Jenny Evans
About
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Jenny talks about the connection between the daily grind of life and the chemistry of the brain and body and how to build resilience every day.
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Audiences leave with actionable micro-strategies that individuals and teams can implement immediately to start building their resilience and stress-proof their brains.
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Jenny Evans is a speaker, author, and on-air expert on physiology and chemistry, as it relates to resiliency, confidence and performance. She is also the author of The Resiliency rEvolution, TEDx speaker and regular contributor to The Huffington Post.
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Past clients include: Microsoft, Cisco, Nestle Purina, Johnson & Johnson, Blue Shield, US Bank, Aveda, Clinique, Estee Lauder and MGM Resorts.
About Jenny Evans - Speaker, Author, & Expert on Physiology and Chemistry
Jenny Evans is a speaker, author, and on-air expert on physiology and chemistry, as it relates to resiliency, confidence and performance. She is highly experienced, having worked with thousands of C-suite executives, leaders, and employees — from corporations, associations, and universities across the globe.
Her dynamic presentations and training sessions both educate and inspire audiences by linking the stressful challenges of everyday life to the body’s own chemistry and physiology. Jenny brings to life the art of optimizing your own chemistry to boost your performance and productivity, all while enhancing your health and energy.
Jenny’s events are active, engaging, high-energy, and life-changing – leaving audiences inspired, informed and on their way to leading a more productive life in increasingly demanding business environments.
Her award-winning book – The Resiliency rEvolution — has been hailed as a “smart, clever read and super-practical guide to leading a more full and resilient life.” She is also the creator of Hit the Deck – the ultimate tool for combating stress and increasing productivity and fitness.
Jenny has spoken on the TEDx stage, is the resiliency subject matter expert for Optum and The Big Know’s digital courses, writes as a blogger for The Huffington Post and was NBC KARE 11’s Health & Fitness expert for over four years. She has been quoted on National Public Radio, in Health Magazine and Women’s Health, while being showcased on FastCompany.com, Inc.com, Entrepreneur.com, Shape.com and Elle.com. Jenny has a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in psychology from the University of Minnesota and has been an American Council on Exercise Certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor for over twenty years.
Topics and Audience Takeaways
What Jenny Evans talks about:
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF CHANGE: It’s Not What You Think
This isn’t a change management refresher, and it’s not another appeal to “get on board.” Jenny combines organizational research – built from measuring resilience and change capacity across real Fortune 500 populations – with the specific, replicated science of how stress moves through people and teams during disruption.
The result is a keynote that speaks to every level of the organization simultaneously. Because the biology running underneath change doesn’t vary by title. And neither does this talk.
Through a highly interactive session your people will discover:
- Why their response to change is biological not personal, not a character flaw, and not a failure to embrace the future
- Why communication keeps missing its mark no matter how well it’s written, and what actually reaches a brain in threat response
- How stress spreads through a team faster than any announcement can, and what one regulated person in the room can do about it
- Why organizations run out of change capacity long before they run out of initiatives, and what that biological debt actually costs
- How to tell the difference between resistance and a depleted nervous system – a distinction that changes everything about how people treat themselves and each other
- A three-part practice – deployable in a single meeting, a one-on-one, or a hallway conversation – that works with their biology instead of against it
Planner ROI: Your people 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 an organization that stops mistaking overload for resistance.
Keynote Takeaways
After this keynote, your people will be able to:
- Understand how change affects their thinking, focus, and decision-making, and know that it’s biology, not weakness
- Recognize the difference between genuine resistance and a nervous system that has simply hit its biological limit in themselves and the people around them
- Know what has to happen in the brain before rational processing can take place
- Use a three-part biological practice to move through disruption rather than be consumed by it
- Talk about change constructively using a shared biological framework that removes blame and creates forward motion
- Build their own change capacity deliberately so the next initiative lands on a nervous system that’s ready for it, not one that’s already overdrawn
Recent Publications
“Jenny was a fantastic speaker that not only has energy, emotion and tons of knowledge behind the topics she covers, but she really makes you think about your health, lifestyle and everyday routine that can be so easily influenced positively or negatively. In a world of change, enhanced technology and never-ending demands and challenges of everyday life, she has a great way of breaking down why you make the choices you do and how to fight your inner Sneaky Pete. Everyone really enjoyed Jenny, including myself, and I have made several changes to my everyday decisions based on hearing her speak!”
Nestle Purina
