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Personal Branding & Gratitude Expert

Jamie Hess

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, Speaker, Personal Branding Expert
Jamie Hess

Jamie Hess

Philadelphia, United States

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$11k–25k

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Jamie Hess's biography

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  • 17-year PR exec for McDonald's, W Hotels, LinkedIn
  • Founder and host, The Gratitudeology Podcast
  • Known industry-wide as the Brand Ninja

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.

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Topics, sessions and talks

Your Magnetic Rebrand

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.

Unlocking the Power of Gratitudeology

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.

Why we recommend booking Jamie

Seventeen years leading PR for McDonald's, W Hotels Worldwide, and LinkedIn, combined with an active podcast platform reaching a national audience through the Today Show. That pairing of corporate credibility and public visibility gives her sessions weight with practitioners and executives alike.

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Trusted by Create & Cultivate, Innovo by Atlantic Therapeutics, Entrepreneurs Organization

Testimonials

Jamie was invited to speak at the Women in Retail Summit at the Ritz Carlton in Key Biscayne, Florida. The audience? 700 executive-women from the top retail companies around the world. She commanded this room full of C-suite executives with ease, inspiring them with a message of wellness and straightforward truth about approaching their life, both personal and professional, with courage. She was able to weave in sensitive messaging around feminine health in a way that was easy, relatable, and humorous, leaving the audience feeling seen and like they had actionable information to better their life going forward.

Allison Loughlin

Chief Marketing Officer, Innovo by Atlantic Therapeutics

We had Jamie speak at the Create & Cultivate Future Summit: Austin during SXSW where she commanded a room of young female professionals with ease, delivering helpful insights on her topic, Everything Solopreneurs Need to Know About Decentralized Work. We picked Jamie for this topic because of her experience in transitioning from the corporate realm to becoming a successful solopreneur and her story was very well received. She was great to work with and we look forward to collaborating again in the future.

Jake Spencer Hammel

Talent Booker, Create & Cultivate

Members of Entrepreneur's Organization (EO) see a lot of luminaries, experts and thought leaders. Consequently, when I sought to recruit speakers for the US West region's annual learning event, EO Alchemy, the bar was set deliberately high. Members will express their disinterest with their cellphones unabashedly. Not only was I thoroughly impressed by Jamie, but she also had the audience captivated. Her content was relevant and suitably tailored to the event theme and her delivery was flawless. Jamie's authenticity was a great fit for the organization's culture and her content contained thoughtful principles any business leader could benefit from.

Jamie K.

Learning Chair, EO Alchemy 2024, Entrepreneurs Organization

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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.

What is Jamie Hess's speaking style like?

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.

What topics does Jamie Hess specialise in?

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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