Founder + CEO of PowerHouse Performance
Jenny Evans
Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000
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Jenny Evans At A Glance:
Ms. Evans is a speaker, author and on-air expert on resiliency, stress, performance, exercise physiology, nutrition and health.
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.
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Resiliency Rx: Stress-Proof Your Brain & Body
Stress is not a psychology problem, it’s a chemistry problem. In order to maximize our intellect and potential, we first have to optimize our chemistry. And we don’t have to be ace chemists to do it! This paradigm-shifting session unveils that it’s not about “managing” or “reducing stress” (which isn’t possible) rather how to be more resilient to the stress we all face. And we can do it 60 seconds at a time.
• Learn the physiology and neurochemistry of stress as a physical event...in a fun (yes fun!) and easily understandable way.
• The hormones of stress: the good, the bad and the ugly.
• Your brain on stress: you are literally losing your mind.
• Realize how stress negatively affects the body, brain, cognitive performance, focus, communication, decision making, as well as what can be done to improve cognition.
• What is resiliency and how do you build it?
• Introduction to the Micro Strategies of resiliency, confidence, and performance.
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The Chemistry of Confidence
Body chemistry is at the heart of our behavior, which includes our level of confidence. In order to become more confident, you have to change your chemistry and Jenny will show you how to become your own Confidence Chemist! You’ll understand the 5 chemicals of confidence as well as how/when to increase or decrease them to bulletproof your mindset, mood and confidence.
• Discover the connection between your chemistry and your level of confidence and presence.
• Understand the 5 Chemicals of Confidence: Serotonin, GABA, Dopamine, Endorphins, and Cortisol.
• Recognize the symptoms of chemistry that don’t support confidence.
• Know how and when to increase/decrease these chemicals to optimize your mindset, emotions, and leadership abilities.
• Learn 3 strategies to create the ideal chemical recipe for feeling confident, grounded, focused, and in control. -
Stop Burnout In Its Tracks: Expand Your Capacity & Get Recovery
Employee stress and burnout are two of the top issues organizations and people are facing today. This session takes a physiological and chemical approach to how to truly optimize the human operating system for sustained high performance that does not come at a cost to people’s health, sanity or engagement.
• Stress is the stimulus for growth, but only when it’s followed by recovery.
• Understand how to expand your capacity in a healthy, sustainable way.
• Understand what qualifies as “high quality” recovery, and how to get it physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
• Learn how to balance the demands you have on your energy with a renewable supply.
• Create a plan for expanding capacity and getting recovery physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. -
From Overworked, Overwhelmed & Overstressed to On Fire, On Purpose & On Your Game
Getting clear on purpose is essential for resilience. Research shows that people who lack purpose in life have a higher incidence of depression and anxiety and that they’re less resilient to traumatic events. Insight and deep knowledge of beliefs is also essential for performance in business and life. Many employees are struggling with focus, productivity, and prioritization. Certainty of beliefs immediately creates a sense of clarity, direction and accountability necessary for making important decisions - and taking appropriate action - in stressful times.
• Understand the connection between purpose, chemistry, resiliency & engagement.
• Establish clarity on how you define success professionally & personally.
• The answer to the ONE question that guarantees clarity, direction, commitment, prioritization and accountability both inside and outside of work.
• Learn about neuroplasticity of the brain, storytelling, and how to strengthen stories that work as well as get rid of stories that prevent engagement, action, and accountability. -
Micro Bursts: Your Pharmacy For Stress in 60-Second Doses
Exercise is the #1 way to rid your body of the stress hormone cortisol and build resilience. It's also one of the most effective ways to boost energy and improve your sleep. Instead of having to add exercise to your "to-do" list - and your stress levels - you'll learn how to improve your resiliency and fitness in short, doable, effective "Micro Bursts" - that you can do anytime, anywhere, with no equipment.
• Build your physiological resiliency: learn how to recover from stress more quickly and efficiently, as well as to raise your threshold for it.
• Manage your internal pharmacy for stress and learn how to access it.
• Gain knowledge to self-restore the chemistry of your brain, body, and mindset in less than 60 seconds.
• Get ideas on how to improve your resiliency for future stressors.
• Gain ways to increase your energy capacity to deal with the multitude of demands you are faced with on a daily basis.
• Get Play It Out: how to use the stress response to your advantage.
• As a side-effect to being more resilient, you'll also improve your fitness, health, energy, and sleep -
Take a Bite Out of Stress
We all have to eat every day, and our choices are often affecting our chemistry and levels of stress without us knowing it. In turn, our chemistry and levels of stress affect the food choices we make. It’s a cycle of stress many people are on.
This new and different perspective on nutrition helps participants understand how to eat in a way that optimizes their chemistry, energy, cognitive performance, focus and health...and that it’s easy and convenient to do. They’ll walk away excited and empowered with a new set of tools for feeling better both psychologically as well as physiologically.
• Learn the physiological connection between nutrition and the big five: stress, cognitive function, mood, decision making, and appetite.
• Uncover how you may be putting stress into your mouth multiple times a day.
• Understand the ways that chemical and biological feedback loops can have serious negative consequences on your focus, concentration, productivity, energy, sleep, health, and weight ... and how to break them.
• Discover how to eat in a way that minimizes stress on the body as well as increases your levels of productivity, performance, energy and health.
• Realize how environment shapes your food choices and how to use this to your advantage.
• Grasp why willpower doesn't work when it comes to nutrition, and what to use instead. -
Put Your Stress to Bed
Quality sleep is the foundation for resiliency, performance, and health, yet more than half of us struggle with it on a nightly basis. When we’re stressed it’s even harder: it creates a vicious cycle of being stressed about not being able to sleep, which makes it even more difficult. Participants will learn how to create the right chemistry and environment for high-quality, restorative sleep.
• Understand how sleep issues are not just a nuisance, but also negatively affect the chemistry and physiology of your brain and body.
• Discover the connection between quality sleep and learning, memory, mood, energy, hormones, health, and longevity.
• Learn sleep hygiene strategies that will improve the quality of your sleep and leave you feeling more resilient, engaged, positive, and focused. -
Optimal Defaults: The Way That Requires No Will
Why is behavior change so darn hard??? The intellectual part of our brain understands the importance of change, innovation, flexibility, and being adaptable, but there’s often a huge gap between KNOWING and DOING. This session eliminates those gaps completely! Participants will learn how the brain responds to change, why willpower rarely works, and how to make lasting change once and for all. They’ll learn fool-proof strategies for implementing what they’re learning in order to make real, long-lasting change.
• Understand how and why change creates stress, changes our chemistry, and makes behavior change almost impossible.
• Learn why willpower is not a reliable tool for making change.
• Realize how environment affects our choices and behavior.
• Master how to make change “so easy a caveman could do it”.
• Explore how to create microclimates conducive to change in all areas of your life: Optimal Defaults.
• Receive over 100 tools for successfully implementing change and the secret to making these changes permanent.
“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!”— Whitney Stone, Account Manager, Nestle Purina Petcare Company
“Jenny Evans spoke at our conference and was so impactful and powerful to a large group of high-energy, over-achieving sales executives. It was a tremendous investment in our team by someone they could relate to. Jenny has a special way (I am quite sure because she prepares well) to relate and connect to her audience. That makes the message resonate more! She is inspiring and exciting to be with. She was also very engaging in a follow-up conference call to the team initiated by Jenny to see of the commitment to better choices was sticking. I endorse her 1,000%.”— Theresa Selvaggio, Regional Vice President, Estée Lauder, Inc.
“Jenny was AMAZING. Seriously, I’m a tough grader and Jenny couldn’t have been better. I now have a new bar for what “no dip in energy” looks like over the course of a 5-hour session! So impressed. I can’t tell you how many people approached me after the session inspired by what they heard and saw. Thanks so much!”— Andy Erlandson, General Manager, Microsoft
