Burkett Partners is the brain-child of Jennifer Burkett, a talented consultant who works at the intersection of design, change and business operations. Jennifer has more than 15 years of experience in program management and design. She has worked with diverse businesses, from social-justice-driven entities, small businesses, and more traditional enterprise. Her experience has given her a unique ability to solve tricky problems and get everyone working together toward strategic goals.
Jennifer started Burkett Partners to bring her unique and powerful blend of empathy and expertise to companies that didn’t have the time or resources to install a full time program director. She thrives on helping small to medium companies meet their goals.
Jennifer Burkett learned early in her professional career to honor her left-brain/right-brain tendencies. A dual degree holder in Mathematics and Studio Art, Jennifer believes in designing solutions that embrace the whole person.
With a career that spans investment banking, real estate underwriting, social compliance auditing, starting a small artisan business, and over 6 years of self-employment, she’s uniquely poised to creatively tackle diverse challenges in a variety of industries.
As an avid traveller, home cook & artist, Jen believes that the best strategies can come from unexpected experiences. She strives to create connection and alignment within all her client teams.
“Jennifer is a strong strategic thinker who tackles new challenges with structure, curiosity, and enthusiasm. I thoroughly enjoyed having her as part of my team where she emerged as a natural leader...”
Consulting Project and Program Director
Is your small to medium business suffering from operational lag and unscalable internal systems? If you just want to focus on that next goal, without having to worry about the systems you need to get there, you need a consulting COO.
Imagine a car engine. You’ve got a driver with a vision, and a whole complex mechanism beyond the pedals to put that vision into action - but you need a little something to help smoothly connect the two. A project director functions like engine grease, transmitting vision into strategy, measurable data, and internal systems so that your whole team goes the same direction, together.
DESCRIPTION:
Helps you identify operational challenges that are creating friction
Creates internally-supported plans to manage improvement and change
Identifies capability gaps & training needs
Designs plans and procedures to tackle big challenges, launches or shifts
Provides support and expertise to management and team members
Advises on future roadmaps to meet stretch and “blue sky” goals
Increases your leadership braintrust without the hassle and expense of a full-time hire
Idea to Launch Design Coach
Are you sitting on a great idea for a new product or offering but don’t have the resources to cleanly turn that vision into reality? Do you want to make sure you are providing real value to real people?
Idea to Launch design coaching will support you in gathering the right research and turning insights into ideas to launch. This approach pairs creative research design with with clear and nimble goal setting . This approach is also supportive, ensuring any new offerings are aligned with your people, processes and systems. With this approach, you’ll be able to launch with confidence.
DESCRIPTION:
Helps your team identify and develop innovative product or service offerings through human centered design processes
Supports market research and analysis to provide insight into market fit
Creates a launch framework with clear goals and accountability
Aligns your team around product development and launch-plan needs
Identifies potential problem areas or operational roadblocks to success
Checks in with your team during implementation and launch to resolve developing changes or challenges