When empathy meets insight, good things happen.

With a focus on empathy and insight, Janet Thirlby facilitates organizational change by cultivating conversations and guiding leaders toward greater professional development. Her approach emphasizes encouraging clients to recognize their shared responsibility to each other and to their business. Through Janet’s supportive coaching, leaders discover valuable new ways to inspire their teams and fine-tune their work, all in the service of their mission. From high-tech start-ups to Fortune 50 brands, to Public Charter Schools and Community Health Centers, Janet’s clientele have all come to know her unique combination of emotional intelligence and industry experience. Her distinctive, approachable style can help spark valuable, sustainable change from within.

Janet can support you in your greatest challenges.

Whether your organization is contending with teams that don’t quite click, burdensome regulations, or just too much to do, Janet’s enthusiasm for problem-solving can foster open communication, smooth the rough edges of work-life, and relieve the pressure of the overwhelmed. She loves to help teams work through their greatest challenges and make the complex simple.

Consulting

Consulting is designed to support leadership teams in achieving their ideal future. Teams are guided through an evidence-based process for crafting a bold and inspiring vision of the future, and for implementing a system for actualizing that dream.

Workshops

Workshops are designed for not-for-profit leaders, boards of directors, teachers, and parents. Topics consider the challenges of our day and are focused on building a vibrant culture of collaboration, trust, and mutual accountability.

Coaching

Coaching is provided for individuals and teams. Coaching follows the needs of individuals and teams, and results in optimized performance, relationships, and wellbeing.

success stories

See how Janet helped others.

Preparing a medical practice for growth and success

Since 1978, when Dr. Bill and Susan Morehouse opened His Branches on Arnett Blvd. in Rochester, N.Y., the small primary care medical practice had been evolving. The organization achieved status as 501(s)3, not-for-profit ministry, it opened an additional clinic, and in 2015 hired Janet Thirlby as a strategic planning consultant to help prepare for the next 40 years of service to the community.

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Teaching a charter school to envision a bigger future

As Ross Montessori School in Carbondale, Colorado, was approaching its tenth anniversary in 2014, the leadership knew it was time to think about the next phase of the institution’s work. How to adapt to a changing world? What trends would shape the surrounding community? How to cultivate strong leaders to move the school forward?

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Let’s get to work.

From executive coaching to strategic planning to action learning and rapid cycle improvement, Janet’s consulting expertise can help your leaders forge a bright future for their organization grounded in best practices, clearly defined goals, and led by an inspired team.

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