Testimonials

She [Janice] is completely different from other consultants in that she understands what drives behavior.
“I chose to have Janice work with our VP’s based on a professional colleague’s recommendation. She is completely different from other consultants in that she understands what drives behavior. Other consultants didn’t seem to know this. Rather than focusing on the ‘how to’ of management she understands the underlying behaviors that are the root cause of human problems in the workplace and works with these. Employees and managers begin to understand their own triggers. Innovation, quality, human interaction and productivity increase, the very things that improve profit. “
- Nancy Clark, VP Human Resources

You were not an aggressive, pushy consultant. You’re older, wiser, and have a broad career background. We had an instant connection with you.
Your work is so different from what one expects from the classic executive consulting. We didn’t need more business advice. Our leader wanted to understand himself better with the goal to become a better leader. When I met you it was clear that you really understood the importance of the behavioral aspects of leading. Your book, SHIFT, was a quick read and validated my impressions of you. You understood that people act and behave the way they do because of early learning and experience. You were not an aggressive, pushy consultant. You’re older, wiser, and have a broad career background. We had an instant connection with you. For a consulting experience to work, trust is a critical component. For other consultants it’s a business - for you it’s what you love. Your work is beyond technique. You’re genuine, sincere and you know what needs to happen and how to get us there. We can really see the difference.”
- VP HR

Janice’s approach is “out there” and requires clients to think outside the boardroom — but it works!
“LeaderSHIFT© (formerly The Leadership Practicum), . . . a mix of cognitive and experiential learning directed at a blend of emerging and existing leaders, . . . for my money, did more to develop teamwork across our group than anything I’ve seen before or since. Janice’s approach is “out there” and requires clients to think outside the boardroom — but it works!”
- Claire Toplis, Senior Executive

The Leadership Practicum™ offered individual growth and growth as a team. We were much stronger and better leaders as a result of this.
“The Leadership Practicum is a venue to discuss issues & experiences among a group who experience the same pressures. It provided an open and safe environment to talk about how to deal with issues differently, and it gave us …real work topics,… why change needs reinforcement, support for challenging what’s needed, and the ongoing dynamics to grow ideas and our people. It offered individual growth and growth as a team. We were much stronger and better leaders as a result of this.”
- Roy Shepard, Senior Executive

Janice brings the awareness and the benefits of speaking from the heart. Chaos disappears as authentic conversations take place.
“Janice has an inherent ability to align minds from any cross-section of professional backgrounds (engineers to executives) and across all behavior types (introverts to extroverts MBTI). She brings a level of calm to an otherwise chaotic, even conflicting situation. So much is done in business from the head when in fact business gurus today talk regularly about missing a major component, namely the heart. Janice brings this piece – she has the tools, creates awareness and brings compassion, openness and genuine authenticity into the workplace. Whole teams and individual clients talk about their workplace concerns and experiences rather than skirting ‘real issues’. Janice brings the awareness and the benefits of speaking from the heart. Chaos disappears as authentic conversations take place.”
-Senior Executive, Telecommunications

The Leadership Practicum™ has helped me to build solid, high-integrity, working relationships with my colleagues and employees.
“The Leadership Practicum™ was a rich and rewarding experience. It explores how individual assumptions and behaviours can impede and stifle organizations. It has helped me to build solid, high-integrity, working relationships with my colleagues and employees. We respect each others opinions and communicate truthfully. We deal with real issues. The approach is infectious. The Leadership Practicum™ would compliment our Lean Six Sigma program. An understanding of human dynamics is essential to gain authentic data for statistical analysis. Change and transition are key to Six Sigma and are the foundation of the Leadership Practicum. ™”
- Product Manager, Engineering

The author makes the process of changes a simple, clear, and technological instrument ready for use in the moment.
“In the turning moments of life fate always gives us an opportunity to know what’s necessary . . . to find the answers for the questions it asks. This book is . . . a desired and long-awaited signal for me that confirms intuition and a map for the way. The author asks readers the questions unobtrusively and compels them to think about themselves and their families, about organization as a form of being with life and work together as a very important part of their existence. When reflecting on and answering these questions, the insuperable wish to act is arising and you’d like to change yourself and your world immediately.

The author makes the process of changes a simple, clear, and technological instrument ready for use in the moment. Being a propagandist of TQM (Total Quality Management) ideology for the last nine years, I was engaged in changes that occurred in different companies and I am ready to use a half of the book immediately.

I completely agree with the author that psychology is coming to take the place of management technologies and that qualitative measurements of relationships are coming to take the place of the quantitative. In strict competition we need to speak about comfort, self-knowledge, consent and harmony, necessity to love people, not to control or command but give them freedom of action…. People pay the most expensive price to ignore common truths…the main of which is trust, the only eternally valuable commodity in any market!
- Vladislav Nikitenko, President, The Russian Society for Quality, September 2007

LeaderSHIFT© is powerful with labor unions
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