This is a book about brilliance. Brilliance in all aspects of our experience as humans: our relationships, our talent, our performance, our outlook. Brilliance in our leadership, that is amplified when we work together as a team.
Brilliance that begins with one spark.
As a leader, you’re always looking for ways to enhance the performance of your team. But as that team grows, your time and attention become more and more limited; your skills as a leader can only stretch so far. If you’ve ever wished you could simply clone yourself, this is the book you need.
Spark Brilliance introduces a revolutionary approach to leadership and team dynamics. Executive Coach Jackie Insinger uses her two decades-plus of experience to break down how Positive Psychology–the science of human potential, motivation, and what makes life worth living–can transform your leadership and amplify your team’s happiness and effectiveness. In this book, you’ll learn Platinum Leadership, a positive psychology-driven methodology that will build authentic connection and spark optimism, creativity, and joy in the people you lead. This practical framework includes:
The secret to extraordinary leadership. Platinum Leadership is a positive psychology-driven methodology that will build authentic connection and spark optimism, creativity, and joy in the people you lead.
Why psychological safey can make or break your teams performance, and how to create an environment of trust, vulnerability, authentic support, collaboration, and collective innovation.
This tactical risk practice explodes personal growth. Learn a neuroscience brain hack to set and achieve goals in a deliberate and sustainable way without breaking your comfort zone.
Brilliance begins with you, the leader. You have the opportunity to create a cascade of optimism, joy, commitment, and incredible results. Create the spark, and you’ll watch your team flourish.
Connection before content. Humanity before hustle. This is Jackie’s signature keynote — and the foundation of her entire Spark Brilliance® framework. Backed by neuroscience, positive psychology, and current global data, Jackie teaches leaders how to unlock brilliance in themselves and others. This session gives attendees practical tools to lead with authenticity, build trust, and spark sustainable momentum across teams. It’s not about more pressure. It’s about more purpose. Leaders walk away energized, equipped, and ready to create measurable results with more heart, clarity, and connection than ever before.
The world has changed. Leadership has to change with it.
In this high-impact session, Jackie offers a modern leadership playbook for navigating complexity with confidence and clarity. Rooted in science and delivered with heart, this talk helps leaders lead through uncertainty, drive engagement, and turn disruption into a competitive advantage.
Whether you're managing constant change, rapid growth, or transformation at scale — this session delivers exactly what today’s leaders need to rise above the noise and lead with intention.
Exhausted teams don’t need more pressure — they need Brilliant Leadership.
This powerful session addresses one of the biggest challenges organizations face today: burnout. Jackie shares science-backed strategies for reigniting your people by prioritizing psychological safety, trust, and human connection.
You’ll learn how to spot emotional contagion, reverse disengagement, and build a culture where well-being and performance go hand in hand. Your people want to feel seen, valued, and supported — this session shows you how to make that happen, starting now.
Empathy. Agility. Trust. The new rules of leadership are here. In today’s world, change is the only constant — and leaders are expected to keep up without burning out. In this forward-thinking keynote, Jackie unpacks the essential skills and mindsets required to thrive in the fast lane of disruption, innovation, and complexity. Through data, stories, and tools, she helps leaders build cultures that can pivot with purpose, adapt quickly, and stay emotionally connected — even in high-stakes environments. Because the best leaders don’t just survive change — they spark it.
The leader isn’t the hero. The team is.
Jackie’s newest and most transformative keynote shifts the spotlight from individual leadership to collective brilliance. In this session, she introduces the Team First™ methodology — a blueprint for creating alignment, trust, and sustainable success across modern teams.
Perfect for leaders navigating hybrid workplaces, decision fatigue, and rising complexity, this talk challenges outdated leadership models and provides a clear path toward high-functioning, emotionally intelligent teams. If you want to build the kind of culture where performance and purpose thrive together — this is where to start.
Jackie Insinger is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and trusted partner to leaders navigating growth, uncertainty, and transformation. Backed by science and grounded in human connection, Jackie’s keynotes give leaders the tools to create clarity, build trust, and spark the momentum that drives real results.
For more than two decades, she’s been on a mission to bring out the best in people and teams. Her Spark Brilliance® framework blends neuroscience, positive psychology, and current global data into simple, actionable tools that drive measurable momentum and impact. No fluff. No jargon. Just results—with heart.
Jackie has degrees from Duke and Harvard, a certification in Neuroscience for Business from MIT, and a client list that includes industry leaders like Nestlé, Accenture, MGM, the Ritz Carlton, Intuit, Comcast, and the San Francisco 49ers. Her bestselling book *Spark Brilliance* hit #1 on eight national lists and was featured in *Forbes*, *Inc.*, *Fast Company*, and *CEO World*. *Entrepreneur* magazine named it one of the Top 8 Leadership Books for Entrepreneurs.
She lives in Denver with her husband, two teenage sons, and their 130-pound dog who thinks she’s a lapdog. And while Jackie has spent years coaching C-suite leaders, she still proudly claims her biggest win as the 4th-grade breakdance champion in Miami.
Featured in: Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., CEO World, Entrepreneur Magazine.