Janyne Peek Emsick

Janyne Peek Emsick

Ph.D.

NE, US
Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D., is a sought-after, energetic and insightful speaker who brings her more than 30 years of global experience to every audience.`

Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D., founder of intégrow, is a teacher, a student, and a leader. Her early work in human resources transformed into a consultancy based on leaders walking their talk. And she has walked the talk herself, having studied, taught, and built leadership initiatives on five continents – from Southeast Asia, to the Heart of Africa to the US. Janyne is an expert in leadership development, organizational change and adult learning. As a sought-after, energetic and insightful speaker, Janyne brings her 25 years of global experience in designing and leading transformational programs to every audience. She advocates for leaders around the world to walk their talk, one leader at a time, by serving as catalysts for positive change in individuals and the organizations they lead. Her message is critical to driving successful change in teams and organizations, and Janyne delivers it with passion, backed by original scholarship. Her doctorate research focused on adult learning and transformational leadership, animating the question "now that they know, what do they do?"

Janyne's experience is multi-faceted, having partnered with clients as large as the Fortune 100 and as small as micro-entrepreneurships. She's worked as a recruiter, a pastor, an actress, a children's choir director, an auto parts clerk and entrepreneur. Janyne teaches courses for Creighton University's MBA program, serves on the Business Ethics Alliance's Board of Trustees, and served on the founding board of the Congo Initiative, launching a bilingual university in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Her consulting and facilitating has taken her from North America and Europe to Burma, the Philippines, Kenya and the DR Congo.

Janyne Peek Emsick, Ph.D., founder of intégrow, is a teacher, a student, and a leader. Her early work in human resources transformed into a consultancy based on leaders walking their talk. And she has walked the talk herself, having studied, taught, and built leadership initiatives on five continents – from Southeast Asia, to the Heart of Africa to the US. Janyne is an expert in leadership development, organizational change and adult learning. As a sought-after, energetic and insightful speaker, Janyne brings her 25 years of global experience in designing and leading transformational programs to every audience. She advocates for leaders around the world to walk their talk, one leader at a time, by serving as catalysts for positive change in individuals and the organizations they lead. Her message is critical to driving successful change in teams and organizations, and Janyne delivers it with passion, backed by original scholarship. Her doctorate research focused on adult learning and transformational leadership, animating the question "now that they know, what do they do?"

Janyne's experience is multi-faceted, having partnered with clients as large as the Fortune 100 and as small as micro-entrepreneurships. She's worked as a recruiter, a pastor, an actress, a children's choir director, an auto parts clerk and entrepreneur. Janyne teaches courses for Creighton University's MBA program, serves on the Business Ethics Alliance's Board of Trustees, and served on the founding board of the Congo Initiative, launching a bilingual university in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Her consulting and facilitating has taken her from North America and Europe to Burma, the Philippines, Kenya and the DR Congo.

Leadership Lessons on Being Human: From Burma to the Heart of Africa to Omaha

An inspiring and energizing collage of stories from Janyne Peek Emsick's work with grass-roots leaders in developing countries, including Burma and the Democratic Republic Congo, that reframe our perspective of the human capacity for resilience and hope in the midst of extraordinary challenge. Being human is all about the story - because it's the story that helps new leaders energize, innovate, and transform. Leaders will discover how the world can be changed in small bites, often by...
Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Thrive! Riding the Rapids of Change

Rapids: A section of a river where the current speeds up and flows turbulently over and around boulders, ledges, shallows, and drop-offs; whitewater. Not only are rapids found in the bends of a river, but also within organizations experiencing rapid change. In this high energy presentation, leaders will learn how to maximize focus and positive energy in the midst of change and will walk away with a personal action plan that is full of the best practices.

Educational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Can Organizations Develop if Individuals Don't?

Tired of change initiatives that fail to stick?  Join us for an energizing dialogue with inspiring yet practical keys to facilitating organizational change.  Engage the link between change management training and the personal transformation leaders are required to make in order for change to stick.  While change may begin at the organizational level, transformation is always sustained at the individual level. Leaders will learn how two status quo organizations entered the...

Educational / Informative