Jennifer Lentfer

Jennifer Lentfer is a Nebraska farm girl turned international aid worker turned leadership coach. She is currently the Director of Communications at The Center for Rural Affairs. As an independent consultant, she supports teams and organizations to untangle from cycles of dysfunction. Jennifer is the creator of the blog, how-matters.org. With 20+ years of nonprofit experience, Jennifer helps professionals build the skills rarely found in job descriptions or organizational planning documents - for example: (1) bridging the systemic and the interpersonal, (2) unearthing assumptions and checking for shared understanding, and (3) non-extractive, trauma-informed meeting design and facilitation. As an artist and poet, she finds her joy in bringing forward people's imaginativeness into the workplace.