JANICE WON

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Janice Won is an Executive Coach and Consultant who uses her 25+ years of human resources and business experience with a global Fortune 50 company, nonprofit organizations and government agencies to enhance leadership effectiveness of executives. Her coaching clarifies vision, hones purpose and develops leadership excellence in the workplace. Successful coaching of Asian and multicultural talent requires a profound understanding of how to communicate about corporate culture with this critical succession and advancement pool. Janice's background and experience make her particularly adept at developing Asian and multicultural talent. She is known for the multitude of ways she infuses greater leadership capacity into organizations.

In recent years, Janice coached executive talent in major corporations, government and nonprofit organizations to advance their careers and manage challenging transitions arising out of mergers, acquisitions and downsizings. She has provided consulting services to organizations in the areas of executive transition, merger integration and employee resource group development.

Before founding The WON Principles, Janice, as a Senior Vice President of Human Resources with JPMorgan Chase, advanced corporate diversity initiatives, coached business executives on effectively managing change, and increased profitability through transformational initiatives. During her 20+ year career, she held roles as human resources director, diversity leader and employee relations executive. Her reputation was that of a diplomatic coalition builder forging internal and external partnerships to achieve best practice policies and programs with organization and industry-wide impact. Janice was a founding member of the Asian employee network which she grew to 1200 across the U.S., and the first-ever women of color employee network on Wall St.

Janice believes in giving back to the community through her nonprofit board service and working with nonprofits to build leadership capacity at the board and staff level. She is co-founder and serves as executive vice president for the Asian Women Leadership Network, previously served on the board of the New York Chinese Cultural Center and was interim director for the Asian American Arts Alliance.