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Jamie Hess
Personal Branding
Gratitude
Employee Engagement
Jamie Hess helps organizations master personal branding and workplace gratitude. A former PR executive for McDonald's, W Hotels Worldwide, and LinkedIn, Jamie hosts The Gratitudeology Podcast, featured on the Today Show, and is known industry-wide as the Brand Ninja.
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Jamie Hess spent seventeen years as a public relations executive, building brand strategy for companies including McDonald's, W Hotels Worldwide, Barry's Bootcamp, and LinkedIn, before turning her expertise toward personal branding and gratitude.
Known throughout the industry as the Brand Ninja, Jamie founded and hosts The Gratitudeology Podcast, a show exploring intentional gratitude that has been featured on the Today Show. Her guests have included Rainn Wilson, Teddi Mellencamp, Gabby Bernstein, and Nev Schulman.
Jamie's corporate PR background gives her a practical understanding of how personal brands are built, protected, and communicated at the highest level, insight she now translates into frameworks individuals and organizations can apply to their own reputations and cultures.
Audiences leave with a clear framework for rebranding themselves professionally, built around what she calls the Power of RE: reinvent, reimagine, rebuild, refocus, and reintentional. They also gain gratitude practices they can apply immediately to improve engagement and culture.
Jamie pairs Fortune 500 PR credentials with hands-on gratitude expertise, making her sessions relevant to marketing teams and HR leaders alike.
Topics, sessions and talks
Jamie Hess walks audiences through rebuilding a personal brand that reflects who they've become, not who they used to be. Drawing on her Power of RE framework, reinvent, reimagine, rebuild, refocus, and reintentional, she shows how to translate PR strategy into personal reputation. Audiences leave with a concrete process for repositioning themselves professionally and communicating that shift with confidence.
Jamie Hess introduces gratitudeology, the practice of intentional gratitude she developed as founder and host of The Gratitudeology Podcast. She draws on stories and research gathered from guests including Rainn Wilson, Teddi Mellencamp, and Gabby Bernstein to show how gratitude shifts individual mindset and workplace culture. Attendees come away with practices they can build into daily routines and team habits.
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Email jamie.hess@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Jamie's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
Jamie Hess structures her sessions around named frameworks and podcast-sourced research. In her personal branding sessions, she applies the Power of RE framework — reinvent, reimagine, rebuild, refocus, and reintentional — to walk audiences through a staged repositioning process drawn from her corporate PR background. In her gratitude sessions, she draws on interviews conducted through The Gratitudeology Podcast with guests including Rainn Wilson and Gabby Bernstein to ground the practice in real-world examples.
Jamie Hess speaks on personal brand rebuilding, intentional gratitude practice, and workplace culture. She brings seventeen years as a public relations executive, with brand strategy work for McDonald's, W Hotels Worldwide, Barry's Bootcamp, and LinkedIn, alongside her role as founder and host of The Gratitudeology Podcast, which has been featured on the Today Show.
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