Jeni Bukolt

Book Maven Jeni

[expert knowledge and tactical advice]

Jeni carefully blends applicable industry knowledge with engaging storytelling to educate her audience in relevant branding topics.

Sprinkled on top is her signature humor and snark, guaranteed to keep audiences entertained while they learn and grow together.

Has your company been struggling to operate efficiently? Are you unsure if your teams are truly collaborating? Do you feel like your organization has lost focus or is struggling to find its purpose? Jeni believes that “all problems are communication problems” and by shifting the focus on your communication efforts, you can recognize potential barriers blocking your growth and success. Providing an actionable plan to bust down silos and bring about better collaboration within your organization, she will help you learn to communicate in a way that builds connection and allows you to continue toward your mission.

Through the keynote topics below, Jeni speaks on communication hurdles and successes, citing her own experience so you can walk away with expert knowledge and tactical advice that you can use immediately in your marketing and communications efforts.

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Jeni Bukolt speaks on a range of topics to help make your team a Maven of marketing, communications or branding.

As the Founder and President of HAVEN Creative, Jeni loves connecting the dots from internal teams to external audiences to find the “red thread” message themes that connect us all. In her 20+ years of experience, she has helped business and government leaders create visually impactful brand stories with solid messaging that synergizes teams and communities… while making them laugh along the way.

When Jeni rebranded the Town of Waxhaw in 2015, she felt public humiliation and failure for the first time in her career, and it became a pivotal moment. Although she and her team worked countless hours on the Board-approved town tagline, 1,000 residents signed a petition to have it overturned. She felt judged, embarrassed and unsafe in her town.

“I felt like it was the worst thing I could have ever experienced as a small business owner, and I thought it was going to ruin me,” Jeni reflected.

Little did she know, this was not the end. The rebranding elements she crafted for the Town of Waxhaw won multiple government communication and design awards and was only the beginning of HAVEN Creative’s journey to becoming the most sought-after communications and branding agency in the greater Charlotte area.

Jeni is a woman who wears many hats – an entrepreneur, a friend, a volunteer, a Waxhaw resident, a wife and a mother. Today, as a working mom and successful business owner, she positively influences the lives of driven business owners and communicators through her speaking events and hardcore honesty on social media.

[keynote topics]

Finding Your WHY

Marketing the features, bells and whistles of your product and service is no longer the best way to connect with your audience, especially younger adults. Values over purpose, emotion over facts and figures, and people over products. Telling your story in a way that connects with your audience starts with understanding WHY you do something. In this workshop, Jeni takes audiences through the marketing power of sharing your purpose and how to dig past the surface layers to find out why your company exists.

This speech can be tailored to fit most programs and has an optional interactive component where Jeni takes the audience through a self-discovery exercise.

Leading with a Maven Mindset

Maven means expert or connoisseur, but at HAVEN, we believe it’s more than that. In this conversation, Jeni shares her principles of leadership, communication and empathy designed to improve customer service delivery and internal team culture… which is more than just office happy hours and ping pong tables.

From the mindset around feedback and advice to how leaders approach failure, audience members can expect to learn about the best ways to lead people as a Maven and help make the others in their organization mavens as well.

Brand Strategy Session

This great interactive workshop is a perfect way to prepare for quarterly planning, and for your team better understand key marketing and branding elements as well as the major pain points for your organization. A pivot session with Jeni can help you clarify core values, your unique differentiators as a business and how you stack up against your competitors.

As a bonus, this exercise comes with a branded PDF deliverable that your team can reference long after the session concludes.

[let's talk branding]

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