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Delivery · Coaching · Facilitation

Important work stuck? Let’s unjam it.

I work alongside your team to get it moving and coach your leaders so they can run it themselves next time.

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15 quick questions. Get your delivery profile straight away.

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Patterns I see again and again

Does any of this sound familiar?

  • Everything is a priority, so nothing really is
  • Deadlines slip, and you’re the last to find out
  • A few brilliant people hold it all together
  • The updates say we’re on track. Your gut says otherwise
  • Every team is pulling hard, just not in the same direction
  • The strategy is agreed. It just isn’t turning into delivered work

Each of these is a pattern I see again and again. The diagnostic tells you which one is yours, and what usually helps.

Find your pattern

Who it’s for

Built for the moments that matter

Scaling up

What used to happen organically over coffee is now falling through the cracks. Headcount has grown, but output hasn't. Delivery relies on the heroic efforts of a few overwhelmed leaders who spend their days firefighting instead of driving the strategy forward.

Scale your delivery engine

Critical launch

The deadline is fixed, but execution is drifting. Dependencies between departments are causing friction, decisions are looping in committee and your leadership team is anxious that the launch date will slip, or land with a thud.

Unblock your launch

Not for profit

Your mission is vast, your stakeholders are complex and your teams are trying to do everything at once. Exhaustion is setting in, competing internal priorities are causing inertia and key strategic initiatives are grinding to a halt.

Focus your strategic impact

How to start

Start small. See if it helps.

  1. Step 1

    Take the diagnostic or book a free 15-minute call

    Find out where you’re stuck.

    Take the diagnostic

  2. Step 2

    A 90-minute working session with your leadership team

    One real piece of stalled work, moved in the room.

    What happens in the session

  3. Step 3

    Ongoing support, only if it’s useful

    Structure and coaching that keep things moving.

The Delivery Diagnostic

What you’ll get in 5 minutes

  • Your delivery profile and the pattern that’s slowing you down
  • What’s already working, so you know what to build on
  • What usually helps, from organisations that have been where you are
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Your delivery profile

All Green Until It Isn’t

“The updates say we’re fine. My gut says otherwise.”

What I’m seeing

There are meetings and reports, but they don’t show you what’s really happening, and decisions get made somewhere else. Problems surface when it’s urgent or a board meeting looms.

You’re in good company

When Alan Mulally joined Ford in 2006, every project in his weekly review was marked green, while the company was losing billions. When one executive finally showed a red, Mulally applauded. Honest reporting became the turning point.

What’s already working: Your managers can lead the work. That’s a strong foundation.

Clear priorities
Realistic plans
Clear ownership
Checking progress
Seeing what’s happening
Teams working together
Managers leading the work

How I work

Not another programme manager. Something that lasts.

Bringing in a project manager can steady things for a while, but when they leave, the old habits come back. I set up the structure your work needs and coach your leaders to run it, so the capability stays.

What I valued about Jen was her ability to challenge people without creating confrontation. She thinks critically, isn’t wedded to a particular method, and has a real talent for finding another way through when the obvious route isn’t working.
Head of Product · Sqrrl Solutions

Decisive prioritisation

Everything is a priority, so nothing gets finished. Agree the few things that matter, and say no to the rest out loud.

Realistic planning

We build plans around the capacity you really have, with a regular rhythm that shows early when something is slipping, not at the deadline.

Absolute ownership

Work stalls when no one is quite sure who decides. I coach your leaders to set clear ownership and have the difficult conversations early, without micromanaging.

Jennifer Tennant, strategic delivery coach and founder of Unjam
Jennifer Tennant, founder of Unjam

About

Hi, I’m Jen

I'm the person you can say the real thing to, I'm also the person who gets called when important work is stuck. Sometimes that’s rescuing a programme that’s gone off track. Sometimes it’s sitting with a leadership team until they can finally agree what matters. Most recently, it meant delivering a transformation programme that helped a national charity cut the time it takes to deliver services. I also coach a small number of leaders one to one. I’ve done this in charities and commercial businesses, from scale-ups to national organisations. And I still hate boring meetings.

  • 15 years in strategy and delivery
  • ICF Associate Certified Coach
Jen brings a huge amount of energy and expertise, getting the best out of everyone she works with. She operates at strategic and tactical levels. She also gets stuck into operations and hands on execution when the need arises. Watch out, you'll soon wish you could get her to do EVERYTHING!
Managing Editor · Packt

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Ready to move?

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15 quick questions. Get your delivery profile straight away.

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Tell me what’s stalling. Leave with a clear next step.

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