Meet Jaime Marco

Jaime Marco is an internationally recognized keynote speaker, Workplace Energy Architect, author, facilitator, and creator of UnFunkt® who helps teams strengthen workplace culture, communication, connection, leadership, and customer experience.

But long before Jaime stepped onto a keynote stage, she was doing the work.

For more than 25 years, Jaime has worked with people and teams across leadership, sales, customer experience, training, culture, and organizational development. Her experience spans industries including hospitality, healthcare, higher education, technology, real estate, nonprofits, associations, and corporate organizations.

And through all of it, she has discovered something remarkably consistent:

Different industries. Different challenges. Same common denominator: people.

People Have Always Been Jaime’s Thing

Jaime jokes that people are simply in her DNA.

As a kid, she was endlessly curious about others: their stories, their quirks, what made them tick, and what made them light up.

That curiosity became a career when she worked as a social host aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, connecting with guests from around the world. Surrounded by different cultures, personalities, and perspectives, Jaime began recognizing a universal truth that still drives her work today:

People want to feel seen, heard, understood, and valued.

Armed with a degree in Interpersonal Communication, Jaime carried that understanding into nonprofit fundraising, real estate sales, sales leadership, corporate training, startups, leadership development, and eventually the keynote stage.

She has helped grow a telecommunications company from 11 employees to more than 700, trained sales teams across the country, developed onboarding and leadership programs, coached leaders and teams, and facilitated conversations designed to change how people communicate, connect, serve, and work together.

This is not theory Jaime learned so she could speak about it.

She speaks about it because she has spent decades doing it.

From Working in the Business to Working With the People in the Business

In 2009, Jaime made an intentional shift.

After years of working inside organizations, she began working directly with the people who make organizations work.

Since then, Jaime has partnered with 100+ organizations, delivered thousands of speaking and training experiences, worked across 17 states and six countries, and earned repeat business from more than two dozen organizations.

Her audiences have ranged from intimate teams of six to rooms of 500, because Jaime believes meaningful change does not depend on the size of the room. It depends on what happens inside it.

Today, Jaime partners with companies, associations, nonprofits, conferences, and teams as a keynote speaker, Workplace Energy Architect, leadership and customer experience facilitator, trainer, coach, and high-energy emcee.

She is also a proud member of Google’s Mastery Faculty, a global community focused on elevating live learning through exceptional facilitation.

Creating the UnFunkt® Movement

Jaime is the creator and author of UnFunkt®: Quiet the Noise. Ignite the Light., a human-first approach to helping people recognize what’s getting in the way and make small, intentional shifts that create meaningful change.

At the center of UnFunkt® are Micro-Moves, simple actions people can use to quiet the noise, get out of autopilot, strengthen connection, communicate more intentionally, and take greater ownership of the energy they bring into a room.

Because workplace culture is not created by a poster on the wall.

It is created in thousands of small moments between people.

Jaime’s highly interactive keynotes and workshops blend humor, real-world stories, audience participation, and practical tools so people do not simply leave inspired.

They leave knowing what to do differently.

No sit-and-get. No hollow hype. No motivation that disappears before everyone gets back to the airport.

Just real conversations, real tools, and small shifts that can create a big impact.

A Few More Things About Jaime

Jaime co-hosts the What’s Your Story? podcast with her dad, where they explore resilience, leadership, human connection, and the stories that shape who we become.

She is a TEDx speaker and certified DISC Behavior Styles Trainer and is a longtime supporter of the American Cancer Society, including emceeing breast cancer events in honor of people she loves.

Away from the stage, Jaime is a fan of yoga, pickleball, and any day that ends with sandy feet at the beach.

But whether she is standing on a keynote stage, facilitating a leadership team, hosting a podcast, or talking to the person sitting next to her on an airplane, the curiosity that started it all has never gone away.

People are still Jaime’s thing.