Jen Coken

Jen Coken works with women in power positions who don’t feel so powerful anymore. She shatters their self-doubts so they can learn to love themselves, embrace their genius and own their success. Recognized by ABC, MSNBC, and TEDx, Jen is an international executive leadership coach, Fortune 500 speaker, imposter syndrome expert, and a recovering standup comedian. Fortune 500 clients to seven-figure CEOs trust Jen to shake things up with no apologies, no limits, and all the laughs.

Leave it to a comedian to make leadership (or anything that could evoke a snooze fest) entertaining — but Jen does it every time. Her seminars, keynotes, and workshops are designed for leaders and their teams who crave actionable lessons from the heart and the opportunity to laugh at life’s absurdity. Jen’s smooth delivery and soulful wit will leave your group inspired and talking about their experience long after it’s over.

What is the method behind her madness? (And there is a little bit of madness … in all the best ways, of course.) The best speakers are experiential, but most speakers aren’t. Most speakers are on the hero’s journey, using their experience as an additive to what the audience already knows. Not Jen. Jen is having people experience the story, putting them in front and center. Using her training in the ontological, Jen helps people be in the story. When they find themselves in the story, that’s when the shift and transformation happens.

How does she get them into the story? (Apart from being a damn good storyteller and seriously relatable as a human? Jen uses comedy.) She takes people to the brink, right to the point where the brain can’t take any more information, and then she uses humor to diffuse the room and the brain opens back up for business. Most of the time our brains need to hear something 12 times before we retain it. With comedy, it only takes four. Jen packs all her comedic tricks and uses them cleverly with her audiences to get them to open up, chill out, and really hear what she’s saying.

When there’s laughter there is listening, and when there’s listening there’s learning. It’s no accident that Jen transforms whole rooms.