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About Jenny Evans - Health and Wellness Speaker:

As a Human Performance Institute performance coach and keynote speaker, Jenny Evans trains hundreds of national and international corporate executives of Fortune 500 companies on the role of nutrition and exercise in energy management for increased productivity and performance. She specializes in both large and small group education and learning.

Jenny holds a bachelor of science degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Psychology from the University of Minnesota in Kinesiology. She is the founder and CEO of PowerHouse Wellness.

As a national speaker, Jenny promotes total employee health and well-being by educating executives on integrating body, mind and spirit. She has managed corporate wellness centers, produced an instructional yoga audio CD, taught various fitness classes, and educated numerous employees on managing stress, nutrition, and work-life balance. For the past twelve years, Jenny has also been involved in educating and training the public on overall wellness through frequent radio and television appearances. In her spare time she does flying trapeze and aerial arts, specializing in tissue and hoop.

What Jenny Evans Talks About:

Energy, not Time, is the Fundamental Currency of High Performance in Business
Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of performance and the most precious gift we have to give. Productivity, as well as health and happiness, are grounded in the skillful management of energy. To be fully engaged means to be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and fully aligned with the company's mission. Each individual represents a cell of potential energy in the larger corporate body. Great leaders begin by effectively managing their own energy. Great leadership is marked by the capacity to mobilize, focus, invest, channel and renew organizational energy in the service of the corporate mission. Just as individuals have a pulse, so too does the corporate body. The skilled management of energy fuels a strong and vibrant pulse and a fully engaged workforce.

The Pulse of High Performance: Life is a Series of Sprints, not a Marathon
The conventional wisdom is that the best way to manage the endless demands of our work lives is to assume the mentality of a marathoner, conserving energy in order to stay the course over many years without burning out. In fact, sustained high performance requires the mentality of a sprinter - fully engaging for clearly defined periods of time and then strategically recovering. To live like a sprinter is to break work down into a series of manageable intervals - fully engaging and then fully recovering. This principle is called oscillation and it creates a powerful pulse that drives greater efficiency, improved health and happiness, and sustained high performance.

The Power of Full Engagement
Nearly 75 percent of American workers are disengaged, according to data collected by the Gallup Organization. To be fully engaged, one must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with the mission of the organization. Drawing on 25 years of experience working with world-class athletes and other elite performers, this presentation describes a unique science-based system for driving full engagement, grounded in the management of personal energy, and the development of highly precise performance rituals.

The Making of a Corporate Athlete
As demand accelerates, many executives lack the capacity to sustain high performance - especially under pressure. The creators of the Corporate Athlete performance model, described in a January 2001 Harvard Business Review article The Making of a Corporate Athlete, argue that in order for executives to achieve sustained high performance, they must learn to train in the same systematic ways that elite athletes do. This requires drawing on four separate but interconnected sources of energy to achieve sustained high performance. This presentation outlines the multidimensional training strategies adopted by executives and managers at more than two dozen Fortune 100 companies.