Motivational Speaking
Jamie's keynotes are built from real experience 22 years of building a nonprofit, surviving personal crises, and learning what it actually takes to keep going when it's hard. Every presentation leaves audiences with something to do, not just something to feel.
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Staying Bothered: How to Turn What Moves You into Lasting Change
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Building What Lasts: The Honest Guide to Leading a Nonprofit
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Keep Doing You: Authenticity as a Practice
Staying Bothered: How to Turn What Moves You into Lasting Change
Being bothered is the starting point but most people stop there. This keynote gives audiences a practical framework for identifying what matters to them, taking action, and staying the course when momentum stalls. Audiences leave with strategies, not just inspiration.
“After hearing Jamie speak, I mustered up the courage to become involved in local politics because I realized if not me, then who?”
“Jamie makes taking on a cause seem doable, with the caveat that you can’t give up when things gets tough.”
Building What Lasts: The Honest Guide to Leading a Nonprofit
Should you start a nonprofit? After 22 years, Jamie's answer is: maybe. This presentation covers what it actually takes. Fundraising, sustainability, building trust across distances, and avoiding the traps that derail most founders. For both the aspiring founder and the veteran leader.
“I was thinking about starting a 501(c)(3) to help children who have incarcerated mothers. But after hearing Jamie, I decided to team up with an existing organization.”
“As the founder of an NGO, I heard invaluable and often unexpected tips about maintaining a nonprofit. In fact, I came back and told my board chairman to fire me if I ever get stuck in my ways, a major symptom of the bad founder’s syndrome!”
Keep Doing You: Authenticity as a Practice
On one of the hardest days of COVID, Jamie's teenage daughter left a sticky note on her computer: Keep Doing You. Three words that became a book, a keynote, and a framework for showing up as yourself, especially when life is trying to knock you off balance.
“Sometimes we need someone like Jamie to reflect back to us that staying true to our ourselves, including our passions and commitments, overrides worries and fears.”
“Hearing how Jamie overcame personal adversities through both hard work, but also through deep connections with friends and other support systems, was enormously helpful.”
“Bravo! Here’s to a woman like Jamie who picks herself up, dusts herself off and stands strong, ready for the next challenge. We all could use a dose of keep doing you!”