Jennifer Spear

Keynote Speaker | Toronto, Ontario

Change, Uncertainty & Resilience
Researcher | Problem Solving | Creativity & Innovation

Jennifer Spear Expertise Organizational Leadership, Adaptability & Agility, Transformation, Employee Engagement, Workplace Culture, Resilience & Adversity, Women In Business, Mindfulness and Uncertainty & Change.

Jennifer Spear

About Jennifer Spear

Jennifer Spear is a dynamic speaker, facilitator, and trainer who works with business leaders & teams with unscripted designs to address issues with change. Jennifer Spear also works with organizations to help them think creatively, solve problems, plan strategically and make creativity & innovation a reality in their workplaces. Jennifer Speaker helps leaders and employees break their scripted environments to embrace the challenge of change and to thrive in uncertainty.

Jennifer Spear Videos

UnScripted - Change isn't a threat, it's an offer.

Jennifer Spear Speaker Reel Unscripted

Jennifer Spear Unscripted Mindset Talks

Jennifer Spear Interviews & Podcasts

JENNIFER SPEAR BIOGRAPHY

Jennifer Spear is an internationally recognized authority on change, uncertainty, and leadership. As an experiential keynote speaker, facilitator, and researcher, she equips organizations to adapt with confidence in unpredictable environments. She is the founder of a consultancy that develops experiential learning programs designed to help leaders and teams work and lead UnScripted. Her philosophy emphasizes that creativity, adaptability, and practical problem-solving are essential for organizational success.

Jennifer holds an Executive MBA from the Ivey Business School and completed advanced training at Second City, where she gained expertise in communication, improvisation, and performance. This combination of business discipline and creative insight defines her approach to leadership and engagement. Her professional background includes serving as Vice President of Human Resources and Marketing for a national retailer, where she led initiatives focused on performance, collaboration, and culture transformation.

She is a certified Professional Innovation Advisor and an accredited facilitator in Creative Problem Solving, guiding clients in translating ideas into action through structured innovation systems. Jennifer’s research, titled Chaos2Clarity, examined human responses to uncertainty and revealed that well-being is strongly linked to how effectively individuals embrace unpredictability.

She is the author of the forthcoming book UnScripted and contributes regularly to Forbes, where she explores leadership, adaptability, and the evolving nature of work. Jennifer’s interactive sessions apply improv-based learning to real-world business challenges, enabling participants to handle the unexpected and strengthen collaboration.

Her clients include organizations such as BMO, Ontario Power Generation, and NASA, where she has facilitated experiential sessions on leadership, creativity, and resilience. As a board member for Meetings Mean Business Canada, she represents the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and advocates for the growth and professionalization of the speaking industry.

Jennifer’s expertise lies in creating learning environments that combine insight with engagement, ensuring that participants leave with actionable strategies tailored to their realities. Her work demonstrates that embracing uncertainty fosters innovation, trust, and long-term success across teams and organizations.

Through her writing, research, and facilitation, Jennifer continues to redefine how leaders approach change by transforming uncertainty into opportunity.

Jennifer Spear Topic Presentations

Jennifer Spear Toronto, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.

Unscripted Mindset: Change the Way You Think About Change

The Future is Unscripted: How to Prepare for the Unexpected, the Unpredictable and the Unavoidable

Leading Through Uncertainty: Leverage Curiosity and Confidence to Build Change-resilient Teams

The Curiosity Advantage: How to Lead Humans When You Would Rather Be Doing Anything Else!

The Secret Truth About Uncertainty: What the Research Reveals About the Unexpected Relationship Between Uncertainty, Resilience, and Your Overall Well-being

What The#$%&!* i Didn't Plan for This!: Leverage the Opportunity in Uncertainty When Sh!ft Happens

Jennifer Spear Books & Articles

How Curiosity Might Save You and Your Team from Burnout
How Curiosity Might Save You and Your Team from

Last week I had a fascinating conversation with an executive director at a not-for-profit, and she commented that “post-Covid” is more...

Growing at the Speed of Trust When Trust is Broken
Growing at the Speed of Trust When Trust is

My company's new research study, Chaos2Clarity, examined the impact of Covid on the human condition. One of the major themes, or truths,...

Being Vulnerable at Work: is It Worth the Risk?
Being Vulnerable at Work: is It Worth the

If you Google “risk,” you will get pages describing financial risk. Of course, as a business, you need to manage for financial risk and...

Jennifer Spear Speaking Testimonials

"We partnered with Jennifer to be our keynote speaker for our Technology Transformation Event series – 11 events taking place across 7 cities in North America. Our goal was to engage the hearts and minds of our technology team, to help them understand their role and be prepared for our transformation journey. As our keynote, Jennifer was outstanding in connecting with our employees and inspiring them to embrace change and be ready for the unexpected. She tailored her message to resonate with her audience and helped them connect the dots to see the path forward. While some keynote speakers deliver their speeches and go – that’s definitely not the way Jennifer rolls. She has been a..."

Joanne Lafreniere

Director, Employee Technology Experience & Communications, Enterprise Technology Employee Experience, Technology & Operations
BMO Financial Group

"What do you do when you have a very serious ‘venue’ challenge and need a speaker who can strategically curate content that is relevant and delivered on a plane? Easy – you call Jennifer Spear! Jennifer is brilliant. She immediately understood the unique opportunity and provided truly innovative solutions. One of the things I respect most about her is the preparation time she invests to ensure success. Jennifer is a complete professional who is a joy to work with. I now have her on speed dial."

Bettyanne Sherrer

"Jennifer spends time working with event organizers to truly understand her audience, and the purpose of the keynote within the broader event context and builds authentic and meaningful rapport with her clients. She delivers not only a keynote presentation but an experience for participants with tools they can use in their work environment. Our attendees rated her presentation as excellent, in both the content and presentation style. The audience liked how her closing keynote presentation brought the entire event full circle and left the delegates with a very solid message. Having Jennifer as part of our team gave us fresh insights into our members’ experiences and helped us achieve a..."

Irene Martin-Lindsay

Executive Director
Alberta Seniors Communities and Housing Association

"Jennifer Spear is a gifted speaker who knows how to engage an audience, shake participants out of their comfort zones and help them start implementing strategies immediately. A frequent speaker at CSTD events including the national conference and the national symposium, she always receives the highest acclaim from participants. Not only does she provide memorable, informative sessions, but she has audiences laughing, standing, and participating at an unprecedented level. Regardless of the space or time constrictions, we may have placed upon her, Jennifer was able to adapt her content to our audience and our event while still managing to deliver superior results. As a conference planner, I..."

Danielle Lamothe

(Formerly) Director, Professional Services
Institute for Performance and Learning (formerly CSTD)

"Working with Jennifer Spear has been an amazing experience. She continuously goes above and beyond to ensure the successful delivery of her programs and is always willing to try something new. Jennifer is not just an engaging speaker, she is also an innovator. We have worked together to create unique programming at conferences while connecting back to our brand, she has delivered cutting-edge content while speaking at 38,000 feet in the air, and she is my collaborator for ideas that need a little flare. Jennifer is a true industry leader and an absolute pro at what she does. I feel very fortunate to work with her."

Candace Schierling

Director of National Conventions
Tourism Saskatoon

"It was an absolute pleasure working with Jennifer. She was our keynote speaker and facilitator for our first ‘Unconference’ for the MPI Ottawa chapter and this educational session wouldn’t have come together without her. She was very hands-on in developing the design of the sessions as soon as she came on board with us. Not only did all members of the planning team rave about working with her but also on our survey we had nothing but positive feedback about her from attendees. Here is an example of a comment ‘Jennifer Spear was excellent, she set the stage to ensure the success of the breakout groups, challenged us and brought a lot of value.’ I would highly recommend Jennifer and..."

Ashley Craven

Education Programming Committee Event Lead
MPI Ottawa

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