Jessica Agnew
Jess Agnew is an executive coach and skilled facilitator dedicated to optimizing team effectiveness and helping individuals achieve their peak performance. With a background in leadership program design and facilitation, she is passionate about creating exceptional development experiences for leaders and their teams.
Jess brings a broad array of coaching expertise to Sixth Wing, having led the design, development, implementation and execution of multiple global leadership and team effectiveness programs. Her experience facilitating hundreds of leadership and group coaching experiences, and serving as a trusted consultant and talent manager to senior executives makes her coaching and facilitation style uniquely impactful.
As an executive and team coach, Jessica believes people are naturally creative and resourceful. She is passionate about coaching leaders and teams to harness the power of their authentic leadership styles. Certified Professional Co-Active Coach as well and holds her ACC with the International Coaching Federation. Jess leverages design thinking methodologies and their application to life design as a foundation to her practice.
I am passionate about coaching because it provides leaders with protected time and space to access all of their knowledge, expertise and intuition without distraction.
Prior to serving as the Global Head of Team Effectiveness for a Fortune 100 tech company, Jessica served as a Surface Warfare Officer after graduating from the United States Naval Academy. In the Navy, Jessica had the honor of leading teams of engineers ranging in size from 10 to over 180 direct reports, and serving as officer of the deck and engineering training officer over multiple deployments in support of humanitarian missions and Operation Enduring Freedom. After completing the Maritime Staff Operators Course she served as a Pacific Fleet Ballistic Missile Defence Watch Officer and lead briefer before being hand-selected by the Pacific Fleet Commander to serve on his executive staff.
Jessica currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two daughters, and has found a true passion in helping others realize their full potential through the power of executive coaching.