Janet Crawford
MA
CA, USJanet Crawford is principal of Cascadance, an advisor to T2 Venture Creation, and founder of The Women & Innovation Lab, a forum for the exploration of hidden barriers to feminine participation in technology innovation.
With two decades of experience coaching and consulting with Fortune 500 companies and high potential start-ups, her approach combines traditional leadership development with cutting-edge insights from neuroscience to cultivate organizational capacity for productivity, innovation and collaboration. Client organizations span the who's who of Silicon Valley and the entertainment industry.
Janet is passionate about the application of neuroscience insights to solving the issue of gender inequity, and is a well-respected keynote speaker on the issue. For the past decade,she has translated academic research on unconscious bias, stereotype threat and unconscious power dynamics into practical business insights.
Janet holds a Masters from Stanford University, a BA from U.C. Berkeley and is the co-author of "Leadership Embodiment: How the Way We Sit and Stand Can Change the Way We Think and Speak."
She is a member of the Association of Psychology Science, The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, and Watermark, and has served as faculty at The JFK University Graduate School of Psychology and the Kauffman Foundation Fellows Program.
Janet Crawford is principal of Cascadance, an advisor to T2 Venture Creation, and founder of The Women & Innovation Lab, a forum for the exploration of hidden barriers to feminine participation in technology innovation.
With two decades of experience coaching and consulting with Fortune 500 companies and high potential start-ups, her approach combines traditional leadership development with cutting-edge insights from neuroscience to cultivate organizational capacity for productivity, innovation and collaboration. Client organizations span the who's who of Silicon Valley and the entertainment industry.
Janet is passionate about the application of neuroscience insights to solving the issue of gender inequity, and is a well-respected keynote speaker on the issue. For the past decade,she has translated academic research on unconscious bias, stereotype threat and unconscious power dynamics into practical business insights.
Janet holds a Masters from Stanford University, a BA from U.C. Berkeley and is the co-author of "Leadership Embodiment: How the Way We Sit and Stand Can Change the Way We Think and Speak."
She is a member of the Association of Psychology Science, The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, and Watermark, and has served as faculty at The JFK University Graduate School of Psychology and the Kauffman Foundation Fellows Program.
The Surprising Neuroscience of Gender Inequality
- Mixed audience from the technology, science and entertainment industries
- Corporate women's groups
- Corporate leadership conferences
- Diversity events
- Information on current gender representation (and underrepresentation) across society
- The business case that...
Using Your Brain for Change
This program is perfect for:
- Corporate teams
- Leadership conferences
- An introduction to the neuroscience of behavior change.
- An understanding of why some efforts to change stick, while others, despite our best intentions, fail
- And as a leader, what can you do...
Emotions, Engagement, and the Bottom Line
This program is perfect for:
- Corporate leadership events
- Organizations and teams undergoing change
- A grounding in what emotions are and what function they serve in our ability to function cognitively
- Concrete ideas for how to manage emotions more productively,...
The Brain-Friendly Organization
This program is perfect for:
- Corporate audiences
- Leadership events and retreats
- An engaging tour of the human brain, meant to provoke and incite curiosity. How can we consciously create business cultures and leadership behaviors to maximize the brain functions we want more of and...
