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Jennifer Moss - Profile
- Moss is a leading pioneer in translating the science of happiness into real-world practices and solutions and has helped numerous companies and schools decrease their stress levels and increase their mental wellness.
- Honored as the "Canadian Business Innovator of the Year," Moss is the Co-founder of Plasticity Labs, where she helps develop technology that allows organizations to tap into employee sentiment.
- Moss' book Unlocking Happiness at Work unpacks how companies can gain a competitive advantage by fostering a psychologically safe work environment that stimulates innovation and creativity.
Jennifer Moss is the Cofounder of Plasticity Labs, researcher and bestselling author of “Unlocking Happiness at Work”. As a member of the Workplace Happiness Group of the United Nations’ Global Happiness Council, Jennifer is considered to be a workplace culture expert and thought leader on the topic of happiness and emotional intelligence. Jennifer has appeared in Inc. Fortune and TechCrunch and writes for HBR, Forbes, BBC, The National Post and Huffington Post.
Jennifer is a recipient of the International Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award, named a Canadian Innovator of the Year, was honoured with the Public Service Award from the Office of President Obama and attended his inauguration. She was recently listed as one of 40 Females in Tech to watch in 2017.
Jennifer Moss - Speaking Topics
Emotional intelligence expert, Jennifer Moss helps schools and businesses increase their psychological fitness so that their people can manage stress better and unleash creativity. The enthusiastic leading researcher detangles the misconceptions surrounding happiness as she demonstrates that we are our most productive and innovative when our minds are in a state of psychological safety. Pulling from personal experience, neuroscience, and psychology, she presents simple practices you can put into place that will boost your group’s mental wellness and performance whether you work in an elementary school or a Fortune 500.
Jennifer will work with your group to customize her talk to meet your overall event/meeting goals and address the themes that are most important to your audience. Jennifer offers a wide range of content around various themes, including corporate culture, leadership, HR, customer loyalty and team building. These program descriptions illustrate some of the content Jennifer can include in her talk to your group.
How the Greatest Companies in the World Build the Best Habits
The most successful, talent-rich, innovative, and engaged teams all have the same traits in common; they practice and maintain the habits of the highest performing people. However, the belief that habits take 21 days to build and three days to break is a myth, as explained by Jennifer Moss in her bestselling book, Unlocking Happiness at Work. Instead, turning a conscious effort into a subconscious behavior takes daily practice, with persistence over time, to eventually lay deeply rooted personality traits.
Find out how you and your teams can embed the PERSIST (Practical, Enduring, Repeatable, Simple, Incremental, Short, Targeted) model in your people and teams for a more productive, purpose-driven and high-performing organization.
Using the PERSIST model, Jennifer has worked with global organizations, teaching senior leaders how to build the habits of high-performance in their teams. Jennifer will offer the audience proven ways to increase employee engagement and overall corporate culture with broad strategies and tactical examples of high-performance, habit-building exercises.
How Leaders Today Can Prepare for the Workplace of Tomorrow
If you’d like to learn how your organization can become more productive and benefit from cohesive, collaborative teams, Jennifer Moss will give you actionable steps to create the workplace of tomorrow… today!
As an expert in the knowledge-based workforce, Jennifer will discuss how to build an emotionally intelligent leadership team through improving personal management skills, building trust and becoming better communicators. She will provide crucial answers to questions around ethics, shifting HR boundaries and the strategic concepts and tactical plans needed to build cohesive, productive, loyal teams with a common vision.
In this dynamic, customized program, Jennifer will also explore real-world case studies from some of the most profitable and innovative global organizations, including personal insights from the people that lead them. From her work in Silicon Valley collaborating with startups like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Facebook and EA, to her experience working on employer relations campaigns that led her to receive the Public Service Award from President Obama, Jennifer will give you an exclusive insider’s view into how these global organizations have developed their successful cultures.
Certain to be an informational and eye-opening talk, Jennifer will describe how the US Navy helped define the concept of emotional intelligence in research papers going back as far as WWII. Other case studies include research about emotional intelligence and leadership driven by GM, The British Military, IBM and the United Arab Emirates, to name a few.
For a long time, it was believed that an effective leader had to be aloof, emotionally disconnected, and authoritative. New science is proving otherwise. Did you know that organizations led by emotionally intelligent leaders are consistently more profitable? Research shows that over a 15-year period, these companies had investment returns of 1646% compared to 157% for the S&P 500 during the same time frame.
Jennifer will show why employees are more engaged and more productive inside organizations with high emotional intelligence and how in every instance, these organizations out-perform their competitors. Your audience will gain practical strategies and tactics to leverage emotionally intelligent direction inside the organizations they lead.
How Inspired, Motivated Employees Leads to Greater Customer Loyalty
Innovation driven change, although healthy, can be challenging for organizations and create instability for their customers. Right now, across the globe, in just one minute, email users send 204m messages, Apple users download 48,000 apps, Facebook users share 2.46m pieces of content and there are 277,000 tweets. The connected consumer has radically changed the face of the brand experience and our positive interactions matter now more than ever. This offers brands a tremendous opportunity to develop consumer communities and provide customized service.
This new keynote describes exactly how the internal employee experience is directly tied to customer satisfaction and company profitability. Jennifer will present international research studies with compelling statistics explaining how our relationship with the brands we love are connected to how their employees think, feel and act inside those same companies.
Jennifer has decades working with global organizations, consulting on their internal communications strategy and analyzing how their internal brand is reflected externally. Backed by her personal experience and foundational research that explores the tie between brand loyalty and employee sentiment, Jennifer will guide audience members to a better understanding of this linkage. This talk always energizes audiences and positively changes the way the employee/customer relationship is viewed.
The Happiness Economy
Organizational culture is the set of shared beliefs and values within an organization that help shape behavior. Like community or national culture, organizational culture is an indispensable aspect of any company. It’s the holistic understanding of an organization’s goals and how they will be achieved. Organizational culture answers the question why do we do what we do?
After two decades of research, we can prove that there is a direct correlation between a healthy, productive workplace culture and a company’s bottom line. Jennifer will share examples of the current research going on in this space, and case studies of companies who see culture as a mission-critical effort and how they are tracking their success.
The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
We used to think IQ was the best determinant of a person’s likelihood for success. But, we now have scientific evidence that proves otherwise. As we understand more about emotional intelligence and how it plays into the cultural makeup of some of the most innovative companies, it’s impossible to ignore its relevance. When your team builds up their psychological fitness, it can give us the edge to outpace competitors through increased innovation, improved engagement and higher productivity.
This talk will explore how to unlock happiness in the workplace to rally organizational metrics while sustaining, or even reigniting, our passion for work. Jennifer will share how companies like lululemon, and TD Ameritrade have executed on her team’s research so audience members can walk away with a clear strategy to implement a happiness plan at their organization.
Unlocking Happiness at Work
Unlocking Happiness at Work takes you on a journey into why and how leaders can become compassionate capitalists. With insightful and practical takeaways, case studies and the most current scientific research, Jennifer’s presentation will demonstrate the business benefits to adopting a health, wellness and happiness strategy. This is an essential resource for leaders who want to attract new talent, improve their brand and boost profitability – but in an authentic way - in a way that is life-enhancing for their people. Jennifer’s talk teaches leadership teams how to do well by doing good.
Workplace Culture
Jennifer’s experience working in HR Communications spans over two decades, across two countries and saw her accepting the Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Innovator of the Year Award, and the Public Service Award from the Office of President Obama.
Jennifer is considered an expert in workplace culture. She’s led teams at Fortune 100 companies in Silicon Valley and co-founded first-in-category tech start-ups. She has also consulted CEOs across most industries, including banking, education, government, retail, and service, manufacturing, and tech. Jennifer has consulted some of the most innovative companies in the world and interviewed prominent C-level executives at companies like GM, lululemon, Zappos, for her book Unlocking Happiness at Work.
This talk will center around the most innovative and successful examples of workplace cultures going on around the globe. From the data-driven approach to measuring happiness at work in Dubai to building compassionate capitalist small businesses and start-ups in New York and Austin, Jennifer will offer strategic concepts and tactical plans to build the most engaged, healthiest, and highest-performing workplace cultures at the organizations you lead.
Break-Out Sessions and Workshops
Emotional Intelligence to Build Better Teams
In this session, Jennifer will introduce your team to emotional intelligence (EQ) for leaders. Through a series of discussions, exercises and activities, your team will learn about the important role EQ plays in leadership and how it can become your best competitive advantage.
Jennifer will examine the evolving discussion regarding the future of work.
As an expert in the knowledge-based workforce, Jennifer will discuss how to build an emotionally intelligent leadership team, how to improve individual personal management skills and subsequently, how to embed the learning within the organizations of which the attendees serve.
In this dynamic, customized program, Jennifer will provide real-world case studies from some of the biggest, most profitable, and innovative, global organizations; including personal interviews with the people that lead them. Jennifer will show why employees are more engaged and more productive inside organizations with high emotional intelligence and how in every instance, these organizations out-perform their competitors.
Jennifer will provide outcome-oriented examples to demonstrate the ROI of well-being strategies, why they are necessary, and most importantly, how to implement them. Jennifer’s audience will gain practical strategies and tactics to leverage emotionally intelligent direction inside the organizations they lead.
This workshop includes:
• Introduction to EQ, neuroscience and positive psychology
• Why leaders need to understand stakeholder emotions and
how to help manage them
• Facilitate introduction to 3 – 4 exercises to boost EQ
• Individual or small group activities
• Regroup for shared learning through group discussions
Personal Well-Being: How it Impacts Culture and Performance
In this session, Jennifer will work with you and/or your staff to start building positive character traits that improve personal well- being. Individuals who report a high sense of personal well-being are as much as 50% more engaged at work than their co-workers.
Drawing from her collaboration and interviews with researchers at leading academic institutions like Harvard, Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford, Jennifer’s talk will discuss how to identify staff burnout before it leads to attrition or long-term employee health issues.
Jennifer will share some of the most compelling analyses to date on the correlation between staff well-being, employee retention and subsequent stakeholder satisfaction.
Evidence-based research proves that mentally healthy leaders consistently deliver better outcomes. And yet, despite the easy, and effective interventions that can be implemented to increase well-being, most people simply do not take the time to increase their psychological fitness. This is in turn, leads to increasing burnout, lower engagement, higher employee turnover and inevitably, less satisfied and less healthy employees.
This is a massive issue that is crippling the workforce. Recent studies showed that in the US, 1 million people per day miss work because of stress, equaling a loss of $300B annually just to this issue alone.
Jennifer will share proven strategies, combined with simple tactics to increase psychological fitness. From ways to develop a growth mindset in your teams to improving overall resiliency across your facilities. Part 2 of this breakout will be the kick-start to building your healthiest and highest- performing workforce to date.
This workshop includes:
• Introduction to the HERO Framework
• Overview of well-being and why it matters
• What is neuroplasticity and how it can increase well-being
• Facilitate introduction to 3 – 4 new training activities to improve
well-being
• How to use PERSIST Framework to build well-being habits
• Individual or small group exercises
• Regroup for shared learning through group discussions
SPECIALIZED TOPICS
Women in Technology
Bestselling author and international public speaker, Jennifer Moss is also the recipient of the International Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Innovator of the Year Award and Public Service Award from the Office of President Obama. Most notably, Jennifer is the co-founder of a tech company and sits on the Board of a technology incubator as the Chair of the HR Committee. With female-led start-ups representing only 7% of all tech startups, Jennifer is a passionate advocate for encouraging more girls and women to take on roles in STEAM. Jennifer works with government policy makers to advance this discussion globally.
Most recently, Jennifer was interviewed recently by Time Magazine to share why we need to increase inclusivity in tech, not just for women, but for everyone. Her talk focuses on the opportunities available to women in STEAM and the benefits of being a female entrepreneur. Jennifer will share her incredible personal journey from working on Oprah’s films to her early days in social media in Silicon Valley, her involvement in President Obama’s campaign and attending his inauguration, leading a tech company, writing a book and presenting a keynote with the Dalai Lama.
Women have been told for too long that they can’t speak about their children, share their personal details, they are “too soft” or “too emotional” but Jennifer refuses to accept that this is how women should lead. Jennifer’s talk will inspire women of all generations to embrace their capacity to lead authentically. Jennifer will show women how to better connect with their core values, embrace who they are, develop their resiliency skills, eliminate their fear, and lead as a woman.
Education
According to Dr. Jean Clinton, Child Psychiatrist, we’ve reached a point where the number of young people experiencing mental health issues is “at a point of crisis”. Youth are suffering from rising levels of anxiety, stress and depression. We want to build a future of prevention versus treatment as the ever-increasing negative impacts of stress continue to affect our lives. For students and teachers – creating a more psychologically safe school is going to help us achieve that goal. Research tells us that to have the greatest impact, we also need to work with teachers, to dig into the relationship between student and teacher well-being.
For the last five years, Jennifer has consulted school boards and ministries of education as the co-founder and Executive Director of the HERO Generation; school systems that build Hope, Efficacy, Resilience and Optimism in trustees, administrators, teachers, staff, and students. The HERO research looks at the impact of healthier educators on the academic outcomes of the students with whom they interface.
Jennifer’s talk will present her team’s groundbreaking research, developed in collaboration with the most prominent scientists in mindfulness and gratitude from Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley in the US, Oxford in the UK and WLU in Canada. Jennifer’s discussion will range in topics from the impact of poverty on the student brain to rebuilding trust in damaged staff relationships to the well-being effect of teachers on student performance.
Jennifer’s talk will provide strategic guidance to boards and ministries so they too, can create healthier, higher-performing education ecosystems. Jennifer will share with the audience how to develop a common, shared languages across all stakeholders instead of focusing on one single dimension within the education architecture.
Inspirational Keynote
In 2009, Jennifer Moss confronted one of the toughest challenges of her life. Facing the possible death of her husband, a baby on the way and a two-year-old wondering if daddy was “going to be ok”, this moment became the catalyst for a future focused on helping others prepare for trauma.
It was out of a realization that trauma impacts every one of us. Some of us are hit harder than others. But, most of us are unprepared to mentally handle life’s challenges and what results is extreme anxiety, deep depression, and stress-related illness. Jennifer realized that she wasn’t prepared – this trauma would hit harder than she expected. But, with help from her psychologically fit husband, she would make it through.
After this incredible learning, Jennifer would spend the next eight years sharing how she worked on her own psychological fitness. She would start a research and technology company committed to giving 1 billion tools to live a more psychologically fit life, write a book about how to unlock happiness through resiliency and then go on to speak internationally, educating people about mental fitness and proactive psychological health.
This talk takes the audience through an engaging and thought-provoking journey. Jennifer’s raw, personal, and often, very funny storytelling will take us on an emotional ride, reminding us all, just how fragile life can be.
Conscious Capitalism
This talk will focus on the term Conscious Capitalists, a new wave of highly recognized leaders and organizations who have adopted the double bottom line approach to building and running their companies. We will learn how they are executing this mission at the highest levels and disseminating this way of thinking to the public and with their employees. From a boutique design agency with 35 employees to a global grocery retailer with over 91,000 employees, we will learn the true definition of Conscious Capitalism.
Jennifer looks at companies who are engaging in this strategy and the outcomes of those efforts. She will provide audiences with the tools to bring this mindset back to their organizations.
Building Happiness Hygiene
What do all the greatest leaders have in common? They have a strong happiness habit. According to well-known psychological scientists and neuroscientists, we can develop these traits in the brain by up to 50% or more just through habit building. And these habits of high-performance can be developed in the same time it takes to eat breakfast.
This talk will explain the process by which we build habits and how to create a routine that will boost the success of these patterns. Using neuroscience and positive psychology research, Jennifer will teach audiences about neural pathways and how they require repetition, reward and reinforcement to rewire positive and negative habits. She will also share why this matters in workplace performance and how to bring this learning back to your teams. Finally, Jennifer will provide simple take-away actions so audience members can train their brain to become happier, higher-performing leaders both professionally and personally.
Jennifer will work with your group to customize her talk to meet your overall event/meeting goals and address the themes that are most important to your audience. Jennifer offers a wide range of content around various themes, including corporate culture, leadership, HR, customer loyalty and team building. These program descriptions illustrate some of the content Jennifer can include in her talk to your group.
How the Greatest Companies in the World Build the Best Habits
The most successful, talent-rich, innovative, and engaged teams all have the same traits in common; they practice and maintain the habits of the highest performing people. However, the belief that habits take 21 days to build and three days to break is a myth, as explained by Jennifer Moss in her bestselling book, Unlocking Happiness at Work. Instead, turning a conscious effort into a subconscious behavior takes daily practice, with persistence over time, to eventually lay deeply rooted personality traits.
Find out how you and your teams can embed the PERSIST (Practical, Enduring, Repeatable, Simple, Incremental, Short, Targeted) model in your people and teams for a more productive, purpose-driven and high-performing organization.
Using the PERSIST model, Jennifer has worked with global organizations, teaching senior leaders how to build the habits of high-performance in their teams. Jennifer will offer the audience proven ways to increase employee engagement and overall corporate culture with broad strategies and tactical examples of high-performance, habit-building exercises.
How Leaders Today Can Prepare for the Workplace of Tomorrow
If you’d like to learn how your organization can become more productive and benefit from cohesive, collaborative teams, Jennifer Moss will give you actionable steps to create the workplace of tomorrow… today!
As an expert in the knowledge-based workforce, Jennifer will discuss how to build an emotionally intelligent leadership team through improving personal management skills, building trust and becoming better communicators. She will provide crucial answers to questions around ethics, shifting HR boundaries and the strategic concepts and tactical plans needed to build cohesive, productive, loyal teams with a common vision.
In this dynamic, customized program, Jennifer will also explore real-world case studies from some of the most profitable and innovative global organizations, including personal insights from the people that lead them. From her work in Silicon Valley collaborating with startups like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Facebook and EA, to her experience working on employer relations campaigns that led her to receive the Public Service Award from President Obama, Jennifer will give you an exclusive insider’s view into how these global organizations have developed their successful cultures.
Certain to be an informational and eye-opening talk, Jennifer will describe how the US Navy helped define the concept of emotional intelligence in research papers going back as far as WWII. Other case studies include research about emotional intelligence and leadership driven by GM, The British Military, IBM and the United Arab Emirates, to name a few.
For a long time, it was believed that an effective leader had to be aloof, emotionally disconnected, and authoritative. New science is proving otherwise. Did you know that organizations led by emotionally intelligent leaders are consistently more profitable? Research shows that over a 15-year period, these companies had investment returns of 1646% compared to 157% for the S&P 500 during the same time frame.
Jennifer will show why employees are more engaged and more productive inside organizations with high emotional intelligence and how in every instance, these organizations out-perform their competitors. Your audience will gain practical strategies and tactics to leverage emotionally intelligent direction inside the organizations they lead.
How Inspired, Motivated Employees Leads to Greater Customer Loyalty
Innovation driven change, although healthy, can be challenging for organizations and create instability for their customers. Right now, across the globe, in just one minute, email users send 204m messages, Apple users download 48,000 apps, Facebook users share 2.46m pieces of content and there are 277,000 tweets. The connected consumer has radically changed the face of the brand experience and our positive interactions matter now more than ever. This offers brands a tremendous opportunity to develop consumer communities and provide customized service.
This new keynote describes exactly how the internal employee experience is directly tied to customer satisfaction and company profitability. Jennifer will present international research studies with compelling statistics explaining how our relationship with the brands we love are connected to how their employees think, feel and act inside those same companies.
Jennifer has decades working with global organizations, consulting on their internal communications strategy and analyzing how their internal brand is reflected externally. Backed by her personal experience and foundational research that explores the tie between brand loyalty and employee sentiment, Jennifer will guide audience members to a better understanding of this linkage. This talk always energizes audiences and positively changes the way the employee/customer relationship is viewed.
The Happiness Economy
Organizational culture is the set of shared beliefs and values within an organization that help shape behavior. Like community or national culture, organizational culture is an indispensable aspect of any company. It’s the holistic understanding of an organization’s goals and how they will be achieved. Organizational culture answers the question why do we do what we do?
After two decades of research, we can prove that there is a direct correlation between a healthy, productive workplace culture and a company’s bottom line. Jennifer will share examples of the current research going on in this space, and case studies of companies who see culture as a mission-critical effort and how they are tracking their success.
The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
We used to think IQ was the best determinant of a person’s likelihood for success. But, we now have scientific evidence that proves otherwise. As we understand more about emotional intelligence and how it plays into the cultural makeup of some of the most innovative companies, it’s impossible to ignore its relevance. When your team builds up their psychological fitness, it can give us the edge to outpace competitors through increased innovation, improved engagement and higher productivity.
This talk will explore how to unlock happiness in the workplace to rally organizational metrics while sustaining, or even reigniting, our passion for work. Jennifer will share how companies like lululemon, and TD Ameritrade have executed on her team’s research so audience members can walk away with a clear strategy to implement a happiness plan at their organization.
Unlocking Happiness at Work
Unlocking Happiness at Work takes you on a journey into why and how leaders can become compassionate capitalists. With insightful and practical takeaways, case studies and the most current scientific research, Jennifer’s presentation will demonstrate the business benefits to adopting a health, wellness and happiness strategy. This is an essential resource for leaders who want to attract new talent, improve their brand and boost profitability – but in an authentic way - in a way that is life-enhancing for their people. Jennifer’s talk teaches leadership teams how to do well by doing good.
Workplace Culture
Jennifer’s experience working in HR Communications spans over two decades, across two countries and saw her accepting the Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Innovator of the Year Award, and the Public Service Award from the Office of President Obama.
Jennifer is considered an expert in workplace culture. She’s led teams at Fortune 100 companies in Silicon Valley and co-founded first-in-category tech start-ups. She has also consulted CEOs across most industries, including banking, education, government, retail, and service, manufacturing, and tech. Jennifer has consulted some of the most innovative companies in the world and interviewed prominent C-level executives at companies like GM, lululemon, Zappos, for her book Unlocking Happiness at Work.
This talk will center around the most innovative and successful examples of workplace cultures going on around the globe. From the data-driven approach to measuring happiness at work in Dubai to building compassionate capitalist small businesses and start-ups in New York and Austin, Jennifer will offer strategic concepts and tactical plans to build the most engaged, healthiest, and highest-performing workplace cultures at the organizations you lead.
Break-Out Sessions and Workshops
Emotional Intelligence to Build Better Teams
In this session, Jennifer will introduce your team to emotional intelligence (EQ) for leaders. Through a series of discussions, exercises and activities, your team will learn about the important role EQ plays in leadership and how it can become your best competitive advantage.
Jennifer will examine the evolving discussion regarding the future of work.
As an expert in the knowledge-based workforce, Jennifer will discuss how to build an emotionally intelligent leadership team, how to improve individual personal management skills and subsequently, how to embed the learning within the organizations of which the attendees serve.
In this dynamic, customized program, Jennifer will provide real-world case studies from some of the biggest, most profitable, and innovative, global organizations; including personal interviews with the people that lead them. Jennifer will show why employees are more engaged and more productive inside organizations with high emotional intelligence and how in every instance, these organizations out-perform their competitors.
Jennifer will provide outcome-oriented examples to demonstrate the ROI of well-being strategies, why they are necessary, and most importantly, how to implement them. Jennifer’s audience will gain practical strategies and tactics to leverage emotionally intelligent direction inside the organizations they lead.
This workshop includes:
• Introduction to EQ, neuroscience and positive psychology
• Why leaders need to understand stakeholder emotions and
how to help manage them
• Facilitate introduction to 3 – 4 exercises to boost EQ
• Individual or small group activities
• Regroup for shared learning through group discussions
Personal Well-Being: How it Impacts Culture and Performance
In this session, Jennifer will work with you and/or your staff to start building positive character traits that improve personal well- being. Individuals who report a high sense of personal well-being are as much as 50% more engaged at work than their co-workers.
Drawing from her collaboration and interviews with researchers at leading academic institutions like Harvard, Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford, Jennifer’s talk will discuss how to identify staff burnout before it leads to attrition or long-term employee health issues.
Jennifer will share some of the most compelling analyses to date on the correlation between staff well-being, employee retention and subsequent stakeholder satisfaction.
Evidence-based research proves that mentally healthy leaders consistently deliver better outcomes. And yet, despite the easy, and effective interventions that can be implemented to increase well-being, most people simply do not take the time to increase their psychological fitness. This is in turn, leads to increasing burnout, lower engagement, higher employee turnover and inevitably, less satisfied and less healthy employees.
This is a massive issue that is crippling the workforce. Recent studies showed that in the US, 1 million people per day miss work because of stress, equaling a loss of $300B annually just to this issue alone.
Jennifer will share proven strategies, combined with simple tactics to increase psychological fitness. From ways to develop a growth mindset in your teams to improving overall resiliency across your facilities. Part 2 of this breakout will be the kick-start to building your healthiest and highest- performing workforce to date.
This workshop includes:
• Introduction to the HERO Framework
• Overview of well-being and why it matters
• What is neuroplasticity and how it can increase well-being
• Facilitate introduction to 3 – 4 new training activities to improve
well-being
• How to use PERSIST Framework to build well-being habits
• Individual or small group exercises
• Regroup for shared learning through group discussions
SPECIALIZED TOPICS
Women in Technology
Bestselling author and international public speaker, Jennifer Moss is also the recipient of the International Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Innovator of the Year Award and Public Service Award from the Office of President Obama. Most notably, Jennifer is the co-founder of a tech company and sits on the Board of a technology incubator as the Chair of the HR Committee. With female-led start-ups representing only 7% of all tech startups, Jennifer is a passionate advocate for encouraging more girls and women to take on roles in STEAM. Jennifer works with government policy makers to advance this discussion globally.
Most recently, Jennifer was interviewed recently by Time Magazine to share why we need to increase inclusivity in tech, not just for women, but for everyone. Her talk focuses on the opportunities available to women in STEAM and the benefits of being a female entrepreneur. Jennifer will share her incredible personal journey from working on Oprah’s films to her early days in social media in Silicon Valley, her involvement in President Obama’s campaign and attending his inauguration, leading a tech company, writing a book and presenting a keynote with the Dalai Lama.
Women have been told for too long that they can’t speak about their children, share their personal details, they are “too soft” or “too emotional” but Jennifer refuses to accept that this is how women should lead. Jennifer’s talk will inspire women of all generations to embrace their capacity to lead authentically. Jennifer will show women how to better connect with their core values, embrace who they are, develop their resiliency skills, eliminate their fear, and lead as a woman.
Education
According to Dr. Jean Clinton, Child Psychiatrist, we’ve reached a point where the number of young people experiencing mental health issues is “at a point of crisis”. Youth are suffering from rising levels of anxiety, stress and depression. We want to build a future of prevention versus treatment as the ever-increasing negative impacts of stress continue to affect our lives. For students and teachers – creating a more psychologically safe school is going to help us achieve that goal. Research tells us that to have the greatest impact, we also need to work with teachers, to dig into the relationship between student and teacher well-being.
For the last five years, Jennifer has consulted school boards and ministries of education as the co-founder and Executive Director of the HERO Generation; school systems that build Hope, Efficacy, Resilience and Optimism in trustees, administrators, teachers, staff, and students. The HERO research looks at the impact of healthier educators on the academic outcomes of the students with whom they interface.
Jennifer’s talk will present her team’s groundbreaking research, developed in collaboration with the most prominent scientists in mindfulness and gratitude from Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley in the US, Oxford in the UK and WLU in Canada. Jennifer’s discussion will range in topics from the impact of poverty on the student brain to rebuilding trust in damaged staff relationships to the well-being effect of teachers on student performance.
Jennifer’s talk will provide strategic guidance to boards and ministries so they too, can create healthier, higher-performing education ecosystems. Jennifer will share with the audience how to develop a common, shared languages across all stakeholders instead of focusing on one single dimension within the education architecture.
Inspirational Keynote
In 2009, Jennifer Moss confronted one of the toughest challenges of her life. Facing the possible death of her husband, a baby on the way and a two-year-old wondering if daddy was “going to be ok”, this moment became the catalyst for a future focused on helping others prepare for trauma.
It was out of a realization that trauma impacts every one of us. Some of us are hit harder than others. But, most of us are unprepared to mentally handle life’s challenges and what results is extreme anxiety, deep depression, and stress-related illness. Jennifer realized that she wasn’t prepared – this trauma would hit harder than she expected. But, with help from her psychologically fit husband, she would make it through.
After this incredible learning, Jennifer would spend the next eight years sharing how she worked on her own psychological fitness. She would start a research and technology company committed to giving 1 billion tools to live a more psychologically fit life, write a book about how to unlock happiness through resiliency and then go on to speak internationally, educating people about mental fitness and proactive psychological health.
This talk takes the audience through an engaging and thought-provoking journey. Jennifer’s raw, personal, and often, very funny storytelling will take us on an emotional ride, reminding us all, just how fragile life can be.
Conscious Capitalism
This talk will focus on the term Conscious Capitalists, a new wave of highly recognized leaders and organizations who have adopted the double bottom line approach to building and running their companies. We will learn how they are executing this mission at the highest levels and disseminating this way of thinking to the public and with their employees. From a boutique design agency with 35 employees to a global grocery retailer with over 91,000 employees, we will learn the true definition of Conscious Capitalism.
Jennifer looks at companies who are engaging in this strategy and the outcomes of those efforts. She will provide audiences with the tools to bring this mindset back to their organizations.
Building Happiness Hygiene
What do all the greatest leaders have in common? They have a strong happiness habit. According to well-known psychological scientists and neuroscientists, we can develop these traits in the brain by up to 50% or more just through habit building. And these habits of high-performance can be developed in the same time it takes to eat breakfast.
This talk will explain the process by which we build habits and how to create a routine that will boost the success of these patterns. Using neuroscience and positive psychology research, Jennifer will teach audiences about neural pathways and how they require repetition, reward and reinforcement to rewire positive and negative habits. She will also share why this matters in workplace performance and how to bring this learning back to your teams. Finally, Jennifer will provide simple take-away actions so audience members can train their brain to become happier, higher-performing leaders both professionally and personally.