biography
With over 20 years of corporate and senior level recruiting experience, Janice has worked extensively with top management and Boards of Directors on organizational development, executive compensation, succession planning and branding initiatives. Her broad industry experience includes insurance, healthcare, banking and asset management.
Janice’s most recent corporate position was as Senior Vice President with Ambac Financial Group, a diversified financial services company, where she was responsible for marketing, human resources and administration. As a member of Ambac’s Executive Committee, she helped take the company public after a spin-off from Citibank in 1991. Prior to Ambac, Janice held positions at Citibank, where she had worldwide Human Resource responsibility for the Global Insurance Division, (and prior for their Card Products Group) and at Pfizer in their Consumer Products Division.
In May 2007, the second book Janice has co-authored will be published. Driving The Career Highway (Thomas Nelson) will offer a virtual road map that illustrates the twenty most compelling problems that can cause people to detour, stall, get lost or crash on their own career path. In 2001, Janice co-authored, What Every Successful Woman Knows: 12 Breakthrough Strategies to Get the Power and Ignite Your Career (McGraw-Hill), acknowledged by Business Week as “the best of its genre” and she contributed a chapter to Wealthy & Wise: (Secrets About Money) (John Wiley & Sons, 2002). She has also received the WLIW21 Award In Excellence for her contribution to “Excellence in Economic Development” for women.
Janice holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Development from Rider College and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Iowa. She serves as a Board Director on the University of Iowa Foundation, Vice Chair of the YMCA, and is on the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Additionally, Janice is a member of the Women’s Forum and The Economic Club of New York.
A native New Yorker, Janice resides in New York City with her husband.