Keynote Speaker with Expertise in Strategy, Sales and Leadership

Speaking Engagements

Jane Gentry has 30 years of experience assisting leaders at high growth organizations to diagnose and solve gaps regarding strategy, people, process and development. With an eye for enabling profitable growth and improving sales velocity and pipeline consistency, she strives for better articulated value, better delivered value and a better value to the bottom line.

As a successful Business Consultant and Executive Coach, Jane Gentry has tailored her keynote presentations to educate and motivate leaders. When you book Jane Gentry as your Keynote Speaker, you can expect a inspirational leadership presentation backed by 30 years of experience.

"An inspiring, direct session that increased my awareness and called me to action. Jane has a remarkable talent to make you feel like she is speaking to you only. I cannot wait to have another of my clients book Jane as she always delivers beyond expectations."

Managing Director, dynami

President Georgia MPI and Member of MPI’s Professional Strategy Committee

Most Popular Speaking Topics

Jane Gentry’s Keynote Presentations focus on the importance of relationship building and inspirational leadership. Each topic can be delivered as a Keynote Presentation (virtually or in-person), Breakout, or Full-Day Session.

Talent Retention

Are you Prepared to Navigate Today’s Tightening Talent Pool?

As a leader, you are fighting against a significant math problem when it comes to employee acquisition and retention. 30 Million Boomers left the workforce during the COVID pandemic, and 5.4 million people started their own businesses. Today, we bring just under 10 million new people into the workforce every year.

The talent pool is tighter than ever. How do you protect your most valuable asset?

Business Consultant and Leadership Expert, Jane Gentry will share insights on how to maximize employee engagement, retain top talent, improve leadership and ultimately drive stronger performance.

Jane will help you beat the math and thrive in the face of today’s tightening talent pool. She will share with you the levers successful leaders are pulling to retain and attract top talent.

Learn how your leaders impact your retention, how constant change is impacting turnover, what employees want most and how community is the key to engagement in a remote workplace.

In this keynote presentation, Jane shares:

Insights on maximizing employee engagement and driving performance
Strategic levers to pull to retain and attract top talent in today’s market
The impact your leaders have on retention and how to help them be more effective
Keys to improve performance in a remote workplace

Relational Intelligence

Managing the Crucial Intersection Between Technology & Relationships

Our society is experiencing a corrosion of Relational Intelligence – the ability to navigate and negotiate complex social relationships and environments. Creating a Relationally Intelligent company culture is critical to the success of any business. Even more so if your success or the success of your company involves achieving results through others and those others happen to work for you or buy from you.

Statistics abound across generations that show our increasing reliance on technology and the resulting deterioration of relationship building skills. In fact, studies show that 89% of us picked up our phone during our last face-to-face encounter. As we struggle with unmet cross-generational expectations regarding what is social and what is relational, business is suffering the unintended consequences of what Daniel Goleman calls “social autism”. The Relational Economy isn’t healthy. Business leaders can no longer assume that their staff have the skills needed for impression management, influence, face-to-face interaction and situational awareness.

What is at the intersection of technology and relationships? Relational Intelligence. Successful business leaders will take an intentional approach in building relationally intelligent systems, processes and cultures. The result will be higher employee engagement, more effective teams and increased client engagement and profitability.

This Keynote Presentation explores:

The connection between Relational Intelligence and the success of your business
The drivers of Relational Intelligence and their role in a Relationally Intelligent Culture
Why Relational Intelligence is critical for managing Millennials
The model we use for measuring the Relational Intelligence of your culture
Powerful techniques for operationalizing Relational Intelligence in your organization

Thriving in the Relationship Economy

Leveraging the Currency of Relationships to Grow Your Business

The phrase “relationship economy” is gaining traction, but it’s actually nothing new. Businesses are finally figuring it out. How does it work? Take everything you believe about networking and throw it out the window. Now take your sales strategies that involve disrupting, challenging and spinning and add them to the heap.

Today’s successful organizations are growing their businesses by building relationships – with employees, vendors and their clients. In the relationship economy, the investment you need to make is in relationships with your customers – internal and external. Those relationships are the new currency.

This Keynote Presentation discusses:

How millennials are creating a relationship gap and how it is impacting business

Why companies that focus on relationships outperform the S&P 500 by 700%

Why work/life balance no longer exists

The connection between Relational intelligence and high engagement

Concrete strategies for creating a Relationally intelligent culture

Lead to Inspire

Experience Explosive Growth by Utilizing the Science of Inspiration

If you’ve tried to motivate people within your organization and found that motivation doesn’t move the needle, you are right. It isn’t motivation that engages our employees at a high level – it’s Inspiration.

Research on America’s Most Inspiring Companies published in Forbes each year reveals that customers are willing to give dramatically more of their hearts and wallets to brands recognized as Inspirational. And, there is a direct connection between Inspirational companies and Inspirational leadership. Inspiring Leaders + Inspired Employees = BIG GROWTH!

In this session, we’ll cover:

The compelling research that informs the Forbes article

The drivers of inspiration and their role in employee engagement

Why inspiration drives engagement and motivation doesn’t

Powerful techniques for operationalizing inspiration in your organization

How to continue to make progress in times of change and uncertainty

Why Inspirational leadership is the only type of leadership that engages millennials

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Event Planner's ToolKit

You booked Jane as your Keynote Speaker - Now what?

Jane has spoken at hundreds of events for a wide range of organizations. For your convenience, she has provided the useful information below. Your event planner’s toolkit includes downloadable headshots and speaker intro, as well as logistical information regarding her travel, lodging and technology needs for her presentation.

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CLIENTS WHO LOVE WORKING WITH US

Jane is one of the most savvy business advisors I have ever worked with. She did an outstanding job of facilitating a learning experience for my entire marketing leadership team at The Home Depot that is still driving positive results 2 years later. She masterfully created a safe learning space for the team to learn more about themselves, their styles of leadership and interaction, and most importantly, they learned how to work better together. This fueled the creation of the best marketing team in retail today! Jane is an outstanding business partner whom I highly recommend for any company looking to impact revenue through leadership development.

I am happy to recommend Jane to any organization that wishes to take their employees to the next level. Jane is an expert in human nature and provides materials and tools that allow our managers to immediately take what they have learned and apply it in real world situations. Those who work with her walk away excited, motivated, and ready to add value to the organization.

Jane Gentry has measurably improved the productivity of our prospect facing staff at key events over the past 12 months. Charming, intelligent and insightfully engaging, Jane brings her tools to the job that fine tune high performance sales teams. She has also coached our supply partners to enable a higher degree of collaboration within our project management system and execution teams.

Our Interface Conference was a striking success! Jane's message was perfect for our group and stole the show receiving overwhelming positive scores from our audience. Many of our clients and employees told me afterwards that they are looking forward to implementing her insights and ideas. There is no doubt Jane had a major impact on the audience.