Meet Janet Williams, Founder

About Janet Williams

Janet began organizational culture work in 1998, which led to Progressive Discoveries' initial founding. She has a rich consulting background and has held contracts with well-known corporations to deliver solutions related to financial and business acumen, workforce and work process development, operations improvement systems, managing change and employee performance, assessing organizational culture, and designing leadership constructs and practices. She is an expert at creating a strong sense of organizational community by building strategic synergies and closing culture gaps.

Progressive Discoveries, LLC. (2.0) re-opened in 2019, and Janet has revitalized her “no shame, no blame” approach to this work. The formula is simple: true inclusion honors the value and contribution of every person, no matter what distinguishing characteristics they possess. Her approach encourages input and productive collaboration across functions, roles, and hierarchies. She recognizes the beauty and benefit of differences in people. She helps design respectful work environments that allow all employees to connect and drive desired cultural outcomes meaningfully. This is accomplished by leading from genuine acceptance, inclusion, and heart.

Janet is a Certified corestrengths Facilitator, a Certified Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and Unconscious Bias Facilitator, a Master MBTI Facilitator, and a Master Situational Leadership Facilitator.  

She is a member of the “Unite As One”Beauty Industry Think Tank’s Cultural Intelligence Committee, is a member of the Professional Beauty Industry Compensation Study Think Tank, and a former Board Member with Beauty Changes Lives and Hope in a Box.

Progressive Discoveries, LLC. works with organizations in multiple nonprofit segments, including 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and public health plans, along with numerous for-profit industries, including beauty, health, wellness, environment, hospitality and more.

Although the work of these business segments are seemingly disparate, they share the desire to operate in work cultures that reflect their vision, values, and goals. Janet has the unique ability to design systems and facilitate interactions that unify and activate individuals and teams around their shared aspirations.

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