Jennifer Keitt: Empowerment Speaker
Jennifer Keitt is a communication and leadership speaker who helps individuals and organizations strengthen clarity, confidence, and emotional intelligence to create meaningful connections and lead with purpose.
Quick Facts:
- Communication expert with 20+ years of experience
- Leadership speaker, author, and media personality
- Specialist in emotional intelligence and authentic leadership
- Expert in interpersonal communication and influence
- Formats: Communication and leadership speaker
- Audiences: Corporate teams, leaders, emerging professionals, HR groups, higher education, and organizations seeking stronger communication, inclusion, and leadership capacity.
- Outcomes:
- Clear, confident, and purposeful communication skills
- Practical leadership tools rooted in empathy, resilience, and self awareness
- Stronger collaboration through inclusive, culturally aware practices
- Travels from: Atlanta, GA
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
Talent Services
Keynote Topics:
Elevate, Transform and Thrive: The Executive Life Quest
Get ready to join Dr. Jennifer Keitt for Elevate, Transform & Thrive: The Executive Life Quest. This dynamic, engaging session takes you beyond roles and seamlessly weaves together your personal and professional life. In this high-energy, interactive experience you will:
- Discover three new frameworks for crafting brilliance, orchestrating change, and redefining success.
- Accelerate growth by building self-confidence.
- Design a success “playbook” with concrete action steps to succeed on your own terms.
You will leave ready to elevate, transform and thrive as you take away the tools to live your absolute best life!
Living Strong™
Imagine being what others need you to be or what they’ve told you to be, and what if they’re WRONG! That’s our motivation for developing the Living Strong™ experience.
We insist on giving people the opportunity to discover who they are FOR THEMSELVES because your relationship with yourself is the MOST critical human relationship you’ll ever have!
Participating in this experience will help you, Understand what character strengths are and why they are essential, list your top five character strengths, craft a strengths-based statement that explains who you are and discover practical ways to use your strengths every day.
Resonate™
Influential leaders operate from their strengths, use their personalities to their advantage, and understand and manage their emotions while effectively influencing the feelings of those around them.
Resonate™ is necessary because it establishes an emotionally intelligent, strengths-based culture in today’s workplace.
When leaders can learn how to be emotionally intelligent, they develop the skills to thrive, no matter their seniority level, role, or industry. In addition, emotional intelligence sets high performers apart from their peers with similar technical knowledge and skills.
Mastering Resilience
The one skill workers need now more than ever is resilience. In today’s work environment, professionals must have bounce-back-ability. People who can bounce back moment-by-moment, day-by-day, and week-by-week have an advantage.
They can manage and control their emotions. They can withstand adversity and challenges. They are even able to grow and thrive from life’s setbacks.
The EQM Experience
Our feelings are meant to work in tandem with our thoughts to guide our lives purposefully.
To navigate life successfully, adults must adapt to the constant changes in their personal and professional environments, and they need to learn, grow, and exercise their agency in social contexts.
Leading Inside Out
Leaders want to lead transparently
Many leaders struggle with being comfortable in their own skin. They find it challenging to show up authentically daily.
Today’s leaders secretly ask questions like:
- “How do I know what I am really feeling?”
- “What impact do my emotions have on my leadership and how people view me?”
- “How do I guard against out-of-control emotions to lead effectively?”
The truth is leaders want to get their inner lives in order so they can lead transparently.
Becoming Unstoppable
The word “unstoppable” means impossible to stop or prevent. To become unstoppable in life, people must have the tools, ideas, and strategies that will help them succeed.
Jennifer Keitt understands this and is committed to helping people become unstoppable every day. In Becoming Unstoppable, Jennifer delivers practical and relevant strategies using her engaging conversational interview skills in each episode.
Jennifer’s goal is simple: help people become unstoppable in every area of their life!
PowerHer
As Chief Empowerment Officer and host of the nationally syndicated PowerHer Radio Show, Jennifer Keitt gives women the tools, resources, and ideas to help make their lives more powerful.
The PowerHer Radio Show showcases Jennifer’s personal success strategies, along with relevant information from today’s thought leaders and experts. The show helps women discover their personal brilliance and gives them the confidence boost they need to succeed in every area of life!
Always Custom - Never Canned
Presentations aren’t about the speaker. They’re about the audience. Jennifer is a seasoned professional with a deep reservoir of knowledge and expertise in human behavior and audience engagement.
Tell her about your event and audience, what you need, and how she can help. Jennifer draws on her wide range of topics to customize her speeches for you. Her approach is simple: design a keynote that connects with your specific audience.
Custom Well-Being Topics
- Well-Being and Flourishing in a Negative World
- 4 Secrets to Increasing Your Capacity
- 4 Game-Changing Strategies to Win in Life
- Is the Glass Half-full or Half-empty: Empowering Strategies for Living your Best
- How to Build a Powerful Life
- Facing Forward – Winning Together
- Thriving in Tough Times
- 50 Ways to Empower Your Life
- I Am More Than Enough!
- Following Your Dreams & Living Magnificently
- Cracking the Code: Finding & Keeping Your Voice
- Living & Loving Your Purpose
- Unlocking Your Unlimited Potential
- Discovering Your Unique Purpose
- Secret Superheroes
- How to Be Emotionally Resilient
- Going on a Thought Diet
Talent Short Bio
Jennifer Keitt is a respected communication expert, leadership speaker, author, and media personality with more than two decades of experience helping individuals and organizations communicate more effectively and lead with authenticity. Known for her engaging delivery and human-centered approach, Jennifer equips audiences with practical tools that strengthen influence, collaboration, and confidence in both professional and personal environments.
Her work blends communication science, emotional intelligence, and personal development to help people navigate interpersonal challenges, improve clarity, and build meaningful connections. Jennifer’s presentations focus on actionable strategies that participants can immediately apply to improve leadership effectiveness, workplace relationships, and team performance.
Jennifer’s keynotes and workshops emphasize active listening, empathy, verbal and nonverbal communication, and purposeful leadership. She helps leaders become more intentional in how they communicate, make decisions, and inspire trust within teams and organizations.
Read Full Bio
Jennifer Keitt is a renowned communication and leadership speaker known for her dynamic and engaging presentations that inspire individuals and organizations to unleash their full potential.
With over two decades of experience in the fields of communication, leadership, and personal development, Jennifer has become a trusted voice in guiding others towards achieving their goals and maximizing their impact.
As a speaker, author, and media personality, Jennifer Keitt has dedicated her career to empowering individuals to become effective communicators, visionary leaders, and catalysts for positive change.
Through her insightful keynotes, workshops, and coaching sessions, she equips audiences with practical strategies and actionable insights to navigate challenges, communicate with confidence, and lead with authenticity.
With over 20 years of experience as a communication expert, leadership coach, and media personality, Jennifer brings a wealth of knowledge and real-world insights to her presentations. She draws from her diverse background in broadcasting, coaching, and community advocacy to deliver practical strategies and actionable advice that drive results.
Jennifer takes the time to understand the unique needs and objectives of each audience, customizing her presentations to address specific challenges, industry trends, and organizational goals. Whether delivering a keynote address, facilitating a workshop, or providing one-on-one coaching, Jennifer’s approach is always personalized and results-oriented.
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Talent Videos
Jennifer Keitt What’s Your Superpower
A concise, motivational message where Jennifer Keitt challenges viewers to identify their true superpowers the innate strengths, perspectives, and contributions that shape meaningful impact in work, relationships, and community.
Video Summary & Key Moments
This 3 minute 52 second video features Jennifer Keitt delivering an encouraging reflection on the concept of personal superpowers. She begins by contrasting traditional comic book imagery with the real superpowers she wants audiences to consider: the inherent, unique gifts each person brings to the world. Jennifer explains that these superpowers include talents, perspectives, and contributions that elevate relationships, workplaces, and communities. She introduces her Power Her radio series, dedicated to exploring these themes, and highlights examples such as vision, strategic thinking, and problem solving.
Jennifer invites viewers to intentionally observe their superpowers over the next few days by noticing what they naturally contribute to different areas of life. In relationships, she encourages people to consider whether they are the critical thinker, the fun planner, or part of a complementary partnership where both strengths combine. At work, she urges viewers to look beyond job titles to uncover the real value they add whether it is empathy, listening, team cohesion, stability, or creative insight.
Key Moments
- 00:35 Overview of her Power Her series and examples of superpowers like vision and problem solving.
- 01:18 Invitation to observe personal contributions in relationships and daily life.
- 02:06 Encouragement to recognize workplace strengths beyond job titles and formal roles.
- 02:45 Insight on why the world needs people using their unique superpowers intentionally.
Jennifer Keitt Bloom Where You Are
In this full length message, Jennifer Keitt blends scripture, storytelling, and practical coaching to show how to bloom, produce, and expand right where God has planted you.
Video Summary & Key Moments
This 44 minute 47 second message, delivered at a Cornerstone Women’s Day service, centers on the idea that every believer is part of God’s multigenerational family business and is designed to be fruitful. Jennifer Keitt opens with prayer and gratitude to the host church, then uses a recent trip to Italy to illustrate the power of legacy. She describes touring iconic luxury brands like Prada and realizing they began as simple family names. The Prada story, especially its multigenerational leadership and immense value, becomes a springboard into a deeper reminder: God’s family business and the value of His children far exceed any earthly brand.
Jennifer then anchors her teaching in scripture. She defines a family business as a multigenerational enterprise shaped by blood or marriage and applies this to the kingdom of God. Through passages like John 1 and Romans 8, she emphasizes that believers are children of God by blood, with real responsibility and a fivefold mandate: be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and rule. She highlights God’s design in creation, noting that trees and plants were built to produce before conditions were “perfect,” and argues that believers likewise carry built in capacity to produce regardless of circumstances.
She uses Adam naming the animals to demonstrate humanity’s original productivity and creative capacity, then challenges the audience to examine how much they are actually producing compared to what God designed. The core application unfolds in three steps: reclaim your God given imagination, bloom where you are planted, and enlarge your reach. Jennifer explains the difference between synthetic and creative imagination and warns how media can hijack our inner picture of what is possible. She calls listeners to meditate on God’s word, produce fruit in their current environment, and then stretch, expand, and influence more territory for the kingdom. The message closes with a vivid story about burning ships to remove retreat as an option, urging listeners to burn doubt, excuses, and limiting beliefs and move forward to win.
Key Moments
- 08:30 Definition of family business, scriptures on being children of God, and introduction of the fivefold mandate to be fruitful and rule.
- 18:40 Creation insights, Adam naming the animals, and a challenge about living up to our designed level of productivity.
- 26:55 Three keys: reclaim imagination, distinguish synthetic vs creative imagination, and allow God to fill inner vision.
- 33:20 Bloom where you are planted using Psalm 1, plus a call to stop waiting for perfect conditions and start producing now.
Jennifer Keitt – NSA Main Stage Keynote: How to Build a Speaking Empire
In this high energy NSA main stage keynote, Jennifer Keitt shares the mindset shifts and practical lessons that helped her build a lasting “speaking empire.”
Video Summary & Key Moments
This 26 minute 24 second keynote captures Jennifer Keitt addressing fellow speakers at the NSA Influence conference. After a warm introduction highlighting her radio reach, nonprofit work, and media presence, Jennifer steps on stage to unpack how she built what she calls a speaking empire.
She begins with a pivotal moment in 1991, when she realized at 27 that she hated the only career she knew: delivering bad news as a radio news anchor. That realization triggered a “summer of chaos,” a dark, confusing season in which she knew she was done but had no clear next step. From that turning point, she distills three core lessons.
First, you can’t put new ideas into an old mindset. Using the biblical wineskin metaphor, she explains that old, rigid ways of thinking cannot hold new opportunities. When her station’s general manager offered her just 60 seconds for a new feature, she initially rejected the idea; her “old mind” believed real talk shows required 30–60 minutes. Eventually, she accepted the challenge, reframed her thinking, and agreed to build a show in one minute segments.
Second, you must speak to somebody, not everybody. As a broadcaster, her default was to address the whole city. But to build an enduring platform, she realized she needed a specific “somebody.” She identified her core audience as today’s Black woman, ages 25–54, because that’s who she was and who she deeply understood. She stresses that audience gives you your voice; if you don’t know who you are for, you can’t fully discover your voice or your impact.
Key Moments
- 02:10 Jennifer shares her 1991 “summer of chaos” story and realizing she was done with traditional news.
- 06:05 Lesson 1: “New wine mind” – releasing rigid assumptions about what a show or speaking career must look like.
- 11:10 Lesson 2: Speak to somebody, not everybody; defining her “somebody” as today’s Black woman.
- 17:20 Lesson 3: You can’t get new results with old behaviors; shifting from news reader to empowerer and encourager.
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