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Janet Harvey

Janet Harvey

"Bold, curious, compelling, provocative, evocative, challenging, respectful, compassionate and unconditional; these are the qualities I aspire to embody as a professional coach whether I am engaged with an executive or a team in an organization, a coach seeking greater mastery or with individuals who are in a life transition. I am passionate about the transformative impulse that awakens when we pursue deep awareness and harvest an inner clarity that fuels our essential expression, freeing our individual, unique and powerful presence in the world. The dynamic state of becoming that is being a human affords living, learning and leaning into opportunity and I feel privileged and gratitude to walk on another’s path for a while as a professional coach."

Areas of Expertise

Executive leadership coaching and development; generating and communicating vision, facilitating executive collaboration, inspiring strategic thinking and team commitment to same, creating environments that breed both innovation and accountability for effective results.

Coaching Experience

Executive Development — assists executives in adopting effective habits of perception and behavior to lead and accelerate corporate strategies; specific emphasis on preparation for expanded sphere of influence, budget responsibility, and strategic leadership and Board relationship management.

Executive Competency – address specific executive leadership skills; clarity of vision articulation and inspiration of organization at large, enable respectful challenge, debate and collaboration of strategic business choices, risk/reward critical thinking about investments and shareholder value; leadership succession for individuals and executive teams, architect and sustain cultural/strategic change.

Janet M. Harvey has worked in manufacturing, pharmaceutical, financial services and business to business services industries with individuals at the Board of Directors, “C” Chair, Executive and Senior Management levels. She specializes in times of transition, the period during which an individual experiences accelerated growth that requires a surrender of old habits and beliefs that are limiting in order to adopt an expanded capacity for the long view of the business and the development of strategies and operating plans that enable sustainable use of both financial and human capital.

Client Results

  • Financial Services CEO coached for processes in developing executive team for transition from private equity to IPO and operation as a public company; organizational size tripled in 14 months, 95% retention of executive team, 16% organizational growth sustained for five years after the IPO.
  • Manufacturing President, (steel) coached for strategic business acumen and team collaboration architected overhaul of “go to market” strategy and global positioning implemented in less time than BOD mandate and achieved accelerated revenue targets exceeded expectations.
  • Divisional Sales Director (advanced medical device manufacturer), coached for relationship building, visioning and collaboration skills assigned to highly risky new product line; achieved record time approval from the FDA and exceeded sales team development and revenue targets 15 months ahead of schedule.

Professional Certifications & Achievements

  • International Coach Federation, Master Certified Coach
  • inviteCHANGE Certified Mentor Coach
  • Living Your Vision® Licensed Facilitator
  • Certified Professional Coach (CPC) Training Program, Academy for Coach Training (now known as inviteCHANGE), 2004
  • ICF Global Board Member
  • ICF Puget Sound Coaches Association, Past-President
  • Certified Facilitator, Measurable Management
  • Certified Facilitator, TCI Team Diagnostic Assessment
  • Voice Dialogue, Facilitator & Coaching Certification
  • Birkman Method Advance Certification (Individual, Team, 360)
  • MBTI Assessment & Interpretation
  • Instructional Design Certification
  • Certified Group Facilitation Instructor; Master Facilitator Certification
  • Decker Communications Planning & Presentation
  • Author:  Influential Leadership [Powerful Leadership Skills:  A Guide To Getting It]

Professional Experience

  • inviteCHANGE Partner — 2005 - Present
  • Clarity International, Inc., Founder & CEO — 1998-2005
  • Manchester Consulting Group, Inc., Founder & CEO — 1996 - 1998
  • Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., Senior Officer in San Francisco HQ — 1983-1996
  • General Mills; Haymaker Sports, Regional Sales — 1979-1983

Education

  • M.A. Organizational Development & Human Resource Management, summa cum laude, valedictorian, University of San Francisco
  • B.S. Economics, B.A. Finance, magna cum laude, San Francisco State University