Jennifer Voss

Jennifer Voss is a business and family management consultant that bases her practice on nearly 20 years of GE training, business management, and team leadership experience.  Since leaving GE in 2006 Jennifer has focused on applying her experience and management skills to family-owned businesses.  Jennifer has worked with many family-owned businesses including farm operations across the eastern united states on management succession and employee engagement. Working with family-owned businesses has become her passion.  She enjoys the challenge of building leadership teams, improving communication amongst the team and between generations as well as developing the next generation of leaders and coaching current leadership on management succession and other business challenges.  Jennifer has experience working with inter-generational management succession with both family and non-family members.  When working with teams Jennifer focuses on establishing a sustainable common purpose, identifying roles and responsibilities, short and long term goal setting, and implementing effective operating rhythms.

Jennifer graduated with an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Cleveland State University.  Following graduation, she joined GE Lighting as a technician in their lab.  While working for GE she enrolled in a graduate program at Case Western Reserve University where she completed her Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering.  Jennifer held many challenging and rewarding positions during her nearly 20-year tenor at GE.  During that time, she was able to advance from a laboratory technician to a Sr. Executive.  Key accomplishments and experiences include patents on lamp design & process, leading the GE Women's Network, starting a grass roots initiative focused on making a better work environment, teaching, and driving process improvement using 6 Sigma, actively mentoring and developing upcoming professionals, and establishing a reputation for building strong business teams.  In addition, to her technical training Jennifer had the opportunity to participate in GE's management development training in Crotonville, NY where she studied continuous improvement, business management, and leadership.   Overtime her role at GE change from technical to commercial leadership.  Ultimately Jennifer ran the Global Technical Lighting team where she had responsibility for sales and product development as well over 60 sales and marketing professionals around the world that called on technical lighting markets.

Jennifer is married to Elwyn Voss and together their blended family consists of 8 children.  When she is not working with family businesses, she enjoys spending time with her own family, riding motorcycle and snowmobile, and boating on the St. Lawrence River. 

Jennifer Voss is not affilaited with MML Investor Services LLC.