Captivating, stimulating, educating, and motivating her audience are ways that attendees at keynote addresses, workshops, or seminars report back about Dr. Jan Yager's presentations.

Insightful and articulate, Dr. Jan Yager helps individuals, groups, and companies to achieve their potential through her dynamic speeches, seminars, consulting, and writings about relationships and work issues.

Jan has been interviewed on THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW, THE TODAY SHOW, THE VIEW, GOOD MORNING, AMERICA, NPR, BBC RADIO, and she is is regularly quoted in magazines, newspapers, and online including the NEW YORK TIMES, the WALL STREET JOURNAL, SELF, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, and USA TODAY. Her 25 highly-acclaimed books have been translated into 15 languages.

Jan's topics include:

--Work Less, Do More
--Getting along at work: How to succeed by mastering work relationships
--Personality types you may encounter at work, and how to deal with each one
--Doing more with less: How to manage your time more effectively
--Write your way to the top
--Handling written and oral communications more powerfully and efficiently: e-mail, business letters, and telephone
--Business Protocol: How Etiquette Helps you to Survive & Succeed in Business
--The Healing Power of Friendship
--Dealing With Friends Who Disappoint or Wound

These topics can be adapted to a keynote, 1-1/2 hour workshop, half-day, or all-day seminar format. (Jan's an indepth researcher who can also explore issues unique to your company, agency, or association for customized presentations.)

Dr. Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D. in sociology (City University of New York), a masters in criminal justice from Goddard College, and did graduate work in psychiatric art therapy at Hahnemann Medical College, is a member of the National Speakers Association and ASTD (American Society of Training and Development). A prolific writer as well as a speaker and trainer whose presentations have been described as a combination of "powerful" "great!" and "funny." She completed the three-day train-the-trainer certificate program sponsored by the American Society of Training and Development in January 2006.

Dr. Yager's published books include: WORK LESS, DO MOER: The 14-Day Productivity Makeover (Sterling Publishing, September 2, 2008), WHO'S THAT SITTING AT MY DESK?, CREATIVE TIME MANAGEMENT FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM, WHEN FRIENDSHIP HURTS, FRIENDSHIFTS: The Power of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives, BUSINESS PROTOCOL: How to Survive & Succeed in Business, EFFECTIVE BUSINESS AND NONFICTION WRITING, ROAD SIGNS ON LIFE'S JOURNEY, CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FILM INDUSTRY, CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY, VICTIMS, THE HELP BOOK, and others. Her books have been published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., Facts on File, Inc., Prentice-Hall, Doubleday, Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., and other houses and translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, simple and complex Chinese, Indonesian, Hebrew, Russian, German, Arabic, Indonesian, Greek, and Croatian with Thai in preparation.

To research her book, MAKING YOUR OFFICE WORK FOR YOU (Doubleday, 1989), Jan worked as an office temp in a variety of workplace settings. Her latest work relationships book (WHO'S THAT SITTING AT MY DESK?) is based on 400 extensive surveys (75 men, 325 women)and 100 in-person or phone interviews throughout the United States and internationally. Her time management, business protocol, and writing research is based on original surveys and interviews over two decades including interviews and observations with top-earning real estate agents, government employees, managers, students, professionals, paralegals, business consultants, human resource managers, and others.

Jan Yager, Ph.D. is a recipient of the 2006 Alumni Achievement Award from The City University of New York, The Graduate School and University Center.