Hi, I’m Jennifer England.
As a Executive and Team Coach with more than twenty years of leadership experience, I work with senior leaders and teams who believe in a thriving world—and are committed to co-creating it.
Your leadership journey isn’t linear.
It spirals, returning again and again to edges that call for new courage, deeper presence, and a wider capacity to hold complexity. You may find yourself at such an edge now: navigating a transition, guiding a culture shift, or how to make massive systemic change. At these thresholds, walking with a trusted companion can bring clarity, steadiness, and relief.
Welcome. I’m here to walk beside you.
My role is to support your next evolution—professionally and personally—in service of the collective good. I draw on two decades of senior leadership, woven with mindfulness, embodiment, systems thinking and Zen practice, to help leaders grow their resilience, presence, and impact in a world that won’t stop shifting.
My Story
First, let’s push rewind on my tape deck.
I grew up in a home decorated with maps, rocks, and dried moss. Summers in the Canadian Arctic with my researcher-parents were filled with stories of polar bears and wolves, flooded rivers, and helicopter crashes. It was an intellectually stimulating home, grounded in a simple outdoor life—wooden skis lined the porch all winter. For my parents, adventuring wasn’t only in remote field camps, but in our hearts.
As a teenager, long days hiking the tundra and devouring books by Gandhi, mystics, and Zen masters instilled a passion for the sacred and for social action. I carried big questions early: Why am I here? How can I alleviate suffering? Where are we headed as a planet?
To answer, I pursued feminist geography through academic awards and scholarships. But I quickly grew restless in a culture that prized endless achievement at great personal cost. I remember standing on a mountain farm during a graduate field trip when I realized: I needed more than theory. I needed to be on the ground.
That pull led me to front-line work at the epicenter of Vancouver’s housing and drug crisis. Here, amid inequality, sexual exploitation, and racism, I witnessed both the harsh impact of systems and the fierce resilience of people. My friendships and teachers in the Downtown Eastside deepened my commitment to justice and systemic change.
At 26, I took an executive position in the Yukon, leading a growing gender equality department and collaborating nationally on housing, finance, health care, and education. I thrived in the cross-sector work of supporting non-profits and self-governing First Nations. From Indigenous activist leaders, I learned Response-Based Practice, which centers dignity and resistance as a response to inequality.
After 16 years, another call arose. I felt drawn to align my inner life with the work of social change and leadership. Emerging leaders sought my mentorship and I began exploring transformational approaches with Robert and Judith Gass, Joanne Hunt and Laura Divine at Integral Coaching Canada, and Otto Scharmer at the Presencing Institute.
After 18 months of intensive study and practice, I earned my Master Integral Coach™ certification. Alongside, I studied with wisdom teachers such as Cynthia Bourgeault and Diane Musho Hamilton.
Throughout my journey, my work has always focused on systems change on many scales. I’ve known both the heartbreak of slow, grinding progress and the inspiration of visionaries who light the way.
My calling now is clear: to support the growth of senior leaders, change-makers and creatives who want to contribute to a thriving, loving, and regenerative world.
Official Bio
Jennifer England equips leaders and teams to pursue soul-aligned missions for the collective good.
A Master Integral Coach™ and skilled facilitator, she works with high-performing leaders to expand their impact and fulfillment. Known for cultivating adaptability and emergent collaboration, Jennifer helps leadership teams thrive amid uncertainty and change.
In 2019, she founded Spark Coaching + Consulting to bring together her passion for inner development, leadership, and systems change. Previously, she spent two decades as an executive public servant and non-profit leader advancing gender equality and human rights across Canada.
Jennifer is also the host of the Tension of Emergence podcast, where she convenes artists, philosophers, scientists, and spiritual teachers to explore transformation and systems change. She writes biweekly on Substack, and is a committed student of Zen, founder of the Wisdom North meditation collective and a life-long back-country adventurer. She is also the mother of two wild and wonderful soon-to-be adulting teens.
