Firm helps businesses encourage more female leaders — with benefits to top-line growth

After 15 years at St. Pete technology manufacturing giant Jabil, the last two in the C-Suite as chief talent officer, Audrey McGuckin, with her own business, has focused on helping companies with leadership development, talent management and organizational design. Her firm, St. Petersburg-based McGuckin Group, also does a lot of work with clients on the topic of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Founded in 2017, the McGuckin Group has worked with a range of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Demand for women’s leadership consulting services has been so strong, McGuckin says, she now plans to launch a new company that will focus solely on boosting women leaders. McGuckin says, “This transcends sizes of business and it also transcends industry and it transcends location.”