“Jessi’s energy is the disruption we all need”

— Wendy Collie

Former CEO, New Seasons Market & Evergreens | Founding Director of Operations, Starbucks

Energy Backed by Evidence

Ideas are powerful. Experience makes them credible.

Everything Jessi teaches has been tested while building companies, leading teams, navigating growth, rebuilding culture, and carrying the responsibility of leadership when people, performance, and business results were all on the line.

She has the rare kind of catalytic energy that makes someone walk out and finally do the thing they've been circling for years.

Best in class. Relatable. Irreverent. Actionable And undeniably real.

Credibility at a Glance

  • Built and scaled her first business 500% in its first five years

  • Led the company through 12 years of growth, crisis, reinvention, and a successful exit

  • Built a people-powered business while raising three children

  • Named a Mindbody Visionary and recognized as one of Portland Business Journal's 40 Under 40 and Women of Influence

  • Featured in Forbes, LA Times, SHAPE, Huffington Post, Refinery29, and more

  • Trusted by founders, executive teams, healthcare organizations, and Fortune 500 brands

Keynotes

Jessi's work lives at the intersection of leadership, organizational performance, and human potential. Whether she's speaking to founders, Fortune 500 executives, healthcare leaders, entrepreneurs, or an arena full of professionals, she explores one central question:

What are the conditions that help people—and the organizations they build—do their best work?

  • The courage to move before certainty arrives.

    Whether we're leading a company, building a business, navigating change, or rebuilding our own lives, progress always begins the same way: someone chooses to move before they feel ready.

    In this keynote, Jessi shares the philosophy of Reckless Optimism™—a powerful framework for cultivating courage, embracing uncertainty, and taking meaningful action before all the answers are clear.

    Audiences leave with renewed confidence, practical tools, and a deeper belief in what's possible when they stop waiting for certainty and start creating momentum.

    Ideal For

    Leadership Conferences • Company Kickoffs Women's • Conferences • Entrepreneurship • Associations • All Hands Meetings

  • The Hidden Conditions That Create High-Performing Teams

    The same principles that build extraordinary organizations also build extraordinary lives.

    Whether we're leading a company, a team, or ourselves, momentum is never accidental. It's the result of conditions that either accelerate progress or quietly create drag.

    Most organizations don't lose momentum because they lack talent. They lose momentum because trust erodes, standards become inconsistent, decisions slow down, communication fragments, and people begin working harder while accomplishing less.

    In this keynote, Jessi introduces a new way of thinking about organizational performance by exploring the hidden conditions that create trust, ownership, clarity, and sustained momentum. Audiences leave with practical tools to identify organizational drag, strengthen culture from the inside out, and build environments where exceptional performance becomes the natural result—not the constant struggle.

    Ideal For

    Leadership Conferences • Executive Teams • HR Conferences • Healthcare Organizations • Founder Summits • Company Kickoffs

  • Protect the energy that makes everything else possible.

    Whether we're leading teams or leading ourselves, burnout and engagement are never random.

    Both are the result of conditions that compound over time.

    The highest-performing people—and the healthiest organizations—don't wait until they're burned out to make a change. They intentionally create environments, habits, relationships, and leadership practices that protect energy long before they need rescuing.

    In this keynote, Jessi explores the compounding conditions that fuel resilience, performance, creativity, and meaningful work. Audiences leave with practical strategies to sustain their energy, strengthen their leadership, and build lives and organizations people genuinely want to be part of.

    Ideal For

    Healthcare • Leadership Conferences • Women in Leadership • Wellness Organizations • Associations • Service industry events and orgs • Corporate Events

Ready to book a defining moment with Jessi?

Why Audiences Remember Jessi

01/ Battle Tested, not borrowed.

Everything Jessi teaches has been earned through experience—not theory. Her confidence doesn't come from certificates. It comes from consequences.

02 / Dynamic Candor

Jessi has an uncommon ability to say what everyone else is thinking—but no one is saying. She creates the trust that allows difficult conversations to happen and meaningful decisions to get made.

03 / Catalytic Energy

People rarely change because they receive more information. They change because they experience something they can't unsee. Jessi creates the kinds of moments that shift perspectives, strengthen relationships, and spark lasting action.

What Audiences Are Saying

  • Your keynote was tactical and approachable and made the daunting things we often face in life feel doable. Your energy felt revitalizing.

    — Karoline E, Summit Attendee

  • Sharing your Reckless Optimist energy with our team was a defining moment of our year. It felt like an 'in the movies' kind of moment — completely unexpected and absolutely unforgettable.

    — Fiona B. Good & Gold

  • I've never seen anyone come into a room of 3,000 people and command the space with energy, relatability, humor and so much inspiration. That was incredible.

    — Kaia T. Conference Organizer