Jennifer Longnion
Lecturer, Management Loyola Marymount University
Biography
You can contact Jenn Longnion at jennifer.longnion@lmu.edu.
Jenn Longnion spent most of her 25-year career as an organization development leader in multiple organizations from academia to late corporations, including Best Buy, Motorola, and The Coca-Cola Company and most recently as COO of a fast-growing tech company – Dollar Shave Club, Inc., in Los Angeles.
Over the years, she has built a reputation for common sense solutions fueled by: expertise leading teams through strategic planning; capability building; a strong foundation in culture and change; hands-on leadership of massive transformation efforts; experience on both sides of M&A efforts; and 1000’s of hours of coaching C-suite executives and leadership teams toward personal and team breakthroughs
Jenn is an advisor and instructor for the LMU Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship, an advisor for ScaleHealth, an organization dedicated to coaching emerging healthcare companies, an advisor at SIZE Management Consulting, and a generative futurist for the Generative Futures Initiative. She is also a board member for the Make-a-Wish Foundation’s LA Chapter, and she founded a professional network for HR leaders in Silicon Beach, Silicon Beach Progressive People Practices (SBP3), to improve benchmarking across privately-funded startups in SoCal.
Jenn Longnion spent most of her 25-year career as an organization development leader in multiple organizations from academia to late corporations, including Best Buy, Motorola, and The Coca-Cola Company and most recently as COO of a fast-growing tech company – Dollar Shave Club, Inc., in Los Angeles.
Over the years, she has built a reputation for common sense solutions fueled by: expertise leading teams through strategic planning; capability building; a strong foundation in culture and change; hands-on leadership of massive transformation efforts; experience on both sides of M&A efforts; and 1000’s of hours of coaching C-suite executives and leadership teams toward personal and team breakthroughs
Jenn is an advisor and instructor for the LMU Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship, an advisor for ScaleHealth, an organization dedicated to coaching emerging healthcare companies, an advisor at SIZE Management Consulting, and a generative futurist for the Generative Futures Initiative. She is also a board member for the Make-a-Wish Foundation’s LA Chapter, and she founded a professional network for HR leaders in Silicon Beach, Silicon Beach Progressive People Practices (SBP3), to improve benchmarking across privately-funded startups in SoCal.
Education
University of Minnesota
Post-graduate Work
Organization Development
University of Minnesota
MA
Higher Education Administration
Texas Lutheran University
Bachelor's Degree
Psychology
Social
Areas of Expertise
Large-Scale Change Management
Culture Change
Business Process Institutionalization & Improvement
Executive Development and Coaching
Strategic Planning
Organization Development
organization design/restructuring
Mergers & Acquisitions
Accelerated Scale
Industry Expertise
Manufacturing
Human Resources
Consumer Goods
Internet
