About Jessica
Now I help people move from exhausted to energized. I'm a keynote speaker, author, and wellness consultant, and I work with organizations to reduce burnout, keep their best people, and build cultures where everyone has the energy to do their best work.
My story
For a long stretch of my career, I looked successful on paper. I taught around thirty fitness classes a week, co-ran a studio, and said yes to every opportunity that came my way. I got very good at teaching, presenting, and building programs, and I got just as good at ignoring my own exhaustion, until I was completely burned out.
Then my health fell apart. Systemic organ damage left me unable to walk to my own mailbox, and I had to rebuild my life out of what was already around me. Small, ordinary choices carried me back, and they became the heart of my work and of my book, The Happiness Handbook.
I learned the hard way that achievement without wellbeing is unsustainable. Today I speak internationally and partner with leaders on wellbeing, resilience, and retention, helping them build the systems, habits, and cultures that let people do great work without burning out.
Happiness isn't something you earn after the work is done. You build it with small choices, every single day.
Off stage
I live in Florida with my husband, our teenage son, and a very fluffy cat. When I'm not on stage, you'll find me roller-skating around my neighborhood, leading music bingo, talking to my plants, or deep in my grandma hobbies.
The details
Here's the full picture of where I've spoken, what I've built, and the conversations I've been part of. Choose a tab to dig in.
Certifications, courses, and workshops I've designed for national fitness and wellness organizations.
Business Workshops
I co-host the Fit & Flustered podcast with Dr. Erin Nitschke, and you can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube.
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Sample presentations, webinars, and workshops, so you can get a feel for the room before you book.
The book
A Guide to Designing Joy
Willpower and motivation are the first two things to leave when you're depleted, so this guided journal asks for neither one. It offers six small, everyday actions, and each one is a single decision that needs no preparation and no long-term plan.
The book is meant to be written in, with room to notice what helps, what doesn't, and what you want more of.
Available in paperback for $14.99.
For event planners
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Jessica H. Maurer is a keynote speaker, author, and wellness consultant who helps people move from exhausted to energized. She is the 2026 IDEA Fitness Leader of the Year, the author of The Happiness Handbook: A Guide to Designing Joy, Director of Education for the Mental Wellbeing Association, and co-host of the Fit & Flustered podcast. After twenty years in fitness and a health crisis that forced her to rebuild her life, Jessica now helps organizations reduce burnout, keep their best people, and build cultures where people have the energy to do their best work.
