Janet is Principal Managing Partner at Evolution, providing executive coaching and leadership development to founders, C-suite and senior leaders in the tech ecosystem. She has over 20 years of experience in coaching and mentoring others to lead from their core values. Specifically, her work focuses on building leadership and culture to sustain innovation, execution and soul through rapid growth, public company readiness, acquisitions and IPOs. She has worked with clients including Facebook, Pinterest, Slack, Google, Eero, Uber Elevate and Kiva among others.
Previously she was a Senior Consultant with Axialent, a global consulting company specializing in leadership, team performance and culture. She also has operational experience in market analysis, product management, business development and fundraising. She was Manager of International Market Analysis at US West (later Qwest and now CenturyLink) and Product Manager at International Learning Systems where she worked with Fortune 500 clients to leverage organizational knowledge through emerging web-based technologies.
Janet holds a BA degree in History with a focus on African-American and Asian-American history and graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She also holds an MA degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and has practiced as a psychotherapist focusing on sensorimotor approaches to healing trauma, executive functioning, and attention.
Her work is influenced by a variety of interests and study: neuroscience, sensorimotor regulation, neurodiversity, transpersonal psychology, world wisdom traditions and non-ordinary flow states. She has been a student of meditation for over 20 years in the Tibetan tradition and teaches it to interested clients.
More personally, she enjoys her family, international travel, good food and wine, running, hiking, mountain biking, trying to stand up on a surfboard, and generally being outdoors.