Jean Blackstock is known and respected for her ability to help global businesses accelerate their performance and achieve their strategic goals by optimizing their structures, capabilities, and culture.
With more than 30 years of organizational development experience, she is the founder and CEO of JBC. Since 2005, she has been a trusted adviser to business leaders in organizations across Africa, Asia Pacific, the Americas, Middle East and Europe. Prior to founding JBC, Jean had a global career held within the private sector rising to senior positions in PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Diageo, Cable and Wireless and Digicel.
Jean and her team advises senior leaders through organizational change programs, developing new strategies and innovative approaches to tackle complex people and workforce challenges. Our global team, experts in their fields, has a wide range of backgrounds with a wealth of real-life business and consulting experience.
Our multilingual experts fluent in Spanish, French, Arabic, Kiswahili, Hindi and English.
Our proprietary methodology is anchored in organizational development theories and social science disciplines.
We combine expert knowledge in organization design, workforce planning, technical competency and behavioral framework design with specialist advice, facilitation, and coaching.
Recent clients include UNICEF, World Health Organization, the FAO, Fairtrade Africa, Oxfam GB, CARE International, Trademark Africa, and Airtel, among others.
She is a lecturer and trainer in workforce planning, organization design, and organization development.