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Jennifer’s Media & Business Expertise

Dr. Turner was most recently EVP of TriStar Television for Sony Pictures Television where she managed the development and production of new premium television series to be aired on cable and streaming platforms. Over her career, Dr. Turner has worked on several hit television series across broadcast, cable, and streaming in both studio and network executive roles, including, “The Good Doctor”, “The Blacklist”, “The Boys”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Lost”, critically-acclaimed “Friday Night Lights”, and social-justice themed shows “For Life” and “Woke”, among others. In addition to creative oversight of the label, Dr. Turner was responsible for setting TriStar’s overall strategy and leading and managing TriStar’s operations. 

She also established Bravo and Oxygen’s business development departments and was responsible for extending the networks’ brands into revenue-generating businesses for franchises such as “Top Chef” and “The Real Housewives”.

Prior to beginning her media career

Jennifer worked for Goldman Sachs in New York as a financial analyst in Fixed Income Capital Markets.

Dr. Turner has been recognized numerous times over her career. She was featured in Essence magazine’s “40 under 40” edition 2004; one of Ebony magazine’s “Women to Watch” in Entertainment 2006; Cablefax’s “Most Influential Minorities in Cable” 2009, 2011, and 2012, featured in Variety’s Inclusion Impact Report 2019, featured in Variety’s New York Women’s Impact Report 2021, and named to the Multichannel News Wonder Women LA Class of 2022 for exceptional female leaders in media. She is also the recipient of the African American Film Critics Association “Salute to Excellence” award 2023, and the recipient of the Garden State Film Festival’s “Exceptional Women in Film” award, also in 2023. In 2024, Dr. Turner was recognized by Women We Admire as one of the “Top 50 Women Leaders of New York City.”

In addition to her media career, combining her passion for fitness and desire to help others, Jennifer founded MAD COOL FITNESS, an inclusive, health empowerment, edutainment brand that helps people (with a focus on professional women) to feel better, be better, and lead better, leveraging behavioral science. Recognizing the power of content and storytelling to not only entertain, educate, and inspire, but to also activate positive change, MAD COOL FITNESS has evolved into THE MAD COOL COMPANY which has a broader mission of empowerment.

Having maintained healthy living for over 20 years by focusing on her health behavior vs. dieting, Dr. Turner is designing effective, behavior science-based health empowerment programs targeted to individuals, families, and communities. She also founded sister non-profit MAD COOL COMMUNITY to partner more effectively with community anchor institutions to deliver health programs to underserved communities, with a particular focus on facilitating the health empowerment of Gen Z and Gen Alpha girls in schools and youth organizations.

Empowered Content

I create content to help people feel better about their lives—more empowered, more hopeful, and inspired to take action. I love spotlighting the stories of individuals and communities whose journeys reflect perseverance, resilience, and authentic leadership. These narratives highlight socially and culturally transformative work across art, creativity, health, education, and community and economic development.

Storytelling is a powerful tool in driving social and cultural conversations, helping people be seen, and can even have a positive impact on mental and physical health. The world needs storytellers everywhere to have the resources to tell their stories, and audiences want access to these stories. MADCOOL Media is a next gen content studio that democratizes premium storytelling and empowers creators to tell their stories everywhere audiences consume media.

Dr. Jennifer Turner

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