Executive Coaching

Uplevel your leadership, effectiveness, and focus with personalized support.

Coaching clients typically come to me with a challenge that falls into one of two categories.

Which of these have you experienced?

Strategic:

Feeling overwhelmed by your work responsibilities.
Struggling to make a difficult decision.
Wanting to develop a key strategy for yourself or your team.

Team-related:

Needing to finally address your team member’s performance or behavior issue.
Struggling to define what you expect of a new or existing team member so that you get the results you want.
Feeling exhausted by team dysfunction, and needing a road map forward.

Individual leadership development requires focus, ongoing attention, and, counterintuitively, teamwork. When you define your top challenge -- and I serve as your guide, thought partner, sounding board, and accountability coach -- you elevate your performance.

Each engagement includes:

An intake questionnaire that gets you thinking before we even begin our first session.

Three 75-minute sessions on Zoom or by phone. In these deep-dive conversations, we get to the root of your challenge and identify achievable goals to begin addressing it.
Email check-ins between sessions. Curated resources and email introductions, when appropriate.

It's an investment with major ROI, and typically paid for by a client's organization as a training expense. Access to me to process and problem-solve issues as they come up between sessions is available for an additional fee.

Working with me, you identify your key challenge or pain point; receive actionable tools and advice that are specific to your situation; set realistic goals between sessions; and gain clarity, confidence, and peace of mind.

About me:

As a leadership consultant, I transform frustrated, overwhelmed groups into cohesive, high-performing teams. People call me the Team Whisperer. As an executive coach, I bring the same strategic, team-oriented approach to one-on-one work with individual leaders.

In my 20 years of navigating corporate, entrepreneurial, and nonprofit settings, I’ve experienced the highs, the lows, and the isolation of leadership.

My clients hire -- and re-hire -- me for executive coaching because my questions, tools, and insights about their biggest challenges propel them forward, with accountability that’s very hard to DIY. They succeed because they approach our work with a growth mindset; believe in investing in themselves, and truly implement the strategies I teach.

Your new skills, tools, and confidence will change how you lead and work from our very first session together. Are you ready for the next level of leadership? Let’s talk.

I'm ready, let’s schedule

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Testimonials

I hired you when I seemingly had too much on my plate, affecting my work as an architect and my life. “To Do” goals remained untouched:

Displaying models of clients' architecture projects. (They sat in disarray around my desk.)
Creating an easy-access library of material samples. (Tile, fabric, and paint chips, etc., needed to be culled through and reorganized.)
Actually going to yoga a second time per week. (When I turned 50, I made it a goal to do yoga twice a week; two years later, still only once a week!)

Your strategies, personal stories, and gentle accountability gave me the push I needed.
Yes, I completed all of those undone things!
And I think of you every time I effortlessly find the paint sample I need.

- Angie Lipski, MMW Architects

Working with Janna sharpened my professional confidence and identity as a CEO. Going in, I had a ton of ideas – arrows heading in different directions. I now have clarity about where I’m headed and how I’m going to get there.

- Maaliea Wilbur, TherapyWorks

I hired Janna because I was confused about how to navigate a complex situation at work, during a phase of fast-paced growth and leadership turnover. Together, we developed a plan on where to focus and, more importantly, where to let go. After working with her, I have clarity on my priorities. I’m able to remind myself of my “big picture.”

— Senior Manager, VC-funded Healthcare Start-Up

Getting started with Janna, I had hoped to increase my effectiveness in dealing with difficult situations with my staff. Now, I’m more confident in being able to coach my team members. I plan to use the techniques we talked about to deal with issues - and to address them immediately rather than let them get backed up. I look forward to continuing with this positive pattern.

— Cheri McCarthy, Department Director, The University of Montana Western