About
Meet our leader; Margaret “MJ” Jarrett, the President-CEO of TLI Enterprises, LLC (TLI). MJ is a proven executive with a track record of greater than 35 years’ experience driving satisfaction and growth for both employees and clients. MJ’s leadership achievements have reached levels of C-suite and executive roles for IT industry leaders. Throughout her career, MJ has achieved positions growing in responsibility garnering a reputation of taking care of her employees while exceeding clients’ needs and expectations. Her career began as an individual contributing engineer at AT&T. Based on the advice of a mentor early in her career, she fused her technical expertise and natural leadership talent with a degree in business to begin her professional leadership journey. Each successful leadership step resulted in executive positions with market leaders such as; General Dynamics Network Systems (now known as GDIT) as the Director of Enterprise Solutions, then Vice President at NCI Information Systems Inc., she co-led the Virginia growth for Praxis Engineering as Director-VA Emerging Markets.
She excels in leading multimillion-dollar portfolios for the Federal Government with an Intelligence Community focus. She is a result driven executive leader with proven experience leading business portfolio operations management with a unique perspective of loyalty and distinct leadership style. From team lead roles to managing contracts and programs in the Intelligence Community she quickly rose through the ranks of leadership from PM, to Director, Vice President, then GM-COO to now, owning her own business where in each position she has built high performing quality teams that exceed customer expectations.
While the company was founded in October of 2012, in the Spring of 2018, she found herself blessed with the opportunity to fully launch TLI and work for herself full-time to build her vision of a company. Based on her expertise, she has modeled best practices using her process improvement expertise combined with her empowering leadership style and proven strong work ethic to create a truly unique organization. Owner and Company values of Trust, Loyalty, and Integrity (TLI) create a foundation for a unique and rewarding culture.
MJ’s extensive experience in Government contracting establish the organization to be a high performing partner to our Clients, Primes and Subcontractors alike. Her loyalty to partners and teammates is unprecedented. She excels at building long lasting relationships and is committed to delivering success to her partners with the support of outstanding employees who are as dedicated to exceptional service to TLI customers/clients. Customers who team with or hire TLI find that Ms. Jarrett is a visionary, innovative, solutions-oriented leader able to increase productivity while building and delivering inclusive, cohesive teams in diverse environments. Throughout her career, Ms. Jarrett has excelled in bringing customers and industry together to enable like missions to excel through synergized relationships.
MJ describes herself as a loyal, honest team player, not seeking credit or the spotlight. She credits her parents, husband, son, and key former leaders for believing in her dreams and abilities. These incredible people played their individual parts in shaping who she is today. Their support enabled her strength and courage to take the leap of faith to achieve such accomplishments and become the business leader she is today.
As the CEO, MJ wants TLI to be known for a culture built from her vision and the outstanding service provided by TLI’s high caliber employees. She is committed to the success and satisfaction of each and every employee. Her goal is to build a company that grows for the right reasons with high quality, high performing employees who receive recognition and reward resulting in our customers’ extreme satisfaction with TLI’s services. Happy employees = Happy Customers = Growth and new career opportunities for TLI employees. TLI is led by a successful leader who ensures employees’ satisfaction, career growth, and work-life balance.
MJ’s leadership continues to be a proven success through time, putting the care of each employee first, to ensure high quality services are provided to our customers. She and her leadership team strive every day to make the organization the best experience possible for employees, customers and partners alike.