Jacqueline Brassey

Jacqui is a coleader of Healthy Workforces and Director of Research Science at the McKinsey Health Institute, a non-profit-generating entity within the firm that aspires to catalyze action to add 45 billion years of higher-quality life for all people around the world. Jacqui brings over 25 years of experience as a practitioner academic in leadership and organizational development and positive neuroscience in and outside of McKinsey and academia.

In addition to her roles at McKinsey, she is a fellow researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and an adjunct professor at IE University in Madrid, Spain. Her research focuses on sustainable human development and performance, and she works across research from neuroscience, business, and leadership development. She has coauthored and presented more than 100 articles, books, book chapters, podcasts, and scientific papers.

Jacqui serves as an advisory council member of the World Wellbeing Movement, is a member of the board of advisors of Wellbeing at Work, and is a steerco member of the World Economic Forum’s Healthy Workforces Initiative. 

Jacqui holds degrees in both organization and business sciences as well as medical sciences. She has a bachelor’s in international business and languages from Avans University of Applied Sciences, a cum laude bachelor’s and master’s in policy and organization sciences from Tilburg University, a PhD in economics and business from Groningen University, and a joint master’s in affective neuroscience from Maastricht University and the University of Florence.