Jackie Pelland

Relatable and Authentic | Leadership Expert and Coach

Expert on

  • Leadership & Fundamental Leadership Skills
  • Accountability
  • Team Health
  • Resilience
  • Mindset

Fee Range

$4,000–$10,000

Travels from

IA, US

Biography

Jackie Pelland, co-founder of Slingshot25, is a sought-after speaker who delivers high-impact keynotes and breakout sessions at conferences and leadership events across industries. With 25 years of experience in corporate learning and development roles in both telecom and aerospace, Jackie knows how to navigate the complexities of modern business—and she brings that expertise to every stage she steps on.

Jackie’s speaking style is energetic, relatable, and refreshingly authentic. Her sessions blend humor, hard truths, and practical insights, leaving audiences both inspired and equipped to take action. Whether she’s delivering a keynote to hundreds or facilitating an intimate breakout, Jackie engages her audience with stories that resonate and strategies that work. She’s known for making leadership accessible and helping people at every level understand how to lead with empathy, curiosity, humility and a belief in others.

From navigating corporate politics to creating cultures where people thrive, Jackie tackles the issues that matter most to leaders today. Her passion lies in helping leaders unlock the potential in their teams while maintaining humanity at the core of their leadership.

Jackie has spent her career studying the impact of leadership on organizations. She believes that what we need from our leaders – a desire to contribute our talents, to be valued, and to feel connected to others – is roughly the same now as when we lived in caves. It’s these beliefs that drive Jackie’s insightful, fun, and welcoming approach to leadership development that focuses on the essential and often-forgotten truth of leading people.

If you’re looking for a speaker who brings substance, style, and a touch of humor to leadership development, Jackie Pelland is the voice you need at your next event.

You’re Just Not That Big a Deal

It probably comes as no surprise that we often get in our own way. We twist ourselves around the need to please others or the desire to always appear smart. This talk highlights the urgent need to understand these traps and how falling into them impacts not just ourselves but others. Leave with new personal insight and five ideas that will make you think differently about how you show up every day.

Key Objectives:

  • The personal leadership power of humility
  • What keeps us trapped in self-focus
  • Five ideas to unleash a deep source of leadership power

Lead So Others (Want to) Follow

There are over 50,000 leadership books available on Amazon, and more are added every day. We are drowning in a world of leadership advice. This talk acknowledges that reality and takes you on a journey deeper into the often-forgotten and surprising truth at the core of leadership. Prepare to clear away the noise, revisit the truth at the bottom of everything, and learn three ideas that will change the way you lead forever.

Key Objectives:

  • Identify the one thing all leaders have in common and what it means
  • Explore the Theory of Complexity and how it applies to leadership
  • Three prominent myths of leadership and the fundamental truths to counteract them

Stop Killing Accountability

This talk tells the fascinating story of why the simple concept of accountability is so hard to achieve. You will discover the top ways leaders often unknowingly kill accountability and how you can stop these behaviors from undermining your effectiveness as a leader.

Key Objectives:

  • A clear definition of accountability
  • Why accountability is so fragile – hard to create, easy to destroy
  • Ten common ways organizations kill accountability
  • Ten things you can start doing today to build a culture of accountability

The Art of Resilience

In this interactive session, we reflect on the importance of resilience as an essential skill for success in today’s world of persistent change. Learn to discern between dysfunctional persistence and true resilience, examine three practices of resilient people, and take home some helpful tools for gaining perspective on staying resilient in the face of everyday stress and significant challenges.

Key Objectives:

  • How instability and uncertainty affect us
  • A clear definition of resilience
  • The practices of highly resilient people

Coaching: The Skill that Changes Everything

In this talk, we discuss the common misperceptions of coaching and explain what coaching is and what it isn’t. You’ll discover how learning to coach can feel like a new superpower, especially for leaders. Although this session cannot make you a certified coach, you will leave with three core coaching skills you can use right now for immediate impact.

Key Objectives:

  • The definition of coaching – what it is and what it’s not
  • Understand how coaching changes behavior – the research
  • Three coaching skills that you can begin using immediately for practical application

Mindset Matters

This talk reveals some startling insight into how you view the world, how you respond to challenges, how you perceive other people, and the power you have to change all that! Use what you learn to challenge your own thinking, make more helpful choices, and ultimately change your world.

Key Objectives:

  • The definition and impact of mindset on your thoughts and actions
  • How to notice your own mindset and choose how you show up
  • Strategies to achieve a“healthy” mindset aligned with your values and goals