Jen M. Torres
Transform workplace equity from aspiration to action with Jen M. Torres, CEO of SimplyLead. Jen equips organizations to repair culture, build accountability systems, and navigate conflict using practical frameworks such as Liberatory Feedback. She delivers measurable structural change for schools, nonprofits, and higher education institutions across the US.
Washington DC, United States
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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.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
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 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.
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.
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.
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