Jess Ekstrom

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Jess Ekstrom

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

About

I speak at companies like Chic-fil-A, Circle K, and Edward Jones- and I run a company that helps other women do the same. In 2012, I started Headbands of Hope with a $300 grant to donate headbands to kids with illnesses. Today, we’ve donated millions worldwide, became the official headband provider for the NBA and WNBA, and landed on Kohl’s shelves nationwide. In 2018, I founded Mic Drop Workshop®️ to help more women step into the spotlight as speakers and authors. To date, we've trained over 5,000 women to become paid speakers and have grown an email list over 300k. I also teach public speaking for LinkedIn Learning, Franklin Covey and TED-Ed. ✨ Career highlights: - Named “The Ultimate Game Changer” by Women’s Health - USA Today Bestselling Author of Making it Without Losing it - Inc 500 Female Founder - Called a “Woman to Watch” by Business Insider - Endorsed by Chip Gaines, the co-founder of Netflix and my mom (😉) - Over 1 million views on my TEDx talk Also: proud new mom and advocate for moms in the workplace. 🎤 Watch my speaking demo or connect with me here: jessekstrom.com/speaking 📩 Let’s chat: [removed]

Experience

Founder at Mic Drop WorkshopJun 2018 – Present
Founder at Mic Drop ClubJan 2025 – Present
Founder at Jess Ekstrom Motivational SpeakerJan 2012 – Present
Co-Founder at Shatter and ShiftJan 2022 – Present
Board Member at District CJun 2018 – Present
Founder + CEO at Headbands of HopeAug 2012 – Jan 2024

Education

North Carolina State University, Bachelor's degree, Communication and Media Studies

Skills

Start-up Ventures
Start-up Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Workplace Equity
Public Speaking
Speech Coaching
Strategic Planning
Strategic Communications
Oral Communications
Writing
Program Management
Organizational Leadership
Photography
Editing
Creative Strategy

@jess_ekstromverified

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61.3K followers3.1K posts

🗣️ speaker + passing the 🎤 to women at @micdropworkshop 🎧 host of Making it with Jess Ekstrom ☕️ Last seen drinking coffee and chasing toddlers

What the agent found

Every item cites where it came from. Open the evidence on any card to see the quote and the source.

Needs

What Jess needs from a partner, inferred from both profiles.

A partner who's easy with a full travel calendar
Inferred: someone relaxed when her week runs through airports, New York and weekend commencement speeches, since that is where her posts keep landing.
A partner who takes a real share of childcare
Inferred: someone who treats childcare as a shared job rather than a favour, because she names support as what makes her week work.
Someone who likes ideas over small talk
Inferred: a partner who enjoys long conversations about how things work, since she hosts a podcast and her captions close on questions about ideas.
Someone at ease with a public-facing partner
Inferred: someone comfortable with her being seen by a large audience, given her speaking profile and follower count.

Hobbies

What Jess actually spends time doing.

Hosting a podcast
Hosts Making it with Jess Ekstrom and promotes episodes on Instagram with a 'Comment SHOW' call to action.
Writing books
Has written for adults and for 8-12-year-olds, including an interactive book about bright ideas and a college guide.
Coffee
Her bio names coffee as the everyday habit she is 'last seen' doing, the only personal routine her profiles mention.
Photography
Lists photography and editing among her skills, though the profile gives no examples of the work.

Interests

Topics and worlds Jess cares about.

Women and venture capital
Co-founded Shatter and Shift, an investment fund, and cites the figure that women-led startups receive only 2% of US venture capital.
Workplace equity and parenting at work
Advocates for mothers at work and names childcare, paid leave and equal pay as things every woman should have access to.
Youth entrepreneurship
Sits on the board of District-C, which pairs high school students with startups, and wrote a book aimed at 8-12-year-olds.
Learning and employee engagement
Speaks on engagement at learning conferences, and a Training Industry clip contrasts 'mustivation' with 'wantivation'.
Helping women speak in public
Runs Mic Drop Workshop and Mic Drop Club to help women find their message and get paid to speak.

Other qualities

Values, personality and style the agent picked up on, grouped by kind.

Values

Names the structures behind success
Says her success rests on support rather than a '5am routine', and argues that childcare, paid leave and equal pay matter.

Communication

Closes posts with a real question
Her captions often end on a direct question to the reader, and she signposts episodes with a plain 'Comment SHOW' prompt.

Humour

Dry about her own feed
Captions are short and wry, which keeps serious points from sounding preachy.

Ambition

Builds things, then keeps building
Her LinkedIn runs from a 2011 internship to a string of founded companies, several still listed as current.

Lifestyle

Travels for work
Her posts place her in airports and New York, which suggests a regular working week away from home.

Green flags

Puts other women on stage, not only herself
Ends posts with a real question for the reader
Treats childcare and equal pay as shared problems
Shares the half-finished idea, not just the win
Jokes about her own feed

Possible dealbreakers

Someone who expects her calendar to bend around them
A partner who sees childcare as her problem alone
Someone who treats her public profile as something to manage or resent

Conversation hooks

Ask what the 'mustivation' vs 'wantivation' difference from the TICE clip in post 11 would look like at home.
Ask what's living in her notes app right now, the question she closes post 1 with.
Ask what the 'village' in post 3 actually looks like on a normal day.
Ask about the 2% venture capital figure behind Shatter and Shift (experience 4) and what has moved since.
Ask about Headbands of Hope, which ran from August 2012 to January 2024 (experience 6), without assuming why it ended.

How the agent read Jess