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Known as a culture transformation expert, Jeanne is the founder and CEO of The Culture Group—The Business of Conversation. She specializes in leadership development, team building and change management effectiveness.
Jeanne is a truth teller who skillfully creates spaces for the difficult conversations required to build mutual respect and trust in relationships. Known as being beautifully and brutally honest, Jeanne is also known to have a heart the size of a large deep-dish pizza. Her experience with her family’s business—Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria of Chicago—combined with her background as a psychotherapist generates perspectives and insights of tremendous value.
Jeanne and her husband of 34 years, Marc, are owners of the oldest family name in Chicago pizza, Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria. She has helped earn the company Top Workplace Award from the Chicago Tribune for the past four consecutive years, as determined by the employees, as well as the Top 150 National Workplace Award.
In addition, Jeanne is author of the upcoming book, “The Little Book of Clean and Clear Communication: Fresh and Simple Tools to Transform You and Your Team.”
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Whether it’s to an audience of 10 or 10,000, Jeanne’s ability to instantly connect with people, combined with her passion for sharing heartfelt, experience-driven business stories and life lessons, makes her a much sought after speaker and presenter. A psychotherapist with 20 years of experience, Jeanne is an expert in interpersonal and relationship dynamics, inspiring and challenging audiences of all kinds. She masterfully guides her listeners, equipping them with simple yet powerful communication tools that can be applied immediately.
Jeanne’s experience with her family’s business, Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria, combined with her background as a psychotherapist, generates perspectives and insights of tremendous value. Trusting her instincts and leading with both head and heart, Jeanne shares this rich expertise when she speaks to corporate teams and other groups.
With her trademark warmth and candor, Jeanne motivates and encourages audiences to speak the truth, face-to-face. Her focus lies in helping leaders and their teams create workplaces in which people can engage in valuable work, find authentic meaning in their careers and share in the abundant rewards—professional, financial, psychological, emotional and spiritual.
Jeanne and her husband of 34 years, Marc, are owners of the oldest family name in Chicago pizza, Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria. She has helped earn the company Top Workplace Award from the Chicago Tribune for the past four consecutive years, as determined by the employees, as well as the Top 150 National Workplace Award.
Jeanne is also the founder of SpreadingHearts.org, a non-profit organization she started with her two daughters. Spreading Hearts is dedicated to spreading love and goodwill to unsuspecting individuals, through small pewter hearts, helping to change the world one heart at a time.
In addition, Jeanne is author of the upcoming book, “The Little Book of Clean and Clear Communication: Fresh and Simple Tools to Transform You and Your Team.”
Jeanne resides in Chicago’s West Loop and is mother to three adult children and Grammy to two wonderful grandchildren.