Michele Jennae
Speaker & Facilitator
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Michele Jennae brings the EDG Butterfly Map to keynotes, workshops, and campus events — helping audiences recognize the genius that's been there all along, and understand why it's been so hard to see.
Her talks are grounded in a specific intellectual framework — not motivation, not inspiration as a feeling, but a shift in how people see themselves and each other. Audiences leave with new language, a new lens, and something they can actually use.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTES
Every Day Genius - The Flagship Talk
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.
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This is the flagship talk. Michele 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.
Every Day Genius: Details
• 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
Two Wings: The Shape of Your Genius
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 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.
Two Wings: Details
• Format: Keynote (45–60 min) or Workshop (half-day, includes team mapping)
• Audience: Teams, managers, HR and L&D professionals, organizational retreats
• Pairs well with: Two Wings Team Mapping workshop (half-day or full-day)
SHORT TALKS — 20 TO 30 MINUTES
These focused talks work as standalone sessions, conference breakouts, panel openers, or campus events. Each is self-contained and can be delivered without prior knowledge of the EDG framework.
The Blue Flame/Three Flames
Purpose isn't a commercial for your life. It's a living fire that is 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. 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.
• Audience: Campus audiences, career transition programs, women's professional groups
The Crossing Point: Getting Unstuck
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
The Shape of Flight
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? Works well as a conference opener or a first introduction to the EDGx365 framework.
• Audience: Conference audiences, professional associations, campus programs
The Inner Game of Genius
Inspired by W. Timothy Gallwey's foundational insight that performance equals 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 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 — and gives audiences a practical starting point for quieting the noise.
• Audience: High-performance teams, leaders, professionals experiencing friction or creative block
WORKSHOPS
Two Wings Team Mapping
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
TESTIMONIALS
"We couldn't have done it without you! Your ability to engage with the audience was pivotal to our event." C. Chun, Indie Music Festival Board Member
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Individual Programs & Courses
If you're an individual looking to work with the EDG framework directly — through a self-paced course, a live cohort, or 1:1 coaching — everything lives on the Programs page.
Flight School on Skool is home to Full Flight: live cohorts and Formation: self-paced courses, including The Shape of Flight, StrengthsLAB, and The Inner Game of Genius (launching soon).
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"The edge you've been looking for has been inside you all along."
— Michele Jennae