“Janet’s approach is empowering, compassionate, and motivating. Our work together was formative in my professional development, leading a newly formed team during a time of transition. Her coaching helped me lead with greater focus, generosity, intuition, and trust. She balanced practical skills I could apply weekly with reflection, inspiring greater awareness. This led to stronger performance and more sustainable productivity. I strongly recommend Janet. Working with her is inspiring.”

“Janet is a powerhouse when it comes to communications. I hired her for my ACE Board Training programs to help executive women prep for corporate board interviews and guidance in a video series. Janet came in extremely prepared, and we all received valuable takeaways to utilize immediately. When I have an important communications need, I call on Janet because I know I will improve and receive valuable techniques I can use forever. Through our coaching sessions, Janet has catapulted me into the stratosphere, and I am so grateful.”

“I have had the pleasure of working with Janet Watson for over seven years through the Center for Teaching Excellence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Janet served as a valued coach for both our ladder and professional faculty at Haas. She was recently promoted to Senior Coach due to her outstanding work and high ratings from faculty and is the only coach to earn this distinction. Janet is an extraordinarily talented teaching and presentation coach. Working with her is a pleasure as she has a can-do attitude, is very positive and extremely professional. She has been able to work successfully with some of our most challenging faculty. I give Janet my highest professional recommendation.”

“Janet is a skilled facilitator. She’s able to keep the group on track and she’s also skilled at improvising when facing the gift of the unexpected. She is gracious, generous, intuitive, and adept at modifying and innovating to foster amazing group experiences.”

“Janet was an AMAZING communications coach. She was compassionate, insightful and had many helpful tips and exercises that have transformed me as a teacher. She is truly the goddess of teaching.”

“I worked with Janet when cellular was in its infancy and I had been tasked with convincing California that it was more than a business tool. This meant developing messaging, and training for the media. I needed someone who could help me take this exotic tool and popularize it. Janet came highly recommended, and I’m glad we hired her. Not only did she help me with my presentation, she researched the industry, and focused on points the public would respond to. I was so pleased with my relationship with her, and her coaching that I have since referred her to many clients and coworkers. The response from all who have worked with her has been overwhelmingly positive.”

“I have only the highest regard for the work of Janet Watson. I engaged her on several occasions to work one-on-one with Berkeley faculty who could benefit from custom tailored coaching. The faculty members not only enjoyed their coaching sessions, but benefitted enormously from Janet’s work, as their teaching skills improved dramatically. Janet consistently provides us a great service.”

“Janet did an amazing job showing (not telling) our UC Berkeley graduating seniors (and their Professor) how to give an effective and memorable presentation. I heard rave reviews from the students — one said she learned more from Janet in an hour than she did in some multi-day communications trainings. I am so impressed with the way Janet was able to get the students to workshop their presentations while in class, so that they could truly digest and employ the key methods for success. I’m certain that we will all remember how to build and deliver a stellar talk and communicate better thanks to Janet’s fantastic engaging lesson.”

“Awesome teacher and great communicator! She shared the latest and greatest working information by bringing real world experience to the forefront of our communication classes. Janet was always willing to answer questions, provide personalized feedback and pushes you to do your best. Highly recommend any class she teaches!”

“With her extensive experience in executive coaching, acting and university teaching, Janet was the ideal performance coach for my classes in “Acting with Power” at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. We collaborated, facilitated and dove deeply into knowledge sharing with the Stanford MBAs’ and elevated every aspect of the students’ business performance. It was a treat to work alongside Janet with her passion to coach others in developing their own communication skill set.”

“I have worked with Janet Watson and learned from her for almost 10 years. I met Janet through Mozilla, where she expertly facilitated dozens of onboarding sessions, a program that created deep community connections between its cohorts. I’ve also personally relied on Janet for formal and informal professional development coaching over the years, and am drawn to her ability to simultaneously support and challenge me. She is dedicated to female empowerment, and has many super powers to share!!!”

“Janet was an expert speaker at the Board Certification Program in which I was a cohort in Nov 2020. She spoke on “How You Show Up Matters – Presenting Your Best Self”. Her highly impactful training gave practical tips on showing up consistently as executives and board directors with leadership presence and poise. With virtual meetings becoming a common place for board meetings, annual reviews and strategy calls, it is not easy to maintain a consistent presence of our best self. Her methods were easy to pick up immediately and make a lot of sense. Janet is so easy to talk to and work with. She recently moderated a speaking event in which I was part of a panel addressing how to own our power as female leaders. Janet was crucial in driving very honest, candid and valuable conversations. Without her dedication to prepare and guiding us through this topic, we would not have been able to deliver powerful messages to the audience. I highly recommend Janet for all your leadership communication needs.”

“While I’ve been coaching people on the fundamentals of career and job change since the late 80s, when it comes to working with senior executives in academia or at the board level I consistently refer people to Janet. With her extensive experience as a leadership and performance coach, corporate spokesperson, and executive communication expert, Janet understands subtle nuance and excels at custom designing leadership and communications programs. She’s extremely collaborative, agile and insightful when focusing on solutions for problem issues. Her leadership communication coaching expertise is extensive and impressive.”

“Janet’s coaching is substantive, focused and custom tailored. Being on the frontline as an MD I’m required to often speak on my specialty. I secured Janet to coach me on my professional communication style and my executive presence on stage. We used video practice as a tool to assess my strengths and opportunities. Then, guided by clear objectives, Janet and I worked seamlessly to discover my natural style, highlight resonant language and actually have fun! I’ve recommended Janet to colleagues and family for their own coaching needs as she is a delight to work.”

“Janet is an outstanding executive coach. We began working together when I was in a very difficult and sometimes overwhelming work situation. I had left a position, in which I had much success, for another where I was struggling and needed assistance navigating the new environment. Janet developed strategic tools to help me filter out external noise and focus on the elements of my leadership role which enabled success. She brings clarity, fosters self-awareness, and launched me on a path for continued personal and professional growth.”

“Janet reflects a super combination of inspiration and real-world practical. She worked with me on my executive presence especially in presenting to large groups. Janet improved my confidence and execution in two key ways 1) helping me first identify and then work to change the negative “talk track” that I had (and I fear many other women have) going around in the brain, and 2) leading me through a process of discovering what specific tools and processes I needed to use and follow in order to ensure success.”

“Janet’s insight and coaching was just what I needed to kick start my career. She helped me identify my strengths and abilities, find a language for highlighting my achievements without sounding arrogant, and gave me specific tools that I can use to grow in my position and advance my career. Janet is a consummate professional with great communication knowledge and expertise and helped me develop strategies for dealing with difficult people and situations in the most positive and productive way. While she is warm and encouraging, she is also firmly grounded in reality, and her guidance reflects her many years of research, study, and practice. My work with Janet left me feeling positively energized and excited to move on to the next challenge.”

“She’s just so bloody easy to work with. Janet is a generous, collaborative coach and educator who brings an expert breadth and depth of tools in leadership communications and learning design to her clients and students. We worked together co-designing and delivering corporate learning experiences, working side-by-side in the classroom. Since then, Janet has generously shared her sophisticated knowledge of the absolute best practices for teaching, including to help me through an intense year of developing five new curricula across three different university programs. And she kept me laughing.”

“Janet is an extraordinary educator. She is innovative, exciting and maintains cutting edge skills in the field. Students evaluate her teaching as excellent. In addition, she is a wonderful colleague. Highly professional. Extremely reliable.”

“Janet is the consummate coach. She makes clients feel at ease while getting them to move beyond their comfort zones. Her enthusiasm is wonderful and she finds and brings out the best in everyone.”

“Being a fabulous executive coach Janet helped me gain much-needed clarity on aligning my professional skills and experiences with my desire to launch my own business. Her direct, professional, and compassionate approach is motivating and energizing. Her inquiry, guidance, and feedback empowered me to trust my wisdom and experience and to start creating the offerings I was aiming for. I highly recommend Janet for her expertise in helping executives proactively move forward in their careers.”

“Janet has supported me as an instructional coach and thought partner as I have evolved and developed as a faculty member in the classroom. She has been influential in helping me organize a classroom to ensure my content meets my teaching objectives highlighted by experiential learning. Most importantly, Janet has helped me to hone and develop my own authentic style of teaching. She has a positive energy and her coaching feedback is constructive and supportive helping me to iterate and adapt over time and for different student populations.”

“I want to note that my sessions with Janet as my executive coach, not only directly helped me get an offer, but also profoundly affected the way I think about and do things. As a matter of fact, I use and have relayed a few of Janet’s delving questions to colleagues around me, with my favorite being: ‘What does my behavior tell me about my motives?’. Thank you, Janet.”