Jan has worked in the area of leadership for over twenty five years. She brings a wealth of experience and insight to her work supporting the development of leaders, aspirants and leadership teams across a diverse range of organisations in Australia and internationally (Vietnam, Thailand, UAE, South Pacific).

Jan is driven by a desire to increase the confidence and capability of leaders through the delivery of quality programs and services that cater to the clients needs. Her style of facilitation and coaching provides an important balance of theory and practice to enable leaders to accelerate their learning and apply their skills ‘on the job’. Supporting individual principals and leadership teams ‘in situ’ to enable them to develop high performing organisations is Jan’s passion. Her clients give testimony to her ability to coach people to reach their potential by building strong and trusting relationships that enables challenge and support. At a system level her experience includes the successful development and implementation of system wide leadership capability standards and frameworks, developing and directing leadership assessment centres, designing and facilitating successful coaching, mentoring and work shadowing programs and leading a range of recognised strategies for increasing the career opportunities and progression of women in education.

In 2010, Jan was a recipient of the prestigious Australia Endeavour Award where she spent three months working with principals and system leaders in the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training. Her work in Hanoi included contributing to reshaping the curriculum and methodology for the National Institute for Education Management’s principal induction and training program and providing strategic advice on successful contemporary leadership development strategies and systems. In recent years, she has made a significant commitment to supporting the capacity building of leaders in developing countries through her coaching work with the CEO and leadership team of a growing social enterprise in Vietnam, KOTO.
She recently accepted an invitation to join the KOTO Board as a Director.

Career highlights include – Foundational Director of Programs Queensland Education Leadership Institute, Co-convenor Association of Women Educators and Manager Workforce Capability and Performance, Queensland Department of Education and Training.

Jan was awarded an ACEL Fellowship (Queensland) in 2011 in recognition for her ‘outstanding contribution to the development of leaders and aspiring leaders across the state’.