About Cheryl Jacobs

Cheryl Jacobs is Executive Director for MCG Partners. Cheryl is an accomplished executive with a proven track record of driving growth, engagement, innovation, and cultural change for 25+ years. , She has extensive experience in designing and implementing programs around executive coaching, leadership development and training, high potential and succession planning, talent assessment and analytics, organizational alignment, and driving team performance.

Empowering Professionals: A Roundtable on Career Navigation and Lessons Learned

In a recent roundtable titled Empowering Professionals: A Roundtable on Career Navigation and Lessons Learned, NEHRA members had the distinct pleasure of hearing from three accomplished women on their career journeys and lessons learned. Julie Coote, Former Head of HR for Geode Capital; Harika Diaz, HR Coordinator for Loomis, Sayles & Company; and Kiersten Petersen, Senior Consultant, HR Client Services for Rogers/Gray, gathered to discuss pivotal aspects of career development. I facilitated this panel that [...]

Empowering Professionals: A Roundtable on Career Navigation and Lessons Learned2024-11-05T11:31:49-05:00

Time to Revisit Your Employee Value Proposition

Today’s employees are seeking connection and meaning in their work livesIn a post-pandemic workplace, organizations are being challenged to rethink their employee branding. The pandemic caused many workers to reexamine work in relation to their personal lives. This, combined with a tight labor market, is forcing employers to shift priorities in how they attract and retain employees. A recent report by Gem found that four out of ten recruiting organizations are [...]

Time to Revisit Your Employee Value Proposition2023-05-29T13:21:02-04:00

Managing Your Career in a Hybrid Work Environment by Cheryl Jacobs

By Cheryl Jacobs  There’s no question that the pandemic has had a deep impact on how we work. In the last two and a half years, we at MCG Partners have listened to our clients struggle with the shift to hybrid and remote working. This new way of working has affected so much – from culture, to training, to just adapting to new work habits. One topic, though, continues to bubble to the surface. [...]

Managing Your Career in a Hybrid Work Environment by Cheryl Jacobs2022-10-25T11:08:38-04:00

Executive Presence Impact: Preparation, Polish, Performance

Executive Presence Impact: Preparation, Polish, Performance By Cheryl Jacobs Each of us knows “that” person who walks into the room and owns it. What is it that makes them stand out, to cause people to stop and want to be part of what they are sharing? We are familiar with the term executive presence, but it can be an elusive trait to define and achieve. Executive presence is multi-faceted and embodies how you are seen, [...]

Executive Presence Impact: Preparation, Polish, Performance2021-10-18T08:52:23-04:00

Investing in Virtual Relationships

Think of a time when you worked on an incredible team — maybe it’s right now — or on a personal or professional project. What made it great? Some key attributes of an exceptional team are strong leadership, collaboration, communication, respect, clear objectives, and, most importantly, a team that understands and trusts one another. “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; [...]

Investing in Virtual Relationships2021-03-07T09:14:16-05:00

Illusion of Balance

When we talk about the new norm, one of the first words that comes to mind is BUSY!  Our days are packed with tasks, to-dos, meetings, emails, video meetings, deadlines, reschedules, and unknowns, all of which must be managed while adapting to a rapidly changing environment. Lest we forget to mention our personal lives, which are no longer so personal as they have become incorporated into our work lives. As our homes become classrooms [...]

Illusion of Balance2021-03-07T09:17:44-05:00

What about your Purpose?

Trying to find out who we are and what our purpose in life are not easy tasks. For most of us, life is an uneven journey with unexpected twists, turns, and side roads; a journey of discovering what’s important to us. Depending on where we are in life, priorities will vary, and our perspective will change with the experiences, successes, and failures we have or do not have. As we reflect on our quest [...]

What about your Purpose?2021-03-07T09:18:36-05:00

How Often Have You Lied Today?

I realize that this statement and topic may strike a nerve, it certainly did with me. I was talking with a client the other day, and in recounting a recent conversation he had with his boss, it occurred to me that he wasn’t completely telling me the truth.  Now as an executive coach, this is not the first time I’ve been ‘lied to’.   I am frequently in the position of helping clients face various [...]

How Often Have You Lied Today?2020-03-27T12:13:27-04:00

What Would Happen If We Took Our Masks Off?

Recently, I read a LinkedIn post from an individual whose father had died.  The post, while personal, was designed to call attention to how her organization responded and supported her during an incredibly difficult time.  From her perspective, they went above and beyond her expectations.  She didn’t have to show up differently. She was given the space to experience this struggle authentically. A process which she says helped her personally cope and professionally prosper. As [...]

What Would Happen If We Took Our Masks Off?2020-03-27T12:19:17-04:00

Catalytic Questioning- What it is and What it Taught Me. A Reflection from NEHRA’s 2017 Fall Conference

I had the pleasure of attending NEHRA’s 2017 Fall Conference this past week. Like many other attendees, it was difficult to arrange my schedule to participate and be away from the office for two days. My long To-Do list kept creeping up and telling me I couldn’t afford to be away! However, I reminded myself as I do with my clients, to take the time to do this for myself. At several points throughout the [...]

Catalytic Questioning- What it is and What it Taught Me. A Reflection from NEHRA’s 2017 Fall Conference2020-03-27T12:30:11-04:00
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