About

Meet Upnext Founder and Executive Coach,
Jill Bornstein, ACC

Jill

To succeed in your career goals, entrepreneurial endeavors, leadership growth, or management opportunities, you need people in your court who inspire you, can provide intelligent questioning, act as a sounding board and use their perspective based on relevant experiences to thoughtfully move you to action.

These are people who empower your growth, support your failures, push you out of your comfort zone, and cheer you on toward success. Do you have someone in your life who can positively challenge your thinking and help you move forward?

I founded Upnext Leadership Coaching to help forward thinking managers, executives and teams, high potential employees and budding entrepreneurs who have exciting, important, or daunting goals achieve them and soar in an environment that supports, develops and leads to purposeful and positive performance. I have been fortunate to have multiple professional mentors and champions throughout my career and have specifically designed Upnext to offer the same to you.

My background as a Fortune 50 finance executive, business founder, an elected community leader, and President of several non-profit boards developed my competencies as a successful growth accelerator, business strategist, team champion, connector and partnership builder. I draw from my wealth of experience to guide my clients, creating individualized roadmaps to methodically help each reach their individual goals.

I am a Mom of 4 Gen Z sons and love watching them tackle life’s challenges and capitalize on its opportunities. Friends and family describe me as highly positive, hopeful and energetic. My competitive spirit has allowed me to complete 3 marathons, numerous half marathons and inspires me to continue playing tennis as if I was still playing for my Division 1 team. And while success is important to me, I am most inspired when I see others soar – especially you and your team.

As your thought partner, I seek to help you
overcome challenges by:

Credentials

Certifications
Education and Executive Training
  • Women’s Leadership Program, Yale School of Executive Education
  • Financial Management Training Program, General Electric
  • BA, Government and Law, Lafayette College
Leadership Roles
  • Co-Founder and CFO Inspiring Comfort
  • VP of Finance, GE Capital Card Services
  • Executive Audit Manager, General Electric
  • Board of Finance Vice – Chair, Elected Town Official
  • Board President, Ridgefield Aquatic Club
  • Board President, Tiger Hollow Inc.
  • Board Vice-Chair and Development Chair, Ridgefield Academy
  • Board Strategic Planning Chair, RVNA Health

Clients

I work with motivated, forward-thinking individuals who seek to unlock potential and soar to reach targeted professional and organizational goals. My corporate clients believe the voice of an external coach can help vigorously move their leaders forward for overall organization growth.

Examples of Active and Recent Clients

High Potentials and New Executives
  • Director, Commercial Sales, pre IPO $7Billion Mkt. Cap
  • Senior Manager, Fortune 500 company
  • Director, National Sales Leader Fortune 50
  • Growth and Marketing Lead, Series A
  • Supply Planning Manager, Fortune 500
  • CEO, Tech Start Up, Pre Series A
  • Division Chief of Staff, Fortune 50
Senior Executives
  • Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Healthcare Research Company
  • President and Founding Partner, Executive Recruiting Firm
  • CFO, Pre IPO $1Billion Market Cap
  • Director of Human Resources, Research Lab
  • Vice President of Direct Services, Non Profit
Entrepreneur Leaders
  • CEO, Tech Start Up, Pre Series A
  • CMO, Emotional Wellness Company
  • Founder, Personal Wellness Company
  • Founder, Grief Support Services Company
  • Business Owner and Artist
  • Business Development Team, Pre Series A

"After a session with Jill on improving my delegation skills, I had a call with an employee who had 3 problems. In the past I would have fixed it with them. I responded differently than my normal approach due to you helping me come up with different strategies and I delegated all 3 of the issues quicker than normal (5 minute phone call versus 30 minutes). It was a small win, but definitely sped up the process for both of us and helped me find more time in the day to work on more strategic issues."

— A High Potential Leader

Soar to Success!

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