Leader's Insight

A Thinking Partnership for Effective Execution

Janet Steinwedel, PhD

Janet Steinwedel, PhD, is the President of Leader’s Insight, an Executive Coaching and Leadership Effectiveness consultancy. Janet provides thought leadership as a consultant and executive coach. She assists leaders in clarifying their goals and objectives and becoming more aware of themselves and their behaviors in service to their aspirations and business results. With 25 years of experience working in industries including pharmaceutical, health care, financial services, insurance, communications, retail, and hospitality, Janet works effectively with a broad range of leaders. She uses an analytical framework which provides a foundational understanding of personality and human behavior—conscious and unconscious processes.

Area of Focus

Areas of focus include relationship building and stakeholder management; personal branding, communication and collaboration; creating and sustaining work/life balance; critical thinking and decision making; issues of diversity and cross-cultural working; and developing agility and resilience for success in today’s work place.

25 Years of Experience

Janet has held significant leadership roles including Senior Director of Leadership and Business Effectiveness at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, where she led Executive Coaching, Leadership, Organizational Development and Diversity groups; Assistant Vice President of Leadership and Organization Development at Delaware Investments; and Director of The 5th Avenue Club at Saks Fifth Avenue.

A Recognized Leader

Her work and achievements have been profiled in Investors Business Daily, Fortune Magazine, U.S. News and World Report among others. She is published in the November 2006 Global Business and Organizational Excellence journal*.

Janet earned her doctorate in Human and Organizational Systems and is a regular speaker on Leadership and Executive Coaching topics. She is a 25 year member of the Philadelphia Human Resource Planning Society where she has held various leadership roles, most recently as leader of the Delaware Local Area Network. Janet is also a member of The Delaware Valley Association for Psychological Type.

*Developing Global Leaders: Executive Coaching Targets Cross-Cultural Competencies

Alliances

Leader’s Insight wants to ensure the best resources for the opportunities that come our way, as well as a timely response to client needs. Having interviewed hundreds of coaches and consultants, primarily on the East Coast, USA, Dr. Steinwedel has numerous contacts in the business

Leader’s Insight regularly draws on a small alliance of individuals with specialty skills and leadership strengths –individuals who align with our core values of integrity, fairness, accountability, excellence, respect and innovation.

The men and women who align with Leader’s Insight are experienced and excel as organizational development consultants, HR consultants, leadership and executive coaches, as well as business coaches (focused largely on the business, including finance and operations, as opposed to relationship, network, and personal development).

Our alliances are committed to their ongoing personal and professional development. They have a balance of both internal and external consulting experience, ensuring they understand the context of organizational life, and the stresses and challenges that come with such roles.

Janet Steinwedel

Our roster of past and present clients includes:

  • ⤷ Anesthesia Services, P.A.
  • ⤷ ARAMARK
  • ⤷ AstraZeneca
  • ⤷ Centocor
  • ⤷ Christiana Care Health System
  • ⤷ CSLBehring
  • ⤷ Dupont
  • ⤷ GlaxoSmithKline
  • ⤷ Johnson & Johnson Internal Ventures
  • ⤷ Labopharm
  • ⤷ ModSpace
  • ⤷ Shire

“Working with Janet one-on-one and in small group has been the most rewarding experience I've ever had.”

SVP, Heath Care System

“The pre-reading and handouts were so carefully chosen at some point we had to stop being surprised by the serendipity and realize the brilliance in the design.”

SVP, Financial Services

“The combination of journaling, reading assignments, peer coaching and poetry was magical—truly transformative.”

SVP, Strategic Planning