Jenny Evans is a speaker, author and performance expert helping people build resilience, manage stress and perform with greater confidence.
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“Jenny was AMAZING. I’m a tough grader, and she nailed a 5-hour session without one dip in energy. Attendees walked away inspired, quoting her all day. I can’t tell you how many people approached me afterward to say how much her session resonated. So impressed.”
Andy Erlandson, General Manager
Microsoft
Jenny Evans is an inspirational speaker, author and organizational consultant specializing in resilience, stress, confidence and human performance. She helps people perform at their best without sacrificing their health in the process. As founder and CEO of PowerHouse Performance and author of the award-winning The Resiliency rEvolution, Jenny translates insights about stress and performance into practical strategies audiences can use immediately. She has worked with thousands of C-suite executives, leaders and employees worldwide, helping them build confidence, manage stress and recover more effectively under pressure.
Jenny Evans has built both her career and her life around a fascination with human performance. Driven by confidence, creativity, stubbornness and what she describes as a useful amount of naïveté, she has followed her passion for understanding what helps people reach their potential and turned that passion into a career helping others do the same.
Today, Jenny is an inspirational speaker, author and organizational consultant focused on resilience, stress, confidence and human performance. She is the founder and CEO of PowerHouse Performance, where her work centers on a challenge familiar to organizations everywhere: how can people continue to perform at a high level when demands, pressure and stress keep increasing?
Jenny brings practical answers to that question. Her work helps audiences tap into their personal power and confidence, expand their capacity for stress and learn how to recover from it more quickly and effectively. The result is an approach to performance that connects productivity with health rather than treating the two as competing priorities.
Jenny’s expertise is grounded in the relationship between the mind, body, stress and performance. Rather than treating resilience as an abstract idea, she gives people strategies they can understand and apply in demanding everyday situations.
She is the author of the award-winning book The Resiliency rEvolution: Your Stress Solution for Life – 60 Seconds at a Time. Its focus reflects a central theme in Jenny’s work: meaningful improvements in resilience do not always require sweeping changes. Small, practical actions can help people respond differently to pressure and improve the way they function when demands are high.
Her work helps audiences:
For organizations, these insights offer a way to address performance from a human perspective. Jenny understands that employees and leaders cannot simply eliminate pressure from their professional lives. Instead, they can become better equipped to deal with it.
Jenny brings an extensive background in health, exercise and human behavior to her work. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with an emphasis on Psychology from the University of Minnesota. She has also been an American Council on Exercise Certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor for more than 20 years and is a certified Exercise Nutritionist.
This combination of kinesiology, psychology, exercise and nutrition gives Jenny a broad perspective on what influences human performance. Her presentations connect this knowledge with the realities facing executives, leaders and employees, making complex ideas relevant to people working in fast-moving and demanding environments.
Jenny has worked with thousands of C-suite executives, leaders and employees worldwide. Her corporate client list includes Yale School of Management, Ameriprise Financial, U.S. Bank, AT&T, Estée Lauder Companies, Comcast, Nationwide, Procter & Gamble and Target, alongside many other Fortune 500 companies.
Jenny Evans has shared her ideas on the TEDx stage and has established herself as a trusted voice on resilience and performance across a range of media and educational platforms.
She is the resilience subject matter expert for Optum and The Big Know’s digital courses and has written as a blogger for The Huffington Post. Jenny also spent more than four years as an NBC Health & Fitness expert.
Her expertise has been quoted on National Public Radio and featured in publications including Health Magazine and Women’s Health. Her work has also been showcased by FastCompany.com, Inc.com, Entrepreneur.com, Shape.com and Elle.com.
These experiences have given Jenny the ability to communicate performance and resilience concepts to audiences with very different backgrounds. Whether she is addressing senior executives, leaders or employees, her focus remains on making the science useful, memorable and relevant to the pressures people actually face.
Booking speaker Jenny Evans gives audiences an opportunity to rethink their relationship with stress, resilience and performance. Her work challenges the assumption that high performance must come at the expense of health and instead explores how people can increase their ability to handle demands while recovering more effectively.
Jenny’s presentations are particularly relevant for organizations navigating pressure, demanding workloads, changing expectations or a need for stronger and more sustainable performance. Her combination of expertise in kinesiology, psychology, exercise, nutrition and organizational consulting allows her to approach these challenges from several angles while keeping the message practical.
At the heart of Jenny’s work is a genuine obsession with human potential. She has designed her own career around maximizing that potential and helping others discover more of theirs. Audiences leave with insights they can use to strengthen confidence, manage stress and build the resilience needed to perform effectively over time.
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“Jenny was AMAZING. I’m a tough grader, and she nailed a 5-hour session without one dip in energy. Attendees walked away inspired, quoting her all day. I can’t tell you how many people approached me afterward to say how much her session resonated. So impressed.”
Andy Erlandson, General Manager Microsoft
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“Jenny was outstanding! She was a perfect blend of 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’ that Jenny’s presentation represented. People used words like ‘life changing,’ ‘powerful,’ ‘just what I needed,’ and ‘she’s a rock star.’ She’s the best speaker we’ve ever had at our annual meeting!”
Niki Leondakis, President & COO Kimpton Hotels
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“Jenny had the audience laughing, standing, and completely engaged—even as the last speaker on a 3-day agenda. Attendees immediately asked when they’d see her again. Her ability to blend humor, science, and real-world tools made her the highlight of our event.”
Donn Hess, SVP, Director of Marketing & Communications Lockton Investment Advisors
Keynote by Jenny Evans:
hange resilience isn't a communication problem. It's a chemistry problem. And most change integration strategies have been solving for the wrong one.
With It's Not What You Think, Jenny delivers an important shift in understanding for your leaders:it's not what you think, it's how you react.
Your people aren't resisting the change - their biology is reacting to it, exactly as it's built to, and it's costing you every time you ignore it.
Packed with practical, science-backed tools your leaders can use in a single meeting, a 1:1, or a hallway conversation, this keynote takes your leaders from mistaking overload for resistance to actually moving people through change.
YOUR LEADERS WILL LEARN:
PLANNER ROI:
Your leaders don't just understand why change is hard - they leave with a repeatable practice they can apply to every future initiative. This means faster adoption, lower attrition risk, and a leadership team that stops mistaking overload for resistance.
Keynote by Jenny Evans:
When change is coming from every direction and the pressure to perform doesn't slow down, 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.
FORMATS:
You can book it as a standalone, high-impact keynote that gets people laughing, learning, and taking action immediately… or go all-in with the full 5-part Resiliency Rx Series that builds resilience layer by layer for lasting culture change. Either way, the results stick.
AUDIENCE OUTCOMES:
PLANNER ROI:
Your audience doesn’t just walk away inspired, they leave with tools they’ll still be using weeks later. That means higher engagement scores, stronger teams, and yes, rave reviews for your event.
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Burnout isn’t just draining energy - it’s draining profits through turnover, disengagement, and rising healthcare costs. Most “solutions” tell people to slow down, but that’s not an option in high-demand workplaces.
In this keynote, Jenny shows audiences how to flip their stress chemistry so energy, focus, and performance become sustainable - even when pressure never lets up. Burnout isn’t inevitable. It’s fixable.
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(And How They Can Help You Find an Elephant When Necessary)
While tracking elephants in Namibia, Jenny learned six unforgettable principles that change how we find meaning and direction. Through vivid storytelling, research, and metaphor, she equips audiences to cut through the noise and stay aligned with what truly matters.
This keynote helps people spot the “tracks” that lead to clarity, fulfillment, and resilience - at work and in life. Purpose stops being abstract and becomes practical, actionable, and deeply energizing.
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Disengagement and turnover are costing companies their best people. Teams are uninspired, drained, and disconnected from purpose.
When employees understand their purpose - and see how their work feeds into the company’s mission - businesses benefit measurably: purpose‐driven organizations see up to 21% higher profitability, and engaged workers are 21% more productive.
Jenny reignites passion by reconnecting employees to the why behind their work - transforming a culture of “just surviving” into one of resilience, commitment, and impact.
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Research proves that companies with more female executives are more likely to outperform companies that don’t. Unfortunately 42% of professional women report being burned out, and many are considering stepping back from their careers. Jenny tackles this head-on with science-based strategies that fuel confidence, energy, and resilience in female leaders.
This keynote equips women to navigate real systemic challenges while sustaining their performance and impact - and equips organizations to retain their top talent.
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Every thought, decision, and action requires biological energy. Without it, nothing works. But most high-achievers treat it like it’s limitless - until they crash. Jenny teaches audiences how to build, protect, and recover their energy using strategies grounded in physiology and neuroscience.
The result? Teams that stay clear, sharp, and high-performing, even in the most demanding environments.
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