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About Janelle
The perspective behind Power in Practice
Created by Janelle Renee Jenkins, Power in Practice connects leadership development with the everyday conditions that shape people’s ability to contribute.
Janelle works at the intersection of leadership, organizational effectiveness, sustainable work, and the conditions that shape human experience.
What helps people and institutions work better?
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Experience that informs the work
Leadership where strategy becomes practice.
Janelle has led operations across a national federation, a six-campus school network, a 168-school district, financial services, and manufacturing. Her responsibilities have connected finance, people, technology, facilities, governance, and cross-functional execution in rural communities and large metropolitan settings.
Her approach is to make distributed organizations work as one enterprise while preserving decisions close to the work. That means building agreement about responsibilities, supporting the people who carry them, and making controls usable in everyday practice.
How she approaches the work
Practical. Human. Systems-aware.
Human
People are not simply inputs into organizational performance. Strong organizations create room for people to contribute, grow, exercise authority, and flourish.
Systems-aware
Individual leadership matters. So do workload, expectations, authority, resources, incentives, practices, and the systems surrounding the individual.
Ongoing leadership support
Need fractional leadership or an advisor?
Janelle offers part-time executive involvement through fractional leadership, alongside advisory services for leaders and organizations. Explore the level of involvement that fits your priorities.
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Grounded in operating experience.
Janelle’s leadership background includes President of Operations for KIPP’s St. Louis region and her 2022 appointment as Chief Operating Officer of the National Council of Jewish Women. Her responsibilities connected talent, finance, operations, technology, and culture.
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