Jenny Evans Speaking Topics

• The Neuroscience of Change: It's Not What You Think

  This science-backed keynote helps your leaders understand the science of what change does to human performance, teaches them how to recognize what their teams are experiencing, and gives them the tools to lead people through change more effectively.

  The Problem

  Your organization isn't dealing with one change. It's dealing with a multitude of them, stacked on top of each other, all at once, with no recovery in between.

  • 69% of change initiatives fail

    • a number that hasn't moved in 30 years.

  • Change-fatigued employees cost organizations up to 18% of salary in lost productivity.
  • Only 43% of highly change-fatigued employees intend to stay, compared to 74% with low fatigue.

  The result: decision fatigue, decision paralysis, cognitive overload, and uncertainty hijacking judgment exactly when it matters most. Leadership sees the disengagement, the stalled adoption, the rising attrition

  • calls it resistance or apathy

  • and sends more communication. The needle still doesn't move.

  The Promise

  That's because it's not what people think. It's how they react.

  You're not solving a communication problem, a mindset problem, or a "people just need to get on board" problem. It's a performance physiology problem.

  Change triggers a measurable, predictable stress response

  • not a personality flaw or attitude problem. This response reroutes the exact brain functions your people are being paid to use to adopt the latest initiative: judgment, memory, impulse control, decision-making under uncertainty.

  In "The Neuroscience of Change," Jenny Evans helps your leaders understand the neuroscience of change and gives them the practical, science-backed tools to successfully lead their teams through disruption instead of just pushing more communication at it.

  Keynote Overview

  This isn't a change management refresher, and it's not another appeal to "get on board." Jenny combines organizational research

  • built from measuring resilience and change capacity across real Fortune 500 populations

  • with the specific, replicated science of how stress moves through people and teams during disruption.

  Through a highly interactive session your leaders will discover:

  • Why their communication keeps missing its mark, no matter how well it's written
  • How stress spreads through a team faster than any announcement can
  • Why organizations run out of change capacity long before they run out of initiatives
  • How to tell the difference between resistance and a depleted biological system
  • A four-part practice, deployable in a single meeting, a 1:1, or a hallway conversation that will help their people adapt to change

  Planner ROI: Your leaders don't just understand why change is hard

  • they leave with a repeatable practice they can apply to every future initiative. This means faster adoption, lower attrition risk, and a leadership team that stops mistaking overload for resistance.

  Key Takeaways

  After this keynote, your leaders will be able to:

  • Spot the early signs of change overload in their teams before it shows up as a performance dip or an attrition spike
  • Understand how and why change affects decision-making, focus, and performance

    • and why that's biology, not character

  • Understand what has to happen biologically before rational communication

    • the FAQ, the town hall, the well-crafted memo

    • can actually be absorbed

  • Feel confident in bringing credible, science-backed strategies into leadership conversations for helping their teams and people adapt quickly
  • Build change resilience and mental fitness in their people, countering the cognitive overload that quietly erodes focus and output

  Audience: Executives | Leaders | Managers

• Resiliency Rx: Stress-Proof Your Brain & Body

  Strategies that optimize chemistry and biology, recover energy, and fuel performance under pressure

  When change is coming from every direction and the pressure to perform doesn't slow down, stress isn’t just a psychology issue

  • it’s a chemistry cascade that hijacks focus, drains energy, and tanks performance. The good news? It’s fixable.

  With "Resiliency Rx," Jenny Evans delivers a forehead-smacking paradigm shift: you can’t reduce stress, but you can rewire how your brain and body respond to it. Packed with simple Micro Strategies designed to fit into even the busiest schedules, this keynote takes your audience from feeling OVER IT to ON IT

  • fast.

  FORMATS:

  You can book it as a standalone, high-impact keynote that gets people laughing, learning, and taking action immediately… or go all-in with the full 5-part Resiliency Rx Series that builds resilience layer by layer for lasting culture change. Either way, the results stick.

  AUDIENCE OUTCOMES:

  • Reframe stress as chemistry they can control
  • Reset energy & focus in 60 seconds or less
  • Reduce burnout & disengagement with daily practices
  • Build resilience that sustains performance long after the event

  Planner ROI: Your audience doesn’t just walk away inspired, they leave with tools they’ll still be using weeks later. That means higher engagement scores, stronger teams, and yes, rave reviews for your event.

  Exclusive Tools Included

  Every "Resiliency Rx" keynote comes with tools that extend impact well beyond the event:

  • Online Resiliency Assessment – each participant benchmarks their starting point and you receive a master composite report, seeing exactly what your team needs.
  • Copy of Jenny’s e-book, "The Resiliency rEvolution" – a practical guide to stress-proofing life.
  • 8 Weeks of Follow-Up Coaching Emails – to reinforce Micro Strategies and sustain momentum.
  • Up to 500 Hit the Deck™ Resiliency Training Tools – a physical deck to keep strategies top of mind. (You can order more if you need them.)
  • Optional Panel Facilitation – Jenny moderates a resilience-focused discussion with your leaders, bringing the science and the culture shift together.

  This is what turns a keynote into a lasting transformation.

  Key Takeaways:

  After this keynote, your audience will be able to:

  • Reframe stress as a chemistry problem they can control, not chaos they can’t.
  • Navigate change and uncertainty without letting it hijack their focus or derail their performance.
  • Reset energy and focus in 60 seconds or less with proven Micro Strategies.
  • Prevent burnout and disengagement with daily practices that stick.
  • Boost resilience and productivity

    • even in high-pressure environments.

  • Leave with a clear action plan they’ll actually use tomorrow, next week, and beyond.

  Audience: Executives | Managers | High-Performing Teams | Corporate Leaders

• Banishing Burnout: From Overworked, Overwhelmed & Overstressed… to On Fire, On Purpose, and On Your Game

  A science-backed keynote that helps leaders and teams reset their chemistry, recharge their energy, and perform at their best.

  The Problem

  Burnout isn't coming for your organization—it's already here. Stress is draining productivity, driving turnover, and strangling your bottom line.

  Every burned-out employee can cost you $15K+ in turnover. Burnout drains cultures of energy, engagement, and innovation. Managers end up stretched too thin while top performers quietly disengage.

  The result? Teams are stuck in survival mode while your best talent walks out the door.

  The Promise

  Jenny Evans flips the script with a chemistry-first approach. Stress doesn’t have to destroy your people or your profits—when you know how to reset it, stress actually becomes fuel for growth.

  In "Banishing Burnout," Jenny equips your audience with science-backed Micro Strategies that recharge energy, expand capacity, and deliver performance without sacrificing wellbeing. This isn’t just motivation—it’s measurable change.

  Keynote Overview

  This isn’t your typical “self-care” talk. Jenny combines exercise physiology, performance psychology, and practical Micro Strategies into a dynamic keynote that leaves audiences laughing, learning, and ready to act.

  Attendees discover how to:

  • Reset their chemistry in minutes
  • Build energy habits that stick
  • Create a personalized action plan they’ll actually follow—even during peak-demand seasons

  Planner ROI: Your audience doesn’t just feel inspired in the room—they leave with tools that improve engagement and focus the very next day. That means rave reviews for your event, higher retention, and a culture that performs.

  Key Takeaways

  After this keynote, your audience will be able to:

  • Turn stress into a stimulus for growth instead of a drain
  • Expand their capacity in healthy, sustainable ways
  • Identify what qualifies as “high-quality recovery” (physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually)
  • Balance demands with renewable energy supplies
  • Walk away with a personalized plan to sustain performance without burning out

  Audience: Executives | Managers | Teams | Conferences

• Guiding Principles for Creating a Purpose-Driven Life (And How They Can Help You Find an Elephant When Necessary)

  A science-meets-story keynote that reconnects people to purpose so they can thrive with clarity, confidence, and resilience.

  The Problem

  Burnout isn’t always about too much work. More often, it’s about working without a why.

  This is the silent saboteur inside your workforce: talented people burning out not because they’re overworked, but because they’re under-purposed. When meaning disappears, even routine challenges trigger the body’s stress chemistry—draining focus, motivation, and resilience. The result? Teams that are physically present but mentally checked out.

  Purpose is the engine that turns effort into energy. Without it, every obstacle feels heavier, every task feels harder, and even success feels hollow. No amount of PTO can fix a lack of purpose—and no organization can thrive when its people are running on empty.

  The Promise

  The fix isn’t fewer hours, it’s a deeper sense of meaning. When people understand how their daily work connects to something bigger than themselves, stress transforms from friction into fuel. Same pressure, completely different chemistry. Same challenges, dramatically different outcomes.

  In this keynote, Jenny Evans takes audiences on an extraordinary journey to the vast Namibian desert, where she trained alongside legendary elephant trackers and learned six crucial principles that hold the keys to finding anything—including your true purpose.

  The takeaways are practical, powerful, science-backed, and immediately actionable, helping your people reconnect to purpose, reset their chemistry, and show up at their best.

  Keynote Overview

  Purpose-driven people don’t just feel better, they perform better, and they become more profitable employees. Research shows they’re more resilient under stress, more innovative, more profitable, and more engaged. Purpose-driven organizations? They retain top talent, fuel growth, and create cultures people want to be part of.

  This isn’t theory. It’s science…and a little safari. Through stunning visuals and laugh-out-loud storytelling, Jenny connects the dots between tracking elephants in Namibia and tracking down your own sense of purpose at work.

  The message is clear: purpose isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity. And it’s easier to find than most people think.

  Planner ROI: Your audience doesn’t just leave inspired, they leave with sticky tools that reignite engagement, drive better decisions, and boost event ratings.

  Key Takeaways

  After this keynote, your audience will be able to:

  • Reconnect to their sense of purpose and reignite passion for excellence.
  • Understand why purpose is the single most powerful buffer against stress and burnout.
  • Apply six principles of purpose-driven living at work and in life.
  • Make clearer, more confident decisions under pressure.
  • Leave energized, resilient, and equipped to create impact with meaning.

  Audience: Leaders | Managers | Teams | Conferences

• Performance on Purpose: Igniting Unstoppable Energy

  Reignite passion and purpose at work so your people don’t just show up, they step up.

  The Problem

  We've moved from people actually leaving (Great Resignation) to doing the minimum (quiet quitting) to now actively suffering while staying (quiet cracking, resentment). It's a progression from active to passive resistance to internal breakdown.

  Employees show up but don’t engage. They perform but don’t excel. They stay but don’t thrive. Disengagement, burnout, and turnover aren’t random; they’re the symptoms of a deeper disease: work that feels meaningless.

  What this makes clear is that people don’t quit jobs; they quit when work loses meaning.

  The Promise

  Jenny Evans transforms purpose-starved employees back into engaged, energized performers. Using science-backed tools and powerful storytelling, she gives audiences a framework to break through disengagement, reconnect to what matters, and turn work into fuel instead of a drain.

  When people find meaning in their work, their brains release dopamine and endorphins—neurochemicals that increase focus, motivation, and resilience.

  The result? Teams that are energized, leaders that are more confident, and organizations that retain and inspire their best people.

  Keynote Overview

  Purpose isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s a scientifically proven buffer against stress, burnout, and turnover. Employees who feel purposeful perform better, are more resilient, and stay longer.

  In this keynote, Jenny delivers both the aha! of rediscovering purpose and the practical strategies to live it every day. She weaves together neuroscience, psychology, and interactive exercises to make purpose the competitive advantage your organization needs.

  Planner ROI: Teams leave re-engaged, leaders leave with a clear framework, and you leave with higher event ratings and results that show up back at work.

  Key Takeaways

  • Why purpose is essential to success professionally and personally.
  • How a clear sense of purpose improves resilience, performance, engagement, energy, connection, and sense of belonging.
  • Practices for gaining clarity on their purpose.
  • How to fully articulate their purpose and connect it to the work they do each day.
  • How to keep their purpose front of mind as they make decisions, engage with clients and co-workers, and deal with stressful situations.
  • Ways to take daily action that are aligned with their purpose, as well as the purpose of your organization.

  Audience: Leaders | Managers | Employees | Organizations Facing Turnover

• The Chemistry of Confidence & Resilience for Female Leaders

  Science-backed strategies to help women sustain energy, confidence, and performance, at work and beyond.

  The Problem

  Organizations everywhere face three critical challenges with women in leadership:

  Getting Women to the Top

  • Only 1 in 5 senior executives is a woman.
  • And here’s the kicker: just 40% of women aspire to the C-suite, not because they can’t do it, but because they see the climb as steeper, the scrutiny as harsher, and the work-life tradeoffs as heavier.
  • Even worse? 61% of women check the organization's leadership diversity before they ever apply. If they don’t see a path forward, your future talent pipeline may never even knock on the door.

  Keeping Women at the Top

  • Women leaders are burning out, fast. They’re carrying the weight of the office, the home, and caregiving roles.
  • When they leave, it’s costly: up to 200% of their annual salary to replace them, with an average of 42 days to fill the role.
  • That’s not just attrition, it’s a drain on your culture, your budget, and your momentum as companies with gender diverse executive teams are 25% more likely to have above-average profitability

  Supporting Women at the Top

  • 35% of senior women report being the only female in the room, isolated, under a microscope, and constantly proving they belong.
  • “Onlys” are 2x more likely to be questioned on competence and 3x more likely to be mistaken for someone junior.
  • They don’t leave because they can’t lead, they leave because the environment makes it unbearable.

  The Result?

  It’s no wonder 42% of professional women report being burned out, and 1 in 3 are considering stepping back or leaving entirely. This “She-cession” is draining companies of top talent, leadership potential, and innovation.

  The Promise

  Jenny Evans helps female leaders reset their chemistry, reclaim their energy, and rebuild confidence. With science, humor, and practical Micro Strategies, she equips women with tools they can use immediately to thrive in demanding roles, without burning out.

  The result? Women who feel energized, confident, and resilient, and organizations that retain, grow, and showcase their female leadership talent.

  Confidence isn’t just mindset, it’s also chemistry. In this keynote, Jenny shows how biology, psychology, and daily practices combine to sustain energy, confidence, and resilience.

  Through relatable science, engaging storytelling, and actionable Micro Strategies, women leaders learn how to align with their values, reset their energy, and show up with confidence that sticks.

  Planner ROI: You don’t just inspire your women leaders, you equip them to thrive long-term. That means higher engagement, stronger leadership pipelines, better retention, and event feedback that proves the impact.

  Key Takeaways

  After this keynote, your audience will be able to:

  • Strengthen confidence by aligning daily choices with purpose and values.
  • Use science-backed recovery strategies to prevent burnout.
  • Reset energy and resilience in 60 seconds or less with Micro Strategies.
  • Break the cycle of overwork and self-neglect with personalized action plans.
  • Lead with confidence that drives individual success and organizational performance.

  Audience: Women’s Leadership | ERGs | Diversity Summits | High-Potential Female Leaders

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