Empowering
People of
Faith

Providing a path to reach your goals.

JAG Consulting blue box

Dedicated

to serving Catholic Dioceses, universities, schools, charities, and more

We offer our extensive experience in strategic thinking, planning, and implementation.

Carefully planned strategy is a key to success. At JAG, we thrive on thinking. On researching. On building sound strategy, piece by piece. Whether you need to develop a creative outreach strategy, build consensus or draw a roadmap, JAG can get you there.

Providing a path

to help you reach your goals

JAG Consulting helps clients build consensus around a vision that illuminates the road to success and the best steps to get there.

Our Advisors

Our expert team blends our unique talents, passions and spiritual gifts to glorify God through service to our clients.
Jennifer Gutierrez

Jennifer Gutierrez
President

Jacqueline Halbig von Schleppenbach

Jacqueline Halbig von Schleppenbach
Senior Advisor for Strategy and Communications

Cindy Jeffrey

Cindy Jeffrey
Senior Advisor for Strategy and Communications

Kevin Horne

Kevin Horne
Data Analytics Specialist

Jenni Koch

Jenni Koch
Digital Marketing Specialist

Zachary Baehr

Zachary Baehr
Content Strategist

Whether you need to develop a creative outreach strategy, build consensus or draw a roadmap, JAG can get you there.

Respected

The St. Paul Seminaries

Rev. Joseph C. Taphorn, J.C.L.

Rector and Vice President
The Saint Paul Seminary
Jennifer Gutierrez

Jennifer A. Gutierrez, M.A.

President
JAG Consulting, Inc.

Quality. Invaluable. Inspiring. Used time and again to describe her work, these client comments describe over 25 years of results-driven consulting experience in the corporate, faith-based, non-profit, and public sectors.

President of JAG Consulting, Jennifer and her team are partners to churches, Catholic dioceses, apostolates, educational institutions, and faith-based organizations seeking to re-imagine their futures and increase their impacts through informed research, planning, and strategy.

A change-maker at heart, Jennifer’s regional and national client base includes clients such as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Archdiocese of Omaha, Students for Life of Madison at the University of Wisconsin; The National Palliative Care and Hospice Task Force; The Saint Paul Seminary; Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin; and other Catholic dioceses, schools, foundations, and pro-life organizations across the country. She devotes her apostolate to faithfully strengthening the institutions that draw our nation’s faithful closer to Christ. 

JAG Consulting is also a founding member of 4 Pillars Collaborative, a 4-company strategic alliance that provides planning, architectural, fundraising and financing services to clergy, ministry leaders, and faith communities seeking to expand or build their churches.

Before she dedicated her counsel to serving faith-based clients, Jennifer led clients including US Bank, United Way, the National Guard, the State of Nebraska, and many others in strategic planning and communications. Her thoughtful and efficient approach has resulted in customer and revenue growth, inclusive board and staff engagement, and a realignment of her clients’ goals with their missions. 

Early in her career, Jennifer was a lead advocate for the nation of Guatemala, attracting greater investment and tourism to a country recovering from civil war. As the head of public relations efforts for the Guatemalan Development Foundation (FUNDESA) in Guatemala City, she worked directly with the U.S. Embassy and the Associated Press to change the conversation, resulting in delegation visits from U.S. congressmen still active in international policy today.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jennifer holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and Spanish, and a master’s in political science with a specialization in international relations and human rights. She was a governor appointee to the Nebraska Commission on the Status of Women, and a mayoral appointee to the Lincoln Lancaster County Women’s Commission. She has served on numerous non-profit boards, including her current role as Vice President of the West Point Parents Club for Nebraska and Western Iowa, and as a current member of the Nebraska Catholic Conference Board.  Jennifer was  named by the Lincoln Journal Star three years in a row as one of 30 of the Most Influential Women in her city.