Empowering Leaders to Maximize Their Potential
Strategic executive assessments, coaching, and leadership development to unlock your organization's full leadership potential
Jennifer Weiss, PhD
Founder
Dr. Jennifer Weiss founded Talent Cultivation Consulting in 2010 with a vision to help organizations unlock the full potential of their leadership teams and drive sustainable growth. With over two decades of experience as an industrial-organizational psychologist and entrepreneur, Dr. Weiss recognized the critical need for tailored, data-driven solutions that not only optimize leadership potential but also cultivate a thriving organizational culture. Passionate about fostering diverse talent, promoting collaboration, and driving business results, she established the firm to partner with executives and organizations in creating strategies that inspire innovation, elevate leadership, and enhance team dynamics. Talent Cultivation Consulting is driven by Dr. Weiss’s commitment to delivering transformative, personalized strategies that empower leaders at every level to succeed and lead with purpose.
Specialty Areas
Talent Cultivation Consulting was founded with a passion for strengthening business results and organizational health through the cultivation of human capital focused in the following key areas:
Executive Selection, Development, and Coaching
In the areas of executive selection, coaching, and development assessment, Dr. Weiss collaborates closely with clients to deliver highly constructive and actionable results. Her primary aim is to provide clear, candid, and supportive feedback that enhances self-awareness and empowers clients to take ownership of their development. She helps executives better harness their leadership strengths, address development areas, and make meaningful progress toward their professional goals. Her coaching engagements have led to significant career advancement, stronger organizational positioning, and deeper personal insight and satisfaction.
Team Building, Team Assessment, and Retreat Facilitation
Dr. Weiss is highly skilled in guiding teams through periods of change, improving communication, resolving conflict, and facilitating authentic team building. She is known for cultivating high-trust, respectful relationships that balance individual confidentiality with broader team transparency and alignment. She customizes offsite retreats, team meetings, and other collaborative experiences to address the unique needs of the organization, leadership, and individuals. These engagements often evolve into long-term partnerships involving ongoing team development and individual coaching. She also conducts comprehensive team and department assessments to identify priorities for training, coaching, and talent development.
Dr. Weiss provides a wide range of services in HR analytics and architecture, partnering with clients to design and evaluate systems that support business strategy. Her work includes executive-level job analysis, survey design and analysis, performance appraisal systems, and organization-wide HR capability reviews. She emphasizes solutions that are tailored, data-driven, and aligned with long-term organizational goals, offering clients actionable insight into workforce effectiveness and areas for investment.