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Jenna Elmer
HR Professional
" We invited Jenean to be our Keynote speaker opening our conference, “Elevate HR” asking her to offer solutions to some of the most challenging issues facing our profession today. Jenean encouraged our participants to both make small steps to invite personal growth and also dig deep and look for ways that we are impeding our ability to shine as professionals. Her encouragement to “Stand in our Strength” set the perfect tone for our conference.”
Michelle Webb
CEO
"We were excited to bring Jenean to speak at our woman's summit event, and she did not disappoint. She shared from her book, Finding Your Lighthouse: A Leadership Guide to Navigating Change. Her presentation was insightful, engaging and relevant. It was a pleasure working with her."
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~ Stand In Your Strength - A Leadership Guide to Navigating Change
As a Business Anthropologist, Jenean takes a cultural view of behavior change and what it takes to make it stick in the workplace. As seen through an anthropological lens you’ll learn:
- How culture teaches us to block success and what to do about it
- How to change the limiting beliefs that may be holding you or your team back
- The steps to standing in your strength and becoming the powerful, recognized leader you were meant to be
Jenean will show you how to use a proven process to create lasting change. This talk engages participants so that they feel connected to their individual change strategies and motivated to reach for success.
~ Master the Art of Creating a Positive Workplace Culture
In this engaging talk, Business Anthropologist, Jenean Merkel Perelstein shares how workplace culture is the number one driver of staff efficiency, productivity, and happiness. Looking at your organization through the lens of an anthropologist, you’ll learn:
- How your unique workplace culture defines how stable and productive your workforce is
- How to empower employees to make solution-oriented decisions
- How to shorten the onboarding cycle for new hires so your hiring for fit really sticks
Your workplace culture will form even if you do not do it purposefully. Learn how attention to your workplace culture can ensure your organization improves its positivity, productivity, and profitability.
Learn about Jenean's background
Jenean is a Business Anthropologist, U.S. Patent holder, and revered speaker who worked as a medical anthropologist before becoming CEO of Alchemie Academy where she has enriched workplace culture for clients ranging from solopreneurs to Fortune 100 companies. When not speaking, she mentors organizations to grow their workplace culture, develop their leadership skills, and achieve a higher level of positivity, productivity, and profitability.
Jenean has created several programs in Leadership Development and Workplace Culture Enrichment where she provides training to clients worldwide and certifies coaches to use her models for their own clientele. This work is supported by her book Finding Your Lighthouse: A Leadership Guide to Navigating Change. Looking at organizational culture through the eyes of an anthropologist, Jenean passionately helps business professionals and organizations get out of their own way and become the powerful and recognized leaders that they are meant to be.
See who else has engaged Jenean
Private clients from the fields of insurance, biotech, creative industries, organizational development, public relations and marketing, finance, publishing, education, medicine, city and county government, professional athletics
- PepsiCo
- ISSA National Conferences for USA and for Canada
- Accounting and Financial Women’s Alliance National Conference
- CUPA-HR
- Grand Canyon Trust
- Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
- Northern Arizona University
- Sedona Arts Center
- Flagstaff Leadership Program
- Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy
- Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra
- Soroptimists – Golden West Region
- The Arboretum of Flagstaff
- Northern Arizona Housing Alliance
- Flagstaff Friends of Traditional Music
- Vista Hospice
- Whale Foundation
- Flagstaff Bone and Joint Orthopedics
- Hypo 2
- Flagstaff Arts Council
- Girls on the Run
- The Orpheum Theater
- Ideas to Inspire
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