Jenny Evans

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 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.

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 then we can optimize our psychology. 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 easily do it with Jenny’s Micro Strategies, 60 seconds at a time

Resiliency Rx is a highly engaging and interactive program that helps your leaders, managers and teams

• increase their awareness of how stress is affecting their physical, mental and emotional resilience, using real-time data
• understand and approach stress from an entirely different context
• utilize a broad set of highly effective Micro Strategies – each one grounded in the sciences of exercise physiology and psychology
• design and execute customized action plans for immediately improving their resiliency

After this keynote, you and your team will…

• Understand the physiology of the stress response and how it affects brain function, structure and chemistry.
• Learn how to utilize advanced, intellectual portions of the brain during stress instead of the more primitive, reactive ones.
• Improve your mental capital and cognitive performance: decision-making skills, focus, memory, attention and conflict resolution.
• Enhance your ability to access positive emotional states while decreasing anxiety, negativity and reactivity.
• Begin to deploy the 60-second Micro Strategies for resiliency, performance and health.
• Actively tap into your internal pharmacy for neutralizing stress when you need a dose of natural calm and confidence.
• Connect the power of purpose with chemistry, resiliency and engagement, so that productivity and balance hit new heights.
• Clearly define what professional and personal success means to you.
• Answer the ONE question that guarantees clarity, direction, commitment, prioritization and accountability both inside and outside of work.
• Use neuroscience to hack your way to easy, positive, lasting once-and-for-all change.
• Leave with a customized action plan you KNOW you can implement no matter how busy.
• Increase your threshold for stress.
• Train your body and brain to recover from stress more quickly and efficiently.

As a leading resilience expert, Jenny works closely with every client to design a customized program that targets and solves the needs of their people.

Employee stress and burnout are two of the top issues organizations are facing today.

These are why good people quit, insurance rates are skyrocketing, and cultures turn toxic… employees are Over It.

So, let’s help your leaders and teams feel On It!

In this keynote, stress speaker Jenny Evans will help you learn how to energize and optimize the chemistry and biology of your body and brain for sustained high performance, regardless of the stresses you’re facing.

This is definitely not your average “let’s talk about self-care” keynote…

After this keynote, you and your team will…

• Leverage stress as stimulus for growth, by following it with recovery.
• Begin 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.
• Start balancing the demands on your energy with a renewable supply.
• Create a personal plan for expanding capacity and getting recovery physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

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.

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.

After this keynote your team will know…

• 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.

The global pandemic has hit women particularly hard. Forty two percent of professional women report they’re burned out and 1 in 3 say they’ve considered downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce completely. They’re overworked, overwhelmed, overstressed and feeling OVER IT.

The “She-Cession” is here and it’s hurting your business. Research proves that companies with more female executives are more likely to outperform companies that don’t. You must support, retain and attract talented women in order to develop a culture that enables men and women alike to achieve their potential, employing the power of a diverse, collective genius.

This session addresses the unique challenges and needs of your female leaders and gives them the tools to sustain their performance and energy for the long run – both inside and outside of work.

• Resilience and confidence are influenced by how well we know our values and purpose. When we lack clarity, we’re less resilient to stress and our confidence wanes. It’s difficult to feel confident in our abilities when we’re uncertain about why and how we make decisions. Once we truly understand ourselves, then our priorities and decisions will naturally align with our ideals. We grow in confidence as we learn to trust our internal locus rather than be swayed by external forces.
• Resilience and confidence are affected by recovery. Our days are filled with stress, incessant obligations and habitual time wasters that sap our energy. How can we feel positive and confident when it seems we’re not doing enough or not doing it well? Recovery means granting ourselves permission to strategically refuel and recharge. Only then can we can predictably unleash our talents, skills and passion with sustainable, high-quality energy.
• Resilience and confidence are linked to our physical being. The chemistry of our bodies and brains are a direct reflection of our ability to thrive in the face of stress and uncertainty. Many women continually prioritize other people’s needs in front of their own, and years of physical neglect result in feeling burned out and exhausted. Our bodies are where energy is generated, and learning to see them as the biological source of resilience and confidence changes everything.

This highly interactive and engaging program teaches women how to develop daily practices that embolden confidence and competence in the workplace and beyond. Rich with discussion and inner reflection, this program also utilizes the wisdom and experiences of the entire group. Leaders walk away with personalized action plans to transform from feeling OVER IT to On Fire, On Purpose and On Their Game.

Objectives:

• To foster a culture of high-performing women who are supported, clear and committed to their paths of performance and advancement.
• To give women the tools to step – and stay – into leadership roles that grow their abilities to lead, take action, drive for results and improve the bottom line.
• To help women leaders identify their values and purpose in order to prioritize effectively and guide their decision-making process.
• To embolden women to step out of their comfort zones, and to embrace challenge, risk, and initiative.
• To balance stress and recovery in order to show up fully focused and energized, as well as to utilize their complete array of talents and skills in the workplace.
• To create opportunity for reflection in order to gain clarity, identify goals, strengths and weaknesses, and what actions need to be taken.
• To design and implement an individualized action plan that strengthens leadership, confidence, competence, energy and resiliency.

Life is full of journeys. But the most important journeys are the ones that lead us to our purpose.

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.

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[1]making, emotional regulation, mental health, memory, and energy.

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.

Drawing important parallels between the vast wilderness of Namibia to the landscapes of our own lives and careers, we’ll:

• Dive into the secrets of seeing the world through fresh eyes – how to get out of autopilot, our silos, bubbles, and habits & routines to cultivate experiences that inspire innovative ideas, profound thoughts, and powerful emotions.
• Highlight the significance of seeking diversity in opinions and perspectives to enrich our search for new ideas and insights.
• Learn how to hone our observational skills, embrace our internal guidance systems, and unlock a deeper understanding of our paths both professionally and personally.
• Understand how to tap into our courage to follow signs, navigate obstacles, overcome fear, and embrace the unexpected.
• Discover how to uncover hidden bits of information, growth opportunities, and the importance of nurturing certain aspects of our lives. Elements of the trip showcased the incredible resilience and fertility of the natural world, reminding us that growth often emerges from the most unexpected places and that difficulties can serve as powerful fertilizer for personal and professional development.
• See how embracing a broader perspective empowers us to make informed decisions and navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity.
• Answer the ONE question that guarantees clarity, direction, commitment, prioritization, and accountability both inside and outside of work.

When the stress in our lives increases, so does the demand for energy in order to deal with those stresses. And the last few years have been stressful for everyone. Leaders, managers and employees have been working harder than ever before and are stretched thin, burned out and exhausted.

The cumulative data of our Resiliency Assessment shows that people struggle with PHYSICAL RESILIENCE the most.

Physical energy is the foundation of everything. Without energy, nothing happens. And the energy required for your people to succeed and thrive is off the charts.

ENERGY FOR RESILIENCE will help your people increase, fortify, and recover their physical energy & resilience.