Wonder Woman in Business, Courtney Jenkins

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Courtney Jenkins

Courtney Jenkins is the Vice President and General Manager of ENGIE North America’s Public Sector Energy Services organization, focused on designing, financing, and building transformative sustainability solutions for educational, governmental, and healthcare entities across the U.S. In this role, Courtney oversees all U.S. business operations within the Services team, inclusive of engineering, financial performance, and strategic growth for this 200+ person clean-tech division, which is a key part of ENGIE’s deep-rooted commitment to a zero-carbon future. The work that she and her team do has generated over $2.5 billion dollars in savings for public agencies across the U.S., generated tens of thousands of local green construction jobs, inspired over 50,000 students and teachers through pioneering STEM educational programming, reduced the carbon footprint of campuses and city facilities, and transformed physical infrastructure to be more conducive to the future of education, health, and work. Prior to this role, Courtney served in a series of expansive management roles within key commercial and project leadership functions with ENGIE, OpTerra, and Chevron’s clean-tech division, where she had the opportunity to work directly with schools, cities and counties all throughout the Western U.S. on these types of trailblazing, award-winning public-private partnerships.

Courtney has led business turnaround and transformation efforts, co-founded ENGIE’s Women in Networking group, sits on the company’s North American Culture and Values Leadership Team, and is a ferocious champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace to empower women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and other groups in their professional growth. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Energy Services Companies (NAESCO). Recently, Courtney was named one of the Top 100 Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. A graduate of Brown University (AB) and University of Oxford (MSc), where she graduated top of her class with first-class distinction, Courtney and her spouse live in San Francisco, California. In her free time, she enjoys golfing, traveling, reading (especially historical non-fiction related to Eastern Europe and Russia), trying cafes across America in search of the world’s finest iced espresso beverages, and watching her beloved Oakland A’s when baseball is in-season. 

Courtney Jenkins

Contact Courtney

Courtney Jenkins

Vice President and General Manager

ENGIE North America

(m) 510.502.7314

courtney.jenkins@engie.com