Vernice Jones, CPCC, MCC

How do you lead when YOU are in over your head?

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Harper Lee from To Kill a Mockingbird

Vernice’s Story

Clients have described my style as relational, experiential, developmental and an information-rich coaching approach. Today, clients often reach out to me for strategy, straight talk, a sounding board and developmental guidance. What I offer is shaped by a mix of lived experience and deep training. It’s an approach I’ve refined over time, from the inside out.

My executive coaching journey began with leaders across Asia, a time when I fine-tuned a listening that went beneath words, stories and the silences in between. This work also underscored for me that a focus solely on leadership awareness, strategy and sensemaking without a fundamental understanding of the surrounding context isn’t just unhelpful, it is actively antithetical to a leader’s ability to lead. From there my work expanded across geographies, industries, and cultures, eventually leading me further into an exploration of internal sensemaking and organizational culture.

I continue to work with clients to help them uncover, step-by-step, a fundamental understanding of themselves and their ecosystems. Together, we unlock their natural leadership and strategic capacity so they can face complexity with more clarity, less effort and greater adaptability.

I do this work because I love it, and because my clients share the tangible results they’ve achieved from our work together, impacting not just what they do, but who they are.

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Vernice Jones, CCPC, MCC

Vernice believes that leaders can learn to expand their impact through presence, connection, and awareness across contexts. As a seasoned developmental coach with 20 years of experience, Vernice Jones helps global, C-Suite and other senior leaders leverage more of their leadership capacity. Her holistic approach to leadership development is shaped by adult development, complexity theory, somatic experiencing and phenomenology. She is known for her experiential leadership circles and bespoke leadership development programming. Vernice has been an executive and professional coach for clients in the US, Europe, Africa and Asia, and has extensive experience coaching senior leaders with complex identities and backgrounds.

Vernice is an Associate (Coach, Facilitator, Consultant and Board member) at Cultivating Leadership, a global, deliberately developmental, complexity-based organization where she designed the ground breaking Wisdom in Leadership series and is core faculty of the Growth Edge Coaching series, through Cultivating Leadership.

Vernice has been designated by the International Coaching Federation as a Master Certified Coach (MCC) since 2018. She often works with developmental frameworks such as polarities, the Immunity to Change approach and Growth Edge Explorations. She is a certified practitioner of The Leadership Circle profile, a Co-Active Coach through the Co-Active Training Institute (CPCC) and an Organizational and Relationship Systems Coach (ORSC) through CRR Global. She graduated from the University of Maryland with an undergraduate degree in Economics and holds Masters degrees in both Finance and Business Administration from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Vernice makes her home in the Washington Metropolitan area, with her husband and children.