Jen Geegan

Jen is a growth and proposal strategy leader with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations pursue and win government and public-sector work. At The Hatcher Group, she serves as Senior Manager, Growth, where she helps lead business development and capture efforts, shapes pursuit strategies, and manages complex proposals from early opportunity identification through submission. She works across teams to translate client needs and solicitation requirements into clear strategies, compelling solutions, and competitive proposals.

Prior to joining The Hatcher Group, Jen held senior proposal strategy and operations roles at Westat and MSG, where she led federal and state proposal efforts and helped strengthen the systems, processes, and teams behind them. Earlier in her career, she spent nearly 18 years with the American Institutes for Research and Learning Point Associates. Across these roles, she has supported organizations working in education, health, human services, research, communications, and other mission-driven fields.

Throughout her career, Jen has specialized in bringing structure and strategy to complex pursuits. Her experience spans business development, capture and teaming strategy, proposal management and operations, competitive positioning, and cross-functional leadership. She is particularly skilled at bringing together people with different areas of expertise, identifying what matters most to a client, and turning complex requirements and ideas into a clear and compelling story.

Jen holds a bachelor’s degree in English. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband, two children, and two Bernedoodles. Outside of work, she enjoys thrifting, volunteering with animals, and building tiny houses.

PASSIONS THAT BENEFIT MY CLIENTS:

• “A leader sees greatness in other people.” – Maya Angelou
• “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” – Robin Williams
• “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
• “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall