually and in person. She believes in living a wholehearted life full of family, friends, and fun, and enjoys spending time with her favorite people on this planet: her husband Michael, and their two children, Andrew and Lauren. 

 
 
 

Jessica's Leadership Experience

  • Former Senior Director of Dare to Lead programs at Brené Brown Education and Research Group

  • Tenured, 15-year career as a Deloitte leader directing global programs with executive firm leadership, as well as human capital and technology professional services.

  • Has served as a thought partner and advisor to corporate senior leadership for 20 years, with industry experience in technology, professional and financial services, consumer products and services, energy, healthcare, higher education, and non-profit

  • Entrepreneur who helped build and grow businesses throughout her career

  • MS in Leadership and Organizational Development, Scholar with High Distinction, Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas

  • ICF-PCC credentialed coach

  • Earned Graduate Certificate in Executive and Professional Coaching, Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas

  • International Coaching Federation (ICF) member, the world’s largest organization of professionally trained coaches

  • A proud alum of the University of Texas at Austin. Hook ‘Em.

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Intently Leadership Frameworks, Methods, Tools, and Resources

  • Assessment certifications and tools include: Hogan Assessments, EQ-i/emotional intelligence, Leadership Versatility Index (LVI) and custom 360 feedback assessments

  • Applied tools and methods in positive psychology coaching, motivational interviewing, cognitive coaching, neuroscience, organizational behavior, and change management

  • Dare to Lead™ curriculum based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown

  • Custom-developed materials and a library of resources to support leadership development, behavioral change, and culture building

 
 
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Ways to Work Together

 
 
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