About

Over 125 academic health centers and 35 professional societies have invited her presentations and consultations. During the 25 years prior to creating her own coaching business, Janet held positions of increasing leadership at the Association of American Medical Colleges, including Associate Vice President for Medical School Affairs. She established an influential Office of Women in Medicine, including a series of leadership development programs that have stimulated the careers of thousands of women physicians and scientists. She has served the renowned Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program in multiple capacities.

In addition to her memoir, Janet has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and three books: book Equip your Inner Coach: Personal, Career, and Leadership Development in an Uncertain Age (2022), Women in Medicine: Getting In, Growing, and Advancing (2000) and Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education (2000), edited with Delese Wear.

Between 1972-76, Janet served as founding admissions, financial aid and student affairs officer at the new Brown University Medical School. She holds a M.A. in sociology from Brown University and an A.B. in English from University of Missouri-Columbia. She has completed Relationship Centered Health Care’s fellowships (Courage to Lead and Leading Organizations to Health) and NTL Institute’s Human Interaction Laboratory on Transforming Interpersonal Relationships, and has participated in Authentic Leadership in Action’s Shambhala Summer Institute.

Janet gardens, bikes, and writes in Falls Church, Virginia.