Positive Culture. Positive Results.

Learn to increase engagement, drive results and decrease turnover through motivated + confident employees. Making your team love work and work smarter.


Jennifer Thompson helps leaders build a positive culture and increase engagement through three scientific mechanisms: increasing growth mindset, increasing psychological capital and shifting leadership styles to a strength-based method.  Each of these have been proven through research to increase personal effectiveness, increase employee engagement and motivate employees to perform to their fullest potential.

Growth mindset

Growth mindset helps leaders to create a learning organization by focusing on knowledge and experimentation and avoids a punitive culture that demotivates employees. 

Psychological Capital

Psychological Capital increases leaders ability to help direct reports achieve goals, increase confidence, build resilience and optimism.

Strength-Based Leadership

Strength-based leadership helps leaders organize their team by strengths to optimize performance, give more effective and motivating feedback and creates a positive environment for employees to thrive.

Jennifer can teach and coach leaders through training, coaching and online courses.  She has over 20 years of experience in teaching, training, consulting and coaching in education, technology, finance and regulation, healthcare and small business development.  In addition to a doctorate in Industrial & Organizational Psychology, she is certified in Positive Psychology, Appreciative Inquiry and the Intercultural Development Inventory.

  • Increase employee engagement through scientifically proven interventions to bring meaning and purpose to work

  • Drive performance through improved goal setting skills, mindset training, increased creativity + resilience

  • Develop a magnetic culture through strength-based leadership, coaching & development training

Our Services

  • Do you want to increase your ability to set and reach goals and have more confidence to reach them? Along the way, would you like to learn the skills of managing stress and becoming more resilient? Learn to focus on strengths, manage a remote workforce and increase motivation. You can also increase your growth mindset.

    There are a variety of online courses to increase your leadership skills and personal development to create a positive culture for yourself and your environment. Inquire about help for corporate tuition reimbursement.

  • Employees are the most expensive and valuable asset you have.  Once your leaders are increasing their support and creating positive environments, you need to develop your employees capability to thrive in a constantly changing market.  You want them to embrace change, be resilient to stress and be confident in achieving organizational goals

    Improve the performance of your employees, as well as their relationships with each other, while helping them leverage their strengths in order to build confidence and vitality moving forward.  That’s exactly what we can do for you. Through the latest scientific techniques in positive psychology and neuroscience, we teach your team to:

    -Learn how to leverage strengths at work to build a super highway to top performance

    -Learn how to leverage strengths at work to build a super highway to top performance

    -Have a growth mindset, which increases confidence in their ability to change

    -Increase creativity, efficacy and resilience through the latest cutting edge research in goal setting

    -Assess, train and select to transform you culture to enrich the lives of your employees though positivity

    -Be the leader that encourages top performance through respect and empowerment

    -Increase positive emotions, which generate creativity and agility

  • Leaders are key to driving results and changing your culture.  Successful leaders create meaningful connections, inspire creativity and empower others to take action toward organizations goals.  They have a deep understanding of each of their employees and know how to fuel them towards success.

    Upskill your leaders in growth mindset, psychological capital, and strength-based leadership. Increase their ability to engage employees and drive performance.

  • Ready to go deeper? Get one on one coaching from Jennifer to take your skills further in Growth Mindset, Psychological Capital or Strength-based leadership. Learn to increase employee engagement by understanding the psychological mechanisms that drive motivation and performance. Learn techniques that are backed by research.

    Jennifer is LEAP coaching certified and teaches executive assessment at The Chicago School. Learn more about your leadership style through an extensive battery of assessments to better understand how you are perceived.

Meet Jennifer Thompson…

Jennifer Thompson, Ph.D.

Jennifer is an Industrial/ Organizational psychologist that helps businesses transform their culture to increase employee engagement and performance. Jennifer helps leaders create a more positive culture for their employees to thrive and helps employees to feel inspired to come to work, more confident in themselves and their capacity to perform, which leaves them ready to take on more challenges. Both leaders and employees are now more resilient and faster at bouncing back, which in turn helps the organization grow. She also allows people to uncover their strengths so that they can leverage them to perform better in the business.

She has combined her career as a business psychologist with the newest field of positive psychology to understand how this research can have a positive impact on organizations and individuals. As an expert in statistics and research methodology, Jennifer can measure unseen phenomena in organizations and how this impacts company culture. Through her PhD in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology and a Certification in Positive Psychology, Jennifer brings together a strong scientific background paired with the latest research on emotions and motivation to generate a powerful result.

Jennifer has the capacity to take complex scientific information and break it down simply for general audiences. She uses adult learning principles to make training engaging and actually change behaviors.  Jennifer has been a professor in Business Psychology at The Chicago School  for over 20 years.  She has experience in the airline, technology, finance and healthcare industries.

Jennifer is a charismatic speaker that loves to help people thrive and live their best. Through her style, she is able to increase positive emotions and help others be more empowered and resilient, as well as discover meaning and purpose at work. Her prior experience is in designing selection systems, assessment centers, performance management systems, surveys and education/training.

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