Vernice Jones

Vernice believes that leaders can learn to expand their impact through presence, connection, and awareness across contexts. With over 20 years of experience working with global Fortune 500 companies and large nonprofits, Vernice Jones creates experiential leadership programs and leadership development solutions that connect and drive business results. 

Vernice is a Director and Faculty of Human and Adult Development at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. She is an associate at Cultivating Leadership, a global, deliberately developmental, complexity-based organization. Vernice is currently co-faculty of the ground breaking Leading Inclusively Lab, Wisdom in Leadership and core faculty of Conversations at the Growth Edge series, both through Cultivating Leadership.

Vernice began envisioning Women Circles, Women of Color Circles and Leader of Influence Circles in the early days of the global pandemic, as she witnessed her clients—particularly her female clients—struggling to deal with their own grief and anxiety while taking care of the many others in their lives. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in the U.S., and as the grief compounded, she started her first global circle for Women of Color. Her goal was simple: to give leaders a place to be in community and hold space for one another, network and leverage their collective intelligence and power.