If you want more than a feel-good talk and are interested in a speaker who actually
shifts how people think, lead, and act, Janell Karst is who you book.
She brings credibility from the corporate boardroom, depth from lived experience, and the rare ability to hold a room while delivering tools people use immediately. Janell doesn’t just inspire for an hour and disappear. She helps audiences get off autopilot, reconnect to what actually matters, and leave ready to make bold, grounded decisions that create real momentum long after the event ends.
Bring Janell to Your Stage, Team, or Audience
Keynote Speaking
Janell’s keynote style is equal parts powerful, honest, and catalytic. S he speaks from lived experience and leads with a signature message: when strategy meets soul, bold moves follow.
She’s known for helping high performers recognize the moment they think “Is this all there is?” and use that feeling to activate BOLD change. Audiences leave with a new relationship to ambition, a deeper sense of what they truly want, and practical ways to own their time and energy through simple audits, habits, and BOLD decisions. If you want a speaker who can hold a room, bring the truth, and still leave people feeling lit up and capable, Janell is it.
Customized WorkshopsÂ
Janell delivers customized workshops for leaders and teams who want to get off autopilot and lead with more clarity, confidence, and momentum.
Her sessions blend practical strategy and structure with the human side of performance: energy, trust, boundaries, and real connection. This helps your people not only learn concepts, but actually change how they work together.
Whether the focus is leadership development, “AI for Real Humans” (simple, useful, non-intimidating), or coaching teams into authentic connection and success, Janell’s workshops are customized to your team and designed to help reclaim time, energy, and white space while building the habits and systems that drive results.
Expect high energy, real talk, and tools your team will use the next day.
Podcasting
Janell is a standout podcast guest because she can go deep, keep it real, and still make it useful. She shares stories that feel like medicine: resilience, reinvention, identity shifts, and pairs them with practical tools that listeners can apply immediately (like her life audit framework and white space planning).
She’s engaging, high-energy, and naturally conversational, with that rare ability to blend “strategy + structure” with intuition, spirituality, and the human experience without making it weird or performative.
If your audience is made of high performers, leaders, entrepreneurs, or growth-oriented humans who know they’re meant for more, Janell will meet them right where they are, and leave them feeling like making a bold move is not only possible, it’s inevitable.