Jan is co-founder and president of Applied Research Corporation, a specialized leadership development company focused on assessing, coaching, and talent management.  She embodies the rare blend of entrepreneurship and coach to C-Suite executives in a multiple of industries.  She is a highly sought after advisor to newly appointed executives as they transition into their new responsibilities.

Jan was senior vice president at Bristol-Myers Squibb responsible for Executive Resources and vice president for executive development at Bankers Trust Company.  In her varied career, she also was the co-producer and on air host of the award winning weekly PBS primetime news show - Women: Choices and Challenges.

She is a founding member of the National Association of Corporate Board of Directors-NJ and a trustee for Trinitas Hospital, the Arts and Education Council of NJ and a board member for the Chamber of Commerce and with the Clausen Company.  She also was the first woman elected as President of the American Society for Training and Development. 

She holds a master's degree in behavioral science from Boston University and has taught at Georgetown and University of Maryland.

She has published numerous articles on leadership and a book on why leaders fail is due out in 2008.