Jennifer B. Wallace

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, will be published by Penguin Random House in 2026. Wallace is 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 is also a Journalism Fellow at The Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and serves on the Advisory Board for Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 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.