If you want more than a feel-good talk and are interested in a speaker who actually
shifts how people think, lead, and act, Janell Karst is who you book.
She brings credibility from the corporate boardroom, depth from lived experience, and the rare ability to hold a room while delivering tools people use immediately. Janell doesn’t just inspire for an hour and disappear. She helps audiences get off autopilot, reconnect to what actually matters, and leave ready to make bold, grounded decisions that create real momentum long after the event ends.
Bring Janell to Your Stage, Team, or Audience
Keynote Speaking
Janell’s keynote style is equal parts powerful, honest, and catalytic. She speaks from lived experience and leads with a signature message: when strategy meets soul, bold moves follow.
She’s known for helping high performers recognize the moment they think “Is this all there is?” and use that feeling to activate BOLD change. Audiences leave with a new relationship to ambition, a deeper sense of what they truly want, and practical ways to own their time and energy through simple audits, habits, and BOLD decisions. If you want a speaker who can hold a room, bring the truth, and still leave people feeling lit up and capable, Janell is it.
Private & Organizational Engagements
Leaders bring me in when they want to light the spark again.
When they want clarity.
When they want momentum.
When they want a different energy in the room.
Often, it’s because conversations have gotten fuzzy, projects are dragging, or smart people are busy but not moving things forward. I’m known for changing that quickly.
I start with one simple question:
What are we walking away with?
From there, everything sharpens.
I bring a coaching mindset paired with real-world execution. I know how to drive projects forward, create accountability without drama, and help leaders get ruthless about priorities, time, and follow-through. The work is focused, direct, and designed to move things.
Workshop Topics
This can take a few different forms, depending on what the moment calls for:
Custom Workshops — AI for Real Humans
Sessions that help leaders and teams use AI to save time, reduce mental load, and work smarter, immediately.
Custom BOLD Team Programs (6 or 12 weeks)
A focused experience where teams get clear on a priority that matters and each leader commits to one bold move that drives it forward.
Speaking & Facilitation
Keynotes, offsites, and leadership sessions where I bring energy, perspective, and conversations that actually go somewhere.
If you’re looking to create momentum, focus a room, or move something important forward, let’s talk and see what this could look like.
Podcasting
Janell is a standout podcast guest because she can go deep, keep it real, and still make it useful. She shares stories that feel like medicine: resilience, reinvention, identity shifts, and pairs them with practical tools that listeners can apply immediately (like her life audit framework and white space planning).
She’s engaging, high-energy, and naturally conversational, with that rare ability to blend “strategy + structure” with intuition, spirituality, and the human experience without making it weird or performative.
If your audience is made of high performers, leaders, entrepreneurs, or growth-oriented humans who know they’re meant for more, Janell will meet them right where they are, and leave them feeling like making a bold move is not only possible, it’s inevitable.
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When Spirit Calls Podcast
In this episode, Janelle shares her journey of growing up in a religious cult and navigating life on her own by fifteen, where achievement became her safety. Through heartbreak, reflection, transformative practices, and bold personal choices, she introduces her Mind-Body-Soul Audit, a practical framework for recognizing what energizes you, releasing what drains you, and creating space for clarity and intentional living. Janell helps high-performing leaders and teams reclaim their time, energy, and spark, empowering them to create bold, intentional lives.