Jen Shirkani

Jen Shirkani has spent over 25 years as a learning and development specialist, coach and speaker. Her specialty topic, emotional intelligence, is presented from a leadership perspective filled with practical strategies and immediately useable tips. Jen has worked with organizations from the Fortune 50 ($40B) to family-owned entities specializing in the application of Emotional Intelligence. She holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership. She is also the author of Ego vs. EQ: How Top Leaders Beat 8 Ego Traps Using Emotional Intelligence written to help leaders help themselves.

Using her experience as an executive coach, she identified the common traps that set senior executives and business owners up for failure and provides strategies for overcoming them. She is certified in several emotional intelligence assessments and has administered over 2,000 Emotional Intelligence assessments to employees in organizations across the United States. She has been educated in communication styles, motivation theory, development coaching, principles of adult learning, and the stages of human development. She has also been certified in programs by Franklin Covey, Achieve Global, and the TRACOM Group. In addition, Jen has been a featured keynote speaker at national and regional conferences, has been a frequent guest of several national radio programs, and has been featured in Bloomberg/Businessweek, Leadership Excellence magazine, Investors Daily, ASTD.org, Fast Company, and Upstart Business Journal.