Jenny Garrett OBE is a renowned career coach, leadership trainer, and diversity expert, widely recognised for her contributions to empowering women and promoting diversity in leadership roles. As the Managing Director of the ILM accredited, Reflexion Associates, Jenny and her team create programmes for organisations to improve leadership ability and diversity to help maximise the potential of each individual leader. An expert in the field, she has clocked over 4000 hours of coaching leaders.
Jenny’s career spans over 15 years, during which she has helped individuals and organisations achieve significant growth through her leadership programs, especially focusing on gender balance and inclusion. Jenny is the author of “Rocking Your Role”, a book that explores the experiences of female breadwinners, and “Equality vs Equity” which addresses racial equity in the workplace. In addition to her authorship, she is a frequent public speaker. Her TEDx talk “Choose Joy Over Gender”, Jenny explains how gender roles seep in decision making, why that is harmful and how to centre joy instead. Today through her work, Jenny is determined to support women and ethnically diverse leaders at work.
She is also the co-founder of Rocking Ur Teens, a social enterprise dedicated to providing young people, especially teenagers, with essential leadership and life skills. Her coaching and mentoring work has impacted diverse groups globally, making her a key figure in promoting inclusive leadership. In 2020 Jenny founded the first-ever Diverse Executive Coach Directory in the UK showcasing qualified and experienced coaches of Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority backgrounds which connects organisations with qualified coaches from diverse backgrounds. Jenny has worked for clients like Mastercard, Shell, Ernst & Young, and the NHS. She was appointed OBE in 2021 for her services to entrepreneurship and to women in business – a testament to her impact. Additionally, she has been named Inspiring Mentor of the Year by We Are Novi, featured in the Diversity Power List Honours list, and was a finalist for the Entrepreneur for Good Award at the Every Woman Entrepreneur Awards.
Jenny's work in both corporate and public sectors has helped break down barriers for women and ethnically diverse individuals aiming for senior leadership positions. She is particularly skilled in equipping managers with effective strategies that can help them unlock the full potential of their diverse workforce. Champions Speakers is proud to be an official speaker representative for Jenny Garrett OBE, honoured to represent her talent as an insightful keynote speaker. If you are looking for a leading diversity & inclusion, female empowerment and leadership expert speaker, do not hesitate to hire Jenny Garrett OBE.
In April 2023 we sat down virtually with Jenny Garrett OBE and discussed ways companies can empower female employees. Watch our Exclusive Interview with Jenny Garrett OBE.
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Books
Rocking Your Role: The How To Guide to Success for Female Breadwinners
Equality vs Equity: Tackling Issues of Race in the Workplace
Reviews
Jenny Garrett OBE received a 4 star rating across 19 events in 2023.
Agent Recommendations
"Jenny Garrett OBE is an incredible keynote speaker who knows how to truly connect with her audience. Her talks are filled with real-life insights, warmth, and practical advice on leadership and diversity. She has a way of making complex topics relatable, leaving people inspired and ready to take action."
How to hire Jenny Garrett OBE
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Jenny Garrett's official speaking topics are listed below:
Unlocking Your Leadership Story
Discover how to craft and tell your story authentically and naturally to achieve results.
The growing trend of Female Breadwinners, Evolution or Revolution
Jenny guides budding, and existing female breadwinners to consider what being a breadwinner will mean for them now and in the future.
How to become a Coaching Leader
When time and money are scarce, how do you motivate your team to increase performance and productivity? A solution focused approach is a quick, effective and positive approach.
#IamRemarkable - #IamRemarkable
This is a Google initiative that strives to empower women and underrepresented groups to speak openly about their accomplishments in the workplace and beyond, breaking modesty norms and glass ceilings.
The Key to Confidence, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Jenny introduces the concept of imposter syndrome, helps you uncover what drives you, shows you how to identify, challenge and replace limiting beliefs and how to combat them and how to develop your confidence for career and life success.
Assertive Communication: Who Gets Heard and Why
Learn assertive communication strategies and skills, how to handle and manage those communication glitches that are all too common for women, even when you are the expert and most senior in the room, learn secret tools to use so that when you speak, you are heard and how to leave a lasting impression so everyone will definitely know who you are
Playing to your strengths
Wondering how to identify and optimise your key strengths? Raise your hand for opportunities? Toot your own horn? You’ll learn tools that reveal your hidden strengths, strategies to overcome your weaknesses and the key to making your strengths work for you.
Reimagining Your Personal Brand for the Digital Age
You will seek out your uniqueness and your story, in order to soar with your strengths, tap into your values and define your brand for the digital age.
How to Network with Precision & Purpose
Learn how to build your professional connections by increasing your network and influence. This talk covers what Networking is, why you should build your Network and how you Network with Precision and Purpose.
Developing Unshakeable Confidence
Learn how to regain your confidence when it has taken a knock, how to increase your confidence levels to new heights and step out of your comfort zone.
Inclusive Leadership
We share the benefits of being an inclusive leader to you, your team and organisation. What might be getting in the way and 3 ways to be more inclusive at work so you can maximise the performance of all of your colleagues, become aware of your own biases and how to overcome them and learn how being an inclusive leader can impact your bottom line.
Official Feedback from In-Person & Virtual Events
Feedback from In-Person Events:
"Jenny gave an inspiring talk at the University of Surrey 'Women in Business: The Journey To Success' event for our business school alumni, students, staff and the local business community. We received highly positive feedback on her presentation and I would recommend her for similar events in future." - Lucy, Alumni Relations Officer for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Surrey
"We were really pleased to have Jenny on board at The Telegraph TeleWonderWomen Women in Politics event and thought she made an excellent contribution to the panel and provided some great insights around women's attitude to leadership and positions of power, women's ambition and challenging the concept of women needing to change their attributes to succeed." - Amy, Associate Director, Four Colman Getty
"I wanted to thank you again for coming in to speak to the Sprint participants. You had a great impact on the students and I hope to have the pleasure of seeing again at Westminster. Feedback from the students was: "I loved the tip about accepting yourself and not comparing yourself to others." "Jenny was very open and it seemed like she was talking with you and not at you. She made us feel comfortable and I really appreciated the helpful conversations afterwards, particularly about building a support network." "Jenny was an inspiration – very motivating."- Frances, Employability Manager, University of Westminster
- 2023 – Author of “Equality vs Equity: Tackling Issues of Race in the Workplace”
- 2023 – Featured in the Diversity Power List Honour’s list
- 2023 – Finalist in the Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion category of the Multicultural Business & Community Champion Awards
- 2023 – Named Inspiring Mentor of the Year by We Are Novi
- 2023 – Finalist for the Entrepreneur for Good Award at the Every Woman Entrepreneur Awards
- 2021 – Awarded OBE for services to entrepreneurship & women in business
- 2020 – Founder of first-ever Diverse Executive Coach Directory in the UK
- 2016 – Freeman of The Company of Entrepreneurs in the City of London
- 2015 – Fellow of the RSA
- 2014 – Co-Founder of Rocking Ur Teens CIC
- 2012 – Author of “Rocking Your Role: The How To Guide to Success for Female Breadwinners”
- 2005 – Managing Director of ILM accredited, Reflexion Associates
