The future of education is Emotional Intelligence

Evidence-based practices for your school's success

Dear Educator,
We see you.

We share a vision: to grow EQ.

We know that schools are a place of life. We’ve each experienced first-hand the joy and happiness that comes from the connection and growth we achieve in relationship with one another. We know the power of the bond: educators with students, educators with each other, and educators with parents.

The struggles have been real, but we believe things will be good again. The Applied EQ Group understands your struggles intimately--because we've been in your shoes.

Hello, we're Dr. Adam Saenz and Dr. Jenny Severson. We joined forces in 2021, having been exactly in your shoes, we know your current situation is incredibly difficult. Both having several decades in the field with you, we also want you to know that the unique challenges that you face today position you to become better than you have ever been in your role.

That's what we're here to help you do at Applied EQ.

Practically, we're here to support you and your school through our world-class personal development offerings that are not "one-and-done." Because we know inspiration only goes so far. We're here to help you implement our resources, so your school achieves tangible results (think: higher test pass rates, higher graduation rates, etc.).

We work with:
✔ Administrators, Superintendents, Directors of PD
✔ Teachers, education teams, departments
✔ Special Education Leaders
✔ Families, PTA's, Student Body Leaders
✔ Parent Engagement,
✔ Educational conference leaders

The proprietary resources we've created include:
✔ Onsite training
✔ Virtual training
✔ Coaching
✔ Asynchronous training
✔ Books & book studies
✔ Curricula

We're here to give you a fresh perspective on how to relate to each other and to your students so that school becomes more fun.

Just like you don't have to be a thoracic surgeon to do CPR, you don't have to be a licensed psychologist to apply the basics of Emotional Intelligence. What if we EQuipped your classrooms, your school leaders, and your parent community, so the kids in your care were empowered and EQuipped with the EQ tools of: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Empathy, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Decision-Making? AEQ is research and evidence-based techniques for leaders, so you can achieve your school’s goals. We're here to help leaders relate to themselves and each other better-- because we know it takes a whole leader to develop a whole team.

We're here for you.

Dr. Adam Saenz

Adam beat the odds of being a Hispanic male from a single-parent home in one of the country’s poorest counties to study at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford--all thanks to support from his teachers. He later returned to education as a psychologist, offering both students and educators a roadmap to be human, to express and navigate their emotions.

View Adam’s Tedx Talk here!

Dr. Jenny Severson

Jenny's time as a school principal started when she was 26--her experience allows her to understand the unique challenges educators face. (She gets it.) Over the decades since, she's been a sought-after consultant in helping schools implement EQ to achieve dramatic results (improved attendance, high achievement) like making three years of progress in as little as one. Her niche is working with women leaders, principals, and superintendents.

"Maintain effective relationships with every student, every day"

“In The EQ Intervention, school psychologist Adam Saenz offers teachers practical Social and Emotional Learning skills that will help them maintain effective relationships with every student, every day.”

— Todd Whitaker, Ph.D.
Author of What Great Teachers Do Differently

"Highly engaging style"

"Jenny is an energetic, passionate, knowledgeable presenter with a highly engaging style. I strongly recommend her as a workshop leader and conference speaker."

— Eric Jensen, Ph.D.
Author of Teaching with the Brain in Mind and Teaching with Poverty in Mind.


”Jenny is Good for the Soul.” — Elizabeth Bradley, CFISD Principal

To discover what we can bring to your school, please let us know your interests via our contact form and we'll respond within two business days. We're happy to see how we can support you.

In addition to diving deep into partnership with you and giving you personalized strategies for your school to work better together, the Applied EQ Group can help you...

  • Deliver inspiration as well as world-class implementation. We are not a one-and-done professional development workshop--we are comprehensive and we give you techniques to implement long-term so that you can consistently observe progress.

  • Help your leaders and teacher connect better to each other so that you're playing to each other's strengths as a team--rather than getting bogged down by the inevitable challenges that arise. Bonus: This is what makes work less of a struggle and more enjoyable so that folks want to come to work.

  • Support your school members in becoming better people overall-- better husbands and wives, better mothers and fathers, better community members. The power of EQ is that it's applicable beyond the classroom.

  • Lead your school towards better attendance rates, lower discipline rates, and better graduation rates. This starts with implementing tools from our toolkit for navigating the inevitable chaos in the classroom so that students are able to work through situations together.

  • Help your students become prosocial--so that they're relating to each other (in a world that has become extremely polarizing), so that they learn, practice, and develop positive behaviors they'll take with them for the rest of their life, creating a ripple effect in the world.

  • Support your students, staff, and leaders in becoming tended to as a whole person--this is a huge part of becoming EQ-uipped!

To discover what we can bring to your school, please let us know your interests via our contact form and we'll respond within two business days. We're happy to see how we can support you.