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, 2025, and 2026, 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 MADCOOL 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, MADCOOL Fitness has evolved into The MADCOOL Company which has a broader mission of empowerment.
Having maintained healthy living for over 25 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 MADCOOL 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.
Across the different areas of her work, Dr. Turner has consistently drawn on the power of intersecting disciplines, ideas, and experiences. Her experience in storytelling, business strategy, studio operations, and emerging media models now informs what she is building through MADCOOL Media.
Empowered Content
I create content designed to help people feel seen, more hopeful, and more empowered to take action.
I’m drawn to stories and storytellers with distinctive voices and perspectives—particularly stories that reflect resilience, identity, authentic leadership, and the ability to connect the culturally specific with the universally human.
My work has always been rooted in the power of “and”—media and wellness, storytelling and behavior change, culturally specific perspectives and universal themes.
I believe some of the most meaningful ideas emerge at those intersections.
Storytelling is a powerful tool for shaping social and cultural conversations, expanding perspectives, building connection, and influencing how people think, feel, and behave.
I believe storytellers everywhere should have greater opportunities and resources to develop their ideas, build enduring IP, and reach audiences looking for stories that resonate with their lives.
MADCOOL Media is an AI-native media company developing creator-led IP and building infrastructure to scale creator-led media.
By combining deep traditional media expertise with the speed, technology, and audience intelligence of the creator economy, MADCOOL Media is creating a more agile model for developing, producing, and scaling stories from distinctive voices.
Learn more about MADCOOL Media.
Dr. Jennifer Turner
When We Are Empowered a MADCOOL Podcast
I’m not only building MADCOOL Media;
I’m also creating within it.
As MADCOOL Media’s first creator, I host When We Are Empowered, a video podcast spotlighting creators, leaders, and communities whose work demonstrates empowerment in action. Through conversations spanning storytelling, health, leadership, identity, creativity, and community, the series explores how people use their voices, experiences, and expertise to create meaningful change.
