Jan Gelman
Facilitator and Coach
Email: jan@becauz.com
Jan Gelman is a coach, facilitator and leadership development professional known for her ability to combine curiosity and directness to help leaders get to the heart of their challenges quickly. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience as a senior leader in business, media and technology with companies such as Capital Cities/ABC, Sierra On-Line and GiftCertificates.com, she has unique insight into the complex demands that her clients face.
Jan has been an internal leadership consultant at Washington State Labor & Industries and an external consultant with organizations such as Microsoft, Expedia, Point B, and Peer 1. She works with leaders, teams and organizations around the world and is deeply interested in how cultural differences and rank impact relationships and performance. She is passionate about seeing her clients succeed and focuses on helping them make healthy choices, move past self-imposed limitations, and take initiative to drive business results.
Jan has also written numerous business and lifestyle articles for New York Magazine, Selling magazine, MSN and MSNBC; and published books for young adults with Alfred A. Knopf and Simon & Schuster. She holds a Master of Arts degree in applied behavioral science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle and a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is certified in Emotional Intelligence assessments and works with the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI).