I have worked with Janice in various capacities in the health care arena for at least 20 years. She consistently modeled effective leadership, making it clear she differentiated managing from leading. She is creative, energetic, forthright, a team player, and highly ethical in her dealings with vendors, clients, and peers.  She has a comprehensive understanding of health care, how the various systems work and do not work, and a special insight into nursing. It was through Janice’s unique abilities that I was educated to understand the critical link between marketing, patient care, and nursing. I frequently use Janice as an executive coach. Her background in healthcare and her ability to listen are invaluable. She knows the right questions to ask, when to challenge my assumptions, but is not threatening or irritating.  She is direct and truthful but never intrusive or inappropriate. I have found our sessions to be effective, supportive, and very beneficial. Additionally, she maintains complete confidentiality, which I strongly believe is critical to establishing trust in a coaching relationship.  ~ Carol Ann Dilliplane, Chief Nursing Officer, Metro West Medical Center, MA
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Janice has worked with us facilitating a number of planning retreats.  Her organized approach and ability to get us through our agendas has been invaluable.  She has been a tremendous resource to our strategic planning efforts.  From research to plan to follow up, a top - notch firm.  ~ Andrea Holleran, Vice President of Strategic Planning, Jordan Health Systems, Plymouth, MA

I engaged Janice Kinder to coach me on a complicated professional challenge involving interpersonal relationships.  In four sessions or so, I was able to gain insights and find the right solution. Janice has a creative, insightful approach to people and work. She has innate common sense which allows her to respond quickly and appropriately even in out of the ordinary situations. She readily rethinks and revises her own actions, a flexibility welcomed by others. Janice has a healthy security about her own gifts and abilities that enables her to genuinely welcome, recognize and make room for the strengths of others. Her confidence and quick thinking make her comfortable with taking initiative and leadership. This is balanced well with her understanding of and commitment to working as a coaching partner or as part of a team.  ~ Deborah Walters, Waterloo, Iowa, UCC ordained pastor

Janice Kinder is a highly organized process facilitator and an excellent communicator.  She brings innovation, creativity, and most importantly- results.  Janice was able to bring our major event-planning group together to explore a vision that we are now implementing with great success.  A person of high integrity, her skills are special and superior. ~ Marie Oliva, Executive Director, Cape Cod Canal Region Chamber of Commerce, Buzzards Bay, MA
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We hired Janice Kinder to assist us with a board development process.  She facilitated a series of staff coaching sessions and board retreats. Throughout, she maintained buy-in with a diverse group of board members. Her professional but informal manner set them at ease and established credibility, not an easy task with a set of often hard-boiled and skeptical commercial fishermen. She never used jargon and was quick to pick up the important aspects of their lives. She has excellent listening skills and is adept at eliciting useful feedback from her clients. Her strategic recommendations were well reasoned, resulting in positive outcomes for the organization.  She also mediated interpersonal issues between two staffers with great skill, helping what had appeared an intractable situation. In facilitating the board retreats, she consistently elicited and supported the abilities of the group to take action and move forward. She is truly a  "learning organization" practitioner who enables the wisdom inherent in the participants, rather than imposing her own "expert" opinion.  I found her a consummate professional -  timely, following through on deliverables, providing us with excellent documentation and a pleasure to work with.   ~ Melissa Roberts Weidman, former Director of Communications, Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association, Chatham, MA  
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Our organization engaged Janice Kinder to facilitate a series of meetings to discuss processes and structures to build our internal capacity to grow with quality.  ATI also engaged Janice to provide executive coaching, as well as strategic counsel.  We hire Janice with confidence in her ability to provide the highest quality meeting facilitation with value added throughout the process as well as advice on implementation. That’s exactly what we received.  Based on that process our organization has managed 500% growth with increased quality during the past two years. ATI had also engaged Janice several times in the past to facilitate board and staff retreats and to consult on establishing governance systems and practices.  External to my organization, I also observed her facilitate strategic planning for the Massachusetts Charter School Association, where I am a board member. She knows her business and serves her clients well.  Janice’s philosophy in facilitating is to serve the group. She facilitates with a level of ethics, intelligence, commitment and tenacity that is rare in the consulting world. Janice’s insights on leadership and group dynamics add tremendous value to the process.  I always learn from working with her and recommend Janice without reservation. ~ Jack McCarthy, Managing Director, AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation, Washington, DC
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My organization engaged Janice as an executive coach to help me deal with various aspects of my management style and personnel interactions. Although my initial reaction was one of skepticism, my thoughts after our last session had done a complete turnaround. Janice used multiple techniques and interventions to help me increase self-awareness, to understand how I was perceved by others, become a more engaged listener, and get more comfortable and confident in my leadership role. Best of all, she helped me improve my skills while not losing the "real me." Janice is kind, professional and fostered an excellent working partnership, helping me to grow in my capacity. Coaching sessions were incredibly eye-opening. My time with Janice flew by all too quickly, but the lessons learned have helped me succeed in the short and long term. I cannot say enough positive things about Janice Kinder as a leadership coach. ~ Pam Cardaci, RN, BSRA, former Senior Director, Utilization Management, Fallon Community Health Plan

Accomplishing sustainable educational change is not easy. Given the time constraints we faced, I was not sure it was possible.  That was before the arrival of Janice Kinder! Janice facilitated the process of our conversion to a Horace Mann Charter with incredible energy and skill.  She worked with our school community to develop an inclusive and consensus-based planning process that resulted in ownership, buy-in, and passion. Her belief in process, and the attention given to help us accomplish the task of submitting a Charter Application have been nothing less than outstanding. Without her skills as a facilitator, we would still be struggling with establishing our mission and laying the groundwork.  The fact that we have not failed to complete a meeting agenda as planned is evidence of her ability as a facilitator to keep the end goal in mind while intuitively addressing our members’ needs.
~ Susanne Leary, former principal, Cotuit/Marstons Mills Elementary School Cape Cod, MA

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