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Jennifer Garvey Berger is co-founder, CEO, and Chief Cultivating Officer of Cultivating Leadership, where she works with executives and organizations navigating complexity and change. She holds a master’s degree and a doctorate from Harvard University, and her work draws on adult development theory to help leaders build the capacity to meet problems that don’t have clean answers.

She is the author of four books published by Stanford University Press: Changing on the Job, Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, Simple Habits for Complex Times (with Keith Johnston), and Unleash Your Complexity Genius (with Carolyn Coughlin). Her clients range from leaders stepping into their first C-suite role to organizations rethinking how they operate at scale, and her work moves between keynotes, executive coaching, and long-form leadership programs.

https://www.cultivatingleadership.com/team-member/jennifer-garvey-berger

She is currently based in France.

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Leadership and Complexity

How do we stay open and creative when complexity makes us want to contract into certainty and simple answers? We explore leadership, human development, relationships, AI and why creating a different future requires us to grow our capacity to meet the unknown.

80 min · 22 Sep 2026 · 49 views

Radical Wholeness

Is an integral approach the Third Attractor? We explore why it has to be taught from the top down and the bottom up, how waking up includes becoming, where AI fits, and five kinds of wholeness a person can practice.

60 min · 19 Sep 2026 · 1.7K views

Rationality needs Wisdom

How can effective altruism and inner work meet? We talk about connecting islands of coherence, holding paradoxes without choosing sides, hopes and fears around AI, and why giving even 1% of your income can matter.

83 min · 17 Sep 2026 · 87 views

Stories create Possibility

Why do stories matter for change? We explore inner parts and ancestral healing, asking the web of life what it wants, listening versus a benevolent dictator, stories of connection, agency and sufficiency, a donut-economy vision, and the dangers of AI.

78 min · 16 Sep 2026 · 186 views