Speaker · Author · Coach · Christian Faith
Joy in
Your
Brilliance
Jane Schuette is an award-winning speaker, author, and executive coach who helps people move from fear and stressful survival toward joy, positive connection, and personal brilliance. Her practical, research-backed tools energize audiences — with humor — to bring their best selves to life.
About Jane · Biography
Who is Jane?
Jane is an award-winning speaker and author. Her passion is to help you navigate from fear to joy, from tasks gone wrong to positive connections. Throughout a lifetime of research, she has collected the most effective practices and tools designed to educate, energize, and inspire you to build brilliance and create joy. Her audience is diverse – from educators to global corporate employees (global corporate employees to educators), from U.S. Armed Forces to women inmates.
As a former educator, her fundamental responsibility was to create an environment where students could bring their best selves into the world. This meant guiding positive interactions with students, parents, and staff. Today, as an executive coach, the goal is the same – how to bring your brilliance to life.
Her first book, Building Your Brilliance: Move from Stressful Survival to Joyful Living, features a toolkit designed to help you build a bridge to joy, connection, and personal brilliance. Jane’s e-book SOS – Manage My Stress helps you to sail through the stormy seas of stress with ease!
Jane motivates audiences to adopt a mindset and implement behaviors to ignite inner brilliance. Her message is fun and easy to digest and implement. With realistic, doable tools the sessions are injected with humor to make them transformative, rewarding, and filled with energy!
Jane is a lifelong water enthusiast. Whether she’s swimming, snowshoeing, or simply spending time on the lake, any form of water will do. She lives in Minnesota with her husband, Brian, near their children and grandchildren, and they spend each summer at their cabin in northern Minnesota. She’s out on the water whenever she can — still getting up on one ski, swimming and playing with the grandkids, teaching them to swim, floating quietly, or cruising in the boat.
- Years teaching, Speaking & coaching
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- Corporate & Christian Speaking
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- Building YOUR Brilliace House
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Speaking Topics
Sessions customized to your group
Every session is customized to your group’s needs. Jane speaks for both corporate and Christian audiences, drawing on the same brain science and the House model from Building YOUR Brilliance — adapted to your setting, goals, and people.
01Tools for Building Your BrillianceTaking care of YOU is key to success
Taking care of YOU is key to success. Yet who has the time to do it all? This session teaches a metaphor of the rooms in a house to help you decide what specific self-care tools will benefit you the most. Based on research outlined in Building Your Brilliance: Move from Stressful Survival to Joyful Living by Jane Schuette.
Key audience takeaways
- Assess your current state of stress and work/life balance.
- Develop a strong memorable method for managing your busy life while taking care of yourself.
- Design a “floor plan” to build your brilliance.
02Building Brilliance through Joy!Get ready to learn the most effective practices and tools
Got JOY? Get ready to learn the most effective practices and tools designed to educate, energize, and inspire your own personal brilliance while increasing your joy. Based on concepts from Building Your Brilliance: Move from Stressful Survival to Joyful Living by Jane Schuette.
Key audience takeaways
- Assess the current state of Joy in your life.
- Develop a strong, memorable method to bring more joy to your life.
- Design a blueprint to build your brilliance.
03You Can Thank Me LaterAre you grateful?
Are you grateful? Science claims that living a life in gratitude has amazing mind and body benefits. But what if you don’t feel like being thankful? What if gratitude doesn’t come easy or naturally? Never fear! This session is designed to provide sure fire ways to up your gratitude game.
Key audience takeaways
- Prepare your mind for gratitude
- Remove blockers to gratitude
- Practice ways to spice up your gratitude practice
04SOS–Manage My Stress: Sail Through Stormy Seas with EaseStress can be good. Too much swamps our soul.
Stress can be good. Too much swamps our soul. Constant change and uncertainty in the world require a solid approach to managing stress. This presentation is designed to energize and educate you with practical and research-backed strategies for sailing through stress, so it stops swamping you.
Key audience takeaways
- Activate and accelerate the parasympathetic nervous system to instantly bring body and mind relief.
- Evaluate your stress state emotionally and logically to prepare for an optimistic future.
- Manage self in times of stress with strategies that foster and support respectful communication.
05The Power to Choose: Breaking the Myths of PersonalityWe have the power to choose our values, attitudes, and behaviors.
We have the power to choose our values, attitudes, and behaviors. Too often we relinquish the power to choose by saying, “That’s just who I am!” Frequently, we are simply falling victim to childhood myths, misguided messages from others, or personality assessments.
Key audience takeaways
- Examine internal and external messages you have accepted as part of your personality.
- Distinguish personality traits that will serve you best
- Employ those useful traits for goal achievement.
06Codependency in the WorkplaceBuilding healthy boundaries, accountability, and team relationships
Task versus relationship—which is more important? Great leaders and great teams value both. Yet fear of damaging relationships can make it difficult to give clear feedback or set boundaries. This session uncovers how people-pleasing, avoiding conflict, covering for others, and taking on too much can quietly undermine vision, strategy, accountability, and healthy team performance.
Key audience takeaways
- Recognize codependency at work, including people-pleasing, poor boundaries, enabling, and over-functioning.
- Identify how these patterns undermine leadership vision, strategy, accountability, and relationships.
- Design a practical plan to reduce codependent patterns and build healthier team dynamics.
Testimonials
What people say about Jane
Jane is an incredibly insightful and riveting speaker. Whether her role is corporate consultant, conference leader, or group facilitator; helping others achieve self-mastery is her life’s work. It would be my wish that everyone in the world could learn her methods and “Uncover brilliance” in their own lives. Whatever level you are on, her message can help you see your goals are achievable.”
It is so nice to hear from an excellent, uplifting, and passionate speaker. I like to be able to relate to a speaker . . . "If she can do it, so can I." She believes in what she is teaching, it has worked in her life, she truly wants to help others. "I too know what you’re going through, I made changes that I know you too can make, as a result you will be a more brilliant you!"
Jane Schuette has led a number of Lunch and Learn Workshops at Land O Lakes. Jane has the unique ability to present challenging topics such as Stress and Achieving Dreams with practical strategies in a way that is engaging and relevant. As a result, employees leave the session hopeful and have some new tools for their tool kits!
The Book
Building YOUR Brilliance
Move from stressful survival to joyful living
In Building YOUR Brilliance, the House model gives a clear, practical framework for building a strong, joyful, and brilliant life — room by room. Born from Jane’s work with incarcerated women, it holds the same truths for every background: receive God’s extravagant love, love yourself well, and love others well.
The House Model
A memorable, room-by-room framework for building a strong, joyful, and brilliant life.
Foundation
A foundation centered on your best self, spirituality, and gratitude.
Room by Room
Practical care for every part of life — from rest and health to work and relationships.
Relationships
Bring joy by nurturing healthy and strong interactions with family, friends, and others.
Who it’s for — Anyone who is ready to move from stress and survival into a joyful, brilliant life rooted in love — for personal study, professional groups, or coaching.
Begin building your brilliance today
Available now from BookLogix and Amazon. Bring the House model home and start room by room.
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Coaching
Coaching · One-on-one & small groups
Coaching with Jane
Brain-based · Identity · Leadership
The goal of our work together is to uncover and build your brilliance.
That can sound like a slogan. Brain research says something more practical: to grow and change—especially in character—we need a trusting, calm, empathizing person beside us. Someone who can help us see what is blocking joy in how we live and work.
We get stuck. Stuck in patterns that do not lead to success. Stuck in old stories about who we are at our best. Stuck in workplace codependency and fear.
You do not have to stay there.
Coaching—or a small group of like-minded people—is one of the most important foundations of lasting change. In this program, I apply brain-based science to identity, problem-solving, decision-making, and relationship-building so you can move forward with more clarity, confidence, and connection.
I will walk with you as you name what is true, practice what is next, and strengthen a way of leading and living that builds your brilliance.
If you are ready to get unstuck and put your brilliance to work, I would be honored to coach you.
Coaching Process
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Intake
We begin by building rapport, prioritizing your goals, and defining what success will look like. A short inventory is sent before the first coaching call so our time together starts with focus.
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Tools and philosophies
The work is grounded in brain-based science as researched and taught by Drs. Allan Schore, Mark Waldman, Jim Wilder, Daniel Amen, and Dan Siegel.
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Development actions
Together we define practices that support your professional goals and can be used in real work and real relationships.
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As-needed consultation
Support between sessions is available by phone, text, or email when something urgent or useful comes up.
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Observation and exercises
Targeted exercises help you strengthen and expand the learning between sessions.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality is the hallmark of solid, successful coaching. If a written report is ever requested for another stakeholder, it will be reviewed and approved by you before it is sent.
Possible Coaching Objectives
- Prioritize program goals and define success
- Explore key values, natural leadership strengths, and who you are at your best
- Name and confidently claim the leadership skills most important to your role
- Evaluate behaviors and attitudes that build—or undermine—confidence
- Identify stressors and triggers, then develop practices that heal and reduce what gets in the way
- Build communication strategies that bring out your best, at work and in life
Reach out to Jane for individual and organizational coaching rates.
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Bring Jane to your group
Keynotes, Christian group sessions, coaching, and retreats begin with one honest conversation. Tell Jane about your audience and what’s at stake.