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Jenn's Bios

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You’ve done the surveys and the trainings, but your team is still exhausted and stuck. That's because you’re missing the root problem: too much toil and not enough joy. Jenn Whitmer—keynote speaker, award-winning author of Joyosity, Enneagram specialist, and all-around joy-bringer—teaches leaders to use joy as a performance tool. Your team walks out with the human skills to actually deliver business results.

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You've done the surveys and the trainings, but your team is still exhausted and stuck. That's because you're missing the root problem: too much toil and not enough joy.

Jenn Whitmer—keynote speaker, award-winning author of *Joyosity*, Enneagram specialist, and all-around joy-bringer—teaches leaders to use joy as a performance tool. Your team walks out with the human skills to actually deliver business results: higher engagement, increased productivity, and a culture people don't want to leave.

Her bestselling book, *Joyosity: How to Cultivate Intense Happiness in Work & Life (Even If Things Are What They Are)*, has won eight publishing awards. She's spoken for SXSW, TEDx, Kiwanis International, Mayo Clinic, IMEX, Chick-fil-A, Intuit, and the U.S. State Department—proof this isn't theory, it's been tested in rooms with no patience for ideas that don’t work.

She holds a Master of Arts in Communication and Culture from Webster University, and a not-so-secret dream that her real life is a musical. Jenn lives in St. Louis with her husband, four kids, and one surly cat who lets them stay in the house.

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You've done the surveys and the trainings, but your team is still exhausted and stuck. That's because you're missing the root problem: too much toil and not enough joy.

Jenn Whitmer—keynote speaker, award-winning author of *Joyosity*, podcast host, Enneagram specialist, and all-around joy-bringer—teaches leaders to use joy as a performance tool. Your team walks out with the human skills to actually deliver business results: higher engagement, increased productivity, and a culture people don't want to leave.

No one lives in a highlight reel. You want real change for real life. Jenn's got the experience and the credentials to bring the shift for you. She has a Master of Arts in Communication and Culture from Webster University, graduate certificates in music education, theology, and leadership, extended training in conflict resolution, and certification as an Enneagram coach. She’s also lived the pressure of leading: 20+ years as an educator and school leader, wrangling students, mobilizing volunteers, managing projects, and leading professionals.

Her bestselling book, *Joyosity: How to Cultivate Intense Happiness in Work & Life (Even If Things Are What They Are)*, has won eight publishing awards and has 300+ citations. She's spoken for SXSW, TEDx, Kiwanis International, Mayo Clinic, Chick-fil-A, Intuit, and the U.S. State Department—proof this isn't theory, it's been tested in rooms with no patience for ideas that don't work.

When she's not on a stage, Jenn's breezing through TSA PreCheck with her Frownies on, quoting *Ted Lasso* to strangers, and holding onto her not-so-secret dream that her real life is a musical. She lives in St. Louis with her husband, four kids, and one surly cat who lets them stay in the house.

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Joy Intro:

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Put this into the hands of whoever's introducing Jenn, pick your topic, and you are off to the races!

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It's 4:45 on a Tuesday, you’re stuck in the meeting could've been an email, and you're doing the mental math on how many more years of this you have left in you. Or it's Sunday night, and the dread shows up before you finish the dishes. And let’s not forget team disengagement, low productivity, and high turnover. That's exactly why Jenn Whitmer is here: to show us how to reduce that toil and increase joy.

Jenn holds a Master of Arts in communication and culture from Webster University, graduate certificates in education, theology and leadership, and extended training in conflict resolution, along with certification as an Enneagram coach. Not all of that was Plan A! But she spent 20-plus years actually using it, leading rooms full of complicated humans—classrooms, staff, volunteers, corporate teams—and came out the other side with a simple, stubborn belief: joy isn't the reward you hand out after the real work is done. It's the strategy that gets the real work done.

A former toxic positivity dealer, she's not here to tell you “don’t worry, be happy” or plan a fun Friday. She's here to show you how joy is the performance strategy your team already needs—and exactly how to start building it.

Jenn lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her high school sweetheart and husband of nearly 30 years, Michael. They have four kids in their teens and 20s, and a surly cat that allows them all to live in the house.

Three things before we start:

1. She really just wants her life to be a musical.
2. *Ted Lasso* might just be the perfect show.
3. She's a loud laugher — so join in.

Please welcome Jenn Whitmer.
You've rewritten that Slack message four times, deleted the honest version, and sent the “nice” one instead. The one that says nothing. Or you've had the same conversation with yourself in the shower a dozen times and never once had it with the person in real life. That's what happens when communication is lacking and conflict gets treated like the enemy. That's why Jenn Whitmer is here.

Jenn is a recovering conflict-avoider and former expert at using many words while saying nothing. She holds a Master of Arts in communication and culture from Webster University, graduate certificates in education, theology and leadership, and extended training in conflict resolution, along with certification as an Enneagram coach. Not all of that was Plan A! But she spent 20-plus years actually using it, leading rooms full of complicated humans—classrooms, staff, volunteers, corporate teams, and hardest of all, herself—and came out the other side knowing the difference between keeping the peace and just delaying the blowup.

She's not here to teach you how to win the argument or cover it all up with platitudes. She's here to teach you how to ask the right questions and say the true thing without torching the relationship.

Jenn lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her high school sweetheart and husband of nearly 30 years, Michael. They have four kids in their teens and 20s, and a surly cat that allows them all to live in the house.

Three things before we start:

1. She really just wants her life to be a musical.
2. *Ted Lasso* might just be the perfect show.
3. She's a loud laugher — so join in.

Please welcome Jenn Whitmer.

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Emcee Intro:

You know the moment. Someone on your team says one thing, in one tone, and you go from zero to defensive in half a second, and you can't even tell your spouse why later. Or you’re doing the thing you swore you'd stop doing, in the exact same meeting, for the tenth time. We all have bad days, but that's a pattern. And that’s exactly why Jenn Whitmer is here.

Though she always loved personality tools, Jenn was originally a full rejector of the Enneagram. Then she spent 20-plus years leading rooms full of complicated humans—classrooms, staff, volunteers, corporate teams, and hardest of all, herself. Now she's a certified Enneagram coach, an international speaker, and the author of *Joyosity.* The tool she rejected turned out to be the one she couldn't stop using.

She's not here to hand you a quiz or make you an expert on the Enneagram. She's here to name the pattern running you under pressure so you can lead fully as yourself.

Jenn lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her high school sweetheart and husband of nearly 30 years, Michael. They have four kids in their teens and 20s, and a surly cat that allows them all to live in the house.

Three things before we start:

1. She really just wants her life to be a musical.
2. *Ted Lasso* might just be the perfect show.
3. She's a loud laugher — so join in.

Please welcome Jenn Whitmer.

AV Requests

  • I use a laptop (MacBook Pro) and a remote control I bring with me. I have my own VGA and HDMI adapters, just in case. I prefer to run my slides from my own computer, if that works for you.

  • If we need to use a technician’s computer (or to run it from the booth), I am happy to send you a link to the slide deck that is available online. (To avoid font and formatting issues, all of my slide decks are available online via a private link and log-in.) If you are running the show, please then also provide a remote for managing the slides from the stage.

  • If I will be running the computer/slides from the stage, AC power should be within six feet of the computer and the laptop must be set up within a reasonable distance of where I’ll be standing.

  • If the slides are running from the booth, please provide a confidence monitor with a speaker view of the presentation.

  • If sound output or external video is required, I’ll confirm this with you. (If you’d like this information before our 2-week out check-in, just send an email.)

  • Mic Preference: For groups of more than 25 people, my preference is to use a lavalier or countryman microphone, though I’m very comfortable with handheld if that’s what you’ve got.

  • Tech Check: It will be important to me to connect with your tech team to introduce myself and ensure they have everything they need to have a successful experience.

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Jenn (Dellario) Whitmer

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Email us if you have any questions at  Speaking@jennwhitmer.com