For over 20 years, Jackie has been on a mission to expose the unconventional, business-best practices of globally admired leaders.

As a bestselling author and leadership expert, Jackie has dedicated her career to helping executives and managers practice the art of leadership and build great companies, where the Best places and the Best people do their Best work to make the world Better.

Jackie is the co-author of her latest book NANOVATION: How a Little Car Can Teach the World to Think Big. Jackie and her husband Kevin are also authors of their international best seller NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, BOOM! 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-As-Usual! and GUTS! Companies that Blow the Doors Off Business-As-Usual.

Jackie has become a connoisseur of cool companies, places where people want to work and choose to stay. Jackie is on a mission to cure the Dead People Working™ syndrome, a global epidemic sweeping through so many companies today. Her goal is to create a movement of leaders who choose to defy mediocrity, take charge of their success at work and make a difference in their own little corner of the world.

Leaders around the globe cast over 13,000 votes, and Jackie was voted a "Top 5 Leadership Speaker". She is also recognized as one of the "Top 30 Best Minds on Leadership" by Leadership Excellence Magazine, and is one of the most sought-after female business speakers in the nation.

Her articles and interviews have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Investor's Business Daily, Dubai's CapitalME, India's Management Next, India's Business Standard, India's Economic Times and India's Financial Times.

Jackie earned a doctorate in Leadership from the University of San Diego, a master's degree in Communication from San Diego State University and a bachelor's degree in Communication from the University of New Hampshire.

Jackie held the contract for 25 years as a public speaking coach to the United States Marine Corps Recruiting Office. She has trained more than 1,500 Marine Recruiters a year on the Fundamentals of Delivering a Winning Presentation. Semper Fi!

Jackie served as a member of Southwest Airlines' Culture Committee. She was one of only two non-employee members invited to serve on this highly influential leadership committee. Jackie served as an executive consultant for the Center for Creative Leadership, providing feedback to executives participating in the five-day Leadership Development Program.

Jackie was the Manager of Corporate and Professional Programs at the University of San Diego's Executive Conference Center. During her tenure at USD, Jackie co-founded the Family Business Institute, founded the Certificate in International Business Program and was the Director of the Institute for Quality & Productivity.

Jackie currently teaches leadership, public speaking and communications courses as an adjunct professor at USD. Jackie was an HR specialist for NCR Corporation. She was in charge of college recruiting, all employment issues, new hire on-boarding and all internal employee communication programs and publications.

• The "SheEconomy" An Untapped $20 Trillion Trend You Need to Know About! - Dr. Jackie Freiberg calls all business leaders to discover what is at the intersection of some very powerful "NEED to KNOW" global trends. In this keynote Jackie unveils an economy that is under-represented, misunderstood and often times ignored! Businesses are leaving millions of dollars and very loyal customers all on the table because they do not take her seriously and they do not fully understand what SHE wants. The businesses that continue to ignore, misrepresent or misunderstand her are at great risk. She is a force to know, understand and represent wisely. If mined correctly these global trends complimented by her purchasing power provide a rich, loyal and extremely profitable consumer demographic to know and serve.
  
  
• Innovate or Perish! : 8 Strategies to Accelerate Innovation - Following the ongoing success of her international bestseller NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, GUTS! and BOOM!, Jackie, once again, takes you behind the scenes of another one of the most admired companies in the world. In Nanovation, Jackie shows you how, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, the people of Tata Motors accomplished what most said was impossible and created the Nano, a $2,500 car-one of the greatest innovations in the auto industry since the Model-T. Everyone has the potential to innovate. However, Nanovators are wired different. Who are they? How do they think? What makes them tick? What do they bring to the game that makes nanovation possible? Jackie will unpack the story of Nanovation and share 8 strategies designed to help leaders create a culture of innovation and a team of Nanovators.