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Jonathan McIntosh

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Speaking & Workshops

Creating the kind of conversations people remember long after the event ends.

Jonathan McIntosh works with organizations, leadership teams, and communities navigating the increasingly human challenges that exist beneath performance, achievement, and change.

His work explores the tension many professionals quietly experience between external success and internal well-being, helping people think more honestly about ambition, burnout, identity, meaningful work, and what sustainable success actually requires of us.

These sessions are designed to create more than inspiration.
They create the kind of reflection, honesty, and conversation that often becomes the beginning of meaningful transformation.

Recent audiences have included nonprofit executives, arts and cultural leaders, fundraising professionals, mission-driven organizations, and leadership teams navigating growth, burnout, and organizational change.

Speaking Topics

When Success Stops Feeling Like Success
Why achievement often creates unintended disconnection, burnout, and the quiet realization that the life we have built no longer feels sustainable.

Finding More Meaning in Your Work
Helping leaders reconnect with purpose, contribution, and the parts of themselves work can slowly erode over time.

The Hidden Cost of High Performance
Exploring the emotional, relational, and psychological costs that often accompany ambition, achievement, and constantly performing at a high level.

Creating Cultures Where People Feel Safe Enough to Be Honest
How leaders build environments of trust where people can communicate openly, engage honestly, and do their best work.

Navigating Seasons of Reinvention
Helping individuals and teams move through change, uncertainty, and identity shifts with greater clarity and confidence.

My Approach

For nearly three decades, my work has centered around helping people navigate consequential moments in life and work.

As a pastor, leadership advisor, executive recruiter, coach, and speaker, I have spent thousands of hours sitting with people facing difficult questions around identity, ambition, burnout, purpose, loss, and change.

Over time, I have learned something important.

Meaningful transformation rarely begins with information alone.

It begins when people feel safe enough to tell the truth.

The most powerful conversations are not always the ones that teach people something new.

They are the ones that create the conditions where people finally confront what they already know deep down but have not yet been willing to face.

That is the kind of space I seek to create in every room I enter.

Testimonials

Jonathan created a womb of safety, trust, and deep mutual respect in the room. I was touched by the way he created and held space for honesty and vulnerability—both for himself and among all of us. I felt as though I had shared a profound experience with my peers, and I am deeply grateful to him for facilitating it.

- Marissa R.

A masterful session leader, Jonathan's presentation skills are matched only by his abilities to listen closely and bring deep empathy to group facilitation.

- Cara M.

Thank you for your adept leadership of this conversation. You reminded us of the value we bring to our museums as fundraisers, and that in turn we must remember to find value for ourselves.

- Eliza W.

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