
Second City Works presents "Getting to Yes, And" Getting to Yes, And… | Jane Marie Chen – Designing Self-Compassion
Mar 10, 2026
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Kelly spends time with Jane Marie Chen, a globally recognized entrepreneur, inventor, speaker, and leadership coach. She is the co-founder of Embrace, which developed an infant incubator that has helped to save over a million babies. Jane has been a TED fellow and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She has a new memoir, “Like a Wave We Break: A Memoir of Falling Apart and Finding Myself.”
“This is the story of a wipeout.”
“True leadership, I realized, wasn’t about perfection or invincibility. It was about authenticity.”
“Surviving trauma and confronting its aftermath are two different experiences.”
