Speaking

A talk that earns the applause.

Jen DeWare is booked by conference organizers, leadership teams, and corporate event planners who want a speaker with real operating credibility. Practical sessions on resilience, leadership, productivity, and operational clarity, delivered with humour, candor, and the kind of experience that makes audiences lean in.

Jen DeWare speaking to an audience in front of a slide reading 'Change is difficult. Not changing is fatal.'

Who Jen speaks to

Rooms Jen knows.

  • Conferences & Associations
  • Healthcare Leadership
  • Public Sector & Government
  • Operations & Process Excellence Teams
  • Women in Leadership Programs
  • Executive Offsites & Boards
  • Change & Transformation Cohorts
  • Corporate Learning Programs

Conference experience

Conference rooms Jen knows.

Jen has spoken at business, leadership, healthcare, safety, human resources, professional, public sector, and community-focused conferences across Atlantic Canada and beyond. Her sessions are built for rooms full of people who want something they can take back to work, not another inspirational slide deck.

She also brings more than a decade of experience inside healthcare conference and leadership environments.

Selected conference experience

  • Southwest Business Summit

    3 years

  • Women in Business

  • VLS Conference

    Dept. of PETL · Gov. of New Brunswick

  • Food & Beverage Atlantic Conference

  • CPA NB Conference

  • CPHR Conference

  • Worksafe NB Health & Safety Conference

  • CBDC

  • NB Union Annual Conference

  • Business Transformation Forum Atlantic

    Panel Member

  • Maritime Conference on Developmental Disabilities

Corporate & organizational

Guest speaker for corporate & organizational events.

Beyond conferences, Jen has been brought into corporate events, leadership retreats, public sector rooms, healthcare organizations, business groups, unions, associations, and community organizations to help people think differently about work, leadership, resilience, waste, and how work gets done.

Selected speaking & organizational events

  • Confederation Group M&A

  • Horizon Clinic Leadership Retreat

  • NS Health

  • Englobe

    3 times

  • Horizon Health Network

  • Moosehead

  • Excellence in Manufacturing

  • Transport Canada

  • City of Saint John

  • NB Medical Society

  • Vestcor

  • John Howard Society

  • NB Nurses Union

  • NB Association of Pharmacists

  • City of Moncton

  • ACOA

  • Town of Riverview

  • Inclusion East

  • NB Innovation Foundation

  • Moncton Chamber of Commerce

What audiences walk away with

Outcomes, not vibes.

Inspiration is cheap. Jen leaves audiences with frameworks, language, and the first three moves they'll make when they get back to work.

  • 01

    A clearer view of how the team's work actually flows, and where it doesn't.

  • 02

    Practical tools to spot hidden waste, friction, and energy leaks.

  • 03

    Language to lead through change without losing their people.

  • 04

    A reality-tested resilience playbook for hard times.

  • 05

    Permission to stop performing busyness and start producing outcomes.

"Jennifer DeWare is a powerhouse when it comes to getting a group of senior executives to agree on a path forward."

Janelle Bourgeois, Director of Operations, ACOA-APECA

Speaking formats

Ways to put Jen in front of your people.

Most booked

Presentations & Speeches

45 to 60 minute main-stage sessions designed to open or close your event with substance.

Conference Sessions

Breakouts and panels that go deeper than the program promises.

Half-Day Workshops

Hands-on sessions where teams leave with language, tools, and a plan they can use the next week.

Full-Day Workshops

End-to-end work for leadership groups, operations teams, and change cohorts.

Podcasts & Panels

Guest appearances for shows and stages that want a sharp, candid voice.

Virtual / Remote Sessions

Live online talks and workshops for distributed teams and remote-first organizations.

Leadership Retreats & Offsites

Honest rooms, hard conversations, and the alignment your team has been avoiding.

Jen DeWare smiling while facilitating a workshop

Customization

Built for your room.

Every talk is shaped to the audience: your industry, your context, your stakes. Jen runs a discovery call with your team, weaves in your language and examples, and arrives with a talk written for the people in front of her.

  • Pre-event discovery call with your team
  • Audience- and industry-specific examples
  • Customized takeaway tools and frameworks
  • Optional follow-up Q&A session or workshop

Have a date in mind? Let's talk.

Request Jen for Your Event