New Capacity Partners is a leadership strategy and communications firm that helps you navigate the changes that come with today’s business landscape.

The bar for leadership has never been higher.

believe their companies lack the capabilities to navigate technological change.

of execs say that sustaining trust, while challenging, improves the bottom line.

of consumers buy or advocate for brands based on their personal beliefs and values.

of private equity leaders say leadership effectiveness is their top priority for value creation.

The future invites us to co-create it.

New Capacity Partners advises individuals, C-Suites, and growth companies on the rising expectations of stakeholders, brands, and leaders in a changing world.

Businesses are balancing the demands of purpose, technology, profit, people, and planet. Today’s best leaders are leading change and changing how they lead. We can help.

Areas of Expertise

  • Reputation & Risk Advisory

    Strategic counsel for companies and leaders seeking proactive insights on reputation resilience and risk preparedness.

  • Founder & Leader Support

    Leadership doesn’t come with a manual. We partner with founders and C-Suite leaders to sharpen vision and scale strategy, execution, and influence in step with business growth.

  • Clarity & Communications

    Refining communications and stakeholder engagement to drive business and financial outcomes— partnering across C-suite and architecting best-in-class reputation functions.

  • Growth & Transformation

    Scale without losing focus. Whether navigating M&A, enterprise-wide change, or rapid expansion, we align strategy and communications for confident execution.

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Meet Our Founder, Jerilan Greene

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"Jerilan is first rate in critical and strategic thinking. She has an amazing ability to see clarity and pick out the most significant insights amidst an abundance of information and her mind works at an unbelievably fast pace."
"Jerilan's deep understanding of communication and consultative services combined with broad experience and commitment to client's goals bring lasting change."
"Jerilan has an ability to be measured and unbiased in moments of great adversity... an ability to 'look around the corner' to identify how to make something happen, enrolling the key stakeholders the entire way."
"Jerilan is willing to share her knowledge and dedicated to collaborating with others – forging a new standard for global and personal success."
"Jerilan is that rare combination of strategist and flawless execution specialist that drives business performance. Her grasp of corporate transformation is unparalleled and her ability to ideate, educate and collaborate makes everyone working with her smarter and more confident. Engaging Jerilan guarantees success!"
"Clients respect and highly regard Jerilan's counsel. She is sought out by other colleagues for her insight, experience and hard working attitude. She is great mentor and a pleasure to work with."
"Jerilan brings much-needed strategic insight, collaborative skills, and creativity to each project."
"What struck me about Jerilan was her methodical and analytical approach to business challenges outside her natural sphere of experience, which yielded excellent results."

  • Jerilan has spent more than 25 years improvising a career as an executive, cultivating strategy, leadership, and influence. Inside and outside the Fortune 500. From start-up to stalwart. As consultant and corporate executive. For and among leaders. The common thread woven across the results she delivered with teams was bringing clarity to complexity and change, especially in unprecedented situations, and creating a path for growth and trust with many stakeholders.

  • Jerilan led cross-functional teams at Yum! Brands for 11 years, and over her final six years as SVP, Chief Communications & Public Affairs Officer and Yum! Foundation Chairman of the Board of Directors & CEO, guided the breakthrough strategy and integration of the ESG, global communications, crisis, sustainability and government affairs functions.

    Previously, she counseled clients at Edelman, Burson, Deloitte, and Towers Watson, while gaining public, private, M&A, and human capital experience across the consumer, pharmaceuticals, biotech, technology, telecommunications, energy, and financial sectors. She has served boards as an advisor and independent director on committees for Audit, Risk, and NomGov.  Jerilan holds a BS and MBA from Northwestern University and has completed board governance programs at Stanford Law School, NACD, Santa Clara University, and the DCRO Risk Governance Institute.

  • “I have been in your seat. The aspiring leader. The C-suite executive with urgent, complex choices to make or recommend. The first, only and different at the leadership table or in the Board room. The outsider. The insider. The one navigating detractors and hoping to win over skeptics. The risk manager thinking ahead and leading right now. The leader carving out a new path, painting new possibilities and unifying stakeholders. The one listening and putting pen to paper on ideas to change hearts and minds. The one ready to make a meaningful pivot and help others do the same.

    Reach out if you want to explore working with me to elevate and strengthen what you are doing today, as an executive, founder or as a company.

    – JERILAN

  • My current work spans influence strategy, go-to-market, board governance, and the modernization of corporate affairs and reputation risk oversight. I welcome thoughtful outreach around ideas, collaborations, and selective advisory or investing. See you on LinkedIn.