History
Jennifer and Jamé Bolds met Olin and Laura Jennings while working in a marriage community development non-profit in the Manhattan facing suburbs of New Jersey. Jennifer was invited to attend a day training conducted by, The Jennings Group, a management consulting firm which teaches emotional intelligence as a practical skill set.
This interaction sparked a vision in Jennifer which caused her to focus on emotional intelligence in marriage & family practice. Olin shared a vision with Jamé to create a sustainable operating foundation to encourage and train pastors in emotional intelligence as a practical skill set. The Bolds and the Jennings found a synergy and love for one another which developed into a mentoring role where the Jennings poured wisdom and emotional intelligence into the young Bolds.
Olin Jennings original vision for the foundation was to design a leadership skills training program to equip pastors and church leaders to vitalize their churches (Jennings, 2009). The Bolds have expanded that vision to include para-church ministries and selected non-profits. To this day, Mrs Olin Jennings remains as an advisor to the foundation.
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Leadership
Founders
Olin (1944-2012) & Luara Jennings
From working at prestigious consulting firms like Booz, Allen and Hamilton; Deloitte & Touche; and Charles H. Bentz Associates to opening their own management practice, The Jennings Group, have rewritten the rules of leadership. The Jennings have transformed managers into leaders through emotional intelligence as a practical skill set at large and small firms for nearly 20 years. They made headlines in the STEM community by transforming technicians into leaders. Understanding how leaders are naturally hardwired is the gift that the Jennings brings to corporate America.
The Jennings Group has a global reach including both coasts of the United States and Europe. Mrs Olin Jennings has since transferred the practice to their daughter Kate Kaynak, Ph.D. who continues the leadership tradition in corporate America.
Education
Mr. Olin Jennings (1944-2012)
Lawrence University
B.S. Geology
Macken School of Mines
M.S. Engineering
University of Michigan,
Ross School of Business
M.B.A. Leadership
Mrs. Luara Jennings
Drew University
B.A. Music Performance
The Institute of European Studies, Vienna, Austria; The Julliard School of Music and The Mannes College of Music, NYC
Activities & Affiliations
•Founder, The Jennings Group
•30 years of strategic management consulting: Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and Deloitte & Touche.
•Trained over 2,500 managers and employees in business management, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
•Trained Managed strategic planning and meeting facilitation for over 30 years.
•Founder, The Jennings Group
•Over 25 years of management consulting: Charles H. Bentz Associates.
•Specializes in understanding organizational politics and organization interaction, board of director development.
•Trained over 700 people in leadership, interpersonal skills, & conflict.
• Experienced in non-profit as well as business management consulting and training.
executive director | Facilitator | co-founder
Jennifer Bolds, M.A., SDI
Jamé & Jennifer Bolds co-founded the Jennings Leadership Foundation with the mission to take Mr. Jenning’s vision and The Jennings Group genius to the non-profit and ministry space. Jamé serves as the president & board chair while Jennifer focuses on the various facets of emotional intelligence that revolve around leadership development, marriage & family, and conflict management. As a therapist who holds a 90-hour M.A. in Counseling and an SDI Certification, she focuses on helping leaders understand themselves and translating emotional intelligence to family systems.
As well as co-founder of The Jennings Foundation, she also serves in pastoral leadership at Victory Church as a professional musician and family therapist. Jennifer also serves as a facilitator for, the parent company, The Jennings Group throughout the Washington DC to Boston corridor.
Education
Southeastern University
B.A. Music Education
Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary
M.A. Counseling (Marriage & Family Therapy)
Activities & Affiliations
• Facilitator, The Jennings Group
• SDI Certification with Personal Strengths
• FOCCUS Premarital Counseling Inventory
• Assemblies of God Ordination