Vernice Jones

Vernice uses a developmental approach to work with global, for profit and nonprofit social justice leaders in transition to new roles, expanded roles, and with leaders in transition from one stage of adult development to another. As an experienced executive coach, teacher and facilitator, Vernice Jones co-creates experiential leadership programs and leadership development solutions that connect and drive business results. She has extensive experience coaching senior and C-Suite global leaders of color and/or from the LGBTQIA community.

Vernice is a Director and Faculty of Adult Development and Identity and Culture at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. She is an Associate (Coach, Facilitator, Consultant) at Cultivating Leadership, a global, deliberately developmental, complexity-based organization. Vernice designed and is currently co-faculty for the groundbreaking Leading Inclusively Lab, Wisdom in Leadership, and core faculty of Conversations at the Growth Edge series, through Cultivating Leadership. Through her executive coaching business, she has been an executive and professional coach for clients in the US, Europe, Africa, and Asia. She is a Growth Edge coach and has been designated by the International Coaching Federation as an MCC (Master Certified Coach).

Vernice makes her home in the Washington Metropolitan area, with her husband and two sons. She graduated from the University of Maryland with an undergraduate degree in Economics and holds a Masters degree in Finance and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.