As a tribute to the continued success and resiliency in bouncing back after the staffing industry was so hard hit following September 11, 2001, Jennifer was recently awarded the NAWBO-Minnesota’s “Emerging Woman Business Owner of the Year” award for 2007.  Brigham Group Staffing is not only surviving where many staffing firms didn’t make it through the last financial recession, it is thriving.

In 1981, when Jennifer quit college at age 22 and started a secretarial services business with a rented typewriter, a single phone line and a small newspaper ad. And Brigham Group Staffing was born. Twenty-five years later, the staffing organization has grown to a multi-million dollar company with three offices placing thousands of employees in temporary and permanent positions at businesses throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin. What’s more, for the past four years, the Twin Cities Business Journal has placed Brigham Group Staffing among the region’s Top 25 Temporary Help Firms.

Jennifer’s innate understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit has paid off.  Most of her clients are entrepreneurs and they greatly appreciate how Jennifer responds to their unique challenges. While many staffing agencies make profits by keeping staff temporary, Jennifer focuses on creating powerful matches between employees and employers that lead to permanent relationships.

Jennifer freely shares her experience and knowledge with other business owners and mentors those who are just starting out.  She actively supports women business owners in the community through her involvement in the Chambers of Commerce in St. Paul, Red Wing, and Apple Valley, MN and Hudson and Baldwin, WI.  She is also active in NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners—Minnesota Chapter), WPO (Women Presidents’ Organization), and ASA (American Staffing Association).