Speaking

Jenelle's career has taken her through leadership roles at Apple, L'Oréal, Estée Lauder, and Pfizer, into real estate investing and entrepreneurship. Her professional experience includes raising and deploying capital, acquiring residential properties, and managing homes. Relocating her own family has also shaped how she thinks about ownership and the life it supports.

Those experiences inform Rooted & Reason, the philosophy underlying her work: making thoughtful decisions about home, wealth, community, and the life those decisions support.

Her approach is conversational and grounded in stories, with practical questions that help people examine their own choices. She brings particular resonance to audiences navigating ambition alongside motherhood, partnership, and a changing sense of self.

What happens when the life you worked hard to build no longer fits?

Changing direction can feel complicated when you've invested years in becoming good at something. Drawing on her experiences across corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, and family transitions, Jenelle explores how to recognize when a change deserves your attention and carry your experience into what comes next.

Audiences will explore how to distinguish a difficult season from a deeper mismatch, reconsider the identities attached to achievement, and identify a useful next step before the whole path is clear.

Especially relevant for: Women's leadership events, professional associations, entrepreneurship communities, and audiences navigating transition.

What are we actually building, and what is it costing us?

An impressive life can still leave very little room for the things that matter most. This conversation examines how decisions about work, home, money, and family shape everyday experience.

Jenelle invites audiences to look closely at their own definition of success, recognize the tradeoffs they are making, and consider how their resources could better support the life they want to live. Her perspective makes room for ambition while taking the demands of an ordinary week seriously.

Especially relevant for: Leadership retreats, women's conferences, employee communities, and working parent programs.

The relationships around us shape what becomes possible.

Belonging often requires someone to make the first invitation. Through her experience with relocation, entrepreneurship, and community involvement, Jenelle explores the role relationships play in opportunity and everyday wellbeing.

This conversation considers how to build connections in a new season, create gatherings where people feel welcome, and contribute to a community with care. Audiences leave with practical ways to begin creating the relationships and spaces they wish existed.

Especially relevant for: Community organizations, membership groups, leadership programs, and gatherings focused on belonging.

Available for keynote conversations, panels, fireside chats, and facilitated discussions. Real estate ownership and building wealth is a primary speaking topic. Additional conversations can be adapted around women and ambition, leadership and motherhood, home as life design, and inclusive opportunity. Format and scope are agreed for each event.