- Founder and CEO of SimplyLead social change consultancy
- Expert in organizational culture repair and leadership
- Creator of Conflict Liberation and Liberatory Feedback frameworks
Jen M. Torres is a culture repair strategist and leadership expert who helps organizations and leaders transform how they navigate conflict, build trust, and lead with authenticity.
As founder and CEO of SimplyLead, Jen partners with teams to move beyond surface-level solutions and redesign workplace culture through practical, human-centered approaches. Her work focuses on repairing trust, strengthening feedback practices, and supporting leaders in making values-aligned decisions without sacrificing performance or relationships.
With over 16 years of experience across education, nonprofit leadership, and organizational strategy, Jen has supported hundreds of leaders through interactive workshops, executive retreats, and long-term culture initiatives. She is the creator of Conflict Liberation and Liberatory Feedback, frameworks that help teams move from avoidance and fear-based dynamics toward accountability, clarity, and growth.
Raised in Puerto Rico and shaped by her experience navigating inequitable systems, Jen brings both strategic clarity and grounded humanity to her work. She helps organizations recognize where culture breaks down, repair harm through structured and relational practices, and build environments where honesty, accountability, and authenticity can coexist.
Participants in Jen’s sessions leave with practical tools to navigate difficult conversations, give and receive feedback rooted in dignity, and lead without self-abandonment.
Book Jen to help your team repair culture, transform conflict, and build a workplace where trust and performance can grow together.
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Topics, sessions and talks
Culture Repair: From Intention To Practice
Most organizations have strong values, but struggle to live them consistently. This session focuses on what gets in the way and how to close the gap. Jen M. Torres helps leaders identify where trust has broken down, why culture feels misaligned, and what it actually takes to repair it. Participants walk away with practical ways to move beyond language and build everyday practices that strengthen accountability, relationships, and clarity across teams.
Conflict Liberation: Navigating Tension In Real Time
Conflict is not the problem, how we move through it is. This session focuses on the skills people need when tension shows up in the moment. Jen M. Torres introduces a research-informed, practical approach to navigating conflict without avoidance or escalation, drawing on restorative practices and her Conflict Liberation framework. Participants learn how to stay grounded in high-pressure interactions, move out of blame and defensiveness, and facilitate conversations that lead toward clarity and repair. This session is especially valuable for leaders and teams who regularly navigate difficult conversations, rapid change, or interpersonal tension.
Liberatory Feedback: Cultures Of Clarity
Most feedback systems are unclear, inconsistent, or feel unsafe. This session offers a different way forward. Jen M. Torres combines research on feedback, power, and psychological safety with her Liberatory Feedback framework to explore how trust and consent shape communication. She introduces practical tools and shared language that help teams give and receive feedback with clarity while maintaining dignity. Participants leave with structures that support growth, strengthen relationships, and build feedback cultures that feel consistent, fair, and actionable.
Designing Restorative Culture
Most organizations focus on conflict once something goes wrong. This session focuses on what needs to be in place before and after those moments. Jen M. Torres shares how to design systems, norms, and practices that support trust, accountability, and healthy conflict across teams. Drawing from restorative research and her experience building scalable frameworks, she introduces practical ways to embed relationship-centered practices into everyday operations. Participants leave with clear strategies to move beyond reactive responses and build cultures where trust is sustained, conflict is more productive, and accountability is shared.
Why we recommend booking Jen
Jen brings a rare combination of systems thinking and practical tools that help teams operationalize equity commitments beyond surface-level language. Her structured approach to culture repair resonates strongly with organizations seeking to rebuild trust and embed accountability into daily operations.
I've had the privilege of partnering with Jen, and I can confidently say her work is both powerful and results-driven. Jen brings unmatched partnership to every engagement. Her ability to foster real, candid conversations around diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and accessibility creates the kind of space where meaningful change can truly begin. Her workshops don't scratch the surface; they challenge teams to reflect deeply on their dynamics, uncover opportunities for growth and build a clear path toward where they need to go. The impact of Jen's work is lasting, actionable and transformative.
Director of People & Culture, America's Promise
I’ve had the privilege of working alongside Jen Torres in multiple capacities—first at Kindred, and now witnessing the incredible work she’s leading at her own company, SimplyLead. Every time, I’ve been struck by the same thing: Jen combines deep heart and powerful strategy in a way that is all too rare and truly transformative. She is a gifted strategist and facilitator who designs learning experiences that connect, inspire, and equip, while also guiding organizations to translate vision into real action. Her deep expertise in equity and strategy, paired with her ability to nurture strong relationships, make her a powerful force for change (in addition to a great person to work with!). I am honored to have collaborated with Jen and to continue witnessing the impact of her transformational work at Simply Lead.
Education Strategist & Startup Founder
It has been my privilege to co-facilitate an anti-bullying series alongside Jen M. Torres, Founder and CEO of SimplyLead LLC. Jen’s work delivers real, tangible impact across schools and organizations through her deeply rooted commitment to social justice and inclusive leadership. She doesn’t just talk about change—she designs and empowers it. Jen leads with intention and creativity. Her organization builds cultures of belonging via liberatory learning, culture repair, and healing-centered practices. What stands out most about Jen is her unwavering drive to convert intention into action. She co-designs solutions with stakeholders, centering human dignity, trust, and shared responsibility in every engagement. Her leadership is transformative and inclusive. I wholeheartedly endorse Jen M. Torres as a changemaker who brings clarity, heart, and real progress to institutions ready to embrace equity and liberation.
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