Jennifer Wiley, Ed. D., CDTLF
Founder Braver Bridges
Leadership and Organizational Development Consulting
Jennifer’s began her 30-year career as a math and music teacher in Hayward, CA. As a first-generation college student born into poverty and addiction, she experienced first-hand the liberating power of a highly effective learning communities with core values rooted in belonging. She has spent the whole of her adult life cultivating communties of belonging with particular focus on equity strategies aimed at those place furthest from justice and authentic belonging.
Jennifer spent the past 24 years as a high school principal in a wide range of settings to include suburban and urban high schools as well as leading a K-12 urban alternative school. Most recently she served 16 years as a turnaround principal of the highly diverse and nationally recognized Franklin High School in Seattle, WA. Currently, she is working with Stand for Children in fierce advocacy for students in public schools that have been systematically underserved.
Jennifer has spent the whole of her career building inclusive educational systems with focused emphasis on educational equity as a critical strategy toward social justice. Within the scope of her work as a school leader, Jennifer developed and facilitated multiple trainings across a continuum on DEIB topics all levels of the organization from work with school boards, district leadership, school staff, community members and students. She has further consulted as an organizational improvement coach, policy advisor, and DEIB consultant. Her background in education equipped her with both adaptive and technical skills emphasizing systems development, strategic planning, and intentional monitoring of measurable outcomes.
Jennifer is a Certified Dare to Lead™ facilitator has recently focused her consulting more broadly to include working with organizations, both corporate and/or non-profits, who are committed to developing socially just and inclusive organizations. She and her colleagues customize training opportunities in leadership and DEI work to help organizations achieve their DEI goals.
A dynamic, creative, humorous, compassionate, and highly skilled facilitator, Jennifer is committed to ensuring that participants who experience her trainings are equipped with readily applicable tools and transformational leadership practices enables them to meet the challenges of our time and beyond.