Jane Enright

Jane Enright

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Toronto , Ontario

Leadership, Change, Resilience, Positive Mindset & Mental Wellness Expert

Jane Enright is an accomplished, humorous, inspiring, and empowering, international keynote speaker, and award-winning Canadian author with an extraordinary life story. In 2017 Jane survived three life-alternating events within 365 days, including an unforeseen brain injury that left her almost speechless. Jane's moving and discerning lived experience as an entrepreneur, strategic planer, kindergarten teacher, university lecturer, and triumphant reinvention after a catastrophic year captivates audiences and has been called “food for the soul”. Her passionate keynote addresses resonate deeply with all ages, providing uplifting, thought provoking, actionable ideas that offer profound insights about overcoming adversity, cultivating a positive mindset, building resilience, compassionate, dynamic leadership, and creating new beginnings with a healthy outlook.

JANE ENRIGHT BIOGRAPHY

In 2017 Jane Enright lived through three unforeseen traumatic events in 365 days including an unforeseen traumatic brain injury that left her almost speechless. Today she is a respected, empowering, and humorous thought leader, award-winning Canadian author, wellness expert, inspirational speaker, CEO, and a Director on the Board of Governors, for the Brain Canada Foundation. Her transformational journey has been described as elevating, extraordinary, moving, inspiring, and food for the soul.

A former kindergarten teacher in a remote First Nation’s Community, strategic planner, entrepreneur, and popular university lecturer, Jane is the winner of the 2022 Canadian Book Club Award for Best Book, Spiritual, Health & Wellness, and the 2022 Silver Medal from Living Now Evergreen Book Awards, to commemorate world-changing books published in this new millennium for her compelling, stirring memoir entitled Butter Side Up: How I Survived My Most Terrible Year & Created My Super Awesome Life. Jane is also the author of the acclaimed wellness playbook Jane’s Jam: Inspiration To Create Your Super Awesome Life, shortlisted for the 2023 Eric Hoffer International Grand Prize for Literature.

Jane’s lived experience in the corporate and not-for-profit world, uplifting transformational journey, innovative O.M.G™ approach, and vibrant authenticity resonate deeply with all ages, providing inspiring, thought provoking, actionable ideas that offer profound insights about how unexpected change can open new doors, build resilience, improve overcoming adversity, cultivate a positive mindset, and create fresh new beginnings with positivity and profitability in your corporation, organization, or personal life.

She is helping audiences worldwide “land butter-side up”, dynamically lead and manage change with compassion, and cultivate joy after the unexpected through her writing, speaking, partnerships, and philanthropic collaboration with the Brain Canada foundation.

Videos

Podcasts

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The Change Maker Podcast

Deke Copenhaver

Becoming The Best ‘You’ You Can Be | Jane Enright
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Moments With Marianne

Marianne Pestana

Butter Side Up with Jane Enright
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Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

How to handle unexpected change

Jane Enright Topic Presentations

unlocking joy: the power of positive mindset and self-talk

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  • “Unlocking Joy: The Power of a Positive Mindset and Self-Talk” is about discovering the profound influence of one’s mental attitude and inner dialogue on personal happiness. It emphasizes how consciously adopting a more positive mindset with gratitude can significantly impact overall well-being.

    By recognizing the potency of self-talk—the way we speak to ourselves internally—and learning to reframe negative thoughts into constructive ones, individuals can transform their perspectives, navigate challenges with resilience, and cultivate joy in their everyday lives. This approach harnesses the science-backed benefits of positivity, empowering individuals to embrace gratitude, mindfulness, and intentional choices, thereby fostering a more fulfilling and optimistic existence.

    Takeaways

    • While we cannot control unplanned change around us, like a pandemic or the ripple effects, we can control our response to it.
    • Cultivating a positive mindset and positive self-talk is our most precious resource to protect us as we ride the waves of change.
    • A positive mindset and positive self-talk support us to become more resilient, promote optimum mental, physical, and emotional health, plus create happiness and joy-not just find it.
    • A more positive mindset and positive self-talk promotes success and healthy relationships both personally and professionally.

the past is just a chapter not the whole book: tips to land butter side up with fresh starts & overcome adversity

making cents of it all: cultivating productivity & profitability with positivity during uncertain times

leading with compassion: nurturing & empowering resilience during uncertain times

becoming a change maker: resilient leadership in the new millenium

making sense of it all: thriving through change & cultivating personal & professional growth amidst life transitions

thriving through adversity: the power of a positive mindset for resilient mental health

transformative resilience: harnessing outside-in thinking, mindfulness, and gratitude to overcome trauma

unleashing creativity: fostering innovation in a dynamic world

Testimonials

We  are currently going through some needed changes in our 24,000-member organization. For some members this is welcomed but for others, change is met with resistance. Through her encouraging words and understanding of human nature, Jane Enright’s keynote address to 1500 members at our 2023 International Convention motivated members to embrace change as part of every day life! She used personal stories and vignettes that resonated with the audience, drawing them in and inspiring them to look at change in a positive way. Jane made individual members of our audience feel included in the conversation. She set a welcoming and non-judgemental tone…similar to that of a knowledgeable...

Mollie Acosta

Past International President, 2022/2023
ADK International

Jane Enright delivered a keynote address to 1200 + Alpha Delta Sisters, at our recent International Convention in Kansas City. I was fortunate enough to be in the audience. It was obvious that Jane  had done her homework. Her words demonstrated that she understood our organization and knew what we stood for. She related to the audience by complimenting members on the altruistic focus, activities and actions of our organization and stated that they made a difference and that they demonstrated kindness in action. Jane made you feel proud to be a member of our Alpha Delta Kappa organization.

Elizabeth Macqueen

Past President
Ontario ADK PSI Chapter

Jane Enright’s keynote had us at hello! Brimming with enthusiasm, wisdom, and incredible insight, Jane always inspires and utilizes entertaining stories to captivate, motivate, and educate audiences through challenging times.

Dr Marcia Boyd, CM DDS MA LHD(H) DSc(H) LLD(H) FACD

Former Dean of Dentistry, UBC & past President
Canadian Dental Association & Order of Canada Recipient

Listening to Jane speak is a breath of fresh air! She sets a welcoming and non-judgemental tone…similar to that of a knowledgeable friend, in conversation with you.” Her easy relatable style inspires you to embrace change and gives you hope that things can be better and brighter with knowledgeable know-how! Positive, professional, and knowledgeable in the areas of loss and change, Jane delivers an incredible message of overcoming obstacles, rolling with life’s ups and downs, and helps inspire and uplift you to make your ideas happen!

Kate Shingler

National Director Marketing & Communications
Brain Canada Foundation

Jane’s teachings on acceptance and gratitude are lessons everyone needs in their back pocket. Her OMG method is super awesome, must-apply-it-everywhere approach!

Carol Gavhane

CEO & Partner
Spark Hustle Grow

Enright’s upbeat messages are food for the soul! Her relatable style, authenticity, and upbeat energy shine brightly with our audiences!

Linda O’Grady

President, Bloom for Africa Project
Stephen Lewis Foundation

Articles & Media

65 Creative Random Acts of Kindness To Inspire You on World Kindness Day

Parade

"Invite someone who may be lonely to a virtual friends and family dinner via Zoom, Skype or Facetime," Jane Enright, author of Butter Side Up™: How I Survived My Most Terrible Year and Created My Super Awesome Life, says. "For some, it may be the only interaction they have during that day or week.
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An interview with Jane Enright

Compulsive Reader

Butter Side Up has been described as a feel-good story everyone can relate to. The book shares a real-life story, and gives real-time strategies and insight to help anyone understand and successfully navigate unplanned change of all types.
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Your Mind Is Your Garden and Your Thoughts Are Your Seeds

Thrive Global

Globally, we are in the process of springing forward. We are setting our clocks ahead around the planet to soak up as much daylight as possible after a tough winter. As well as enjoying more sunshine, this reset provides a great opportunity to set intentions that enable us to clear out the cobwebs, be more optimistic, and live our best life.
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Bedside Reading Book List – Resident Picks

Lux Lifestyle

When the unexpected occurs, how do you successfully navigate change so you can land butter side up when life turns the tables? Jane Enright's true story of surviving three life-altering events in the span of twelve months, losing everything, and coming out the other end stronger and more resilient than ever before is compelling and riveting—and full of sage advice for how to do the same.
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Breakfast Television City TV Toronto

SBC

Safe Ways To Share Kindness
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CHATTER THAT MATTERS

Tony Chapman

Jane Enright - In the blink of an eye.
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CHCH News

SBC

Finding joy in change
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Books

Butter-Side Up: How I Survived My Most Terrible Year and Created My Super Awesome Life
Butter-Side Up: How I Survived My Most Terrible Year and Created My Super Awesome Life
Inspired and inspiring, award-winning author Jane Enright’s extraordinary, uplifting memoir captures her journey as she survives three life-altering events in the span of a year, losing almost everything, and comes out the other side stronger, more resilient, and happier than ever before.
Jane's Jam: Inspiration to Create Your Super Awesome Life
Jane's Jam: Inspiration to Create Your Super Awesome Life
A 2023 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize finalist, Jane's Jam leads readers through a fresh, thought-provoking playbook approach to creating new beginnings after seeming endings—finding good during and after handling unexpected change.

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