ABOUT BREAKTHROUGH WELLNESS
Meet Your Wellness Partner: Jess Smith
Fitness isn’t just what we provide—it’s who I am. I’m a certified instructor in both Cardio Dance and Core Strength formats, and I live and breathe fitness every day. Running half-marathons is how I find my center and maintain mental wellness, lessons I also share on my leadership blog, Leadership Lessons from Normal Life.
I also run ZumbaFitnessATX.com, a mobile fitness business in Austin offering group classes, bachelorette parties, and apartment community sessions. My personal experience as an instructor and runner informs every corporate wellness experience I design—because I know firsthand how movement restores energy, builds resilience, and fosters connection.
When you partner with Breakthrough Wellness, you’re working with someone who combines executive HR expertise with a deep personal passion for fitness and wellbeing—making our programs authentic, engaging, and results-driven.
Why We’re Best Placed to Help You Succeed
Breakthrough Wellness was founded by Jessica Smith, Chief People Officer, who has spent more than 15 years leading global HR and people strategy inside some of the world’s most complex and fast-moving organizations—including Amazon, AWS, Meta, and Hays.
Jess has seen transformation from every angle: the boardroom, the balance sheet, and the lived experience of employees navigating constant change.
“I’ve watched highly talented teams burn out. I’ve seen how chronic stress and anxiety quietly erode productivity, morale, and retention. As AI and new ways of working reshape how organizations operate, creating space for people to reset, reconnect, and restore their energy isn’t a ‘nice-to-have’—it’s a business necessity.”
With a foundation in finance and business strategy, and advanced training in digital transformation and AI at MIT, Jess bridges the gap between organizational performance and human sustainability. Her career spans global workforce planning, leadership development, inclusion strategy, and HR analytics—giving Breakthrough Wellness a rare combination of strategic rigor and human-centered design.
This is what makes us different. We don’t just help organizations transform.
We help their people recover, reconnect, and return to work with the energy and trust that drive productivity at scale.