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Real, Lasting Change.
Justine is an educator who through her storytelling, humor, and passion inspires her clients to create real and lasting change in their lives at home and at work.
Corporate Culture
How the skills of vulnerability, courage, and empathy create cultures where people feel seen and valued.
Resilient Leadership
How the practice of courageous authenticity builds the resilience skills to walk in our truth and rise from our falls.
DEI & Belonging
How self-awareness and curiosity help navigate division and create cultures of belonging.
Coping With Burnout
How to rise from difficulty, cope with emotions, and move forward in a healthy, authentic way.
Ready to begin.
Curious to learn more and see how Justine can help you and your organization? Let’s chat.
Workshops
Justine is gifted in teaching her courageous resilience work to audiences who are ready to learn how to create real and sustainable change in their teams and cultures.
Keynotes
Justine travels nationally and presents virtually worldwide leaving her audiences feeling seen and inspired to make real change in their lives at home and at work.
Dare to Lead™
Whether you are a corporation, nonprofit, or ministry, the Dare to Lead™ work with Justine will help your team learn, create, innovate, and ultimately grow.

Tim Riley
President and CEO, Laclede Chain Manufacturing
Words do not do justice to the impact Justine's training has had on us as individuals, leaders, and our organization. Brené Brown’s material is exactly what we need to take our team’s leadership to the next level and Justine was the perfect facilitator/guide on the journey.

Ryan McCrea
Manager of Talent Development, Commerce Bank
Justine is one of the brave people helping leaders think differently and strive to build genuine connections with their teams. For the past few years, Justine has been a staple in our leadership development programs at Commerce Bank.

Jeff Lefton
Vice President, Psychological Associates
In my opinion, this is one of, if not the best, programs I’ve seen since I’ve been involved with St. Louis Organization Development Network. Justine’s combination of knowledge from being a therapist coupled with the Brené Brown content is a very powerful combination!

Lori Maher McCombs
Owner, Maher Group
Justine’s presentations are suited for any audience, and in particular, will help leaders build a stronger, more resilient culture. As a convention planner, I would highly recommend any of Justine’s presentations. She is a true joy to work with!
Published Works.
Looking to dive deeper into reading and resources? Check out Justine's published works for even more stories, learning, and courage.
From the Blog.
Not sure where to begin with Justine’s work? Check out our curated collection of videos, podcasts, posts, and educational material.
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Practice the boundaries.
Setting boundaries often means I must feel the discomfort of going against what the world tells me I should be or should do, for example, saying yes when I really need to say no. Note the word should there. Setting
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I live undone because I love loud and big.
When you live with grief, you stop for every sunrise and sunset. What you have to make sure you also do, though, is to keep doing the work to keep your eyes and ears open enough and your heart soft
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What do you need to weed from your life?
In order for the good things we want to grow we have to bend down, sweat, and pull out the not so great things, Because otherwise they eat up the stuff that feeds us.
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I am reminded how worthwhile and holy this work is.
In every room I have the honor of walking into to teach the Dare to Lead™ work, I am very aware of all that is present in the room.
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receive all the love this life has to give you
Today I taught the shame resilience and empathy lessons. Which means some really tough and important conversations around how we respond to shame and how it shows up at work, along with telling my infertility and loss story before we
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be part of the healing of this world
As I teach in the courage work, emotions get first crack at writing our stories when something hard happens. More than that, though, our bodies do too. Our bodies come in to save us through fight, flight, or freeze to
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life is too short to keep living from “I’ve always wanted…”
Growing up in Iowa, all my life, I've heard, "I've always wanted to see the tulips in Pella." When I was here speaking for Pella Corporation last year, I booked this trip for us. This week is decently terrible timing
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Pella tulips, here we come.
Truthfully I'm still figuring out how to run my schedule so it doesn't run me. Following the first nudge and only accepting holy yeses definitely helps. Turns out so does nature.
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You are worthy of being all of you and fully seen.
We are worthy of and deserve to be fully seen. What if you didn't compartmentalize yourself to be more consumable by the world?