We’ll have so much fun, you won’t know you’re learning

We think fireside chats 

should include song…  

and marshmallows and stars, not monitors and fluorescent lights.

Jennifer has experience on a conference stage, facilitating engaging discussions and workshops. We think real magic and transformation are invited when you break from the usual with an adventure to commune with nature and each other. Ideas stand out with the help of inspiring environments. Urban retreats can include art and culture or a nearby trail, or boldly head for an out-of-town retreat and see for yourself if an immersive experience in the woods or near the ocean doesn’t imprint the heart and soul of your organization.

Your team is tired of the same meeting

(and case study, and panel of experts)

  • Unexpected Team Experiences

    Who is talking about that panel you hosted last year? Why not make your workshop or team retreat one you want to go on instead of having to. We have experience leading retreat vacations and corporate events and have married the two. Could you change your setting and perspective? Jennifer has been a regular instructor at the Kootenay Wellness Festival, is a Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher, Athletic Coach, and even directs a wild and raucous community choir. She can teach topics like negotiation, communication, or mindset from a mat, or facilitate group cohesion and trust exercises on a mountain trail. Your team might enjoy a smoothie instead of the same old slider and value your commitment to foster health and enthusiasm. Invest in the health of your organization today!

  • Dreaming and Executing Events

    Maybe you aren’t ready to do away with your conference altogether. Let us consult on the planning phase and create more opportunities for human experience! We can help you get the bums out of the seats, and gently move your conference toward a more inclusive and generative experience. We have planned entire conferences, learning days and events. Let us add a creative voice at your planning table. Our communications team will help you ask more interesting questions, and create impactful messaging. Let’s shift from a theatre-style broadcast to a more interactive live interaction.

  • An Enthusiastic Voice

    Many phenomenal leaders weren’t meant for the stage. An experienced co-host knows the power of a thoughtfully crafted question, drawing out brilliance and synthesizing ideas in an interview-style session with a company leader. Sometimes it’s helpful to hear a message in a different voice. Our communications and research specialist, Nick, enhances and edits, refining messaging and adding research, and Jennifer adds humour and presence. She is versatile, and can change plans fluidly, holding the attention of any crowd. Whether honouring a team’s achievements or telling yarns at a celebration of life, Jennifer treats each opportunity to speak at an event as auspicious, reminding the group of the wonder they are a part of and connecting them to meaning and purpose.

Leadership Development

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Personal Growth

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Community Projects

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Leadership Development 〰️ Personal Growth 〰️ Community Projects 〰️

It’s estimated that the average person will spend 90,000 hours, or a third of their life, at work.

Let’s not waste them! Our sessions help build autonomy, mastery and purpose, the key elements of positive workplace culture.

We can create a custom talk or workshop, or you can choose one of our signature sessions:

  • Some sales professions give trophies for commission income or unit sales, often times creating an inner battleground for carrot-chasing salespeople. Many struggle with failed expectations that hold them back from achieving success, and even worse, some may try to emulate a secret sauce that is not the recipe for their success.

    This class is a mindset shift that will have you re-focus on goals, and learn strategies to determine what noises (in your head and surroundings) may be getting in your way. Together, we’ll create a profitable mental shift, and help you release the thinking patterns that cost you financially and emotionally.

  • Your life outside of work should not be a line item on your business plan; your plan might consist of an ecosystem that is your career, family, relationships, community and spirituality.

    This is Jennifer’s signature planning session, incorporating decades of experience in the corporate and wellness worlds. Participants will move, play, and workshop, landing on a successful course for their life and business, generating the map to get there. Every plan needs people to succeed. We didn’t come to this world to be alone. Get inspired and connected.

    Perfect for your sales team or entire organization, this session can be run as a half-day, full-day or inspiring retreat.

  • Did you ever reed those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books? You would get to a place in a story, and might be asked: “do you want to go into the cave with the wizzard, or listen to the owl and stay on the path?” This session feels more like an Improv sketch, in which participants shout out answers to questions that occur in real life scenarios. These get “acted out”. We strategize the best practices collectively and learn a method for deciding which ones prove most successful situationally. This workshop teaches critical thinking skills, and helps organizations act in nimble response to changing factors, beating “a process only approach” every time.

    Best practices emerge, sharing happens, and the group consciousness forms the focus. Are we honing a skill or strategy, sales presentation, learning to communicate, solving a problem or getting inspired? The group decides in this interactive and organic session.

  • Yes, scripts can be an effective way to manipulate, er, sell. What is the alternative? An approach that doesn’t have you pressuring your client, allowing both of you to engage in a supportive, fulfilling relationship. This approach empowers the clients, putting their needs in full view, and teaches us to respond to their changing needs. The outcome is a customer that feels nourished, rather than used, and will come back with their friends.

  • In this session, Jen experimented with the challenge of guiding an impromptu meditation to a full room of salespeople in a downtown Toronto Conference Centre.

    This keynote is packed with real examples of how to implement emotional intelligence strategies that aid communication and negotiation and result in a happier and more profitable sales and service experience.

It’s lonely at the top

Stats say it’s lonely everywhere.

Pizza Day is just not cutting it. Sub-optimal emotional states lead to a decline in cognitive function and physical health, affecting work, relationships, and more. People are looking for real solutions. Our sessions are designed to care for people, teaching skills that support emotional regulation, non-reactivity and vitality. Our workshops are fun and connecting; they are an antidote to loneliness!

We can filter our topics through the lens of your organization’s vision and mission, and build a custom session, just for you! Prices start at $ 500 CAD + GST for an online workshop, $1200 CAD + GST for a live seminar, plus per diem.

Jen loves bringing the unexpected

Jen has been a creative masquerading as a Corporate CEO for decades. In her corporate life, she embodies an obsession for human and community development and a gift for seeing the best in people. Outside of work, she brings that energy as a community choir director, yoga teacher, recovery mentor and athletic coach. From a company podcast, a corporate training session disguised as a yoga or adventure retreat, or a leadership brainstorm that looks more like an improv sketch, your group will build cohesion, trust, skill, and most importantly, create memories they won’t forget.

Sliding-Scale Pricing

Contact us for a customized quote for your event.

Non-Profit, Social Venture

At Human Ideas, we reserve time in our schedules to work with organizations that help the world. We offer steep discounts to these organizations. If we can make it work, we will!

Priced at a discount from our Business and Conference Rates.

Small-Medium Sized Business

For company-wide learning days, team huddles, business planning sessions, merger events, recognition, skills training.

Online workshops start at $500/session, and in-person workshops start at $1200 + GST plus travel per diem.

Corporate Conference

Are you eager to bring something unique to your corporate conference? Please ask for a quote based on the scope of work.

In person, starting at $4000 CAD + GST plus travel per diem.

Jordann Kian, Therapist, Workshop Attendee

“I cannot rave enough about this wonderful human. She is a dedicated teacher and forever student who shares with humility, courage, and generosity.”

Human Ideas Supports Community

We are so passionate about building community that we host healing spaces in our local community for FREE. People in recovery can access love and belonging in our classes and workshops. A portion of profits helps us provide more resources live and online. Thank You!