Jen Shirkani | SpeakerHub

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Jen Shirkani is a nationally recognized expert on emotional intelligence and a featured keynote speaker at national and state conferences, universities, government agencies, and at business organizations around the world. She is the author of award nominated Ego vs EQ, a leader’s guide to leveraging the power of emotional intelligence. She has spent over 25-years working with organizations from the Fortune 50 ($40B) to family-owned entities as a business consultant and executive coach. In addition to emotional intelligence, she frequently speaks and writes about workplace challenges, including interviewing and selection, employee engagement and motivation, generational differences, and coachability. Her message is perfect for leadership, sales, business professionals and entrepreneur audiences. She has a specialty in speaking to senior living/property managers, financial services/insurance, technology and retail organizations and provides practical strategies and immediately useable tips in a humorous and entertaining way.

Jen has been a frequent guest of several national radio programs, and has been featured in Bloomberg/Businessweek, Leadership Excellence magazine, Investors Daily, Business Insider, Publishers Weekly, Fast Company, and Upstart Business Journal. She is accredited by the Hay Group and by MHS to administer their Emotional Intelligence instruments and she holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership and has devoted herself to improving leadership effectiveness and on making common sense more common.

Specialties: Keynote Speaking, Executive Coaching, Organizational Behavior, Training & Facilitation, Emotional Intelligence Skill Building

Current position (2)

Keynote Speaker

Author: Choose Resilience and Ego vs EQ

CEO

Penumbra Group - Talent Management Solutions

Degrees (1)

Master’s Degree, Organizational Leadership

Chapman College

2002 to 2006

Presentations

Presentations (6)

SHEQ

Perfect for a women's conference or large female audience, Jen's "SheQ" presentation provides strategies for being more emotionally intelligent (EQ). Using EQ as a key competency builds more resiliency and helps women gain more confidence by learning to get comfortable with risk in a motivating and inspiring message. This session helps audience members see how maintaining a healthy level of challenge and struggle can enable everyone to be more powerful at work and in every aspect of life.

Choose Resilience

In this presentation, Jen shares the principles of EQ as a key strategy for managing personal hardships and reaching new levels of performance. Gaining these insights sets the stage for overcoming struggles when circumstances change, and reduces the potential for self- limitations, burnout, and disengagement.

LEVERAGING THE POWER OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SUCCESS

Jen provides strategies to increase your level of effectiveness through times of change with practical tools and resources. Attendees will receive definitions and examples of key functional skills; learn how to diagnose performance issues related to low emotional intelligence; and learn techniques to develop emotional intelligence in themselves and others.

EGO vs. EQ HOW TOP LEADERS BEAT 8 EGO TRAPS

This presentation provides strategies for building a strong case for the importance of both IQ and EQ. Audience members will leave with practical examples and new skills as they learn about the unique leadership traps that can trip up even the most successful leaders, and the ways to avoid them. Jen explains why EQ is particularly hard to maintain at management levels of the company.

THE EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT SALESPERSON

Attendees will learn ways to prepare self-aware and motivational conversation prompters to enhance the dialogue, maintain a service mindset, identify the needs of others through listening and empathizing, and map a solution by determining need and fit and apply the techniques of “soft closing”. Using your EQ, clients will see you as a vital business partner, not just a vendor.

TALENT IDENTIFICATION & PERFORMANCE

This session includes startling statistics on how employees think about topics such as performance management, motivation, and leadership involvement. Attendees will leave with the missing key to unlocking potential and ways to shift from assuming and expecting to creating the performance they desire.

Past talks (7)

Strategic Hiring

SHRM Talent Management Conference

Chicago

2017

Leveraging the Power of EQ

HR Association of Central Massachusetts

Massachusetts

2017

Leveraging the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Association of Canadian Financial Officers Annual Conference

Ottawa, CA