Jennifer Davis is a B2B executive and P&L leader specializing in growth, transition, and enterprise alignment. She thrives in inflection points where strategy, execution, and leadership must move together to unlock long-term value.
She’s overseen business growth from $0 to $120M and $300M to $1B+, across public, PE-backed, and ESOP-owned companies at firms like Central States, Learfield, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Planar, and Honeywell. . Known for helping organizations move from momentum to durability, as she creates clarity, momentum, and trust in cultures where people can do their best work.
Leadership range combines general management rigor with strong communication and customer insight, reducing execution risk during change and strengthening confidence with boards, teams, and customers.
Experience spans complex B2B ecosystems with long sales cycles, multi-tier channels to market, and technically-sophisticated audiences, including architectural and construction products for the built environment, commercial electronics, enterprise technology and software (SaaS), and training and certification businesses. Across these contexts, she’s been repeatedly asked to build new capabilities, lead through M&A integration, prepare organizations for growth, and align fragmented portfolios and brands into cohesive platforms for growth.
She is a former contributor to Forbes on the customer-centric enterprise and author of Well Made Decisions (New Degree Press, 2021). Jennifer holds a bachelor’s in business and history from Warner Pacific University, where she has been honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the year, and an MBA from Pepperdine University. She was honored as a Georgia Titan 100 in 2022 and lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children.
Core Competencies:
Operating businesses in key inflection points
Marketing to build brand awareness, affinity, preference, and to support sales, business development, and revenue teams to close and renew business.
Merger and acquisitions: from ideation to due diligence to integration
Brand hierarchies and architectures
Go-to-market strategy and channel and partnership design
Organization design, including recruiting high-performance teams and succession planning
Change management, including vision painting and operational plan alignment
Operational efficiency and success scaling
Building diverse teams and inclusive workplaces
Evaluating strategy through lenses of customer needs, organizational capabilities, market and industry trends, and business economics to arrive at sound conclusions.
A sought after public speaker and mentor, Jennifer is a guest lecturer at Emory University, Samford University, and Georgia Southern University. She has spoken at conferences like CoSIDA’s National Convention, Sports Business Journal’s Intercollegiate Athletic Forum, Collegiate Athletics Leadership Summit, AWS re:Invent, AWS Transformation Day, Business Marketing Association (part of the Association of National Advertisers) Conference on Sales and Marketing Alignment, InfoComm, the CMO Club Summit, Technology Association of Georgia's GeekOut on Marketing Technology and Marketing ROI events, PDX Marketing Forum, Digital Signage Expo, AIA Expo, SEGD (the Society for Experiential Graphic Design), and events sponsored by the American Business Journals. She has been a mentor with Pathbuilders and Built by Girls. She has served on Frost & Sullivan's Growth, Innovation, and Leadership Council (GIL), the Private Directors Association (PDA), the CMO Club, the BizWomen Network, NextUp (Network of Executive Women), and Avixa Women's Council, where she co-founded the Atlanta chapter. She served as a judge for the National Association of Advertisers (ANA) B2B marketing awards, Hashtag Sports Creators of Color and the AMA-PDX Max Awards.
She can be found @jenniferdavis on Twitter and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferbdavis.
All opinions or ideas shared on this website, on social media, or in syndicated publications are her own.
Jennifer also writes and publishes on Well Made Decisions.
