Keynotes · Workshops · Event hosting

Let's move your audience from exhausted to energized.

I'm a keynote speaker, author, and wellness consultant who has spent twenty years on stages across the fitness and wellness industry. My sessions pair nervous system science with stories, humor, and tools your people can use the minute they leave the room, and every one of them is shaped around your event.


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Jessica H. Maurer
Twenty yearson many of the same stages, with audiences who keep inviting me back
2026 IDEA Fitness Leader of the YearIDEA Health & Fitness Association
10 Self-Made Women to Watch in 2026MSN
Top 26 Most Visionary Coaches of 2026Coach360 finalist

Built for your event

Every session is shaped around your room

The sessions on this page are the ones I've presented most, and they make a great starting point. From there, we tailor everything to your people. Book one as written, blend two together, or tell me the problem you're trying to solve and I'll build something new around it.

Length

A keynote to open or close your event, a sixty- to ninety-minute breakout, or an extended hands-on workshop.

Audience

Executives, frontline teams, entrepreneurs, fitness professionals, or a room with a little of everyone.

Format

On the main stage, in a breakout room, or live online as a webinar your whole team can join.

Focus

Your theme, your industry's language, and the real challenges your people are facing this year.

Sessions

Who's in your room?

Choose your audience to see the sessions that fit them best. Open any session for the full description and learning objectives.

Every session below can be adapted for any of these groups. These are simply where each one has landed best.

Keynotes

Big-room energy with science your audience will remember on the drive home.

From Exhausted to Energized: Building Your Happiness Toolkit

You're doing everything right and still feel flat. This session uncovers the everyday inputs that quietly shape your energy, mood, and stress response.

Leaders & teamsEntrepreneursWellness

Most of us were taught that energy comes from exercise, nutrition, and sleep, so when we're doing all three and still feel depleted, we assume something is wrong with us. I learned otherwise the hard way, during my own medical crisis and recovery. This upbeat, research-based session walks through six commonly overlooked inputs and shows how each one affects your mood, your stress response, and your nervous system.

Happiness is something you build through small daily choices, and you don't have to earn it first. With interactive practices and plenty of laughter, your audience will leave with a framework they can use right away, whether they're caring for themselves or supporting clients, colleagues, and communities, including people managing chronic conditions or physical limitations.

Learning objectives

  1. Identify six commonly overlooked inputs that shape mental well-being and explain how each affects mood, stress response, and nervous system regulation.
  2. Apply simple, sustainable strategies from each input area, including for people managing chronic conditions or physical limitations.
  3. Use a practical framework to move yourself and others from chronic depletion toward steady, lasting energy.

Make it yours. Works as a keynote, breakout, or webinar for any audience, from fitness pros to corporate teams.

Burnout, Boredom & Breakthroughs

Burnout and boredom look identical from the outside, and the fix for one makes the other worse. Your people will learn to tell them apart.

Leaders & teamsEntrepreneursWellness

You rested. You cut back. You took the time off everyone told you to take, and you came back feeling exactly the same. Before you decide you’re burned out, it’s worth asking whether you’re actually bored, because the two states look identical from the outside and need opposite solutions. Burnout comes from too much for too long and responds to rest. Boredom comes from too little challenge or meaning and responds to risk. Treat the wrong one and you deepen the problem you were trying to solve.

This interactive session gives you the neuroscience behind why each state drains you differently, the diagnostic questions to figure out which one you’re in, and practical strategies for both. You’ll also learn to spot the difference in your clients, who tend to disappear from your schedule for reasons they can’t name either. Come find out what’s actually going on, and leave with a plan for Monday.

Learning objectives

  1. Distinguish burnout from boredom by their distinct neurobiological signatures and explain why each requires a different solution.
  2. Apply diagnostic tools and targeted strategies to your own situation, whether the issue is depletion, too little challenge, or loss of meaning.
  3. Design team and organizational practices that support meaningful work, the right level of challenge, and sustainable energy.

Make it yours. Runs as a keynote or a hands-on workshop for leaders, teams, and fitness professionals.

Workshops

Interactive, hands-on sessions where your people practice the tools before they leave.

The Workday Reset

For anyone running on empty by three o'clock. Small, repeatable reset moments that protect focus and energy all day long.

Leaders & teamsEntrepreneurs

Most professionals feel pulled between competing demands, and by mid-afternoon the tank is empty. Willpower tends to run out right when you need it most, so this workshop leans on the science of habit formation instead, showing how tiny, repeatable actions add up without an overhauled schedule or superhuman discipline.

You'll build reset moments into your day that protect focus, spark creativity, and calm your stress response. Before you leave, you'll pick one or two specific practices to start that same afternoon, whether you're using them yourself or guiding a team through burnout and disengagement.

Learning objectives

  1. Identify how small behavioral choices during the workday reduce stress, regulate the nervous system, and build sustainable energy.
  2. Apply habit formation strategies to design personal reset moments that fit your schedule and work style.
  3. Guide clients, colleagues, or teams through building a sustainable habit system of their own.

Make it yours. A natural fit for corporate wellness days, leadership retreats, and lunch-and-learns.

Future-Proof Your Career

For fitness and wellness pros who built a career by pushing harder and now wonder why the work that once lit them up feels so heavy.

Wellness

Most of us in the fitness industry build our careers the way we learned to train, by doing more and ignoring how tired we are. We pick up one more class, one more client, one more side project, until the work we love starts draining us and growing feels like signing up for more exhaustion. I spent twenty years learning how to be good at all the wrong things, so I know this pattern from the inside.

In this workshop, you'll take an honest look at your schedule, your offerings, and your income streams. We'll sort the growth that excites you from the overextension that depletes you, spot where your offerings overlap, and build systems that earn revenue without requiring you to be everywhere at once.

Learning objectives

  1. Assess your current career and business model and identify which offerings and income streams energize you and which ones drain you.
  2. Design a diversified business strategy that reduces financial anxiety and builds revenue streams that support one another.
  3. Build systems and boundaries that let your business grow without growing your exhaustion along with it.

Make it yours. Built for fitness and wellness professionals, studio owners, and independent trainers.

Five Hidden Retention Gems

Clients come back when they feel safe, seen, and like they're getting somewhere. Five evidence-based practices make that happen.

EntrepreneursWellness

Most marketing focuses on getting people in the door, and a discount rarely gives anyone a reason to stay. Retention lives in how people feel once they're with you. This workshop explores the neuroscience and psychology of what keeps clients coming back for years.

We'll work through five practices: community that feels authentic, accountability that works with human nature, progress markers that keep motivation alive, predictable touchpoints that build trust, and offerings that match what clients need right now. You'll audit your own client experience along the way and leave with a plan to build loyalty without wearing yourself out.

Learning objectives

  1. Identify five evidence-based practices that support client retention and explain how each one shapes belonging and sustained engagement.
  2. Audit your current client touchpoints and community practices to find where you're creating friction and where you can deepen connection.
  3. Redesign your retention systems around authentic connection, predictable communication, and visible progress.

Make it yours. Adapts for any service business, from studios and gyms to coaching practices.

The Retention Revolution

Your clients can get sets and reps from AI. Here's what they'll keep coming back to you for.

Wellness

The fitness industry is shifting fast, and programming on its own has become a commodity. The coaches and studios who keep their clients are selling what exercise actually delivers: nervous system regulation, a better mood, and a real dose of joy.

This workshop looks at the neuroscience of why clients stay and why they leave, then walks you through communication, community, and consistency practices that give clients a return on every single session. Along the way, we'll rebrand soft skills as power skills, because connection, accountability, and predictable support are what people crave most. Leave equipped to rebuild your business around connection, progress, and permission to feel good.

Learning objectives

  1. Explain why programming alone no longer sets a coaching business apart, and identify what exercise delivers beyond physical change.
  2. Apply communication, community, and consistency practices that give clients an immediate return on every session.
  3. Reframe soft skills as power skills and build a retention strategy grounded in connection, visible progress, and permission to feel good.

Make it yours. Ideal for fitness conferences, studio owner groups, and coaching teams.

Also available

Add these to any booking, or book them on their own.

Emcee & host

I keep your event moving, on time, and full of energy, connecting each session so the whole day feels like one experience.

Trivia & music bingo

Customizable trivia and music bingo that get people laughing, mingling, and talking to the table next to them.

Kind words

What audiences say

Jessica was very engaging and her speech was brilliant. This was the best keynote session we have had yet.
FitnessFest
What stood out most about Jessica's session was how practical it was. She didn't just motivate us—she gave us tools and strategies we could immediately implement with our teams.
Women Entrepreneur Summit
Jessica has an incredible ability to connect with the audience and make complex topics simple and actionable. Her energy lit up the room and left us inspired to take real steps forward.
CareerLab
Jessica is the kind of speaker who leaves a lasting impression. She's relatable, knowledgeable, and deeply passionate about helping people thrive, both personally and professionally.
FitnessFest
Jessica was fantastic! Energetic, Passionate, Unique. She listened to my questions and gave thoughtful, industry-experienced answers. She helped me feel heard and provided me with an idea of a direction to move forward.
Health & Fitness Summit
Jessica provided a wealth of knowledge and tools to add to our toolbox. I will definitely use the tips and information in my personal and professional lives.
IDEA World

How it works

From first call to standing ovation

1

Meet

We start with a discovery call about your goals, your audience, and what success looks like for your event.

2

Create

I build your session around what we talked about, from length and format to examples that speak your industry's language.

3

Engage

I deliver a high-energy, interactive session packed with steps people can use right away, then stay for questions and meet-and-greets. And yes, there will be a cupcake reference.

4

Repeat

Audiences have invited me back to the same stages for twenty years, and I'd love to become a regular at your event, too.