Janet Collins is a strategic coach and facilitator helping organizations thrive in an ever-changing world. She has a proven track record of success in key leadership roles in all size businesses – large public and privately held companies, venture funded start-ups, and most recently at a mid-size family business as President of GMi Companies. Janet believes in building transparent collaborative teams, strategic thinking, challenging the norms, and taking action.
The status quo will never be safe with Janet around as she has a voracious intellectual appetite and pursues the truth with relentless abandon. She’s a true “mover and shaker” and relishes the opportunity to push boundaries and find the right answers.
— Matt Gresge, President & CEO, Next Major
As a partner at TurningPoint Strategy, Janet is passionate about helping leaders transform organizations, through developing high-performance cultures, strategic priorities, and organizational alignment to deliver top and bottom line results. Like the name implies, organizations look to her when they are at a turning point.
Janet has great energy and a positive demeanor with a can-do attitude that is infectious. Janet is very practical in her approach to dealing with issues and opportunities and has great instinct in finding root causes. She focuses on making sure she clearly understands the problem before trying to fix it and keeps teams focused on simple solutions without overcomplicating.
— Jeff Lloyd, Owner/Vice President, Centric Consulting
Prior to GMi Companies, Janet held Vice President of Marketing positions at WorkflowOne, Synchrony Communications, and LexisNexis. She has over 7 years of experience as an independent strategy and marketing consultant and is also a certified facilitator of the Leadership Challenge Workshop. She has also implemented a number of other culture and leadership programs, including Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Leadership and Self-Deception and Energy Leadership.
Janet brings a measured, common-sense approach to decision-making, and has the innate curiosity and business instincts that define a successful business leader….
— Patrick Spear, President & CEO at GMDC
Janet received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business (Marketing) from Miami University