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

Speaker, Author, and Lifestyle Coach

Jenny Evans is a top business keynote speaker, author, and on-air expert on physiology and chemistry, as it relates to resiliency, confidence, and performance. She is highly experienced, having worked with thousands of C-suite executives, leaders, and employees — from corporations, associations, and universities across the globe.

  • Jenny Evans, B.S., C.P.T., C.F.T. Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    California, USA

  • Jenny Evans, B.S., C.P.T., C.F.T. Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    Please Inquire

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    California, USA

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FROM RESIGNATION TO RESILIENCE: IGNITE YOUR PASSION & PURPOSE

Recent events have caused your leaders and employees to question their lives and careers. You’ve lost many valuable people and the ones who haven’t left are not as engaged as they used to be. They’re contemplating what they want – and need –...

Recent events have caused your leaders and employees to question their lives and careers. You’ve lost many valuable people and the ones who haven’t left are not as engaged as they used to be. They’re contemplating what they want – and need – from their work and are ready to consider other opportunities.

We process our external world using our inner compass and inner dialogue.
Unfortunately, many of us don’t have as much clarity on our inner compass as we think, and we lack awareness of how much our inner dialogues are sabotaging our success. As a result, we’re overwhelmed when faced with change, are less resilient to stress, lose confidence and direction, and are less engaged.

Research shows that people who are purposeful in their jobs perform better, are more likely to avoid burnout, and are more committed.

And using inner dialogue to create purposeful stories drives engagement, passion, and success.

Not only will your people experience the game-changing discovery of their current purpose, but the rich group dialogue that takes place will also form a deep sense of connection, understanding, and unity.

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Guiding Principles for Creating a PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE (and how they can help you find an elephant when necessary)

In this immersive keynote filled with stunning visuals, I teach 6 powerful strategies I learned working with expert elephant trackers in Namibia that will forever change the way you approach your journey of meaning & fulfillment....

In this immersive keynote filled with stunning visuals, I teach 6 powerful strategies I learned working with expert elephant trackers in Namibia that will forever change the way you approach your journey of meaning & fulfillment.

 

  • Purpose is essential for organizations: 

Purpose-driven companies make more money, have more engaged employees and more loyal customers, have a culture of trust, experience more growth, and are even better at innovation and transformational change.

  • Purpose is essential for humans:

People who are clear on their purpose are more resilient, confident, and healthy. They also experience better decision-making, emotional regulation, memory, and energy.

 

Throughout this keynote, I’ll take you on a captivating journey through the deserts of Namibia, where I joined forces with an elephant conservation organization with the purpose of tracking a majestic bull elephant named Porthos.

During my work on this project, I began seeing important parallels between our desert quest to track down one specific elephant to our quests to track down our sense of purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in our personal and professional lives.

Science shows that a sense of purpose makes us more resilient, creates a buffer from stress, increases our confidence and engagement, improves mental health, and even predicts our longevity.

In this thought-provoking keynote, I’ll teach you six powerful strategies I learned working with expert elephant trackers that will forever change the way you approach your own journey. (I’ll also share the wild and unpredictable moments that unfolded during my extraordinary trip.)

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RESILIENCY RX: STRESS-PROOF YOUR BRAIN AND BODY VIRTUAL EVENTS

Need some tools to build your resiliency, mindset, productivity, energy and health? Join Jenny Evans, speaker, author, resiliency expert and executive coach to understand that the stress you’re feeling is not a psychology problem, it’s a chemistry problem – and it’...

Need some tools to build your resiliency, mindset, productivity, energy and health? Join Jenny Evans, speaker, author, resiliency expert and executive coach to understand that the stress you’re feeling is not a psychology problem, it’s a chemistry problem – and it’s easier than you think to fix! With a forehead-smacking paradigm shift, Jenny will explain how the chemistry of stress is affecting your brain & body: emotions, decision making, focus, communication, sleep, and nutrition and how to get it all working FOR YOU instead of against you. Jenny has developed a comprehensive – yet easily achievable – set of microstrategies that anyone can implement. In these fun, high energy virtual experiences, you’ll learn action steps and take-aways that you can start using immediately to go from feeling overwhelmed and overstressed to on purpose and on your game!

These virtual experience can be accompanied by:
• Online Resiliency Assessment to measure resiliency pre/post
• One-on-one coaching sessions
• Group or team coaching sessions
• Hit the Deck resiliency training tool
• The Resiliency rEvolution: Your Stress Solution for Life, 60-Seconds at a Time book

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Commander & Controller: When Stress Hits, Do You Really Feel in Command and in Control?

Success as an entrepreneur requires you be self-motivated, persistent, consistent, courageous, and committed to the long haul…in the face of stress. Unfortunately there’s just one person standing in your way: Sneaky Pete. Sneaky Pete is the primitive, caveman brain ...

Success as an entrepreneur requires you be self-motivated, persistent, consistent, courageous, and committed to the long haul…in the face of stress. Unfortunately there’s just one person standing in your way: Sneaky Pete.

Sneaky Pete is the primitive, caveman brain we all have that’s left over from our humble beginnings as humans. He’s hardwired to:

  • LIVE IN THE MOMENT & BE ALL ABOUT PLEASURE. Sneaky Pete doesn’t care about next month’s sales report – he wants a break from work RIGHT NOW to watch tv, eat a bag of chips, and have a glass of wine (or two).
  • BE LAZY. Ugh, doing 5 outreach emails today is enough right? Following up with 2 people is plenty right? Sneaky Pete is designed to expend the least amount of energy possible.
  • WANT INSTANT GRATIFICATION. Sneaky Pete doesn’t want to create a plan or follow a system for long-term success – he’s impulsive, reactive, and just wants some quick hits right now.
  • BE FEARFUL. He doesn’t want to put himself out there or recruit…that requires talking to people and that could me rejection! Sneaky Pete doesn’t want to take risk or do anything new or different. He’s afraid of failure, afraid of success, and afraid of the unknown.
  • DOUBT. Sneaky Pete is the voice in your head telling you you’re over-shooting, you’ll never make it to the next level, never be at the top, and pokes holes in your dreams. Who are you to think you can be a big success at this?

In this session you’ll learn how to get Sneaky Pete OUT of the commander’s seat, and your advanced, entrepreneurial mind firmly in control. Jenny will reveal the chemistry and biology of stress, how it involves Sneaky Pete, and share several easy, effective strategies for better brain function, mindset, mood….and success!

  • Understand how stress and cortisol negatively affect thinking, focus, decisionmaking, communication, mood, and emotions.
  • Stop the loops of fear, negativity, and self-doubt.
  • Create a sense of confidence and control in uncertain times.
  • Stay focused on long-term goals, strategies, and objectives.
  • Shift your mood to being proactive, positive, and solution-oriented.
  • Tap into a powerful source of inspiration and direction.

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Resiliency Rx: Stress-Proof Your Brain & Body

Stress is not a psychology problem, it’s a chemistry problem. In order to maximize our intellect and potential, we first have to optimize our chemistry. And we don’t have to be ace chemists to do it! This paradigm-shifting session unveils that it’s not about “managing...

Stress is not a psychology problem, it’s a chemistry problem. In order to maximize our intellect and potential, we first have to optimize our chemistry. And we don’t have to be ace chemists to do it! This paradigm-shifting session unveils that it’s not about “managing” or “reducing stress” (which isn’t possible) rather how to be more resilient to the stress we all face. And we can do it 60 seconds at a time.

• Learn the physiology and neurochemistry of stress as a physical event…in a fun (yes fun!) and easily understandable way.
• The hormones of stress: the good, the bad and the ugly.
• Your brain on stress: you are literally losing your mind.
• Realize how stress negatively affects the body, brain, cognitive performance, focus, communication, decision making, as well as what can be done to improve cognition.
• What is resiliency and how do you build it?
• Introduction to the Micro Strategies of resiliency, confidence, and performance.

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Stop Burnout In Its Tracks: Expand Your Capacity & Get Recovery

Employee stress and burnout are two of the top issues organizations and people are facing today. This session takes a physiological and chemical approach to how to truly optimize the human operating system for sustained high performance that does not come at a cost to people...

Employee stress and burnout are two of the top issues organizations and people are facing today. This session takes a physiological and chemical approach to how to truly optimize the human operating system for sustained high performance that does not come at a cost to people’s health, sanity or engagement.

• Stress is the stimulus for growth, but only when it’s followed by recovery.
• Understand how to expand your capacity in a healthy, sustainable way.
• Understand what qualifies as “high quality” recovery, and how to get it physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
• Learn how to balance the demands you have on your energy with a renewable supply.
• Create a plan for expanding capacity and getting recovery physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually

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From Overworked, Overwhelmed & Overstressed to On Fire, On Purpose & On Your Game

Getting clear on purpose is essential for resilience. Research shows that people who lack purpose in life have a higher incidence of depression and anxiety and that they’re less resilient to traumatic events. Insight and deep knowledge of beliefs is also essential for ...

Getting clear on purpose is essential for resilience. Research shows that people who lack purpose in life have a higher incidence of depression and anxiety and that they’re less resilient to traumatic events. Insight and deep knowledge of beliefs is also essential for performance in business and life. Many employees are struggling with focus, productivity, and prioritization. Certainty of beliefs immediately creates a sense of clarity, direction and accountability necessary for making important decisions – and taking appropriate action – in stressful times.

• Understand the connection between purpose, chemistry, resiliency & engagement.
• Establish clarity on how you define success professionally & personally.
• The answer to the ONE question that guarantees clarity, direction, commitment, prioritization and accountability both inside and outside of work.
• Learn about neuroplasticity of the brain, storytelling, and how to strengthen stories that work as well as get rid of stories that prevent engagement, action, and accountability.

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Micro Bursts: Your Pharmacy For Stress in 60-Second Doses

Exercise is the #1 way to rid your body of the stress hormone cortisol and build resilience. It’s also one of the most effective ways to boost energy and improve your sleep. Instead of having to add exercise to your “to-do” list – and your stress levels...

Exercise is the #1 way to rid your body of the stress hormone cortisol and build resilience. It’s also one of the most effective ways to boost energy and improve your sleep. Instead of having to add exercise to your “to-do” list – and your stress levels – you’ll learn how to improve your resiliency and fitness in short, doable, effective “Micro Bursts” – that you can do anytime, anywhere, with no equipment.

• Build your physiological resiliency: learn how to recover from stress more quickly and efficiently, as well as to raise your threshold for it.
• Manage your internal pharmacy for stress and learn how to access it.
• Gain knowledge to self-restore the chemistry of your brain, body, and mindset in less than 60 seconds.
• Get ideas on how to improve your resiliency for future stressors.
• Gain ways to increase your energy capacity to deal with the multitude of demands you are faced with on a daily basis.
• Get Play It Out: how to use the stress response to your advantage.
• As a side-effect to being more resilient, you’ll also improve your fitness, health, energy, and sleep

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Take a Bite Out of Stress

We all have to eat every day, and our choices are often affecting our chemistry and levels of stress without us knowing it. In turn, our chemistry and levels of stress affect the food choices we make. It’s a cycle of stress many people are on. This new and different ...

We all have to eat every day, and our choices are often affecting our chemistry and levels of stress without us knowing it. In turn, our chemistry and levels of stress affect the food choices we make. It’s a cycle of stress many people are on. This new and different perspective on nutrition helps participants understand how to eat in a way that optimizes their chemistry, energy, cognitive performance, focus and health…and that it’s easy and convenient to do. They’ll walk away excited and empowered with a new set of tools for feeling better both psychologically as well as physiologically.

• Learn the physiological connection between nutrition and the big five: stress, cognitive function, mood, decision making, and appetite.
• Uncover how you may be putting stress into your mouth multiple times a day.
• Understand the ways that chemical and biological feedback loops can have serious negative consequences on your focus, concentration, productivity, energy, sleep, health, and weight … and how to break them.
• Discover how to eat in a way that minimizes stress on the body as well as increases your levels of productivity, performance, energy and health.
• Realize how environment shapes your food choices and how to use this to your advantage.
• Grasp why willpower doesn’t work when it comes to nutrition, and what to use instead

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Put Your Stress to Bed

Quality sleep is the foundation for resiliency, performance, and health, yet more than half of us struggle with it on a nightly basis. When we’re stressed it’s even harder: it creates a vicious cycle of being stressed about not being able to sleep, which makes it even more...

Quality sleep is the foundation for resiliency, performance, and health, yet more than half of us struggle with it on a nightly basis. When we’re stressed it’s even harder: it creates a vicious cycle of being stressed about not being able to sleep, which makes it even more difficult. Participants will learn how to create the right chemistry and environment for high-quality, restorative sleep.

• Understand how sleep issues are not just a nuisance, but also negatively affect the chemistry and physiology of your brain and body.
• Discover the connection between quality sleep and learning, memory, mood, energy, hormones, health, and longevity.
• Learn sleep hygiene strategies that will improve the quality of your sleep and leave you feeling more resilient, engaged, positive, and focused.

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Optimal Defaults: The Way That Requires No Will

Why is behavior change so darn hard??? The intellectual part of our brain understands the importance of change, innovation, flexibility, and being adaptable, but there’s often a huge gap between KNOWING and DOING. This session eliminates those gaps completely! Participants ...

Why is behavior change so darn hard??? The intellectual part of our brain understands the importance of change, innovation, flexibility, and being adaptable, but there’s often a huge gap between KNOWING and DOING. This session eliminates those gaps completely! Participants will learn how the brain responds to change, why willpower rarely works, and how to make lasting change once and for all. They’ll learn fool-proof strategies for implementing what they’re learning in order to make real, long-lasting change.

• Understand how and why change creates stress, changes our chemistry, and makes behavior change almost impossible.
• Learn why willpower is not a reliable tool for making change.
• Realize how environment affects our choices and behavior.
• Master how to make change “so easy a caveman could do it”.
• Explore how to create microclimates conducive to change in all areas of your life: Optimal Defaults.
• Receive over 100 tools for successfully implementing change and the secret to making these changes permanent.

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The Chemistry of Confidence

Body chemistry is at the heart of our behavior, which includes our level of confidence. In order to become more confident, you have to change your chemistry and Jenny will show you how to become your own Confidence Chemist! You’ll understand the 5 chemicals of confidence as ...

Body chemistry is at the heart of our behavior, which includes our level of confidence. In order to become more confident, you have to change your chemistry and Jenny will show you how to become your own Confidence Chemist! You’ll understand the 5 chemicals of confidence as well as how/when to increase or decrease them to bulletproof your mindset, mood and confidence.

• Discover the connection between your chemistry and your level of confidence and presence.
• Understand the 5 Chemicals of Confidence: Serotonin, GABA, Dopamine, Endorphins, and Cortisol.
• Recognize the symptoms of chemistry that don’t support confidence.
• Know how and when to increase/decrease these chemicals to optimize your mindset, emotions, and leadership abilities.
• Learn 3 strategies to create the ideal chemical recipe for feeling confident, grounded, focused, and in control.

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About Keynote Speaker Jenny Evans, B.S., C.P.T., C.F.T.

Jenny’s dynamic presentations and training sessions both educate and inspire audiences by linking the stressful challenges of everyday life to the body’s own chemistry and physiology. Jenny brings to life the art of optimizing your own chemistry to boost your performance and productivity, all while enhancing your health and energy.

Jenny’s events are active, engaging, high-energy, and life-changing – leaving audiences inspired, informed and on their way to leading a more productive life in increasingly demanding business environments.

Her award-winning book, The Resiliency rEvolution has been hailed as a “smart, clever read and super-practical guide to leading a more full and resilient life.” She is also the creator of Hit the Deck – the ultimate tool for combating stress and increasing productivity and fitness.

Jenny has spoken on the TEDx stage, is the resiliency subject matter expert for Optum and The Big Know’s digital courses, writes as a blogger for The Huffington Post and was NBC KARE 11’s Health & Fitness expert for over four years. She has been quoted on National Public Radio, in Health Magazine and Women’s Health, while being showcased on FastCompany.comInc.comEntrepreneur.com, Shape.com and Elle.com.

Jenny has a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in psychology from the University of Minnesota and has been an American Council on Exercise Certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor for over twenty years.

Testimonials

“In the past year, AT&T University has been recognized multiple times by national publications for our excellence in Executive Development. Jenny Evans played no small role in this success. Incorporating Jenny into our flagship program raised our game in a way we couldn’t have anticipated. There are so many things out of our control in our environment right now, and her message was just what our leaders needed. Over the course of six months, Jenny stood in front of more than 3,500 executives at AT&T for four hours at a time. Her obvious passion around the material and her genuine concern for the participants in the room created a tidal wave of action at this great company. This response was consistent from coast to coast in the United States and didn’t skip a beat when we took the program to London and Hong Kong. We could not be more proud to call Jenny Evans our friend and our trusted partner. She has changed our culture for the better and we are forever grateful.”

Alyson Woodard

Director of Executive Development, AT&T University

“Jenny was outstanding! Everyone loved her message as well as her presentation style. Once people saw the agenda, there were lots of moans and concerns over a three hour speaker as we usually limit speakers to one hour. Jenny held 230 attendees’ attention the entire time. She was a perfect blend of being passionate, intense, funny and crystal clear with delivery. I can’t tell you how many people came up to all of us thanking us for the “gift” to them personally that Jenny’s presentation represented. People used words like “life changing”, “powerful”, “perfect timing”, “just what I needed” and “she’s a rock star”. Honestly, we all think she’s the best speaker we’ve ever had at our annual meeting!”

Niki Leondakis

President & COO, Kimpton Hotels and Restaurant Group

“I want to thank you again for giving us such an amazing presentation last week. People are still raving about what a life changer it has been for them, how it came at just the right moment, and how they have taken the lessons learned home with them to share with loved ones and colleagues. I have run conferences for 20+ years and your session was the best I’ve ever seen. The survey results so far are rating this year’s conference as the best yet, with a 96% score in the Excellent to Very Good range – the best we’ve ever had; and it’s mainly because of you and your message.”

Catherine Viglas

President, Canadian Institute of Traffic & Transportation

“Jenny was AMAZING. Seriously, I’m a tough grader and Jenny couldn’t have been better. I now have a new bar for what “no dip in energy” looks like over the course of a 5-hour keynote! So impressed. I can’t tell you how many people approached me after the session inspired by what they heard and saw. Thanks so much!”

Andy Erlandson

General Manager, Microsoft

“Yesterday was outstanding, to the point of flawless. I already told you how impressive it was that you were able to run the day without ever looking behind you to see which slide was up and that you barely consulted your notes. But the thing I didn’t add is that you also made the entire thing feel spontaneous. Your humor, your authenticity, your deep knowledge of the material and your warmth combined made it an incredible day for our folks, who absolutely loved you. I am sure the evaluations will show that to be true. Thanks for giving us your best, and for successfully bringing extraordinary energy and performance to our team. And thank you for your offer to support me as I bring the material to our store teams.”

Jon Anastasio

Vice President, Learning & Development, Nordstrom, Inc.

“I selected Jenny Evans to work with the entire Clinique North American Sales and Education executives. Though we were fortunate to work with a number of outstanding outside consultants, Jenny was one of the special few who made a lasting impression and directly contributed to the health and productivity of our team. As someone who specializes in adult education methods and talent development, I was impressed not only with Jenny’s level of expertise in physiology, nutrition and exercise, but also with her ability to deliver a compelling message in an always engaging, respectful and positive manner. Jenny’s strategies for good health and fitness work. Best of all, based on Jenny’s contribution, many executives reported positive long-term benefits after working with Jenny: healthy and lasting weight loss, decreased levels of stress and higher levels of energy. Jenny convinced our executives, many of whom traveled a large portion of the week, that they could successfully handle the challenges of eating healthfully and exercising on the road. Jenny is a powerful role model who “walks the walk” as she balances a challenging career and the demands of home, family and community. She truly was an inspiration to our field both during the time we worked with her and long after. Based on my experiences, I would not hesitate to recommend Jenny to any organization that wants to boost the health, fitness and performance of every individual on their team.”

Heidi Guest

Vice President Education, North America, Clinique

“PowerHouse! That’s the best description of Jenny Evans and her message. As a powerhouse, Jenny delivers a keynote that is intelligent, inspiring and vital while wrapped in humor and high energy. When Jenny spoke to our international group of educators, she captivated the entire audience with her unique perspective on health and wellness. In today’s fast-paced, stress-filled and economically challenging times, Jenny’s message is crucial to helping individuals discover how truly simple balance can be to obtain. To date, members of our team have integrated Jenny’s information in their lives and implement the knowledge and tools they gained by spending time with this powerhouse.”

Erik Arveseth

Senior Manager, Education Aveda Corporation

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