About Journey of Gratitude

Journey of Gratitude is a 501(c)(3), registered not for profit. Your gift to support our work and efforts is tax-deductible. Journey of Gratitude is a research-based, social impact, People-first organization that designs curriculum and creates custom curriculum, materials, coaching, public outreach strategies, training and educational services to Organizations, Agencies, NGOs, government orgs, startups, entrepreneurs, small business owners, creators and creative businesses and curious people with ideas. Your gift to support our work and efforts is tax-deductible. The Creative community we hope to captivate will receive professional, introductory level creative design coaching, personal branding strategies, content marketing strategies and social media, AI education, training and onboarding.

Our mission is to activate the “ah-ha!” moment which unlocks the motivation and urgency in each person and organization that engages with our brand to begin their journey of transformation and learning for their Life, business, brand, ideas and processes.

About JinJa Birkenbeuel, Founder, Journey of Gratitude

Featured in Forbes Magazine, JinJa Birkenbeuel is a strategist and creative executive with over 20 years of professional experience, including enterprise brand strategy and creative development of mid to large size organizations, establishment of Digital and visual identity systems and research, development and execution of customer acquisition and Growth strategies.

JinJa is credited as a collaborating architect of Google’s Digital Coaches Program (founded by now deprecated program Accelerate With Google), an international training initiative for underrepresented business owners. The two year national program was recently acquired and expanded by Google Inc.'s international initiative Grow With Google.

Currently CEO of Birk Creative, one of the country's premier multichannel brand strategy, digital transformation and visual identity agencies. Also founder of The Honest Field Guide® podcast, where JinJa hosts discussions dedicated to winning in business with Grammy-Award winners, successful entrepreneurs, Pulitzer-prize winning authors, sports-team owners, best-selling authors and inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Listen to the show trailer.

Specialties: Art direction, strategy, writing, brand development, social media strategy, personal brand and thought leadership training, women's business initiatives, brand transformation, digital transformation, brand management.

About Birk Creative

Birk Creative works with businesses as a plug-and-play brand strategy team or as a complement to existing creative and marketing capabilities. We deliver wraparound services across all advertising and marketing activities: Visual identity, branding, brand messaging, custom content creation, podcast/video/radio production, social media marketing, employee thought leadership training and development, and digital advertising.

Our in-house team and remote network include brand strategists, copywriters, social media marketers, podcast producers, book and publication publishers, graphic designers and web developers, illustrators, media buyers and a 10-person remote team.