Jennifer L. Yount, MBA, CPCC, PCC

Jennifer is the owner and sole proprietor of an Executive and Leadership Coaching and Leadership Training and Consulting business, Deep Blue Consultancy. Her programs and services focus coaching, consulting, and training on transforming leaders and teams through her energy, persistence, and passion. Additionally, she facilitates organizations and teams focused on moving from plans and cultural ideas to strategies and results while including clear measurable plans, actions, and goals. Finally, she consults with businesses on the potential for increased performance efficiency and effectiveness by fostering a climate valuing diversity with policies and practices fair for all groups with a commitment to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion principles and practices.

She is an International Coach Federation (ICF) credentialed professional and an accredited Professional Co-Active Coach through the Coaches Training Institute with over 1,800 coaching hours. She is also a Faculty member with the American Management Association® delivering content in the Coaching Certification and Strategy Programs. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Trustees for the Northeast Maritime Institute and as a member on the Advisory Board on Women in the Coast Guard. She custom designs and facilitates a variety of leadership workshops and seminars focusing on the development of the relational self and strategic planning. Finally, she has over 18 years teaching management and leadership courses at the under graduate, graduate, and Executive MBA level at numerous universities in the San Francisco Bay area.

Her energy, passion, and confidence are founded in over 40 years as an accomplished leader in the U.S. Coast Guard, maritime communities, higher education, and small business ownership with the demonstrated ability to manage departments and organizations while delivering exceptional and on-time results. She has over 18 years of higher education experience, as a faculty member and administrator emphasizing leadership development, business administration, and human resources.

Before beginning her own business, she spent five years as the Director of Leadership Development at The California Maritime Academy, a campus of California State University and three years as an Assistant Professor in the Marine Transportation Department. Before entering higher education, she had a successful background in strategic planning and achieving results with over 20 years of service in the U.S. Coast Guard, culminating in her assignment as ship’s Commanding Officer. She spent over four years in human resource management and policy positions at the Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Additionally, she spent almost eight years in operational resource management, oversight, planning, and coordination positions in response to significant national and international issues. Not only has she commanded a military ship at sea, she also held a license of Master of Steam or Motor Vessels of Any Gross Tons upon Oceans.

She was one of the first women to graduate from a military academy after graduating from the United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Science. Additionally, she is a member of the Coast Guard Academy’s Athletic Hall of Fame for Basketball and Volleyball. She also earned a Masters of Business Administration degree with Honors from Barry University of Miami, Florida.