Jenn Ocken: Speaker & Facilitator
Clarity, Creativity & Leadership When Certainty Disappears
My work centers on answering one question audiences are already feeling before they can articulate it:
What replaces urgency once we stop relying on it?
We’re living in a moment where speed, certainty, and “best practices” are no longer enough. Decisions feel heavier. Leadership feels more complex. What used to work doesn’t always apply and many people sense this before they can explain it.
I speak to leaders, creatives, and organizations navigating change—helping people trust their intelligence, make grounded decisions, and move forward with clarity even when the path isn’t clear.
My work centers on Creative Adaptive Intelligence (CAI) — the named human capacity to meet uncertainty with clarity, discernment, and values-based choice in real time.
Creative Adaptive Intelligence is not a framework or method. It is an orientation and real-time intelligence — how people orient, decide, and act when conditions are complex, shifting, or incomplete.
I help people trust their intelligence in real time, not to act faster, but to see truer.
I don’t speak to motivate people to push harder.
I speak to help them see more clearly. So their next move is aligned, sustainable, and grounded in what actually matters.
I’ve spent more than two decades as a professional photographer, learning how clarity emerges through timing, attention, and restraint. Over time, that way of seeing extended beyond the frame and into leadership, decision-making, and how people navigate change.
Across creative industries, education, entrepreneurship, and community leadership, I’ve worked with individuals and organizations facing moments where the old ways no longer apply. My role isn’t to give answers. It’s to help people recognize the intelligence they already carry and learn how to use it with intention.
Below are a few entry points into the kinds of conversations I facilitate. Each talk is shaped in response to the room, the moment, and what the audience is navigating.
What Replaces Urgency When Certainty Disappears
Navigating uncertainty without pressure. Explores how clarity, discernment, and values-based choice create momentum that doesn’t rely on speed or force.
Clarity Without Certainty
How people lead, decide, and adapt when the old rules no longer apply. A human, grounded exploration of trust, timing, and intelligent response in times of change.
Seeing Clearly When the Frame Keeps Changing
A talk grounded in photography and lived experience, showing how attention, timing, and perception shape leadership and decision-making in real time.
Audiences Leave With
Language for what they’ve been sensing but couldn’t name
Relief from the pressure to have it all figured out
A deeper trust in their own judgment and timing
Practical ways to lead, decide, and adapt without burning out
This Work Resonates Most With
Leaders navigating complexity without clear precedents
Creative and purpose-driven organizations
Educators, entrepreneurs, and community builders
Teams seeking clarity without urgency
If your audience is looking for hype, quick fixes, or rigid formulas, I’m not the right fit — and that’s intentional.
If they’re ready to think, reflect, and lead with intention, we’ll do meaningful work together.
If you’re planning a conference, retreat, classroom, or gathering and want a talk that meets people where they are while expanding what’s possible, I’d love to explore whether this is a fit.
