Jen Croneberger: Fintech Professional to Leadership Architect & Author

In this episode of Clocking Out, we meet Jen Croneberger, the youngest of five and a preacher’s kid from Tenafly, New Jersey, who spent her childhood throwing footballs to herself in the backyard and talked her way into catching in Little League as the only girl on her team. She studied English with a concentration in journalism at the University of Delaware, inspired by Barbara Walters and her gift for asking the questions that get underneath the surface, then tended bar after graduation before landing in the corporate world. From 1996 to 2000, Jen worked for a fintech pioneer, building an inventory system for the modems and cables that ran ATMs across the country from an office in a parking garage. Standing among the shelves one day, she asked herself how she had gotten there. Around age 26, she decided she did not want to work for someone else for the rest of her life and jumped. She pieced together a living by selling Volvos and driving a limo for a day while she coached softball, trained athletes, and earned a master’s degree in sport and performance psychology. The clocking out moment was a series of deliberate decisions, made by someone who had always been wired to ask what else was possible. Those decisions led from a training facility and a speaking circuit to a goal she announced in a 2009 award acceptance speech: to positively affect one million people in her lifetime. Today she is the Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of the Human Leadership Institute, where she works with Fortune 500 companies, government organizations, and professional athletes to design cultures where people and performance reinforce each other. She is a 4-time TEDx speaker and the author of Meet Them Where They Are, and she is finishing a third book on building confidence and clarity in 99 days. This conversation is about what it takes to rewrite the story from “I can’t” to “I did,” starting with a 5K she never wanted to run. It explores the human system that sits beneath every org chart, why it helps to admit you are nervous before you step on stage, what it means to meet people where they are, and why Jen has stopped worrying about whether her legacy can be measured. **Connect with Jen at:** - Website:https://www.heroesunleashed.ca/https://thehli.com/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jencroneberger/ **Follow Raymond:** - LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondmlee/https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondmlee/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clocking\out\raymond\_lee/ - Tiktok:https://www.tiktok.com/@clockingoutpodhttps://www.tiktok.com/@clockingoutpod - X:http://twitter.com/hrentrepreneurhttp://twitter.com/hrentrepreneur - Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/@clockingoutwithraymondlee/videoshttps://www.youtube.com/@clockingoutwithraymondlee/videos Become a guest on Clocking Out:https://bit.ly/46sqClqhttps://bit.ly/46sqClq