Chairs in Conversation: Michael Wood-Williams

With three degrees, Jennifer thrives on challenges, especially when supporting boards in finding their balance. As a trustee and board recruitment consultant, she ensures every board is diverse, inclusive, and committed to making an impact.

For trustee and chair recruitment, Jennifer specializes in governance across charities, non-profits, and INGOs, championing neurodiversity in recruitment. She supports charities in accessing diverse talent, transforming boards, and boosting effectiveness. From multi-year trustee campaigns to building boards from scratch, her partnerships ensure sustainable governance, strategic succession planning, and significant impact.

Jennifer appoints inclusive, innovative, creative, and resilient leaders enabling organizations to flourish toward equity, sustainability, and high impact.

She has led searches for specialist trustees including finance roles, treasurers, and clinicians, with expertise in recruiting individuals with lived experience—autistic people, blind people, people who stammer, disabled people, and single parents—as well as niche professionals such as economists, conservationists, and neurologists.

Outside the boardroom, Jennifer enjoys reading, practices daily meditation and breathwork, and spends time with her two British Blue Shorthairs. As an Irish woman with roots in Limerick School of Music Orchestra and a background in Sean-Nós singing, she aspires to become a Kirtan session leader.