JJ DiGeronimo
JJ DiGeronimo is a women’s leadership speaker and four-time award-winning author who delivers engaging, action-based keynotes and workshops that help women build confidence, reclaim their energy, and expand their influence and impact.
JJ has many repeat clients because women ask for her to return again and again. Her podcasts, articles, and videos can be found across many platforms, and her work has been featured in Forbes, CIO Magazine, and other leading publications. She has also been selected to host full-day retreats for Women in Business, an area in which she specializes.
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- When you invite JJ DiGeronimo, you can expect an engaging experience that combines real-world leadership insight, thoughtful reflection, and practical strategies women can apply immediately.JJ Delivers:
- Highly engaging keynotes and workshops that balance inspiration with actionable strategies
- Customized programs aligned with your audience, desired outcomes, and organizational goals
- Flexible formats, including keynotes, interactive workshops, executive roundtables, fireside conversations, book discussions, and extended learning sessions
- Customized corporate women’s retreats, from one-day gatherings to multi-day experiences
- Discounted bulk pricing on her award-winning books for attendee gifts and event takeaways
Trusted by Leading Organizations
JJ has delivered keynotes and workshops for respected organizations, with numerous clients inviting her back for repeat engagements. Her clients include IBM, Google, McDonald’s, Amazon, Cisco, Discover, GE, Nestlé, Progressive Insurance, Rockwell Automation, Union Pacific Railroad, The Coca-Cola Company, Sherwin-Williams, Thermo Fisher, ServiceNow, Lubrizol, Ingram Micro, Vertiv, Acumatica, Jabra, Alston & Bird, BMO, Cleveland Clinic, KeyBank, Darden Restaurants, Calfee, Ulmer & Berne LLP, Infoblox, Karpinski Engineering, SysDev, Data Strategy, General Mills, EMC, and many others.
She is also a frequent speaker for universities, professional associations, and women’s leadership organizations, including IEEE, SHRM, NAWBO, the Society of Women Engineers, WITI, BPW, YMCA Women in Leadership, the Women’s Foodservice Forum, and Women in Engineering programs at The Ohio State University, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), University at Buffalo, and Ohio University.
Audiences JJ Serves
JJ delivers both in-person and virtual programs for:
- Women in Tech and Women in STEM
- Corporate Women’s Initiatives and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Leadership, sponsorship, and career advancement programs
- Corporate meetings and sales conferences
- Women’s leadership and professional organizations
- Emerging talent and Girls in STEM initiatives
- Men as Champions and Allyship audiences
Four Signature Keynotes
1. Accelerate Your Influence & Impact: Career Advancement Strategies for Women in Business
Practical strategies to elevate your voice, communicate your value, expand your visibility, and create momentum in your career.
2. The Frequency Effect: Harnessing Your Energy to Lead Impactful Teams and Projects
Explore how your energy influences your leadership, priorities, relationships, and ability to create meaningful impact.
3. Trust Your Intelligence: Where Inner Wisdom Meets AI at Work
Discover the importance of human judgment, self-trust, and inner wisdom as AI reshapes how we work and lead.
4. Reignite Your SPARK: 7 Ways to Reclaim Your Energy, Reconnect with Yourself, and Lead Differently
Seven practical ways to recognize what fuels you, reconnect with your strengths, and lead with renewed energy and intention.
All four topics can be customized for your audience and delivered as keynotes, workshops, or extended learning experiences.
*Fee ranges are presented as a guideline only. Speaker fees are subject to change without notice. For an exact quote, please contact your Speaker Exchange Agency representative.
Award-winning author and keynote speaker JJ DiGeronimo helps high-achieving women reclaim their energy, trust their intelligence, expand their influence, and create meaningful impact through practical strategies, intentional leadership, and greater self-trust.
After two decades in technology leadership roles at global firms including VMware and Accenture, JJ founded Tech Savvy Women, a global community of more than 12,000 women in technology and STEM. Today, she helps women navigate career and life transitions with greater confidence, recognize their strengths, and make intentional choices about where they invest their energy and talents.
JJ has been invited to speak by a wide range of respected organizations, including IBM, Google, Amazon, Cisco, Discover, GE, Nestlé, Progressive Insurance, Rockwell Automation, Union Pacific Railroad, Sherwin-Williams, Thermo Fisher, ServiceNow, Lubrizol, Ingram Micro, Vertiv, Acumatica, Jabra, BMO, The Cleveland Clinic, KeyBank, and many others.
She continues to be in demand for both in-person and virtual events, speaking to audiences including Women in Tech and STEM, corporate women’s initiatives and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), leadership development programs, professional associations, and executive conferences. Her engaging, interactive keynotes and workshops explore career advancement, leadership energy, self-trust, and the value of human intelligence in an AI-driven workplace.
Featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Thrive Global, JJ is the award-winning author of four books, host of two podcasts, and an experienced retreat facilitator who has organized more than 15 retreats. Through her books, keynotes, workshops, and customized corporate women’s retreats, she helps women reconnect with their strengths, navigate what’s next, and expand their impact.
Topic focus: Women in leadership, influence and visibility, confidence and self-worth, alignment and authenticity, sponsorship, executive exposure, and intentional career strategy.
Accelerate Your Influence & Impact:
Career Advancement Strategies for Women in Business
Duration: 45–120 minutes
Format: Keynote, interactive session, or workshop
Audience: Professional Women
Ideal For: Women in Business, Women in Tech, ERGs, Leadership Programs
Program Description
Are you looking to expand your influence and impact, yet feel uncertain about where to focus your time and energy next? Many professional women deliver strong results but still experience stalled momentum, limited visibility, or unclear pathways to greater influence.
JJ DiGeronimo understands this challenge firsthand. As a woman in tech, she encountered similar obstacles and spent years studying how high-performing professionals intentionally shape their careers. What she discovered is that results alone are not enough. Sustainable impact requires clarity, visibility, strategic alignment, and the ability to advocate for your work with confidence.
In this engaging and practical keynote, award-winning author JJ DiGeronimo shares proven, action-based strategies drawn from her six-time award-winning book Accelerate Your Impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path. Participants gain a professional playbook to help them make intentional choices, strengthen their influence, and position themselves for opportunities that align with their goals.
This session is designed for women at all career stages who want to be more strategic, confident, and purposeful in how they show up and lead.
Participants Will Learn How To:
- Identify common obstacles that limit women’s influence and how to navigate them
- Communicate accomplishments with confidence to increase visibility and credibility
- Evaluate opportunities and project requests through a strategic career lens
- Leverage mentors and sponsors to support growth and access new opportunities
Even if participants are not actively seeking a new role or promotion, this session helps them position themselves intentionally so they are prepared when the right opportunity arises.
Program Resources
- JJ’s award-winning books may be included as tools for attendees to follow along and continue learning beyond the session
Related Publications
- Accelerate Your Impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path
- Podcast: Career Strategies for Women That Work
Optional Add-On
- Sample discussion questions available for follow-up panels or facilitated conversations
Practical strategies for managing your energy, strengthening performance, and leading with greater impact.
The Frequency Effect – Harnessing Your Energy to Lead Impactful Teams and Projects
Duration: 45-90 Mins
Audience: Professionals, Team Leaders, and Corporate Women’s Groups
Areas of Focus: Leadership energy management, team performance, mindfulness, boundaries, and fuel stations.
Leadership Energy Management: How Your Energy Influences Team Performance
Have you considered how the energy you bring into a meeting, project, or conversation influences those around you?
Demanding schedules can leave even capable professionals operating on empty, affecting communication, decisions, and team engagement.
A computer systems engineer and former technology executive, JJ DiGeronimo knows systems, signals, and performance. Her journey revealed how our energy influences a room’s tone and momentum.
Drawing from Seeking, Accelerate Your Impact, and Illuminate Your Path, JJ shares five strategies to recognize energy drains and fuel stations, strengthen leadership presence, and invest your talents intentionally.
Key Takeaways: Energy Management and Leadership Development
Professionals who attend will: Recognize how their energy influences meetings, team dynamics, and project momentum. Complete a personal energy audit to identify drains, fuel stations, and practicing polluters. Understand how stories, boundaries, and seasons shape their leadership. Explore mindfulness techniques to reset energy at work without adding to their to-do list. Create a 21-day action plan to strengthen their impact on a team or project. Whether navigating change or leading a demanding project, this keynote helps you redirect your energy toward what matters most. You don’t need to add more to create greater impact. Reconnect with what fuels you and choose how you want to show up.
Workplace Energy Management Tools and Resources
Personal energy audit, fuel station exercises, and 21-day action plan. JJ’s award-winning books are available for attendees.
Publications:
Seeking; Illuminate Your Path; Accelerate Your Impact
Leadership and Team Engagement Panel Questions Available.
JJ has delivered keynotes for organizations including Google, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, General Mills, IBM, Cisco, and KeyBank, combining corporate experience and actionable strategies to create meaningful impact.
Discover how to pair AI with your inner wisdom, trust your judgment, and lead with greater confidence and impact.
Trust Your Intelligence – Where Inner Wisdom Meets AI at Work
Duration: 45-90 Mins
Audience: Professionals, Team Leaders, Corporate Women’s Groups, and Leadership Development Programs
Areas of Focus: AI in the workplace, human intelligence, intuition, professional judgment, self-trust, and leadership development.
Human Intelligence in an AI-Driven Workplace
As artificial intelligence becomes part of more workplace conversations, are we overlooking the intelligence we already carry?
AI can help us explore ideas, organize information, and consider new possibilities. Yet professionals still bring the experience, relationships, and judgment needed to determine which direction is right for their work and the impact they want to create.
As a computer systems engineer and former technology executive, JJ DiGeronimo spent two decades positioning emerging technology for Fortune 500 companies. Her journey also led her to explore intuition, self-trust, and the whispers that guide meaningful decisions.
Drawing from her work, JJ shares practical strategies to help professionals recognize their value, sidestep self-doubt, and trust the intelligence they already carry while navigating a changing workplace.
Key Takeaways: Self-Trust and Human Decision-Making in the Age of AI
Professionals who attend will:
Recognize the value of human experience and judgment alongside emerging technology.
Identify the strengths, relationships, and knowledge they bring to professional decisions.
Recognize when self-doubt, fear, or perfectionism influences their choices.
Evaluate projects and opportunities through the lens of their strengths and priorities.
Take intentional steps toward greater confidence, influence, and meaningful impact.
Whether navigating new technology, leading through change, or evaluating a career opportunity, this interactive keynote helps professionals separate signals from noise and move forward with greater confidence.
Technology will continue to evolve. Your experience, discernment, and inner knowing remain valuable parts of how you lead and contribute.
Human Intelligence and Leadership Panel Questions Available.
JJ has delivered keynotes for organizations including Google, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, General Mills, IBM, Cisco, and KeyBank, combining corporate experience and actionable strategies to create meaningful impact.
Reclaim your energy, rediscover what lights you up, and learn 7 practical ways to lead with renewed purpose and impact.
Reignite Your SPARK – 7 Ways to Reclaim Your Energy, Reconnect with Yourself, and Lead Differently
Duration: 45-90 Mins
Audience: Professional Women, Women’s Leadership Groups, Corporate ERGs, and Leadership Development Programs
Areas of Focus: Women’s leadership, energy management, career fulfillment, mindfulness at work, intentional boundaries, self-trust, and professional growth.
Women’s Leadership Keynote: Reclaim Your Energy and Rediscover What Lights You Up
You’ve built a career, met expectations, and supported others. But when was the last time you asked yourself, What lights me up now?
For many high-achieving women, the habits that helped them succeed, including pushing through and saying yes, can leave little room for their own energy and aspirations.
As a former technology executive, JJ DiGeronimo knows this journey firsthand. Drawing from Seeking and Illuminate Your Path, she shares seven practical ways to recognize energy drains, reconnect with personal fuel stations, set intentional boundaries, and make space for what comes next.
Key Takeaways: Energy Management and Career Fulfillment for Women
Professional women who attend will:
Recognize recurring energy drains and identify personal fuel stations.
Make more intentional choices about commitments and boundaries.
Integrate simple mindfulness practices into demanding workdays.
Reassess their priorities as their careers and life circumstances evolve.
Take one meaningful step toward an interest, gift, or possibility that lights them up.
Through personal stories, reflective exercises, and practical tools, this interactive keynote helps women reconnect with what matters to them now without feeling they must abandon everything they’ve built.
You don’t have to start over to reignite your spark. Your next chapter can begin with one intentional choice.
Women’s Leadership Resources
Personal energy audit, fuel station exercises, and seven practical strategies. JJ’s award-winning books are available for attendees.
Publications
Seeking; Illuminate Your Path
JJ has delivered keynotes for organizations including Google, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, General Mills, IBM, Cisco, and KeyBank, combining corporate experience, personal stories, and actionable strategies to create meaningful impact.
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