Fayola-Maria Jack

Fayola-Maria Jack is a deal shaping and dispute resolution expert. She is the Founder of Healthy Good Business ®, a specialist dispute resolution firm, and a founding member of Chief, the New York-based private network for female senior executives. Additionally, she serves as a global Non-Executive Director at World Commerce & Contracting and represents UN Women as an official delegate to the United Nations.
Jack is an expert at drafting complex contracts, leading mediations, and negotiating out-of-court settlements for multinational corporations, banks, the military, venture-backed startups, and government entities. She is a contributing writer to Forbes and a startup mentor, where she extends her knowledge through venture capital funds.
She has been featured in the Times, Forbes, and the Sunday Times and has received numerous accolades, including being recognised in the top 5 of Management Today's top 35 Women Under 35 in UK Business, Cranfield School of Management's 'Women to Watch' 2019 award, the Women of the Future Award 2016.
==Early life and education==
Jack was born in London, and raised in the Home Counties in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. She attended Beaconsfield High School for Girls, where she studied Latin and completed both her GCSEs and A-Levels. With a global focus, she studied the Legal Systems of Asia and Africa at SOAS University of London and later enrolled for an MBA at the University College of London, which she completed with Merit. Jack also studied BRIC economics at the University of Oxford.
==Career==
Jack started her career in aerospace and defence with a company called Rockwell Collins, where she drafted contracts for projects with the UK Ministry of Defence and US Department of Defence. Broadening her industry expertise, Jack then transitioned to the pharmaceutical industry, where she worked between the UK and Germany drafting clinical research contracts, later specializing in oncology.
By age 26, Jack joined Enterprise Holdings, a $20 billion global business, and home to the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Alamo and National brands, where she built and led their Legal & Commercial Contracts function for Europe. Concurrently, she founded the LAUNCH Program, a flagship initiative supporting high-potential females both internally and across UK-based universities.
By age 29, Jack was appointed Head of Legal & Contracts for ManpowerGroup, a $22 billion international resourcing company, tasked to restructure and lead their legal operations across their 7 group companies in the UK and Ireland.
In December 2020, she was appointed a global Non-Executive Director at World Commerce and Contracting, a global non-profit association. The association focuses on improving trading relationships and enhancing standards and capabilities in commercial practice.
In 2021, Jack was appointed by the United Kingdom, Cabinet Office to support their Complex Transactions Team in one of the most challenging times in British economic history. Here Jack led Brexit assurance activities for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Jack then set up the UK Government's first internal disputes practice within the Cabinet Office. Jack also designed commercial blueprints for departments such as HM Revenue and Customs, and led the resolution of complex commercial disputes. Jack was one of the authors behind the UK Governments Outsourcing Playbook, designed to improve the way the government works with private companies following the collapse of Carillion in 2018. Jack also began providing pro-bono crisis and dispute resolution advisory services to the United Nations.
After obtaining her MBA, Jack joined Lloyds Banking Group where she led the dispute resolution and adjudication teams for the Commercial Banking division. Jack also worked with a peer to establish a Centre of Excellence.
In February 2023, Jack became a founding member of Chief, a private membership network for senior executive women in the U.S. and UK.
Leveraging her experience in deal advisory, structuring, and dispute resolution, Jack established Healthy Good Business ®, a specialist firm specializing in out-of-court settlements and contract crafting.
Jack also contributes as a writer for Forbes, participates in Q&A panels, mentors startups through venture capital funds like Techstars, and has served as a panelist for organizations such as Henley Business School on topics related to gender diversity and career challenges for women.
==Awards and recognitions==
* Jack was ranked on Cranfield School of Management's ‘ 50 Women to Watch’ 2019 list.
* She was credited with the Women of the Future Awards in the Professions category in November 2016, by Pinky Lilani CBE DL and Women of the Future Awards patron Cherie Blair CBE, QC, chaired by Sir John Peace, Chairman of Burberry Group & Standard Chartered and presented by Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE.
* Jack was named in the top 5 of the top 35 Women Under 35 in UK business by Management Today, in partnership with Accenture.
* She has also been named a ‘woman making a difference’ and ‘on the money’ by the Sunday Times.
* Jack was featured in the Powerlist 2018, issued by Powerful Media.
==References==
==External links==
* Healthy Good Business
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Category:Dispute resolution
Category:British business executives
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:People from London