SHIFT FROM CONFUSION TO CLARITY, FROM ANGST TO PEACE IN MINUTES – USING YOUR HANDS. BODYSET TO R.E.S.E.T UNDER 5-MINUTES →

SHIFT FROM CONFUSION TO CLARITY, FROM ANGST TO PEACE IN MINUTES – USING YOUR HANDS.
BODYSET TO R.E.S.E.T UNDER 5-MINUTES →

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Jen Aks is a Founder of The Power of Gesture®, Leadership Coach, Author and TEDx Speaker

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Jen Aks is a TEDx speaker, author, embodied leadership coach, and founder of The Power of Gesture® practice.
Jen Aks is a TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author of Your Body Is Speaking, and founder of The Power of Gesture® — a science-based somatic practice built on the brain-body connection. With 30 years of body-based education, she helps leaders, educators, and women access the emotional, kinesthetic, and intuitive intelligence that mindset alone can’t reach. Her message: the body is not the problem. It’s the answer. Connect and learn more at www.jenaks.com
Jen Aks is a TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author, and somatic educator who spent 30 years discovering what most of us were never taught, that the body is a primary source of intelligence. Her TEDx talk, Your Body’s Hidden Intelligence: From Mindset to Bodyset™, introduced the concept that mindset is only half the equation. Her bestselling book Your Body is Speaking gave it language and The Power of Gesture®, her signature neurologically grounded practice gives people a way to use it. She works with leaders, women, and educators who are done overriding their instincts and ready to lead from the whole of who they are. The body has been speaking and Jen teaches us how to listen, trust and be led by this reliable source of wisdom that has always been within us. Connect and learn more at www.jenaks.com

Jen Aks is a TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author, and somatic educator whose work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, body intelligence, and human potential. For nearly 30 years she worked inside the New York City education system, trained as a dancer, and quietly developed what would become her life’s work, the understanding that the body is a primary source of intelligence most of us were never taught to access and use as an asset for success.

Her TEDx talk, Your Body’s Hidden Intelligence: From Mindset to Bodyset™, introduced a framework that is both deeply personal and rigorously grounded in science. Her #1 bestselling book Your Body is Speaking gave that framework language and The Power of Gesture®, a neurologically based practice built on the brain-hand connection and the science of somatic markers, gives people an immediate, repeatable way to regulate their nervous system, access internal clarity, and lead from a place of wholeness.

Jen works with executives, educators, women’s organizations, and anyone who has done the mindset work and still finds themselves overriding their instincts, shrinking in the rooms that matter, or making decisions from fear instead of knowing. Her message is simple.The intelligence you have been searching for has been inside you the entire time. Jen’s work is the return to it.

Connect and learn more at www.jenaks.com

Expertise: TEDx speaker, author, embodied leadership coach, and founder of The Power of Gesture®, a science-based practice using hand gestures that helps people access their emotional, kinesthetic, and somatic intelligence systems to regulate the nervous system and access internal clarity. 

Experience: 30+ years as a dance educator and somatic practitioner.

Author: Bestselling Author of Your Body is Speaking.

Signature Framework: The 3E Framework (Embody, Empower, Elevate)

Approach: Warm, Heart-centered, somatic, scientific based, practical, and results-driven.

Who she helps:  She guides people, from CEOs and executives to parents and educators, to stop searching outside themselves for answers and instead trust the authority that already lives within. Her work positions body intelligence as the competitive advantage AI cannot replicate.

Tagline: Stop asking “Who Am I?” Start embodying “I AM.”

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“The Intelligence You’ve Never Heard Of — And Why It’s Changing Everything”

Angle: Most people know IQ and EQ — but BQ (Body Intelligence) is the missing piece science has been pointing to all along. Jen introduces the concept in a way that’s immediately tangible and interactive, making it perfect for morning shows, wellness segments, and leadership podcasts.

Best for: Morning TV, health & wellness shows, leadership podcasts, women’s lifestyle media

“The Biohack Nobody Talks About: Your Hands Are Wired Directly to Your Brain”

Angle: We optimize sleep. We track our food. We wear devices on our wrists. And almost no one is talking about the most accessible, always-available tool we have — our own hands. With thousands of nerve endings in direct communication with the brain, the hands become a portal. Jen makes the science surprising, accessible, and immediately actionable.

Best for: Biohacking shows, high-performance podcasts, science-curious media, health optimization audiences.

“Move Your Hands, Change Your Brain: A Live Practice with Jen Aks”

Angle: This is not a just a talk, it’s is an experience. Jen walks the host and audience through a gesture-based practice that shifts emotional state in the moment, live, on air. It is visually compelling, genuinely surprising, and the kind of segment people talk about after it’s over.

Best for: TV morning segments, video podcasts, live event coverage, social-first media

“Grades Don’t Measure Genius — It’s Time We Said So”

Angle: Jen spent nearly 30 years inside the New York City education system watching brilliant young people shrink because they didn’t fit the mold. She lived it herself. This conversation makes the case for multiple intelligences — including the ones that live in the body — and what it means for how we raise, teach, and lead the next generation.

Best for: Education podcasts, parenting shows, campus media, teacher and administrator-facing content

On BQ & Body Intelligence

  • Most people know IQ and EQ. What is BQ, and why are we only just starting to talk about it?
  • When did you personally realize the body was telling you something your mind had been ignoring?

On The Power of Gesture®

  • Can you walk us through what The Power of Gesture® is, can we try it right now?
  • What is the neuroscience behind why moving your hands can shift how you feel?
  • You have done this with rooms of 500 women at once. What happens in that room?

On Women’s Leadership & Empowerment

  • What is the difference between mindset work and Bodyset work and why does that distinction matter?
  • What would you say to a high-achiever who trusts data and strategy but not her own gut?

 

On High Performance & Biohacking

  • We track everything, sleep, nutrition, heart rate variability. Where does body intelligence fit into that conversation?
  • You call this the biohack nobody talks about. Why do you think it has been overlooked for so long?

 

On Education & Young Adults

  • After nearly 30 years as an educator, what is the most costly thing the school system gets wrong about intelligence
  • What becomes possible for a young person the moment they realize a grade never measured their genius?
  • How early should we be teaching kids to listen to what their body already knows?
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