Janne has mentored 100+ other renaissance women on naming their purpose, embracing their duality as a superpower, and learning to work with their wide creativity instead of against it. Janne believes the greatest generosity towards ourselves and also this world is to give our gifts. She believes we do not need to compartmentalize parts of who we are to belong in a room–rather we need to trust that our multifaceted nature is what makes us more interesting and valuable to our audiences.

Come with Janne in this interactive 60 minute talk that encourages us to create a life of meaning by bringing our full self to the world and trust that all parts of not only belong, but are needed.

As a result of this keynote attendees will:

• Have the concept of purpose be demystified through Janne sharing her story in a tangible, relatable way.

• People will leave understanding the difference between purpose and what we do.

• Learn how purpose can be a flashlight to navigate the adversity and challenges of our career and work.

• Learn to harness their duality and multifaceted nature as a strength, not a weakness. To trust their many gifts and ideas.

• Leave with permission that they can reinvent and create success in many ways if they ever feel stuck in their career.

What if poetry could single handedly start movements, create impact and change the world? What if one person writing a truth that is inside of themselves could spark millions? Janne has been using poetry as a vessel for not only her individual transformation but as a way to transform the world for 10 years. 

With Janne, poetry is more than a verse or art - it’s a powerful conduit and invitation for people to express their insides, outside and in doing so to create a life of meaning. 

When brought into the workplace, university or conference, this approach highlights the most human parts of ourselves—inevitably breaking down barriers, and fosters deeper connection between teams.

As a result of this keynote attendees will:

• Learn a new medium of expression. Fire new synaptic responses and pathways in their brain. This can promote confidence and the enhanced ability to creatively problem solve in their lives and work.

• A sense of connection and belonging with other attendees. In hearing the poems of people around them, people often realize how similar our story is to those around us. People leave this keynote feeling more connected to the people in their organization and less alone in their life experience.

• It’s poetry, but underneath the poetry is an opportunity for attendees to witness and therefore transform an experience or a feeling from their lives.

So many of us can get to a moment in our life where we are clear on “not this” but not what’s next. Janne’s story and journey of how she quit everything and moved to an isolated cabin in the woods on an inlet in BC to chase her dream of being a writer is exactly the medicine needed for people who are feeling trapped or stuck in a part of their lives.

It is sometimes not in the confronting nature of a therapy session but in the subtle art of someone sharing their story that we can feel safe to hear the exact thing we need.

Come with Janne in this 60 minute keynote as she learns how to use an ax, make friends with the metaphorical and real black bears in the woods, be rejected over and over as a budding artist, find her voice as a writer and then–see her fly.

As a result of this keynote attendees will:

• Leave with an increased awareness of how many choices at any given moment are available to us.

• How easy it can be to change our lives.

• How many exits are on the highway that we forget even exist.

• That there is an entirely different life available to us if we put it on the menu.