Laura Huckabee-Jenning's 25+ years of experience include line management roles in strategy consulting, top-tier consumer goods like Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola, as well as technology and consumer start-ups. She has managed businesses to achieve extraordinary growth in markets around the world, including Japan, China, Israel, Poland and the US. She focuses on culture transformation to grow organizations and people.
Laura is the Founder of Transcend, which has been serving senior leaders and their teams since 2002. Transcend’s objective is to bring world-class tools and the latest scientific thinking about business and human development into your organization to achieve your ambitious goals. Through our leadership development programs, strategic planning and implementation process and culture transformation model, we help clients bring their teams together to achieve a shared vision and enhanced performance and team effectiveness.
Clients work with Laura and her team at Transcend to:
- Align the organization around an inspiring vision and strategy
- Build an inclusive and fearless culture to increase innovation and resilience
- Develop fearless leadership and employee engagement at every level
- Proactively evolve a leadership culture and positive behaviors throughout the organization
- Embrace change and uncertainty to uncover new growth opportunities
Transcend has worked with top-tier organizations such as Cisco Systems, Aviagen, Umicore, Hexagon, NASA, TVA, General Dynamics, Huntsville Utilities, UAB and many more.
Laura holds degrees in Physical Chemistry from Princeton University, in Comparative Culture from Jochi (Sophia) University in Japan, and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. She speaks Japanese fluently and has a good knowledge of French and a smattering of other languages. She is a Professional Certified Coach through the ICF. Laura has swum with calving whales, and ridden cross-country on her motorcycle. She is raising two daughters with her husband in Huntsville, Alabama.