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Jenni works with companies and individuals in diverse aspects of communication. A native of New Zealand, she holds a Diploma in Adult Teaching and is qualified as a Human Relations and Communications Instructor for the New Zealand Marriage Guidance Council. She also has a Diploma in Speech and Drama from Trinity College of London, England.
Jenni has served as both opening speaker and keynote for several national business conferences. She is a frequently requested speaker on a variety of topics, including “There Is No ‘I’ in Team,” “Vocal Vim, Vigor and Vitality,” “Women as Leaders” and “Polish your Public Performance.” Jenni has been the opening speaker for former Governor Ann Richards at a women’s conference. In collaboration with P.R.I.D.E., Inc., Jenni developed a public speaking and communications course for developmentally disabled adults.
Her diverse background includes working in the newspaper industry where she received four writing awards, two from the San Diego Press Club. In 1994, she received the San Diego Business Journal’s Award for Women Who Mean Business, and was nominated in 2000. In 1995, Jenni was a finalist in Bank of America’s first Enterprise Award Program, as well as an honoree in the Women Together Awards. In 1999, she was honored as a regional finalist in Working Woman magazine’s first Entrepreneurial Excellence Award Program.
In May, 2006, Jenni received a Living Legacy Award from the Women’s International Center (WIC).
Jenni Prisk is a co-author of ASTD’s Trainer’s Workshop Series Communication Skills Training,
published December, 2004. She is a contributing author to Living a Life of Value, published 2006.
Jenni is an Associate Member of Vistage, an International Community of Chief Executives; member of the National American Society for Training and Development (ASTD); and chair of the board of the Actors Alliance of San Diego.
An avid volunteer, Jenni has given time and energy to many local charities including Mama’s Kitchen, the YWCA, the Old Globe Theatre and the County Mental Health Center. She frequently anchors KPBS TV San Diego fundraisers, and has interviewed numerous guests who include Dr. Ken Blanchard, Sarah Brightman, Paul Anka, JohnTesh, Patti LuPone and Dr. Wayne Dyer.
Jenni writes a weekly column on what’s happening in San Diego theatre for TheatreScene e-zine. For nine years she has been reading weekly to first graders at Cadman Elementary School in San Diego.
Jenni conceived and co-produced Artists for Asia where she and a fellow actor assembled a band of theater professionals who performed a benefit performance at the Lyceum Theatre for victims of the 2004 Tsunami.
Following the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, Jenni founded Voices of Women (VOW), an international forum for non-military solutions, to foster global peace, justice and equality around the world. For more information, please visit www.voicesofwomen.org.
Jenni resides with her husband, Kim, in the Sorrento Valley area of San Diego.