Jill Zimmerman

Jill is an accomplished Executive Coach, High-Performance Team Builder, and Executive Career Transition Consultant, with extensive global business leader experience in Fortune 500 companies and smaller, privately held firms. She has held high-profile roles such as Chief People Officer, Chief Talent Officer, and Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer. 

Jill excels in coaching leaders to drive transformational change and enhance organizational performance. She is a recognized thought leader in talent strategy, leadership, change management, and HR technology, serving on advisory boards and as an Executive Educator at Kellogg-Northwestern business school. Jill’s mission is to partner with top executives to unlock their full potential, leveraging their strengths, enhancing their gaps, and enabling them to optimally achieve their business results through their people.

Business Background

Jill recently served as EVP, Chief People Officer at Hilco, where she established the company’s first professionalized HR function across 20+ Operating Companies and coached and developed the top 40+ key company leaders. She has also held strategic leadership roles for 30+ years building and driving comprehensive talent solutions and organizational change, at Mercer, Discover Financial Services, Hewitt Associates, and Bank of Montreal. With responsibility for leading the assessment, development, and coaching of top executives around the world, Jill has enabled countless executives to lead organizational transformations, shift the company culture through acquisitions and public offerings, and strengthen their business impact.

As an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist practitioner, Jill ensures executives gain personal insights that they can turn into meaningful actions with significant business impact to create a long-term legacy of excellence.