CHANGE STRATEGIST
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
ADULT EDUCATOR
Jacqueline Phichith, founder of Lumenary
helps overstretched leaders and burned-out teams:
reclaim their agency
humanity
and brilliance
that it takes to thrive through constant hard change.
15,000+ leaders & professionals impacted · 19+ years driving organizational change · Apple Podcasts Top 100 (Norway)
Highlight of Clients
"Jackie shines a light on the often-overlooked human cost of continuous change and why employee wellbeing must be at the center of every change strategy. Her insights will leave a lasting impression on attendees."
— Brian Quinn, Senior Global Connection & Belonging Wellness Specialist
CooperCo
"Give me a room full of overstretched leaders and burned-out teams running on empty. I will give you back people who remember why they showed up in the first place."
-Jacqueline Phichith, founder of Lumenary.
What your people walk away with.
The ability to…
REMEMBER.
Why the work mattered to them in the first place.
RECLAIM.
The energy and clarity that constant change quietly drains.
RISE.
As the kind of people, and the kind of team, others want to be a part of.
The Stakes.
Your people are carrying more than ever.
Change has stopped being an event. It is now the climate.
Reorganizations, new tools, shifting expectations, and the quiet pressure to do more with less.
Your most committed people are the ones running closest to empty.
Engagement slips. Belief fades. The talent you worked hardest to keep starts to dim.
You do not need a motivational pep talk that wears off by lunch.
You need a room that shifts, and people who leave changed.
The Reframe.
This is where Jackie comes in.
Jackie does not teach from theory.
She teaches from a life lived across Norway, the United States, India, and Japan, and from nineteen years inside organizational change.
She gives your audience something rare.
Not just inspiration, but a way back to their own agency, humanity, and brilliance, and the language to keep using it long after she leaves.
Your event becomes the moment people point to later as the turning point.
The Method.
This is not inspiration. This is a method.
At the center of every keynote is five-part psychological framework.
THE SHINE METHOD™ is a transformation process for reclaiming your brilliance through hard change.
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Recognize what is really happening and name where you feel stuck.
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Stop dismissing what you feel. Discomfort is information.
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Bring light to the stories, fears, and conditioning underneath.
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Choose the next best step with courage and self-trust.
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Show up fully, and use your voice and influence to make an impact.
Keynotes Built for Your Moment.
Every keynote delivers the same core message. Reclaim the agency, humanity, and brilliance it takes to thrive through change. What changes is the door Jackie walks your audience through, chosen to fit the room.
All keynotes are anchored by the signature SHINE METHOD™.
What if nothing was wrong with you?
Most high achievers have spent years quietly believing they are the problem. Not enough, not ready, not quite right. Jackie opens with a question that stops a room cold, then takes apart the belief underneath it. Drawing on her own path from self-doubt to self-trust, she shows your audience that the brilliance they have been trying to earn was never missing. It was buried under conditioning, comparison, and a culture that profits from their doubt. They leave with the single shift that changes how they lead, decide, and show up.
Best for: For women in leadership, wellness, culture conferences and rooms ready to trade self-doubt for self-trust.
Your audience leaves able to: name the story that has been holding them back, hold worthiness as something they already carry rather than something to prove, and lead from self-trust instead of self-protection.
The Human Advantage
Automation is rewriting what work is, and the instinct is to make people faster, leaner, and more like the machines replacing them. Jackie makes the opposite case. In an age of AI, the human capacities are the advantage no competitor can copy: judgment, creativity, connection, courage, and the will to keep showing up through uncertainty. She gives your leaders a clear and energizing reason to invest in their people exactly when the pressure is to cut. They leave understanding that empowered people are not a cost to manage but the edge their strategy depends on.
Your audience leaves able to: articulate why human potential is their greatest competitive advantage, see where fear is quietly driving their decisions, and lead change in a way that brings people with them.
Best for: executive summits, AI and disruption forums, and HR and talent leaders who know their people are the real differentiator.
The Brilliance You Forgot You Had
Constant change wears people down. After enough reorganizations and resets, even committed people go quiet, do the minimum, and forget why they cared. Jackie meets that exhaustion head on and walks the room back from it. Using The SHINE Method, she helps people see what is really happening, reconnect to what drew them to the work, and reclaim the brilliance that change made them forget. This is the keynote for organizations that need their people to re-engage from the inside out, not because they were told to, but because they remembered why it mattered.
Best for: change management initiatives, employee engagement, and culture and belonging programs.
Your audience leaves able to: reconnect with the purpose underneath the daily work, move through change with agency instead of dread, and carry a practice they can keep using long after the event.
Remember Why You Showed Up
The people who care for others give until there is little left for themselves. Educators, caregivers, healthcare and human services teams, and the staff who quietly hold organizations together rarely chose the work for the pay or the recognition. They chose it because they were called. But years of doing more with less, of carrying other people's hardest days, can bury that calling under exhaustion. Jackie brings the room back to the moment they decided this work mattered. With warmth and honesty, she helps people honor what the work has cost them, reconnect to why they showed up, and find their way back to the purpose and brilliance that drew them in.
Best for: schools and education staff, healthcare and human services teams, nonprofits and mission-driven organizations, and all-staff gatherings for people in caregiving roles.
Your audience leaves able to: reconnect with the calling that brought them to the work, name and honor what the work asks of them without losing themselves in it, and carry renewed purpose into the hardest days.
Testimonials
I do this work because people deserve to be seen through the hardest changes of their working lives. These are the voices of the leaders and teams I have gotten to walk alongside.
How booking works.
1. Discovery call. We talk through your event, your audience, and the shift you want in the room.
2. Proposal. You receive a clear proposal. If it is a fit, we hold your date.
3. Pre-event alignment. We align on goals, audience, and any details unique to your event.
4. The keynote. Jackie delivers, and your people leave changed.
Give your people a reason to remember why they showed up.
The right keynote does more than fill a slot on the agenda.
It changes how a room feels about the work, the change ahead, and themselves.