Jenna Arnold is an educator, entrepreneur, activist and mother who lives in New York City with her husband and two children, who are anti-sleep. Oprah named Jenna as one of her “100 Awakened Leaders who are using their voice and talent to elevate humanity” for her professional portfolio of work across education, entertainment and activism.

Jenna is currently the Chief Impact Officer for an impact investing platform, Rethink, funding companies working to solve some of the world’s most complex problems: equitable education, food distribution, climate sustainability, community growth and empowering women and minority populations. She is the Co-Founder of ORGANIZE, a non-profit focused on ending the waitlist for organ transplants in the US.  ORGANIZE was awarded an Innovator in Residence position in the Secretary’s Office of Health and Human Services and co-hosted the White House Organ Donation Summit, which, in addition to other initiatives, launched $300 million worth of commitments across multiple sectors. Since then, an Executive Order has been signed and legislation proposed to increase the number of life-saving, transplantable organs. For her work at ORGANIZE Jenna was named one Inc’s “20 Most Disruptive Innovators”, the New York Times called ORGANIZE one of the “Biggest Ideas in Social Change,” and the organization was covered by CNN, Washington Post, US News, FastCompany, Forbes, ESPN, Slate, SELF, UpWorthy, HBO’s Last Week Tonight and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. 

Previously, Jenna was the Executive Producer and Creator of one of MTV’s hit TV shows, ‘Exiled!’ which took privileged American teenagers to live with indigenous cultures around the world. While at the United Nations she helped create multi-platform programming for MTV and Showtime with A-list celebrities like Jay-Z and Angelina Jolie.

Jenna received a graduate degree from Columbia University's Teachers College in International Education Development and BS Edu and minor in astro-physics from the University of Miami. She has taught in many countries with a laser focus on citizenship education and has authored more than a dozen different curricula.

Jenna sits on a number of boards, including the Sesame Workshop Leadership Council, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is an emeritus World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper and Women’s March Global Board Member.

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  • Jenna Arnold, author of the new book, Raising Our Hand (May 2020), shares her personal journey and proprietary research to help women understand what holds them back and how to navigate their insecurities.  With audiences, she examines the sources of American women’s belief in perfection, their role in society, and how they can create more meaningful lives and careers. She also dives into the many contradictions of ourselves. Because of a fear of “getting it wrong,” and “avoiding the tension” or “maintaining the peace,” women regularly table their power and influence on the sidelines — when it could be used to save lives, including their own. These same women often want to step in, to be heard, and to help. But they don’t know how. The result? They opt out of taking action altogether. Geared towards women throughout the corporate spectrum, this talk is a call-to-action for upper management to learn how to tap into the extraordinary pools of talent they likely have on their payroll who are just too insecure to raise their hands. She helps leaders and audiences understand how their influence, power, and voice can better serve those most in need, and how they can take an active role in creating a better future.

  • The world we live in is one increasingly focused on the things that divide us. Many of us find ourselves either arguing unproductively or completely avoiding issues that deeply impact our society and the future. We are more informed and technologically connected now than ever before, yet our ability to have open, honest and respectful dialogue across differing perspectives and opinions seems even more at risk. Using the best strategies for navigating confrontation, defusing defensiveness and finding common ground in shared values, Daring Discussions is a workshop delivered by Jenna Arnold that teaches participants how to do the hard work: communicating successfully through conflict. Daring Discussions provides audiences with a model of leadership and engagement both in and out of the workplace. 

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This important conversation included Jenna Arnold, author of Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Respons...