For Organizations

Most people spend their careers performing other people's strengths. Not because they lack ability — but because no one ever showed them the full picture of who they already are.

This is the flagship talk. Michele Jennae starts from a simple, radical premise: every person in the room is already a genius. Not in the IQ sense — in the original sense. Genius as the animating force specific to this person and no other. The thing that makes them irreducibly, irreplaceably themselves.

The talk moves through the science of why organizations systematically extinguish the genius they most need, why people stop offering their best work — and what shifts when someone finally sees themselves clearly. Audiences leave with new language for something they've always felt but never been able to name, and an immediate framework for using it.

This is the door. Everything else opens from here.

• Format: Keynote (45–60 min) or Workshop (half-day / full-day)
• Audience: Corporate teams, leadership groups, professional associations, campus all-staff
• Pairs well with: Two Wings Team Mapping workshop

A butterfly doesn't flap. It contracts. And as it does, its wings trace a figure eight through the air. At the crossing point, energy hands off from one form to the other. Continuously. Efficiently. Without burning out.

This talk applies that same figure-eight model to human genius. Every person has two wings: one that leads with ideation, curiosity, and possibility — and one that leads with structure, execution, and completion. Most people spend their careers over-relying on one and apologizing for the other, generating the kind of drag that looks like burnout, stagnation, or chronic frustration.

Michele Jennae guides audiences through the EDG Butterfly Map, helping them identify their own pattern: which wing they lead with, where they get stuck, and how to stop fighting their own wiring and start flying from it. Teams that go through this talk together gain a shared language for how they're built and why they work the way they do.

• Format: Keynote (45–60 min)
• Audience: Leadership teams, professional associations, organizational offsites
• Pairs well with: Two Wings Team Mapping workshop

Purpose isn't a commercial for your life. It's a living fire — specific to you, directional, fed by sparks both large and small. This talk reorients audiences away from the pressure of finding a single fixed purpose and toward something more honest: following the sparks, building the fire, and letting it become a hearth that warms everyone around you.

• Audience: Campus audiences, career transition programs, women's professional groups
• Best for: Audiences asking why — why does this feel wrong, why can't I find my direction, why does the work feel hollow even when I'm succeeding

Why do smart, capable people keep hitting the same wall? Because the wall isn't in front of them. It's at the center of their own genius pattern.

This talk names the specific mechanism of being stuck: the moment between the two wings where most people stall, overcorrect, or shut down. Once you can see the crossing point clearly, getting through it stops feeling like failure and starts feeling like navigation.

• Audience: High-achievers experiencing friction, leaders in transition, anyone who's been told they're their own worst enemy

A short, science-grounded talk that introduces the EDG Butterfly Map through the actual biomechanics of butterfly flight and human movement. The figure eight isn't a metaphor. It's a mechanism.

This talk gives audiences the shape of the framework in a single session, leaving them with both the intellectual grounding and the immediate question: where is your crossing point?

• Audience: Conference audiences, professional associations, campus programs
• Works well as: A conference opener or first introduction to the EDGx365 framework

Inspired by W. Timothy Gallwey's foundational insight — Performance = Potential minus Interference — this talk applies the inner game framework directly to genius. The question isn't whether you have the ability. The question is what's in the way.

Michele Jennae identifies the most common interference patterns that suppress natural genius in professional settings: the inner critic, the overcorrection, the habit of managing yourself instead of trusting yourself. Audiences leave with a practical starting point for quieting the noise.

• Audience: High-performance teams, leaders, professionals experiencing friction or creative block

An interactive workshop that applies the EDG Butterfly Map to the full team. Participants map their own genius patterns and learn how to read — and leverage — the patterns of the people around them. Designed for teams that want to move from tolerance to genuine collaboration.

• Format: Half-day or full-day facilitated session
• Deliverable: Individual genius maps + team pattern overview
• Audience: Leadership teams, project teams, organizational offsites

Most organizations already know their people have strengths. What they don't know is where those strengths live on the genius map — and why the same strength shows up as a superpower in one person and a source of friction in another.

StrengthsLAB is a facilitated workshop that takes your team's VIA Character Strengths and maps them directly onto the EDG Butterfly Map. Participants discover not just what their strengths are, but how they operate — which wing they belong to, where they create momentum, and where they create drag.

The result is a shared language for how your team is actually built — and a practical framework for putting the right strengths in the right places.

• Format: Half-day facilitated session
• Audience: Leadership teams, HR and people development, any team that has completed VIA assessments
• Note: VIA Character Strengths assessment completion recommended prior to session

→ Inquire: edgx365.com/contact

Not every team needs a keynote. Some of the most powerful organizational work happens when people slow down enough to think — with a pen, a page, or an image.

Michele Jennae offers facilitated creative workshops for teams, retreats, and organizational events — drawing on ZenDally practices including guided doodling, reflective journaling, and imagery work. These sessions are designed to surface what analytical tools miss: the intuitive, associative, pre-verbal intelligence that lives in every team and rarely gets a seat at the table.

Ideal for: team retreats, innovation sessions, nonprofit staff development, leadership offsites, and any group that needs to think differently before they can act differently.

→ Inquire about custom workshop design: edgx365.com/contact