Jan Gelman
Known for her authenticity and ability to combine compassion, curiosity and directness, Jan Gelman is a leadership coach and organization development consultant who helps leaders distill their core challenges. Whether she is working with CEOs or front line personnel, Jan believes her clients are fully capable and that her role is to encourage them to take initiative, move past self-imposed limitations, and rise to their potential.
Prior to joining BECAUZ, Jan worked as an internal leadership consultant at Washington State Labor & Industries, and as an external consultant with organizations such as Microsoft, General Electric, Bug Music/Windswept, Point B, Peer 1, Whitepages.com, CarDomain, ShareBuilder, SumTotal Systems, King County Metro Transit, FareStart and Gage Academy of Art.
Her experience with Microsoft spans more than twelve years, and includes coaching senior managers across the company, delivering Leadership Challenge workshops for SMSG ExPo, and facilitating Management Excellence Foundation and Midterm training events, as well as strategy and website work with MSN and MSCOM.
Jan holds a MA in Applied Behavioral Science, with a focus on coaching and consulting in organizations, from the Leadership Institute of Seattle at Bastyr University, and a BS in Journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is certified in Genos' Emotional Intelligence assessments and development tools and works with Jim Kouzes' and Barry Posner's Leadership Practices Inventory.