Jennifer Tress
Jen Tress loves helping people and organizations realize their potential. She’s the author of You’re Not Pretty Enough, which sparked a self-esteem movement for women and girls, and was featured in Marie Claire, The Washington Post, and the Netflix series The Mortified Guide.
As a long time practitioner in organizational development and talent management, Jen has guided countless organizations through high growth cycles and significant change, including at FedEx, Nationwide Insurance, The Nature Conservancy and most recently at 18F, Ad Hoc and digitalundivided.
For more, keep up with Jennifer at yourenotprettyenough.com or on Twitter as @jdtress.
Presentations
Leadership By Design 2019
The 4-Point Plan to Dealing with Chaos at Work
Should I stay or should I go? When chaos reigns supreme in our organizations and the layers of systems that exist within them, it can negatively impact our own experience and the experience of the people we manage. When that happens, we start to question whether we’re in the right place, even when we love our teammates and our work. But is the grass necessarily greener elsewhere?
There are plenty of reasons for organizational chaos: bureaucratic structures and politics, limited vision, guidance and clarity, and poor processes are some of the biggest challenges we face. Trying to navigate organizations when chaos abounds is stressful, and often leads to burnout.
Fortunately, there are ways to manage through this before burnout happens—to you or your team. I’ve spent over 20 years researching and working with all types of organizations—from publicly traded companies to nonprofits to governments and everything in between to uncover four key methods to analyze your experience, disrupt it, and make empowered choices moving forward.
