Chasing the Bright Side: Purpose-Driven Thinking Leads to Unstoppable Growth

This program is perfect for:​
Employees
Corporate
Trade Associations
Management
Teams struggling with momentum
Companies looking to fix high turnover
Opening keynote to kickoff a conference

What you will learn:

• Finding the overlap between passion and profit
• Why optimism is the key to positive growth
• How to turn setbacks into comebacks
• A better future starts with a brighter mindset

It’s so easy to get warped into negative thoughts and constantly feeling like you’re moving from problem to problem.

A recent study at the American Academy of Neurology found that prolonged negative thinking diminishes your brain’s ability to think or reason clearly and it quickly drains your energy.

You’d think the solution to negativity would be to tell yourself to “just be positive!” but we all know that doesn’t trick your brain, it only frustrates it.

In Jess’ bestselling book, Chasing the Bright Side, she talks about how optimism isn’t about eliminating the negativity, it’s about using it to create something better. Even the spark of her business, Headbands of Hope, was started because of a problem she saw: kids with cancer wanted to wear headbands after hair-loss. Now, her company has donated over one million headbands to kids with illnesses and has reached every children’s hospital in the United States and 22 countries.

But it all began because there was a problem. Problems are where a lot of great ideas begin if we let them.

If you’re looking to find a keynote speaker who can deliver inspiration infused with humor and entertainment, then Jess is your choice. In this keynote, she aims to inspire audiences to not just envision a better future for their life, work, and community, but go create it.

Meaningful Work: How to be fulfilled...right where you are

Past Audiences Include: Micron, Sharpie, Citrix, Ignite Tupelo, Catalyst University, YMCA

This program is perfect for:​
Employees
Corporate
Trade Associations
Management
Teams struggling with momentum
Companies looking to fix high turnover
Associations

What you will learn:

• Fulfillment is not a destination we hit one day, but a choice to how we live today
• Develop an entrepreneurial mindset to increase your agility and handle what’s thrown your way
• It’s not about the task, but what you make the task mean
• Learn what is success (purpose) and what is achievement (reward)

Let’s get one thing straight: meaningful work is not assigned to you, it’s created by you.

Most of the time we believe that in order to do something meaningful, we have to do something else. Live somewhere else, work somewhere else, do something else, be someone else. But what if we didn’t have to change our circumstance to do something meaningful, but changed our mindset around it?

Nowadays, people don’t want to just clock in and clock out. People want to feel like what they’re doing matters- it’s human nature. We want to know that all of the tasks are building blocks to something greater than themselves. We want to zoom out and say, “Yes! I’m a part of something that matters.”

When employees, leaders, entrepreneurs can create meaning in their work:

They show up with more passion
Their hustle muscle is activated
They’re more engaged in the big picture
And the ordinary tasks now have an extraordinary purpose

When we build meaning in our work: A single sale becomes a fist pump of forward progress. A customer service call becomes a deeper connection to a future customer. An end of quarter review becomes an impact report….

In other words, our jobs are no longer jobs…they’re a service to humanity.

Jess’ keynote is certainly not a namaste, save the world, love-what-you-do-and-you-never-have-to-work-a-day-in-your-life manifesto. She uses her experiences, market research, and improv comedy classes to make an inspiring yet entertaining experience.

That's What She Said: Powering Our Inner Dialogue So We Can Lead The Way

Past Audiences Include: Leadercast Women and Women’s Business Summit, Clark Construction Group’s (WIN)

This program is perfect for:​
All women groups, associations, summits, conferences & events

What you will learn:

• Recognizing the voice in our head and what it tells us
• The path to leadership begins with giving more airtime to our inner cheerleader than our inner critic.
• Learning that confidence is a voice, not a skill
• Understanding that we are always in control of our story

Whether or not we recognize it or hear it, we have this voice in our head: the voice in our head that tells us we’re not ready. The voice in our head that makes our failures louder than our wins. The voice in our head that compares us to the woman beside us. The voice in our head that tells us someday, but not today.

So what happens when we change the story?

Opportunity. That’s what happens when we change the voice in our head to tell us that there’s good and we can bring it. It opens up a whole other world that maybe we thought was beyond reach before. Everything we want is within reach if we’re willing to throw perfection out the door and embrace the messiness of the journey.

But first, we have to learn to recognize the voice in our head and train it to be our biggest cheerleader, instead of the coach that keeps putting you on the bench. In this keynote, Jess will use her story of Headbands of Hope to show how she actively trained the voice in her head through times of inspiration, chaos, failure and purpose.