About Leapfrog Mountain Mentor Training
Leapfrog Mountain is led by Jackie Jenks OBE and backed by a team of specialist trainers whose expertise covers areas such as mentoring and leadership through to enterprise and enterprise support disciplines.
We work with you to achieve positive sustainable results for your team’s skills, knowledge and engagement, your organisation’s profitability and your social impact through our flexible mentoring and training programmes.
About Jackie
Jackie is an award-winning Enterprise Ambassador who has worked in the business banking and teaching sectors for over 30 years, having been responsible nationally for training, project management and people development.
Jackie has been recognised as a pioneer in the field of mentoring and has led/advised on numerous mentoring, leadership and enterprise training programmes. This includes working with organisations such as HSBC, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the University of Birmingham, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, Lloyds Banking Group, Lloyds Foundations, the School for Social Entrepreneurs, the UK and Belgium Governments, Pearson, Dassault Systèmes and the Association of Proposal Management Professionals, alongside providing support for private clients which vary from social impact small businesses owners through to charity leaders.
She has a background in family business and is focussed on helping others to succeed. Her experience in these areas has led Jackie to chair roles with the UK Corporate Mentoring Network, the Enterprise & Diversity Alliance and the UK's Enterprise Mentoring Advisory Council. Jackie has sat on several UK government working parties, been a guest speaker at House of Lords and European Commission events and has been on working groups for All-Party Parliamentary Group events and the European Human Rights Commission projects.
She is an Ambassador for the charity the School of Hard Knocks where she has directly mentored senior team members and helped create their mentoring programme. She is nominated Ambassador for Mentorsme, the government backed UK's enterprise mentoring hub where she led the UK Bank’s collaboration project to support SMEs with 1,000 trained mentors.
She is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Institute of Enterprise & Entrepreneurs.
Living in Cornwall Jackie loves nature and has special interests in the sea, conservation and mind body disciplines.
Jackie was awarded her OBE in 2017 by HRH Prince Charles for her services to Training and People Development.
Our Accreditation
Leapfrog Mountain is a recognised learning academy by the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs (IOEE).
IOEE are the recognised professional learning institute for enterprise and enterprising people and are part of the SFEDI Group who are a UK recognised sector skills body. They set the National Standards for Enterprise and Enterprise Support. Our accredited qualifications with IOEE are both nationally and internationally recognised and have been designed to meet the latest standards and best practice which are built on the extensive research that underpins the standards.
For learners with us this means all of their training is delivered to these professional standards. Our accredited courses will be additionally certified and recognised by IOEE and our qualification course will give recognised Ofqual awards with credits depending on the course level.
What Our Clients Say.........
"Jackie is a consummate professional with a wealth of experience in supporting all kinds of businesses, from multinationals to local corner shops. She’s a leading expert on the role that mentoring can play in business transformation. Jackie has the rare skill of getting to the heart of complex issues and identifying practical ways of moving a company or an individual forward. She has the ability to add value to any enterprise."
Monder Ram, Professor of Small Business at Aston University, Director of Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship
Monder Ram, Professor of Small Business at Aston University, Director of Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship
"I have known and worked with Jackie for some years now. She is dynamic, innovative and always “produces the goods”. As an expert networker, Jackie manages to form effective links between people and organisations others may not even consider. We have worked together on issues relating to young people, mentoring, training and personal development. Jackie has also spoken for me at events I have organised at the House of Lords and participated in many discussions."
Roger Prentis, Consultant and Publisher
Roger Prentis, Consultant and Publisher
"I worked with Jackie under her guidance and influence to become a champion charity mentor for the Lloyds Banking Group. Her enthusiasm, expertise and connectivity around enterprise mentoring is second to none. Anyone choosing to work with Jackie in this capacity, in my personal opinion, will get a very personable subject matter expert with extreme patience and a wide breadth of industry & political connectivity."
David Atkinson, UK Head of Manufacturing, SME Commercial Banking at Lloyds Banking Group
David Atkinson, UK Head of Manufacturing, SME Commercial Banking at Lloyds Banking Group
