meet chiefable’s new c.s
hello.
At Chiefable, we’re experts in executive development. Our backgrounds are in Fortune 500 companies and Big Four consulting firms, and our passion is using our wisdom from the trenches to develop leaders and organizations in targeted, meaningful ways.
We’re shaping the future of executive development, and we can see just far enough over the horizon to prepare you and your team for the next era of work.
meet our co-founders.
On our journey to founding Chiefable, we’ve trained as coaches, taken on clients nights and weekends, read all the leadership books, studied with diverse teachers and mentors, and continue to immerse ourselves in research and multidisciplinary wisdom about human potential.
Our clients benefit from our different skills and backgrounds. We also have one thing in common that helped us solidify that we should be business partners: We are both on a quest to modernize leadership development and usher in a new generation of leaders fit to meet today’s new challenges.
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With over 25 years as a strategic advisor to 50+ Fortune 500s, government agencies, and nonprofits, Jennifer Bruno helps organizations lead systemic transformation by building integral leadership, high-performing teams, and purpose-driven, human-centric cultures of innovation and resilience.
Jennifer brings deep cross-sectoral experience spanning financial + professional services, travel + hospitality, consumer products, technology, healthcare, and the US federal government, Her ability to quickly grasp her clients’ unique contexts—organizational, cultural, and strategic—makes her a trusted partner at the highest levels. Before co-founding Chiefable, she was a Partner in Korn Ferry’s CEO Impact Accelerator practice.
Jennifer believes leaders must be visionaries, not just operators. She helps leaders build the courage, mindset, and behaviors to shape what’s next—driven by vision, not fear.
As a multi-identity woman of color, Jennifer has navigated the corporate matrix as a Deloitte consultant and industry executive, immersed in Mayan indigenous culture as a Peace Corps Volunteer, implemented a digital transformation across 50+ cruise ships around the world, and pursued graduate studies in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. Her purpose is to be an instrument for systemic change across all levels—individual, team, organization, community, and world.
Jennifer graduated from NYU’s Stern School of Business and has a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia SIPA with a concentration in international security policy. She is a board certified coach (BCC), trained and certified by the International Coaching Federation (PCC), Co-Active Training Institute (CPCC), and Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (GPCC). She is also a certified health coach; certified yoga, mindfulness meditation, and breath work teacher; and herbalist-in-training.
Her approach combines evidence-based strategies with whole-human insight, drawing on ancient wisdom, systems thinking, and transpersonal psychology. She brings her full self to every engagement—directive when needed, and always deeply attuned to context, aspiration, and potential.
Jennifer was born in Colombia, grew up in New York, and now lives in Taos, NM on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Taos Pueblo, Ute, Lipan Apache, and Tiwa peoples. Learn more.
Jennifer Bruno
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Mary is an accomplished executive coach and leadership consultant, known for her transformative effect on clients.Drawing from a combination of extensive research on executive success predictors of success and hands-on experience spearheading large-scale business transformations at Fortune 500 organizations, she has elevated elite leaders and teams to perform at their best.
As a co-founder of The Women’s Business at a Fortune 200 company, Mary actively contributes to fostering women's success. She is a sought-after speaker at women’s executive forums, addressing topics such as purpose, courage, and influence. She has worked with companies such as Google, Bank of America, P&G, Ulta Beauty, and Kraft Heinz.
Mary has an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and a BS in Economics and Entrepreneurship from Marquette University. Both schools inform many of the values at Chiefable, including our focus on the whole person (Marquette) and growing the good in business (Notre Dame).
Mary holds coaching certifications from numerous organizations and is certified in several psychometrically valid assessments. She is a volunteer coach with The Honor Foundation, an organization that helps special forces military members transition to the workforce.
She was born and raised in the Chicago area where she still lives today.
Mary McCarthy
meet our partners.
we’re growing.
Chiefable is looking for management consultants that are also executive coaches to join our team. We’re designing a generative, modern, adaptable professional services company that embodies the values driving the next generation of leaders. We’re seeking fellow executives who take a systems approach to leading individual, team, and organizational transformation. If you have over fifteen combined years of management consulting and/or corporate leadership experience working with the C-suite, are a certified coach (ICF PCC or equivalent) and you are equally passionate about human development, we’d love to meet you.
We will review our next wave of applications in summer 2024. Click below to share your interest.