Jane P. Lawson :: Executive Coach | The Leadership Journey

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Jane is a leadership coach and strategic advisor to business leaders and their teams who are committed to breakthrough results in performance and profits.

With a strong corporate and business background, Jane and her colleagues specialize in providing one-on-one coaching and mentoring for senior executives and business owners who are committed to achieving excellence and balance in their life and business.

Jane’s career as a business and leadership development coach is a natural evolution of 25 years’ experience in sales, operations, marketing and management. As CEO and owner of a $5 million corporate travel management company for more than 14 of those years, she is intimately experienced in the multitude of challenges in the lives of people in leadership positions. During this time, her accomplishments included negotiating and implementing buy-outs/mergers of several smaller agencies for a 35 percent increase in profits; developing two international wholesale operations for specialty markets; being founder and first president of Houston Executive Women In Travel; and was acknowledged in the top ten list of travel agencies for three years by the Houston Business Journal.

In 1990, Jane sold her company and shifted her career path from developing business to developing people. Since that time, Jane has partnered with hundreds of entrepreneurs and leaders in Fortune 500 companies who are committed to their own personal and professional success. By education and passion, Jane is an Applied Behavioral Scientist, focused on developing high performing leaders and their teams.

Jane is a graduate of Coach University, the premier virtual training and development organization in the coaching profession. In March of 1999, Jane received her Master Certified Coach Certificate from the International Coach Federation, and is certified as a Behavior and Values ...[read more >>>]

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Jane and her colleagues consult with and speak to organizations, executives and businesses, which seek to:

transform the culture of their organizations for higher efficiencies of performance and profit.
develop their high potentials in key leadership competencies such as building a shared vision, engaging teams to take responsibility for the success of the whole while focusing on valuable bottom line results.
be successful by being clear about their values, purpose and goals and unleashing the energies of their people.
place a strong emphasis on individual and collective learning and innovation.

Jane's speaking and consultation is presented from the perspective that everyone has a seed of leadership in his or her soul. Jane believes the world desperately needs personal and organizational leadership. She believes we have a responsibility to whatever environment we choose and to always strive for win-win solutions and extraordinary outcomes.

Hire Jane to help feed and water the seed of leadership, and to reveal the real leader in you, and learn the skills and talents required to direct and re-direct your own life's course.
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