President & Founder

Jane has more than 20 years of experience building marketing and communications strategies for leading technology, healthcare and financial services brands. Her early work was with business-to-consumer (b2c) companies like Perrier, Rollerblade and Black & Decker. She took her market testing b2c expertise to the business to business space helping large enterprise brands like IBM, Morgan Stanley Capital International, Fidelity and Microsoft Health to transform their client experience.

For fun:
Jane is an avid runner and cyclist and can be found on the soccer pitch. She enjoys traveling and exploring new parts of the world with her family.

Professional organizations:
EO (Entrepreneurs Organization), The Boston Club, The Commonwealth Institute, Boston Chamber of Commerce. Jane is also actively involved and on the boards of several non-profit organizations.

Education:
Jane has a BA from the University of Western Ontario, Canada and an MS from Boston University.

Let’s Stop Pretending We are Good at Multi-Tasking

The brain is not designed to multi-task effectively when you need to focus. If we all stopped multi-tasking in meetings, we believe we could cut meeting time in half.

Customer Advocates are Your Content Engine

Content marketing is a growing area of investment. Building content that connects to prospects and customers can be most powerful by enlisting your customer advocates.

Do you Know What Your Customers Value?

Understanding what your customer values is critical to building trust, winning the sale and sustaining a relationship over time. Often sales leaders can assume what is valued without asking the questions required to know for certain.

Customer Advisory Boards: Invest in Your Customer

Deeply understanding the needs and requirements of your customers requires an investment. Investment of time to establish strong relationships and trust with your customers; that trust will lead to hearing their honest assessments of your business model, products, services and people.

Tips for Building Highly Productive Meetings

Executives spend more than half of their time locked away in meetings, yet many of these meetings are not focused on results and are poorly facilitated. Looking to build more productive meetings? It isn’t that difficult, commit to outcomes.

Measure Your Teams on Customer Outcomes Not Contract Delivery

B2B leaders often measure their teams on contract terms and SLAs instead of customer outcomes and business goals. This is short sighted and can result in limited engagements.

Customer Advisory Boards: The Value of a Feedback Loop

In our experience, Customer Advisory Boards serve as a very important qualitative method for receiving input and feedback on your strategy and goals. Clients share their experiences with products, services and their views of how well or poorly the company shows up in the marketplace.

It’s All About the Follow Through…

Too often we spend a lot of money on events and programs without focusing on the post meeting follow through. Plan with the end in sight.

Human Interaction Matters in an Age of “Frictionless”

Frictionless seems to be all the rage of late. Frictionless banking… frictionless shopping, frictionless insurance. By frictionless we really mean, removing the people from the equation and letting us get what we want and need directly. And I get it »