Jenifer Lazarus

ICF ACC Coach · Organization Development · Change & Talent Strategy

Helping leaders make change credible, human, and sustainable.

Jenifer partners with leaders and organizations to strengthen capability, guide transformation, and create the clarity needed for people and strategy to move together.

  • Leadership coaching and facilitation
  • Organization development and change consulting
  • Talent, succession, and leadership development strategy
15+ years across talent, learning, OD, and change
Global scope experience across geographies and cultures
20% successor readiness boost in year one of a leadership cohort model

About

Trusted for thoughtful leadership development and practical change execution.

Jenifer brings more than 15 years of experience supporting business outcomes through people capability, with work spanning learning strategy, talent management, leadership development, organization development, and transformation.

She is currently a Senior Manager in Talent and Organization Development at the Gemological Institute of America in California, and previously led Talent and Organization Development for GIA India.

Expertise

Where Jenifer adds value

Leadership & executive coaching

ICF-informed coaching for leaders who need sharper self-awareness, stronger communication, and better follow-through under complexity.

Organization development

System-level diagnosis, internal consulting, and interventions that align culture, process, and leadership behaviour.

Change management

Change and transformation support that improves adoption, strengthens stakeholder alignment, and makes planned change more workable.

Talent & succession strategy

Leadership pipelines, talent review, succession planning, IDPs, and frameworks that build capability over time.

Learning architecture

Competency frameworks, learning diagnostics, blended interventions, and measurement tied to business outcomes.

Coaching tone

Reflective, calm, and outcome-oriented.

Selected impact

Recent work that signals credibility

GIA India

Established the Talent and OD function from the ground up.

Created leadership development and succession planning guidelines, and institutionalized continuous learning processes through diagnostics and intervention calendars.

Tata Motors

Led design ownership for a year-long management trainee integration program.

Contributed to leadership behaviour redesign and supported an OD intervention linked to a CSR demerger.

Lee Hecht Harrison

Consulted across learning, leadership development, assessments, and coaching.

Led assessment and development centre work and supported diversity and inclusion initiatives for multinational and domestic clients.

Career highlights

A track record across consulting, industry, and global talent leadership.

Current

Senior Manager, Talent and Organization Development · GIA · California

Global succession management, talent review, leadership development, and talent process enhancement.

2019–2023

Head, Talent and Organization Development · GIA India

Built the function, leadership framework, succession planning guidelines, and learning diagnostics-based interventions.

2017–2019

Senior Manager, Learning & Development CoE · Tata Motors

Leadership behaviour redesign, management trainee integration, and OD support in a major enterprise setting.

2012–2017

Specialist, Learning & Organisation Development · Lee Hecht Harrison

Consulting across assessments, leadership development, coaching, and inclusion initiatives.

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