About Linda Jenkins
Linda Jenkins provides organization leaders with consultation, resources, and training to govern and manage ethically, effectively, and inclusively. Her services provide leaders with practical strategic approaches to achieving their missions.
Her customized services include strategic planning, board assessment and development, program assessment and evaluation, and disrupting unconscious bias training. She provides her services virtually and in-person through one-on-one and group consultation, online surveys, webinars, workshops, and meeting and retreat facilitation. Linda tailors her services to fit client needs for practical strategic solutions. She has owned her own company – Jenkins Consulting Group (JCG) – for sixteen years. JCG has successfully completed 83 projects for 67 organizations.
Before establishing JCG in 2007, Linda honed her professional skills through positions with the City of Long Beach, the City of Tulsa, and the Tulsa Area United Way (TAUW). Her management positions with the City of Long Beach included serving as the Police Department’s first civilian Budget Administrator and the Health Department’s Administrative Officer. As Community Investments Vice President at TAUW, she redesigned and continually enhanced the tools and procedures it used to allocate funds to health and human services agencies. She consistently received “outstanding” quality ratings from TAUW’s volunteers.
JCG services encompass the most current trends in nonprofit governance and leadership. Linda is an active BoardSource member and has been a BoardSource Certified Governance Consultant® (CGC) since 2012. As a CGC, she offers governance training using BoardSource-approved curriculum in the following areas: roles and responsibilities of nonprofit boards, board-staff partnership, board structure, board’s role in fundraising, the board-building cycle, and board performance assessment. Also, she is certified to interpret and present results from the
BoardSource Board Self-Assessment (BSA).
Driven by her passion to help nonprofit leaders create inclusive workplaces and diverse and inclusive boards, Linda has earned the following three certifications:
She uses her expertise to provide unconscious bias, inclusive language, and inclusive meetings workshops for nonprofit staff and volunteers.
Linda completed Leadership Tulsa in 1999 and North Tulsa Development Council in 2011. She is serving as District 1 Representative and Secretary on the City of Tulsa’s Sales Tax Overview Committee. She served on the board of directors for YWCA WomenShelter (Long Beach, CA),
Youth Services of Tulsa, Friends of Tulsa City-County Libraries, and Association for Talent Development (ATD) – Tulsa Chapter. She served on the ATD Tulsa Chapter board for eight years including two terms as President. Her community service awards include an Evergreen Spirit
Award (AIDS Coalition of Tulsa), a Leadership Vision Award (Tulsa C.A.R.E.S.), and a Good News Award (Camp Fire USA Green Country Council).
Linda moved to Tulsa when she was 10 years old. She graduated from Holland Hall Upper School as Student Council President and Girl of the Year. She holds an A.B. degree in History and Urban Studies from Princeton University and a master’s degree in Public Affairs from the LBJ School at the University of Texas at Austin. She received the Claudia Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson Fellowship to
support her studies at the LBJ School.
Linda is an avid women’s basketball fan. She loves to sharpen her coaching and teamwork skills by watching NCAA and WNBA games. She has traveled to eleven Women’s Final Fours. For more information about Linda and JCG, visit https://jenkinscg.com.
Linda’s Primary Mission
Provide organization leaders with resources and training to govern and manage ethically, effectively, and inclusively.
Linda’s Passion – Create inclusive workplaces where everyone:
- Feels their dimensions of diversity are valued.
- Perceives they are valued because of their differences.
- Has all their talents tapped in service to their organization’s goals.
- Feels a sense of belonging.
Professional Affiliations
BoardSource – Linda Jenkins, member of BoardSource since 2008 – Earned Certificate of Nonprofit Board Education in April 2012 and became BoardSource Certified Governance Consultant in November 2012
As a BoardSource Certified Governance Consultant, Linda Jenkins offers governance training among nonprofit organizations using BoardSource-approved curriculum in the following areas: roles and responsibilities of nonprofit boards, board-staff partnership, board structure, board’s role in fundraising, the board-building cycle, and board performance assessment
Association for Talent Development (ATD) Tulsa Chapter – Linda Jenkins, member since 2011, Program Committee member – 2014, At-Large Board Member – 2015, Vice President of Programming – 2016, President-Elect – 2017, President – 2018, Past President – 2019, Vice President of Finance – 2020, President – 2021, and Past President – 2022
Cultural Intelligence Certified Facilitator, Unconscious Bias Train-The-Trainer Program – Linda Jenkins (2019)
Diversity Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate – Linda Jenkins (May 2021)
DEI in Talent Development Certificate, Association for Talent Development – Linda Jenkins (August 2023)
Friends of the Tulsa City-County Libraries, Board Member – 2015 to 2018, Assistant Treasurer and Development Committee Chair – 2016 to 2018
Equality Business Alliance – Jenkins Consulting Group, Founding member since 2011 – Leadership Team member and Tulsa Regional Chamber liaison, 2012-2013
Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits – Linda Jenkins – certified consultant since 2012, Jenkins Consulting Group
Sustainable Tulsa (now The Sustainability Alliance) – Jenkins Consulting Group, Business Member – Supporter 2012-2014
Leadership Tulsa – Linda Jenkins, Graduate of Class 25 (1998-99)
LEAD North (formerly North Tulsa Development Council) – Linda Jenkins, Graduate of Class 2 (2010-2011)
