Speaking & Workshops
Help Your Audience See What’s Really Blocking Performance.
Jennifer Lilly speaks to leaders, HR professionals, talent development teams, and business audiences who are tired of surface-level conversations about motivation, accountability, and training.
Her sessions help audiences look at the workplace conditions that quietly shape performance, execution, behavior change, and results.
Speaker Credentials
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
See Jennifer in 2026.
Jennifer is bringing the JL³ perspective on workplace performance, learning transfer, and performance diagnosis to professional audiences throughout 2026.
November 2026 · Estes Park, Colorado
From Insight to Impact: Why Learning Doesn’t Always Change Behavior
A 90-minute workshop exploring why participants can leave a learning experience energized and committed, yet struggle to sustain new behavior once they return to the workplace.
October 22, 2026 · Online Presentation
A practical session for nonprofit leaders focused on looking beyond surface-level performance problems and identifying the conditions that may actually be getting in the way.
Book Jennifer When Your Audience Needs More Than Inspiration.
Many leadership and workplace performance conversations stop too soon. They focus on effort, buy-in, motivation, or accountability before asking whether the work environment is actually designed to support the performance leaders expect.
Jennifer helps audiences slow down, diagnose the real issue, and use the JL³ Performance Levers™ to see what may be getting in the way.
Core Message
Performance problems are not always people problems.
When teams stall, leaders often look for a training issue, an accountability issue, or a motivation issue. Sometimes that is accurate. Often, the real constraint sits inside the conditions of the work.
Jennifer gives audiences a practical way to look beneath the symptoms before choosing the next fix.
What Audiences Leave With
Jennifer’s sessions are practical, clear, and built for leaders who need language they can use immediately.
Diagnose performance problems before choosing a fix.
Recognize the workplace conditions shaping execution and behavior.
Use the JL³ Performance Levers™ as a practical diagnostic lens.
Ask better questions before defaulting to training, accountability, or more pressure.
Signature Speaking Topics
These sessions can be adapted for conferences, association events, leadership retreats, HR and talent development audiences, nonprofit organizations, or internal manager development programs.
The Performance Problem You’re Probably Misdiagnosing
The Hidden Conditions Behind Poor Performance
Capable employees don’t always struggle because they lack motivation, skill, or accountability. Sometimes the real problem is hidden in the conditions surrounding the work.
Based on Jennifer’s book, When Performance Stalls, and the JL³ Performance Levers™, this session gives leaders a practical way to look beneath the symptoms before choosing a solution.
Best for: leaders, managers, supervisors, HR professionals, executive teams, and leadership development programs.
- Why capable people can struggle even when motivation and skill are not the problem
- How workplace conditions quietly shape execution and performance
- What leaders should examine before choosing training, accountability, or another fix
From Insight to Impact: Why Learning Doesn’t Always Change Behavior
Participants can leave a learning experience energized, committed, and ready to act. Then they return to work, where competing priorities, limited capacity, workplace norms, systems, and other conditions can make the new behavior difficult to sustain.
This practical session helps facilitators and learning leaders think beyond the learning event itself and examine what happens when participants return to the workplace.
Best for: learning conferences, facilitator groups, HR teams, talent development professionals, and leadership development audiences.
- Why insight and commitment are not enough to create sustained behavior change
- What can interfere with application after the learning event ends
- How workplace conditions can either support or undermine transfer
The Hidden Cost of Performance Leakage
Performance problems rarely arrive with a clean price tag. They show up as rework, missed handoffs, delayed decisions, overloaded employees, inconsistent execution, quality problems, and work that simply takes longer than it should.
This business-focused session helps leaders recognize where workplace conditions may be quietly draining performance and why more effort is not always the answer.
Best for: executives, directors, business leaders, operations teams, HR partners, and strategy execution audiences.
- Where performance leakage shows up inside everyday work
- Why employee effort can temporarily hide deeper execution problems
- How leaders can spot performance risk earlier and choose better interventions
Best-Fit Audiences
Jennifer’s sessions are best for audiences that are responsible for performance, learning, leadership, or execution.
Leaders & Managers
For audiences responsible for helping teams perform when the work is complex, fast-moving, or full of competing priorities.
HR & Talent Development
For professionals who are asked to support performance but know the answer is not always another class, program, or training event.
Associations & Conferences
For event audiences that want practical, memorable content with a clear point of view and immediate workplace application.
Engagement Formats
Jennifer offers speaking and consulting engagements that can be adapted to fit your audience, event goals, and level of interaction.
Keynotes
Clear, practical sessions that challenge leaders to see performance problems differently.
Conference Breakouts
Focused sessions built around one leadership, workplace performance, or learning-transfer challenge.
30–90 Minute Sessions & Workshops
Interactive sessions that help audiences apply the JL³ Performance Levers™ to real workplace situations.
Custom Organizational Performance Consulting
Tailored support for organizations that want Jennifer’s framework applied to their own performance challenges.
Speaker Snapshot
About Jennifer Lilly
Jennifer Lilly is the author of When Performance Stalls and founder of JL³ Learning Solutions. She helps leaders, HR professionals, and talent development teams diagnose the workplace conditions that shape performance before they invest in the wrong solution.
Her work is built around the JL³ Performance Levers™, a practical framework for identifying where execution, behavior, and results are being quietly slowed by the design of the work.
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Bring a Sharper Performance Conversation to Your Audience.
If your audience is tired of surface-level conversations about motivation, accountability, and change, Jennifer helps them see what may actually be getting in the way.
Her sessions give leaders a practical way to look beneath the symptoms, diagnose the workplace conditions shaping performance, and choose better next steps.
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