Jenny Catalano

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Founder & CEO

Jenny Catalano is the Founder and CEO of Impact Events Collective and a former COO with more than 20 years of leadership experience across operations, finance, HR, and executive leadership. Her work explores the often-overlooked gap between what leaders intend and what employees actually experience, and how everyday leadership moments influence behavior, culture, and organizational performance. Jenny is the creator of the Impact Gap™, Defining Moment Model™, Leadership Lens™, and Impact Gap Diagnostic™, practical frameworks designed to help leaders better understand their influence and lead with greater awareness and intentionality. She is a speaker, facilitator, and writer whose work challenges organizations to rethink how they identify, develop, and prepare people for the responsibility of leadership.

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Oct. 21, 2026

How Leaders Build Teams That Speak Up

Good intentions do not always lead to good leadership. Your team may experience your words and actions differently than you expect. In this episode of The Manager’s Mic, Paul Leon, MBA, talks with Jenny Catalano, founder and CEO of Impact Events Collective. Jenny is a former chief operating officer with more than 20 years of leadership experience. Jenny explains the Impact Gap™: the difference between what leaders mean to do and what employees actually experience. She shares how everyday conv...