Jessica McNaull is an executive strategist, author, and keynote speaker who helps audiences transform adversity into momentum. With more than 20 years of experience leading operations, partnerships, and growth strategy across global experiential brands, she has built high-performing teams and managed complex, multi-million-dollar portfolios in fast-paced environments.
Jessica is also the author of the #1 Amazon New Release Barbies & Battlescars, a memoir exploring resilience, reinvention, and the courage required to rebuild when life doesn’t go as planned.
Her keynote, The Art of the Comeback: From Battlescars to Breakthroughs, introduces the Battlescar Blueprint—six choices that help individuals and teams navigate setbacks, rediscover purpose, and move forward stronger.
Jessica speaks to corporate groups, leadership teams, entrepreneurs, universities, and mission-driven organizations on resilience, reinvention, leadership, and the power of being brave enough to be human.
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Life rarely unfolds the way we planned. Careers change, health challenges appear, relationships shift, and sometimes the path forward seems impossible to see. In those moments, many of us find ourselves asking the same question: What now?
In this powerful and deeply relatable keynote, author Jessica Rose shares how life’s hardest chapters can become the catalyst for our greatest breakthroughs. Drawing from her own journey of navigating both physical and mental trauma, career upheaval, and the messy reality of rebuilding a life more than once, Jessica offers an honest and hopeful perspective on resilience.
Through humor, vulnerability, and hard-earned insight, she introduces the lessons that shaped her book Barbies & Battlescars and the six steps that helped her transform adversity into purpose. Jessica reminds audiences that strength doesn’t come from pretending everything is fine—it comes from learning to rise again, scarred but stronger.
Audiences will leave inspired and equipped with practical tools to navigate uncertainty, reclaim their sense of purpose, and transform life’s toughest moments into meaningful breakthroughs—because sometimes the most powerful comeback begins when we are simply brave enough to be human.
After this keynote, audiences will:
• Learn a practical framework for navigating adversity and turning life’s hardest moments into opportunities for growth.
• Gain tools to rebuild confidence and momentum after setbacks, trauma, or major life transitions.
• Discover how personal struggles can become powerful sources of purpose and resilience.
• Shift their perspective on failure and hardship, seeing battlescars not as weaknesses but as evidence of strength and survival.
• Leave inspired and empowered to take their next step forward, even when the path ahead feels uncertain.
Key Takeaways
• A powerful and relatable keynote that blends humor, honesty, and inspiration to help audiences navigate life’s unexpected challenges.
• A practical six-step framework for rebuilding confidence, resilience, and purpose after adversity.
• A message that resonates across industries and life experiences—from career setbacks to personal and health challenges.
• A speaker who combines authentic storytelling with actionable insight, leaving audiences both inspired and equipped to move forward.
• An uplifting experience that encourages individuals to embrace their battlescars, rediscover their strength, and create their own comeback story.