Keynote Topics:
- No Clue, No Fear: Leading Through Uncertainty – How to guide teams when “business as usual” disappears, using Jennifer’s P.E.A.C.E. framework to turn uncertainty into competitive advantage.
- People + AI: The Fortune 100 Formula – Why the most successful enterprises pair human insight with AI, and how to foster a human-centered approach to AI adoption that boosts creativity and results.
- Business as Usual Is Obsolete – What Leaders Must Do Now – A wake-up call for leaders to embrace new mindsets. This talk outlines how to build a purpose-driven, agile culture that can continuously adapt and thrive amidst rapid change.
- Generational Collision: Unlocking Gen Z Value in AI-Powered Organizations – Strategies for engaging and integrating Gen Z talent (digital natives) with older generations, leveraging each group’s strengths to drive innovation and avoid culture clash.
- Culture as Strategy for Growth – How to make organizational culture a strategic asset. Jennifer shares her proven steps for cultivating high-performance, “happy” cultures that lead to better business outcomes (illustrated by her success stories and Corporate Spring Model™)
speaker Bio:
Jennifer Vessels is an internationally acclaimed transformation strategist and futurist who has spent over 30 years helping companies like Adobe, Google, IKEA, and Novartis navigate disruption and emerge stronger. As the CEO of Next Step and the founder of the Executive Growth Alliance, Jennifer has guided countless leaders through the maze of digital transformation, culture change, and now AI adoption. Her approach combines Silicon Valley boldness with a human touch: she often says “business as usual is obsolete” and sees disruption as an opportunity to inspire teams toward new ways of thinking and working. Jennifer is known for her P.E.A.C.E. Framework – standing for Purpose, Exploration, Action, Collaboration, Empowerment – which provides leaders a structured yet flexible roadmap to drive change with their people at the center.
In Jennifer’s career as a consultant and executive coach, she has repeatedly proven that culture and innovation go hand in hand. In her talks, she shares vivid stories of facilitating “aha” moments in boardrooms: for example, how she helped a global tech company’s executives embrace a growth mindset by reframing failures as learning experiments (a key tenet of her framework). Jennifer also leverages her anthropological insights – she’s adept at reading organizational culture and identifying the unspoken fears or resistance that often hinder change. By addressing these openly, she cultivates an environment of trust where experimentation thrives. A testament to her impact is the array of accolades her client organizations have earned: under her guidance, several have won “Best Place to Work” awards and innovation prizes. Her work has resulted in multiple “Best Places to Work” recognitions and measurable performance improvements for the organizations she advises.
As a keynote speaker, Jennifer Vessels is energetic, down-to-earth, and highly interactive. Whether on stage at an innovation summit or a leadership offsite (she’s spoken at the United Nations and TEDx, among other venues), she has a knack for making large audiences feel personally connected. She often poses reflective questions, prompting leaders to consider, “Are you clinging to old success formulas that no longer work?” or “How are you equipping your team for a future that’s different from today?” With her warm storytelling style, she takes audiences on a journey – perhaps describing how LEGO’s Future Lab (where one of her case studies comes from) learned to iterate rapidly, or how a Scandinavian bank she advised built an “innovation portfolio” to explore fintech opportunities. By the end of her sessions, it’s common for the crowd to feel not just informed, but genuinely activated – ready to take bold steps and “experiment with purpose,” as Jennifer puts it.
Jennifer’s expertise isn’t limited to technology; it spans leadership development, cross-generational collaboration, and sustainability as well. For instance, she frequently addresses the challenge of integrating Gen Z’s fresh perspectives with the experience of older generations in the workforce – a topic she tackles in her talk “Generational Collision: Unlocking Gen Z value in AI-powered organizations.” Having literally written the book on leading through disruption (her debut novel “Fly, Butterfly” is a business fable about personal and organizational transformation), Jennifer brings both literary flair and concrete business savvy to her presentations. She truly “lives in the epicenter of change,” splitting time between Silicon Valley and Europe, and keeping a pulse on emerging trends from AI and robotics to new models of work. That global, future-oriented perspective shines through in her keynotes, leaving audiences with not only a clear understanding of what changes are coming, but how to lead their people through them with optimism and courage.speaker Video:
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