Jess Pettitt

Jess (Jessica) Pettitt, MEd, MBA, CSP, CPAE, is a crisis management and workplace culture keynote speaker and conference emcee. She is funny about serious things: the conversation the team keeps avoiding, the change nobody asked for, and the behavior everyone has agreed not to mention. Audiences laugh, learn one thing they can use Monday morning, and leave able to have the harder conversation before it turns into the crisis. Her master's degree emphasizes crisis management, and she has spent more than 20 years and more than half a million participants testing that training in real rooms, including a few where the doors had to be locked. She has planned and run events for 30 years, which is why she can run yours from the stage as emcee. Before any of that, she did stand-up in New York comedy clubs. Her books, Good Enough Now, Almost Doing Good, and Doing Good Better, make up a trilogy about doing the best you can with what you have, some of the time. In a mess? Call Jess.

Difficult Conversations at Work: Respond, Don't React
Accountability Without Micromanaging: Look Both Ways
Leading Through the Change Nobody Asked For: The Climb