About Jenny Wanger

Product organizations hire me when they’re in the middle of a major transition and the way the team operates hasn’t caught up. The trigger is usually an AI transformation, a reorg, a merger, or a leadership change. I come in, talk to twenty-plus people across the company in the first few weeks, and figure out what’s actually going on: where collaboration has broken down, where work is disappearing into the gaps, and why everybody isn’t pulling in the same direction. Then I work with the people doing the work to redesign how the team operates — and stay to make sure it lands.

My clients describe the result as something you can feel. The product org starts humming. There’s alignment, clear direction, and genuine collaboration where there wasn’t before. The change sticks because I don’t force new processes on teams — I change how people think about the problems they’re solving, so the new way of working becomes theirs.

That ability to lead change from the back — building consensus instead of forcing compliance — comes from years of coaching senior product leaders through the same kinds of transitions. I’m a practitioner who also coaches, not the other way around. The coaching sharpens the consulting: years of helping individual leaders rethink their patterns have given me a rare fluency in how people actually change.

My past work includes leading the consumer product team at SpotHero, running developer experience at Arity (an Allstate-founded startup), and co-founding the TCN Coalition, a pandemic-era tech consortium focused on digital contact tracing that I merged into the Linux Foundation. I hold degrees from Harvard College and MIT Sloan.

When offline, I’m usually up in the mountains outside of my home in Colorado hiking and skiing with my family.

I’d love to hear about your challenges. Reach out, and let’s start a conversation.