Disrupting Gracefully - Coaching, Consulting, and Speaking for Conscious Leadership
Disrupting Gracefully provides keynote speaking, corporate workshops, leadership coaching, and organizational consulting. Our services help leaders and organizations disrupt outdated patterns and build new systems that foster sustainable growth, clarity, and resilience.
Areas of Expertise
Through Disrupting Gracefully, Dr. Barbara Ann Jacques delivers keynote speaking, interactive workshops, and leadership consulting that help organizations and individuals disrupt outdated systems and create new models for sustainable success. Her approach combines 30 years of experience in criminal justice, education, and human systems with a deep commitment to conscious leadership and personal transformation.
Services include:
- Keynote Speaking
- Corporate Workshops
- Leadership Coaching
Barbara Ann Jacques, PhD is the founder of Disrupting Gracefully, a platform dedicated to helping individuals and organizations break free from outdated systems and beliefs to create new, sustainable models for growth. She is also a criminal justice professor and a TEDx and BLu Talk at MIT speaker. With over 30 years in criminal justice, higher education, and human systems, along with a personal journey that reshaped her understanding of what limits and liberates human potential, Dr. Jacques brings a rare combination of lived experience, deep energetic insight, and grounded strategic vision.
Her keynotes and sessions go beyond education, offering audiences a transformative experience that challenges outdated paradigms and inspires lasting, conscious change.
Main Speaking Topics
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Disrupting the Pattern: Rewriting the Story of Leadership
How unconscious narratives shape organizational culture and how leaders can reframe them for resilience, equality, and innovation. -
Beyond Burnout: Building Systems That Sustain Human Energy
Why burnout isn’t just individual — it’s systemic. Practical ways organizations can redesign processes to support creativity, wellness, and retention. -
The New Model of Success: Conscious Leadership in Action
How leaders can integrate awareness, choice, and empowerment to create more equitable and adaptable organizations. -
From Control to Co-Creation
Exploring leadership shifts from top-down authority to collaborative, conscious systems that unlock hidden capacity. -
The Prison of the Mind at Work
Drawing from my criminal justice background — how unseen beliefs, labels, and systemic “sentencing” hold people back in organizations, and how to be free.
Dr. Jacques has been teaching, leading training, and speaking in professional work settings for over 25 years. As a professor, mentor, and trainer, she has facilitated classroom discussions, academic presentations, and professional training sessions in higher education, the justice system, and personal growth communities.
Her recent transition into professional speaking builds on this foundation, allowing her to share leadership, transformation, and system reinvention strategies with a wider audience, including business leaders, professionals, and individuals seeking personal growth.
Speaking Experience Highlights:
17+ Years of Experience in Teaching, Training, and Presenting – Leading discussions, workshops, and academic presentations.
25+ Years of Personal Development Training
TEDx Speaker – Bridging the Gap: From Labels to Lives (2024)
Panelist & Guest Speaker on Leadership, Transformation, and Personal Growth