Executive Coaching and Leadership Development
Jill Chernekoff is a certified executive, leadership, and personal development coach with more than 20 years of experience helping executive and emerging leaders navigate the pace, demands, and human elements of leadership—relationships, empathy, trust, communication, and adaptability.
As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with certifications in Applied Positive Psychology and ontological coaching, she helps clients integrate leadership with a solid foundation in personal values.
With a unique blend of executive presence, humor, and directness, she creates a space where leaders feel safe to embrace new thinking, explore their vulnerabilities, and engage in meaningful growth experiences.
Combining her natural curiosity, keen insight, and intuition with evidence-based coaching, Jill helps clients achieve profound realizations that drive meaningful change, build self-awareness, and a deeper understanding of how their thinking shapes their behavior, and impacts their results and relationships.
Jill believes leadership is an evolving quality developed over time through focus and intentional growth. It’s not confined to a title but something everyone can cultivate, regardless of authority level, prominence, or title. She helps clients focus on strengths, examine biases, and lead from the inside out.
Since founding Chernekoff Communications in 2003, Jill has coached executives at organizations such as AstraZeneca, GSK, Merck, Wharton, Vanguard, and top law firms such as Duane Morris and Ballard Spahr. An Emmy and Associated Press award-winner, Jill holds a B.S. in Speech-Communication Education.
Before becoming a coach, Jill was a successful broadcast journalist, anchoring Philadelphia’s Emmy Award-winning 10 O’clock News and gaining international exposure with CNN Headline News. Her 18-year tenure in fast-paced, live broadcasting taught her to stay focused under pressure, think on her feet, and navigate constant change—skills she now brings to her coaching practice.
The growth Jill ignites and nourishes in her clients creates a ripple effect, inspiring teams, organizations, and communities to explore new possibilities, communicate with intention, and cultivate deeper, more meaningful connections.
How We Work
Coaching is the core methodology that we use.
Our extensive client roster includes business leaders from dozens of industries, including:
