Her Story
About Jenn
Jenn Turek is a self-employed creative consultant based in her own practice since December 2025. With a career spanning graphic design since 2002, she specializes in agriculture, creating PowerPoint presentations, infographics, logos, cards, posters, and banners for clients. Turek earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Webster University in 1998 as one of the first three graduates allowed to receive that degree instead of a Bachelor of Arts. Her professional path includes early work designing newspaper ads, four years at a small art photography and IT firm, ten years in Monsanto's internal creative department, one year on her own, and twelve years at the Context Network where she began as a freelancer before moving to full time. She also completed video production classes and received a certificate in AI prompting from UMSL. Turek has volunteered for five years with Komen St. Louis affiliates, including organizing a Zumba fundraiser that raised between $72,000 and $75,000. She attributes her success to learning from everyone she has worked with and borrowing their best practices while remaining adaptable. Turek values seeing projects through from beginning to end with commitment to the process and advises young women entering the field to be confident in their abilities and to invest in their own self-worth without self-doubt.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Jenn
01What do you attribute your success to?
I've learned so much from everybody I've ever worked with, and I feel like I've taken a bit of their best pieces and stolen them for myself. Or borrowed, I guess you could say. I just feel like I've been just constantly learning, seeing how people are doing things, how they react to changes, and how adaptable you can become by just taking a step back, and so I just think people learning from other people would be probably my best one, my top one.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
No matter how busy you are, stop and have a polite conversation, whether even if it's quickly, just get some pleasantries out, always acknowledge the person, and see how they're doing, how their family is, and have interest in that person. I've learned that verbally speaking, but I also use it in my emails.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Be confident in yourself, and these are things that I wasn't in myself along the way. I lacked a lot of confidence in my world. I still do sometimes. And I always underestimate my value, and so I'd like to advise other people to be confident in your abilities, if your abilities are strong, and invest in your own value of your self-worth that what you're doing is helpful and attributing to the success of your company or others. Just remind them that they're valuable and don't self-doubt your abilities or education or experiences.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
It's the ability to have confidence in yourself and getting... just to remember that you have things to offer other people, and to go out there and get them, and don't be afraid.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Seeing things through, commitment to the process, and getting things finished from beginning to end, and not leaving things hanging, in a timely manner. It's always been how I am. I just want to put my nose to the grind and do it... always keep going forward. In my personal life, too.
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