Beverly E. Jones

Beverly Jones knows how to help you create a career that is more enjoyable, successful and resilient.

Bev works with leaders to spark new engagement and productivity in their teams, and she helps her coaching clients to grow and thrive at work. As an executive coach, she often focuses on enhancing performance, managing time and energy, improving communication, or navigating transitions.

Based in the nation’s capital, Bev works with clients spread across the country, including accomplished leaders at major federal agencies, NGOs, universities and companies of all sizes. Bev is a popular speaker and facilitator, and she creates workshops and other events around the needs of her clients.

Bev’s new book, “Find Your Happy at Work,” is a roadmap to helping you find more joy, meaning and success at work, at the same time you motivate your team. Her book on building career resilience, “Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO,” is available around the world, from Africa to India and Europe, and in languages including Simple Chinese, Arabic and Vietnamese. Her popular podcast, "Jazzed About Work," is found on npr.org and many other platforms.

In her own career, Bev is a master of reinvention. She started out as a writer, next led university programs for women, and then trail-blazed her career as a female Washington lawyer and Fortune 500 energy executive. Throughout her varied work life she has mentored other professionals to grow and thrive.

When she’s not working or supporting nonprofit activities, Bev is usually found in Rappahannock County, Virginia, in the garden of the farmhouse she shares with her husband, former Washington Post ombudsman Andy Alexander, and their two dogs.