KEYNOTE AND WORKSHOP:

THE NEUROSCIENCE OF CHANGE:

It’s Not What You Think

This science-backed keynote helps your teams and leaders understand the science of what change does to human performance, teaches them how to recognize what they're experiencing, and gives them the tools to navigate change more effectively.

Keynote Audience: Employees | Teams | Leaders | Managers

Workshop Audience: Executives | Leaders | Managers

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The Problem:

Your organization isn't dealing with one change. It's dealing with a multitude of them, stacked on top of each other, all at once, with no recovery in between.

69% of change initiatives fail - a number that hasn't moved in 30 years.
Change-fatigued employees cost organizations up to 18% of salary in lost productivity.
Only 43% of highly change-fatigued employees intend to stay, compared to 74% with low fatigue.

The result: decision fatigue, decision paralysis, cognitive overload, and uncertainty hijacking judgment exactly when it matters most. Leadership sees the disengagement, the stalled adoption, the rising attrition - calls it resistance or apathy - and sends more communication. The needle still doesn't move.

The Promise:

That's because it's not what people think. It's how they react.

You're not solving a communication problem, a mindset problem, or a "people just need to get on board" problem. It's a performance physiology problem.

Change triggers a measurable, predictable stress response - not a personality flaw or attitude problem. This response reroutes the exact brain functions your people are being paid to use to adopt the latest initiative: judgment, memory, impulse control, decision-making under uncertainty.

In The Neuroscience of Change, Jenny Evans helps your employees and leaders understand the neuroscience of change and gives them the practical, science-backed tools to successfully adapt to disruption instead of just pushing more communication at it.

Keynote Overview

This isn't a change management refresher, and it's not another appeal to "get on board." Jenny combines organizational research - built from measuring resilience and change capacity across real Fortune 500 populations - with the specific, replicated science of how stress moves through people and teams during disruption.

The result is a keynote that speaks to every level of the organization simultaneously. Because the biology running underneath change doesn't vary by title. And neither does this talk.

Through a highly interactive session your people will discover:

Why their response to change is biological not personal, not a character flaw, and not a failure to embrace the future
Why communication keeps missing its mark no matter how well it's written, and what actually reaches a brain in threat response
How stress spreads through a team faster than any announcement can, and what one regulated person in the room can do about it
Why organizations run out of change capacity long before they run out of initiatives, and what that biological debt actually costs
How to tell the difference between resistance and a depleted nervous system - a distinction that changes everything about how people treat themselves and each other
A three-part practice - deployable in a single meeting, a one-on-one, or a hallway conversation - that works with their biology instead of against it

Planner ROI: Your people don't just understand why change is hard - they leave with a repeatable practice they can apply to every future initiative. This means faster adoption, lower attrition risk, and an organization that stops mistaking overload for resistance.

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Keynote Takeaways

After this keynote, your people will be able to:

Understand how change affects their thinking, focus, and decision-making, and know that it's biology, not weakness
Recognize the difference between genuine resistance and a nervous system that has simply hit its biological limit in themselves and the people around them
Know what has to happen in the brain before rational processing can take place
Use a three-part biological practice to move through disruption rather than be consumed by it
Talk about change constructively using a shared biological framework that removes blame and creates forward motion
Build their own change capacity deliberately so the next initiative lands on a nervous system that's ready for it, not one that's already overdrawn

Who is the Keynote For?

This keynote works for any mixed audience navigating organizational change - employees, managers, and leaders together.

Because the biology running underneath change doesn't vary by level. And the conversation about it shouldn't either.

THIS IS WHAT MY PEOPLE NEED

Alyson Woodard, Director of Executive Development, AT&T University

"Over the course of 6 months, Jenny stood in front of more than 3,500 executives at AT&T for four hours at a time. Her obvious passion around the material and her genuine concern for the participants in the room created a tidal wave of action at this great company. This response was consistent from coast to coast in the United States and didn't skip a beat when we took the program to London and Hong Kong. We could not be more proud to call Jenny Evans our friend and our trusted partner. She has changed our culture for the better and we are forever grateful.”

Workshop for Leaders Overview

This is a two-hour intensive designed exclusively for leaders and managers following The Neuroscience of Change keynote while the shared biological framework is fresh and the language is alive in the room.

Where the keynote explained what’s happening, showed what the tools are, and why they work - the workshop focuses entirely on how to deploy them.

For each tool, leaders will learn and practice three specific deployment strategies.

Leaders who complete this workshop will:

Learn the exact language for using these tools with their teams so no one has to improvise a neuroscience explanation under pressure
Walk into high-stakes conversations with a biological protocol rather than just good intentions
Stop interpreting their team's struggle as resistance or apathy and start responding to it with precision
Feel genuinely confident bringing the science of change into their leadership practice because they've practiced it, not just heard about it

Planner ROI: Most leaders leave a keynote understanding the problem, but not necessarily how to deploy the solutions. This workshop closes that gap. Leaders leave with a practiced protocol that produces faster adoption, lower attrition risk, and teams that stop mistaking biological depletion for personal failure. This is the complete biological approach to change your organization has been missing.

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Who is the Workshop For?

CHROs and senior leaders responsible for driving organizational change
Leaders navigating a restructure, M&A, AI rollout, or leadership transition
Organizations whose change initiatives keep stalling despite heavy investment in comms and training
Situations where the gap between change announced and change adopted has become impossible to ignore

THIS IS WHAT MY LEADERS NEED

Heidi Guest, Vice President Education, North America, Clinique

“I selected Jenny Evans to work with the entire Clinique North American Sales and Education Executives. Though we were fortunate to work with a number of outstanding outside consultants, Jenny was one of the special few who made a lasting impression and directly contributed to the health and productivity of our team."

Change failure is costing you more than you think.

Sixty nine percent of change initiatives fail.

It’s not apathy or a “get on board” problem, it's a biology problem.

These sessions pay for themselves if it saves just one stalled initiative.

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