Jennifer Vessels

As CEO of Next Step, Jennifer has spent over two decades inside the world's most demanding transformations: Adobe, Cisco, Google, IKEA, Microsoft, and Novartis. She guided Adobe through its shift from packaged software to digital services, growing the company's market value by billions, while accelerating AI adoption and navigating organizations through business and digital disruption.

A Silicon Valley native based in Europe, Jennifer brings Valley speed paired with European depth. Her work with leadership teams and her award-winning keynotes inspire and equip people to take act – with optimism.

In Emergence: How Leaders Break Free from Outdated Thinking, Jennifer distills decades of high-stakes experience into P.E.A.C.E. Purpose, Exploration, Action, Collaboration, Empowerment, a proven approach for navigating the forces reshaping today's world. Business as usual is obsolete. Jennifer shows leaders why that's the greatest opportunity of their careers.