Jennifer Breheny Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author of the instant New York Times bestselling book Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It.  Her second book Mattering in the Modern World: A Solution for the Crises of Our Time is based on five years of research and an original global mattering survey.  

Wallace is the founder of The Mattering Institute, whose mission is to create cultures of mattering in homes, workplaces, and communities, and co-founder of The Mattering Movement, a nonprofit whose mission is to create cultures of mattering in schools.

Wallace has consulted with The LEGO Group, Netflix, and is a BCG  BrightHouse Luminary. She serves on the University of Michigan Well-being Collective Advisory Council, and on the Advisory Board for Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Wallace is a Journalism Fellow at The Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

After graduating from Harvard College, Wallace was a broadcast producer for CBS “60 Minutes" and was part of the team that won The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and frequently appears on national television programs to discuss her work. 

Wallace serves on the board of the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, where she lives with her husband and their three children.