18. How To Network Without Feeling Sleazy with Jena Vivano


Jena is a career coach and entrepreneur who knows what it’s like to go through multiple career changes. She’s worked on Wall Street as an investment banker, reported live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and scored a job at a growing career startup, The Muse, before launching her consulting practice full-time. Her sweet spot is helping go-getter professionals articulate their personal branded career story to land their dream jobs via her signature program Recruit the Employer

Jena has worked with 800+ clients from around the world, been featured on and written for Business Insider, Monster, Glassdoor, Bustle, The Muse and Grit & Virtue. She’s created courses for LinkedIn, LinkedIn Learning, and various professional organizations like YNG+ and NAPW. Her resume work is highlighted in the WSJ Bestseller, The New Rules of Work, and she’s spoken at various panels, podcasts, and universities about the intersection of work, branding and faith.

She recently moved to the Nashville area and spends her days exploring new coffee shops, mulling over theological principles, launching her podcast called Your Career Story or sampling the best wine bars around. In case you were wondering - she’s an Enneagram 3.