TESTIMONIALS

Ms. Janelle Romano is a model leader because of her expertise in areas such as Change Management, Political Savvy, and Research/Innovation. She is an influential leader just by example but her other super-power is executive coaching. As a newly promoted Technical Director for a 250-person organization, the scope of my leadership demands grew exponentially so I desperately needed coaching. Ms. Romano devoted many hours to my growth during 1-on-1 sessions, where I regularly continued the conversation well beyond my allotted time. Her pragmatism and sharp questions challenged me to think outside the box, which is where I learned the true meaning of empathy. The key to successful leadership. After these sessions, I always felt empowered to practice new leadership methods by putting them into action.

I am pleased to let others know just how talented a Janelle R. is as an Executive Coach. Truth be told, her last initial really stands for Rockstar. Beyond just “speaking up,” she coached me through seeing ways to engage meaningfully to move my agenda and the organization forward. She also helped me get clarity in my role as Deputy and transform my frequent frustrations with my situation into action. I would often come into our sessions emotional and upset at the way I was being treated. Janelle transformed those valid feelings into meaningful, professional outcomes.

I am now in a new role leading a new organization. I speak up, I challenge the status quo professionally, and am moving my organization forward transforming the culture and the mission. Janelle helped me build confidence in myself. I already had these skills, I just needed to apply them. I am better for having worked with Janelle. I truly believe she cared about helping me grow and prosper.

Janelle is a wonderful professional coach who asks questions to understand the problem and then works with her client to set up a plan ensuring that they hold themselves accountable for future endeavors. She posed powerful questions to make me really think about where I wanted to be in 5-10 years. I would highly recommend Janelle to anyone as a coach, but especially to women who might be struggling with their next career steps or balancing work and home obligations.

I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been coached by Janelle and credit my success in leadership roles to her. Her strength as a coach stems from her unique experiences and wealth of knowledge as a transformative and impactful senior executive leader who many aspire to emulate.

As someone who was new to leadership and navigating a complicated situation that pushed me well outside my comfort zone, working with Janelle enabled me to build confidence as a leader. Through our one-on-one sessions and her guiding questions, we developed a strategy to help me overcome the roadblocks I was facing and assert my identity as the lead of a research team. Every aspiring leader would be lucky to have Janelle as their coach.

Janelle’s coaching helped me ask the right questions of myself and others to accomplish my goals. In addition, she worked with me to find tools and techniques for balancing decisiveness and thoughtfulness. These sessions allowed me to develop a leadership style that fosters ownership and empowers individuals to reach their full potential. I highly recommend working with Janelle; her coaching style helped me build the trust and influence I needed to run an effective organization.

Harvey Firestone said, "the growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." Janelle Romano embodies that sentiment. Her coaching style strikes a balance between coaching, asking powerful questions, and challenging to induce honest introspection, exploit strengths, reduce blind-spots, and improve self-awareness. She quickly pinpoints the crux of a problem to help me analyze the situation, target the issues, and zero in on a plan. I attribute a lot of my recent success in navigating a difficult period in my career to Janelle. She is a trusted advisor who routinely helps others to reach their full potential.

Janelle is instantly disarming, engaging, and genuinely interested in helping me solve problems, set goals, and work towards them. She has a keen awareness of the barriers and challenges we face in our professional and personal lives, and she taught me how to navigate the complexities of both simultaneously. Janelle also showed me how to be introspective – find the limits of my own understanding and independently construct and evaluate competing courses of action toward personal success. Her coaching was the foundation to my most important early/mid-career transition, and it ultimately led me to secure development assignments with executives and full-time leadership roles in the aerospace and defense industry. I couldn’t recommend Janelle more highly. She helped build my ability to organize, evaluate, and pursue the best opportunities for my future.