Keynote Speaker | Leadership Communication Strategist | Founder, The ThinkUP Group
Professor of Organizational Psychology, SMU
I build high-performing leaders who can ThinkUP when pressure hits by strengthening the inner discipline that drives outer results. My work equips leaders first to envision the future in their minds, then lead with executive presence and communication that protect culture and accelerate performance.
Trusted by Toyota, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson and Johnson, SMU, Texas A and M, The University of Texas at Austin, Dallas College, Aldine ISD, Cypress Fairbanks ISD, NAMI, and the Texas Counseling Association.
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THE THINKUP PHILOSOPHY
ThinkUP is about creating your future in your mind first.
It is the discipline of strengthening mental habits so that your leadership stays clear, steady, and decisive under real-world pressure.
High performance is not only about talent. It is trained thinking.
Cognitive Mastery
Taking control of the mental narratives that drive executive decisions and high-stakes negotiations.
Elevated Performance
Moving beyond baseline results into a realm of sustainable, exceptional leadership outcomes.
WHAT HIGH PERFORMERS GAIN FROM THINKUP
Dr. Jinneh equips high performers to ThinkUP through five outcomes:
Future Focused Thinking
Clarify vision, strengthen belief, and lead from intention instead of urgency
Mental Strength and Stamina
Build psychological endurance, emotional control, and decision discipline that sustains performance
Executive Presence Under Pressure
Show up with composure, authority, and clarity when pressure rises
Leadership Communication
Use language frameworks to lead conflict, navigate change, and handle critical conversations with precision
Strategic Execution
Translate insight into action with a clear implementation blueprint that leaders can apply immediately
SIGNATURE KEYNOTES AND TRAININGS
Popular experiences include:
ThinkUP Under Pressure:
How high-impact leaders regulate, refocus, and lead when it gets heavy
ThinkUP Without Burnout:
Mental stamina and sustainable performance for leaders carrying real weight
ThinkUP Your Confidence:
Identity, voice, and executive presence that holds the room
ThinkUP Your Standards:
How expectations, boundaries, and discipline shape culture and results
ThinkUP Your Words:
Communication strategies for tense moments and critical conversations
CREDIBILITY AND EXPERIENCE
For more than a decade, Dr. Jinneh has supported leadership development across corporations, nonprofits, higher education, and K-12 systems, delivering communication and leadership strategy at scale.
Highlights include:
- Former senior nonprofit consultant with the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization
- Youngest Executive Director to lead a state mental health organization
- Best-selling author of Think Your Way Up: 21 Mental Habits of High-Performance People
- Known for delivering strategic, actionable, high-impact sessions that move leaders from insight to execution
The ThinkUP Difference
Dr. Jinneh’s work sits at the intersection of Mindset, Message, and Magnetic Presence.
ThinkUP is not motivation. It is mental conditioning. It trains leaders to lead with strength on the outside and stability on the inside.
Mindset
Internal Stability
Message
Strategic Impact
Magnetic Presence
Commanding Authority
MY STORY
ThinkUP is not a slogan for me. It is a lifeline.
When I was 14, I watched my mother take her last breath. I carried grief quietly, and by my early twenties, I was battling depression and suicidal thoughts while trying to look strong on the outside.
In that season, I experienced a turning point that became my internal reset. You have to ThinkUP.
I became my first student, studying how thoughts form, how beliefs are reinforced, and how mental habits shape outcomes. ThinkUP became the pathway back to clarity, confidence, and life.
Years later, under the weight of leadership, motherhood, and entrepreneurship, I realized what many high performers experience but rarely admit. You can be accomplished and still be drowning internally.
That is why I do this work. Leaders do not just need strategy. They need mental strength, language, and presence that holds when life gets heavy.
You are not far away. You are one thought away from your next level.
ThinkUP.
"True leadership isn't about the title; it's about the internal fortitude that allows you to inspire and execute under pressure."
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