Jen Blandos

Co-founder – Head of Dubai office

Jen has 25-years of communications, PR, business, management, leadership coaching, people development and entrepreneurship experience. 

She has successfully created several professional education companies, PR agencies and management consultancies in the UK, Belgium, Bahrain and the UAE. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Jen worked in strategic communications around trade disputes and mergers with the European Union and the World Trade Organisation - focusing on issues such as the long-running bananas dispute, access for Canadian products to European Union markets and aluminium company mergers. 

Jen is passionate about coaching and supporting clients in how to get the best out of communications by better engaging key stakeholders and embracing the digital world. As well as co-founding The Communications Works in the UK and UAE, Jen is also the managing partner of Female Fusion, a women's entrepreneurship association with close to 20,000 members and regularly coaches female entrepreneurs on how to set up and run their own successful businesses.

Jen is a regular commentator in the media and speaks at conferences and events on entrepreneurship, communications and women in business. Jen is a dual Canadian-British citizen, splits her time between Dubai and London.