We are pleased to welcome Nona Jones to the ELO Forums speaker roster for 2026! She will be speaking in Vancouver on Nov 4th and in Toronto on November 18th. 

Nona Jones is a rare combination of Bible teacher, business executive, bestselling author, global speaker, and entrepreneur. As a certified Trauma-Informed Coach and Counselor, she is CEO of Inside Out Leadership, where her team builds resilient women leaders who change the world.

Nona has held multiple senior executive roles, including Chief Content & Partnerships Officer at YouVersion, Head of Global Faith Partnerships at Meta, a Chief External Affairs Officer for PACE Center for Girls. She is the best selling author The Gift of Rejection, Killing Comparison, and Success from the Inside Out.

Nona is a sought after speaker on the topics of emotional resilience, leadership, and hope in uncertainty who has delivered standing ovation keynotes for Global Leadership Summit, Black Enterprise Magazine, USBank, the United Nations, the United States Attorney General, and more. Nona has been profiled by ESSEN Magazine as an “Under 40 Woman to Watch” and Florida Trend Magazine as one of Florida’s “30-Something All Stars.” She has been featured on Good Morning America, the Tamron Hall Show, and is a regular co-host of Better Together on TBN.

She is a graduate of Leadership Florida and the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, a joint initiative of President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton. She serves on the boards of Gloo (NSDQ:GLOO), Christianity Today Magazine, Salvation Army of North America, and Holy Post Media Company. She holds a Bachelor of Communication and Master of Business Administration from the University of Florida where she has been recognized as an Outstanding Young Alumnus. She has completed executive studies at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation.

Nona's session will be on Success from the Inside Out. Many of us aspire to achieve status, wealth, and notability in the hopes that those things will erase the pain of our past. But for those who have experienced trauma, success requires more than a changed mindset—it requires repairing a broken spirit.

In Success from the Inside Out, Nona transparently shares how achieving success in her career was not a shield against the residual effects of childhood trauma. She uses her life as the case study for how unresolved past pain can push you to succeed, while leaving you unfulfilled the more you achieve.

Nona’s characteristic vulnerability Is a gift to high-performing people who find themselves outwardly successful while inwardly wondering, “is this all there is?” It was asking herself this question after leaving an exclusive reception at The White House that prompted Nona to do the self-work needed to begin healing from the pain of her past.

This highly transparent talk has led executives at major corporations to realize that their endless pursuit of more is actually a pursuit for the wholeness they have been missing on the inside because, as Nona says, “success begins within.” Nona leads audiences through an introspective journey back to the point in their life when they started to believe that what they achieve serves as a proxy for their worth. 

This message has been called “a deep exhale for exhausted and overwhelmed leaders.” Nona’s willingness to “go there” with this message has enabled thousands to begin experiencing true freedom from unacknowledged and unaddressed pain.

Learning Objectives:

• How to recognize ways you use work to cover up inward brokenness
• How to still the voices in your head that say you aren't good enough
• How to choose fulfilling success instead of empty success
• How to push from brokenness into a breakthrough
• How to build the character needed to sustain healthy success

Interested in attending this year?