Experience:

Upon moving to the United States in 2004, Janine has delivered results in the medical, insurance, medical insurance, building, defence, electricity, research, banking, finance, food technology, technology, services, manufacturing, utilities, automotive, leasing, education, development, and retail industries, as well as in various associations, such as The Society of Plastic Surgeons, American College of Healthcare, American Society of Anesthesiologists, and American Society for Healthcare Food Services Administration, Society for Food Service Management, and Foodservice Consultants Society International.

The work has been for strategic planning, strategic thinking and alignment, teambuilding, executive coaching, organizational needs assessment, leadership mediation sessions, inter-department conflict mediation, dealing with change through a merger, managing change, continuous process improvement, performance management, human resource management, stress management, priority management, facilitation skills, project management, leadership, customer service, competency development, professional image, coaching, mentoring, behavior-based interviewing, decision-making, presentation, communication, influencing, persuading, negotiation skills. 

Every bit of work conducted has, to date, resulted in her being asked back to do further work in the organization.

She has run her own management consulting firm since 1992 in South Africa; starting out as a one woman operation and building it into a multi-national operation. She worked across South Africa, Africa and the UK, with some work for the European Union and with some clients such as Coca Cola and EDS from the States. She did work in the public, not for profit, and private sectors and across all industries. This also entailed working across all levels of staff from Government Ministers, Boards of Trustees and Management Boards all the way to general worker levels.

Expertise:

Janine’s area of expertise is within the organizational development arena - from strategic planning, teambuilding, culture shifts and diversity, transformation, workflow design, needs analyses, performance management systems and training, human resources management to training in leadership, interpersonal, intra-personal, and business improvement. 

Her undergraduate honors degree in Organizational Psychology, English and Economics, her licentiate in speech teaching (Trinity College London), her masters in Industrial Psychology obtained cum laude, coupled with her executive experience in retail, the service industry, and the largest utility in the world have prepared this dynamo well for her role in successfully empowering others.  

Her competencies range from diagnostics, design, strategic thinking, development, process facilitation, soft skills training, speaking, to report writing. She moves easily from holistic big picture thinking down to the more detailed orientation and is able to assimilate information and integrate across contexts and systems on a simultaneous basis. She is a registered Industrial Psychologist with the South African Health Professions Council. 

Born in South Africa and living on three different continents, she brings a rich mosaic to her work. Thousands of people and leading companies in all manner of industries have benefited from Janine’s keynote speeches, MBA lectures, training seminars, facilitated strategy and team sessions, and consulting.

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