SPEAKING
The decisions that shape our lives rarely come with certainty.
Jennifer Lea speaks about consequential decisions, uncertain paths, and what it takes to keep moving when the answer isn’t obvious. Drawing from more than two decades of executive leadership, entrepreneurship, business ownership, reinvention, and the decisions that changed her own life, Jennifer combines candid storytelling with practical frameworks audiences can use long after the event ends. Her work explores how we make consequential decisions, navigate uncertainty, build credibility through consistent action, and keep moving when the path forward isn’t obvious.
Stories that make people think. Frameworks they can actually use.
FLAGSHIP KEYNOTE
Data. Faith. & Guts.
Making consequential decisions when the path forward isn’t clear.
We’re taught to make good decisions by gathering more information. Research it. Analyze it. Build the spreadsheet. Understand the risk. Jennifer believes deeply in doing that work. But eventually, most consequential decisions reach a point where the data stops giving us an obvious answer. That is where Data. Faith. & Guts. begins. Through candid stories from her own career, entrepreneurship, executive leadership, and reinvention, Jennifer introduces a practical framework for navigating decisions that contain uncertainty, competing truths, and real consequences, whether the decision belongs to one person or an entire organization.
DATA
Start with what you know. Separate facts from assumptions, identify the signal in the noise, and understand what the numbers and evidence are actually telling you.
FAITH
Make room for what can’t necessarily be measured: values, conviction, timing, purpose, identity, instinct, and what you know about yourself.
GUTS
At some point, thinking has to become doing. Make the decision you can make with what you know now, accept what you cannot know, and take the next right action.
Data tells us what we know. Faith makes room for what we can’t know. Guts turns the decision into action.
THE TAKEAWAY
Not an answer. A better way to make the decision.
Jennifer doesn’t promise audiences that uncertainty disappears when they leave the room. The goal is more useful than that: to give people a framework they can return to when the decision actually matters. The framework applies equally to personal crossroads and leadership decisions where the stakes extend beyond the person making them.
A practical framework for separating facts from assumptions.
Better questions for identifying what the decision is really about.
Permission to acknowledge the factors that matter even when they cannot be quantified.
A clearer understanding of when analysis has become avoidance.
A practical way to identify the next action without pretending to know everything that comes after it.
The audience should leave thinking differently about a decision already sitting in front of them.
WHY JENNIFER
She didn’t learn this from a textbook.
Jennifer has spent more than two decades in executive leadership, including helping lead multimillion-dollar law firms through growth, change, people decisions, financial pressures, technology shifts, and the everyday realities of running a business. She earned an Executive MBA, left a successful six-figure executive career to build an e-commerce subscription company from the ground up, raised outside capital, built a team, won a $50,000 pitch competition prize package, navigated cash flow and growth, restructured when the business required it, made expensive mistakes, and eventually sold the company. She then returned to executive leadership, where she currently serves as Executive Director of Woods Aitken, a law firm with offices in Nebraska and Colorado. Her career has not followed a straight line, and that is precisely the point. Jennifer brings an operator’s respect for facts, an entrepreneur’s comfort with uncertainty, and the perspective of someone who has had to make consequential decisions without knowing exactly how the story would end.
She speaks from experience, but she doesn’t make herself the lesson. The audience is always the point.
ADDITIONAL TALKS
Different rooms. Different conversations. The same commitment to something useful.
Get Up. Dress Up. Show Up. Do the Next Thing.
A practical philosophy for building credibility, resilience, and a meaningful career through consistent action. Careers are rarely built through one enormous breakthrough. More often, they are built through the ordinary choices people make when no one is applauding: doing what you said you would do, showing up prepared, building trust, recovering when something doesn’t go as planned, and taking the next useful action. Jennifer draws from more than two decades of leadership, entrepreneurship, and career reinvention to explore how reputation is built over time and why the seemingly small things often become the things that matter most.
Life Doesn’t Happen in a Straight Line
A candid conversation about building a career, business, and life when the plan keeps changing. Jennifer’s own path has included executive leadership, entrepreneurship, raising capital, business ownership, selling a company, returning to the legal profession, motherhood, reinvention, and more than a few unexpected turns. This talk explores what happens when changing direction is not evidence that the previous decision was wrong. It is an honest, practical conversation about identity, risk, resilience, changing your mind, and learning to take the next right step before you can see the whole path.
THE RIGHT CONVERSATION FOR THE ROOM
The framework stays strong. The conversation can flex.
Jennifer tailors each conversation to the room, whether she is speaking to an organization, professional association, leadership group, conference, executive team, or another audience. The core framework remains intact, but the stories, examples, emphasis, and application can be tailored to the decisions the people in that room are actually navigating, from personal crossroads and career decisions to leadership questions with consequences for teams, organizations, and businesses.
BRING JENNIFER TO YOUR EVENT
Give them something worth thinking about on the drive home.
If you’re planning a conference, leadership gathering, professional development program, or event and believe one of these conversations would serve your audience, let’s talk. Tell me about the audience, the event, and what you hope people are still thinking about after it ends.