Jenine Young
Strategic Marketing Advisor |
Workshop Facilitator | Speaker
Practical Strategy. Clear Direction. Sustainable Action.
Jenine Young brings practical, engaging conversations about marketing, capacity, clarity, and sustainable momentum to entrepreneurs, small business owners and organizations.
Her sessions are designed to help audiences do more than leave inspired. Participants walk away with a clearer understanding of what deserves their attention, practical tools they can use, and next steps that fit their goals for real life.
Whether a facilitating an interactive workshop or speaking to a larger audience, Jenine makes complex ideas easier to understand, apply, and turn into action.
I help small business owners turn scattered marketing into clear strategies that fit their goals and capacity.
Through practical, capacity first strategies, Jenine helps entrepreneurs cut through the noise, identify what actually deserves their attention, and turn clarity into sustainable action.
Strategy Doesn’t Have to Mean Doing More
Small business owners are surrounded by advice about what they should be doing.
Post more.
Try another platform.
Use AI.
Build the funnel.
Start the newsletter.
Follow the trends.
But more isn’t always the answer.
Jenine Young is a Strategic Marketing Advisor, speaker, workshop facilitator, and founder of Social Linkage. She helps small business owners simplify scattered marketing, make clearer strategic decisions, and build sustainable momentum without adding more to already full plates.
Her approach combines strategic marketing, Design Thinking, systems thinking, and nearly a decade of real world business experience to help entrepreneurs determine what actually makes sense for their goals, customers, resources, and capacity.
Because the goal isn’t to do everything.
It’s to know what matters, what fits, and what to do next.
Speaking & Workshop Topics
Start With Clarity
Sometimes the best marketing strategy starts with deciding what to do.
Small business owners often assume inconsistent results mean they need another tactic, platform, or tool. But sometimes the real problem isn’t a lack of marketing. It’s a lack of clarity.
Jenine helps audiences step out of reactive marketing, identify what actually deserves their attention, and make intentional strategic decisions before adding something else to their plates.
Topics can include: strategic priorities, marketing decision making, opportunity filtering, and moving from scattered activity to focused action.
Capacity-First Marketing
The best marketing strategy is one you can actually sustain.
Marketing advice often assumes entrepreneurs have unlimited time, energy, resources, and attention.
Real life says otherwise.
Jenine introduces a capacity-first approach that helps business owners consider not only what could work, but what they can realistically execute and sustain within their current season.
Participants learn to make strategic tradeoffs prioritize what matters, and create marketing that works with their available capacity instead of constantly demanding more of it.
Topics can include: capacity aware planning, sustainable consistency, strategic tradeoffs, prioritization, and building marketing around real life constraints.
From Scattered to Strategic
If everything is a priority nothing is.
There will always be another opportunity, idea, platform, project, or strategy worth pursuing.
The challenge isn’t finding more possibilities. It’s deciding which ones deserve to move forward right now.
Jenine helps audiences filter competing priorities, create strategic focus, and turn ideas into manageable action that builds sustainable momentum.
Topics can include: prioritization, strategic filtration focused execution, decision making, and sustainable momentum.
AI Without Overwhelm
AI should reduce your workload, not become another thing to manage.
New AI tools and capabilities are appearing constantly, creating pressure for business owners to adopt more technology simply to keep up.
But having access to AI does not automatically mean it understands your business, your audience, or what you are trying to accomplish.
Jenine helps audiences think strategically about where AI can genuinely support their work, what should remain human led, whether using AI actually creates value or simply adds another layer of complexity.
Participants learn to evaluate AI based on their goals, capacity, quality expectations, and the work they are actually trying to improve.
Topics can include: intentional AI use, AI decision making, human led and AI supported work, workflow integration, quality evaluation, and capacity.
What Audiences Can Expect
Jenine believes a great session shouldn’t leave people with 17 new things to add to their to do list.
It should help them know what to do next.
Practical
Strategies participants can actually apply to their businesses.
Interactive
Reflection, conversation, exercises, and tools that help participants connect what they’re learning to their own circumstances.
Capacity Conscious
Instead of simply asking, “What should I do?” participants are encouraged to consider, “What makes sense for me to do right now?”
The goals isn’t more information. It’s clearer action.
A Different Kind of Business Conversation
“Hi, I’m Jenine, and I spend a lot of time telling business owners not to do things.”
Sounds a little strange coming from a marketing strategist, right?
Jenine’s speaking style combines practical strategy, relatable stories humor, audience interaction, and unexpected truths that challenge the assumption that business growth always requires doing more.
Whether she’s speaking to entrepreneurs, military connected business owners, or emerging professionals, the goal is simple:
Help people leave with greater clarity about what matters and the confidence to act on it.
Credentials & Recognition
Host, The Social Sea Podcast | 2021 – present | 25 episodes | 5.0 Apple Podcast rating
Social Media Strategist (SMS) | National Institute for Social Media
Recognized as BusinessRate Top 5 Consultant in Norfolk| 2026
Selected Speaking & Workshop Experience
Jenine has delivered workshops, presentations, and entrepreneurial education for small business owners, military connected entrepreneurs, and emerging professionals.
2026 NMSN’s Annual Military Spouse Career Summit
Adjusting Was the Strategy All Along: A Capacity First Marketing Approach to Staying Consistent When Life Keeps Changing
Selected speaker for the national virtual summit serving the military spouse community.
Veterans Business Outreach Center / Boots to Business
Entrepreneurship and small business marketing education for transitioning service members, veterans, military spouses, and entrepreneurs.
Manifest • Plan • Prosper
Co creator and facilitator of interactive workshops focused on vision, direction, capacity, action, and sustainable momentum.
Career Conversations
Professional development and career education for emerging professionals.
What Shifts in the Room
From Capability to Sustainable Capacity
During a Boots to Business workshop at Fort Eustis, Jenine was walking participants through Capacity-First strategy and the difference between being capable of doing something and having the capacity to sustain it well.
When one participant said that if his strategy required 18-hour workdays, he would simply work 18 hours, Jenine asked:
“How long can you sustain that?”
He paused. The room did too.
Jenine then brought the question back to the full group:
“Are you building your strategy for your real life or your ideal life?”
Participants reacted immediately. One asked her to repeat the question. Others laughed, nodded, and recognized the tension in their own plans.
The moment shifted the conversation from what entrepreneurs could force themselves to do to what they could realistically sustain while building their business.
In Their Words
Manifest • Plan • Prosper
“The Action Board Party helped me stop saying ‘someday’ and start saying ‘today’”.
— Angelia Copeland
Boots to Business
Jenine is an exceptional marketing expert who combines design thinking and strategic marketing to provide exceptional marketing tools. I attended her presentation and was highly Impressed.
— Boots to Business Instructor & Senior Business Counselor
Interactive Workshop Experience
The group discussions were fun and interesting, and made asking questions not scary. I would definitely and highly recommend attending an Action Board Party.”
— Amanda Totten, WHNP
Bring Jenine to Your Audience
Looking for a practical, engaging speaker who can help entrepreneurs move from scattered action to greater clarity, strategic focus, and sustainable momentum?
Jenine is available for:
Workshops|Webinars|Panels|Entrepreneurial Education|Professional Development Events|Keynotes|Conferences|Summits
Sessions can be customized based on your audience, event format, and desired outcomes.
