Speaking with Jean Hendry
They have
the evidence.
Help them believe it.
Bring The Truth of You to your next event or conversation.
For the women who can see everyone else’s strengths clearly, yet keep explaining away their own.
Jean Hendry
Brilliance Coach | Founder, Be Brilliant
Women Creating Our Futures, 2017–2022
The Truth of You
What if the missing piece
is what they’ve
stopped counting?
Recognize It. Own It. Live It.
They deliver. They contribute. People rely on them. Yet praise gets dismissed, strengths feel ordinary, and the next achievement becomes another moving finish line.
Jean calls this the Truth Gap: the distance between the evidence of your capability and what you actually let yourself believe.
Through honest stories, thoughtful questions, and practical reflection, Jean helps audiences notice the evidence they discount and consider what could change if they counted it.
Keynotes • Interactive workshops
A different way
to see what’s already true.
Available for keynotes and interactive workshops, shaped around your audience.
The Truth of You: Why Capable Women Keep Questioning Themselves
Signature keynote
Recognize the evidence. Stop explaining it away.
Some women see everyone else’s strengths clearly while explaining away their own. Explore how discounting the evidence can lead to holding back, passing up opportunities, or continually proving yourself without ever feeling you’ve done enough.
- Recognize the ways you discount your own strengths.
- Separate “it comes naturally” from “it doesn’t count.”
- Begin a more complete inventory of your evidence.
When Enough Never Feels Like Enough: The Cost of Always Proving Yourself
Keynote
Why achieving more doesn’t always help you feel you’ve done enough.
More experience. Another accomplishment. One more reason to feel ready. Explore why the finish line keeps moving, and how to recognize what your life has already demonstrated.
- Notice when achievements stop counting.
- Identify the standards that keep shifting.
- Practice giving yourself accurate credit.
Stop Explaining Away Your Strengths
Interactive workshop
A practical workshop on recognizing and owning what you bring.
Through thoughtful questions and practical reflection, examine real examples from your life, notice how you dismiss them, and practice describing your strengths accurately.
- Identify evidence of strengths in your own experience.
- Recognize the explanations that make that evidence disappear.
- Practice giving yourself accurate credit for what you bring.
On stage & in conversation
Hear Jean’s perspective.
TEDxCrestmoorParkWomen • 2017
TEDx talk
Challenging the Voice
in the Mirror
An earlier talk about how we see and speak to ourselves, and a window into the questions that continue to inform Jean’s work today.
Bring The Truth of You to your listeners
Jean welcomes conversations about why capable women keep discounting their own evidence, and what changes when they start counting it. Download the podcast guest sheet or reach out.
Meet your speaker
A coach’s insight.
An organizer’s perspective.
A personal connection.
Jean Hendry brings more than 30 years of coaching experience and a corporate leadership background to her work with women and leaders.
She knows the Truth Gap personally: the experience of seeing others’ gifts clearly while discounting your own. That question sits at the heart of The Truth of You.
Women Creating
Our Futures
From 2017 to 2022, Jean was co-host, co-organizer, and a regular speaker alongside Cynthia James, bringing women together in Denver and later online during COVID.
Her experience spans both the stage and the work of creating the event around it.
Let’s start a conversation
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to your audience.
Tell Jean about your event or podcast, who you’re bringing together, and the conversation you’d like to create.
For hosts & organizers
Keynotes, workshops, and speaking topics.
Download Podcast Guest Sheet (PDF)
Background and suggested interview questions.