Jenn Donahue is an international keynote speaker, retired US Navy captain, business coach, and one of America's leading experts on leadership and personal growth.

With a PhD in engineering, in her spare time she works on large-scale, high-profile geotechnical earthquake engineering projects. She is the founder and owner of JL Donahue Engineering and Dare to Rise. She also lectures at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Cal Poly, and Virginia Tech.

Over her twenty-seven-year military career, Jenn has built a bridge across the Euphrates River in the midst of the Iraq War, commanded an eight-hundred-personnel battalion in Afghanistan, and constructed combat outposts in the middle of deserts filled with insurgents.