Jenny Evans, B.S., C.P.T., C.F.T.

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 employees and leaders understand the neuroscience of change and gives them the practical, science-backed tools to successfully adapt to 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.

The result is a keynote that speaks to every level of the organization simultaneously. Because the biology running underneath change doesn’t vary by title. And neither does this talk.

Through a highly interactive session your people will discover:

• Why their response to change is biological not personal, not a character flaw, and not a failure to embrace the future
• Why communication keeps missing its mark no matter how well it’s written, and what actually reaches a brain in threat response
• How stress spreads through a team faster than any announcement can, and what one regulated person in the room can do about it
• Why organizations run out of change capacity long before they run out of initiatives, and what that biological debt actually costs
• How to tell the difference between resistance and a depleted nervous system – a distinction that changes everything about how people treat themselves and each other
• A three-part practice – deployable in a single meeting, a one-on-one, or a hallway conversation – that works with their biology instead of against it

Planner ROI: Your people 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 an organization that stops mistaking overload for resistance.

Keynote Takeaways

After this keynote, your people will be able to:

• Understand how change affects their thinking, focus, and decision-making, and know that it’s biology, not weakness
• Recognize the difference between genuine resistance and a nervous system that has simply hit its biological limit in themselves and the people around them
• Know what has to happen in the brain before rational processing can take place
• Use a three-part biological practice to move through disruption rather than be consumed by it
• Talk about change constructively using a shared biological framework that removes blame and creates forward motion
• Build their own change capacity deliberately so the next initiative lands on a nervous system that’s ready for it, not one that’s already overdrawn

This is a two-hour intensive designed exclusively for leaders and managers following The Neuroscience of Change keynote while the shared biological framework is fresh and the language is alive in the room.

Where the keynote explained what’s happening, showed what the tools are, and why they work – the workshop focuses entirely on how to deploy them.

For each tool, leaders will learn and practice three specific deployment strategies.

Leaders who complete this workshop will:

• Learn the exact language for using these tools with their teams so no one has to improvise a neuroscience explanation under pressure
• Walk into high-stakes conversations with a biological protocol rather than just good intentions
• Stop interpreting their team’s struggle as resistance or apathy and start responding to it with precision
• Feel genuinely confident bringing the science of change into their leadership practice because they’ve practiced it, not just heard about it

Planner ROI: Most leaders leave a keynote understanding the problem, but not necessarily how to deploy the solutions. This workshop closes that gap. Leaders leave with a practiced protocol that produces faster adoption, lower attrition risk, and teams that stop mistaking biological depletion for personal failure. This is the complete biological approach to change your organization has been missing.

Who is this workshop for?

People who know why they do their work are more engaged, more resilient, and more likely to stay. This program helps leaders and employees uncover their personal “why” and connect it directly to your company’s mission. The result? Employees who are more motivated, less likely to burn out, and committed to your organization’s success.

Best For: Retention initiatives, leadership development, culture transformation

Executive leadership demands high performance, but very few leaders or managers have the physical capacity necessary to sustain it

Strategic clarity. Real accountability. A life that finally works for you.

Private coaching with Jenny is where high-achievers stop spinning and start leading themselves with intention. Together, you’ll uncover the patterns holding you back, build boundaries that protect your energy, and make decisions that align with who you are now, not who you’ve been performing to be.

If you want personalized support, accelerated growth, and a coach who will be honest, strategic, and wildly effective, this is where everything shifts.

A quarterly reset for women leaders to sustain energy, clarity, and performance.

Soul On Fire is a sprint-based group coaching membership designed exclusively for women leaders and executives. Each quarter, participants step into a focused reset—rebuilding capacity, realigning with their values, and reigniting their energy.

This isn’t another leadership seminar or “extra thing to do.” It’s a structured, science-backed space for women at the top to stop running on fumes and start leading with confidence, clarity, and presence.

Best For: Women’s leadership pipelines, executive development programs, ERGs, and organizations committed to retaining and advancing top female talent.

Outcomes:

• Prevent burnout and strengthen resilience at the executive level
• Increase clarity, confidence, and decision-making power
• Retain and elevate your highest-potential women leaders

Format: Quarterly sprints → group coaching, peer connection, and science-based strategies that fit into demanding schedules.