About Jennifer
Strategic marketing and communications leader with 25+ years of experience driving brand growth and measurable business impact. Deep expertise in brand strategy, executive visibility, community relations, and executing through the creation of trusted relationships. Personal approach of striving to translate goals and strategies cross-functionally; connect work with the overall purpose, goals, and values; and bring out the strengths and talents in others.
"Jennifer is strategic, highly organized, and exceptionally collaborative. She brings a consistently positive attitude, broad thinking, and a genuine commitment to helping others succeed. She cares deeply about doing excellent work and elevates the leaders and teams she supports. I would be happy to speak further if helpful. I strongly support her candidacy."
"When I later stepped into the Vice Chair role for PwC Consumer Markets nationally, I selected Jennifer to serve as Senior Manager, Consumer Markets Marketing Leader because of the strength I had seen in her Midwest leadership. At the national level, she became a key member of my leadership team and a trusted advisor — playing an important role in aligning partners, alliances, and trade associations around cohesive communications strategies and ensuring we showed up in the marketplace in a differentiated and strategic way."
— Barb Bukovac, Partner & Vice Chair, PwC Consumer Markets
"Jennifer created a social media monster. She told me to use LinkedIn. I just dabbled. She continued to give me the extra push I needed and reminded me to show up as myself — an authentic leader… 20 million impressions later…"
— Justin Kaufman, Partner, US Banking & Capital Markets Alliances, PwC
"One of the people most responsible for the success we achieved during my five years in that final role before retirement was Jennifer Hennessey. She helped me create and communicate a vision for growth, supported my efforts in the community, helped me deliver engaging client-facing events and taught me how to leverage social media to enhance the brand of PwC and our impact locally. I thoroughly enjoyed working with her and we (PwC in Cleveland) were incredibly successful at 'punching above our weight.'"
"She also got heavily involved with PwC's efforts around CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, bringing community-facing experiences such as the Check Your Blind Spots mobile tour to Cleveland… This was incredibly impactful and an area of pride for me, notwithstanding the unfortunate complete societal reverse on all things DEI just a few years after that work."
— Mark Ross, Retired PwC Partner & Cleveland Office Managing Partner
Core Competencies
- Integrated B2B marketing & communications strategy
- Executive visibility & thought leadership platforms
- Large-scale event production & sponsorship management
- Content marketing, social media & analytics
- Community relations & corporate social responsibility
- Cross-functional team leadership in matrixed environments
Career Journey
2013 – 2025
PwC, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Consumer Markets Marketing Leader · Marketing Communications Leader, Midwest & Lake Erie Markets
2009 – 2013
Diebold, Incorporated
Internal Communications Leader · Senior Manager, Global Marketing Communications · Manager, Global Corporate Communications
2008 – 2009
Eaton Corporation
Communications Manager
2004 – 2007
National City Bank
Assistant Vice President, Communications Consultant
1993 – 2004
KeyCorp
Corporate Communications & Marketing Communications (progressive leadership roles)
