Janine Shepherd is an internationally renowned speaker whose inspiring TED talk, A Broken Body Isnt a Broken Person, has garnered over 1.5 million views. Shes been featured on 60 Minutes, This is Your Life, and recognized with her countrys highest honor, The Order of Australia. Janine's story reads like the plot of a Hollywood movie. An Australian national champion skier... read full bio
Janine Benyus works as an innovation consultant, natural sciences writer, author, and speaker. Known as an expert on a subject called biomimicry, Janine has written several books on the topic. Her books include Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Beastly Behaviors: A Zoo Lovers Companion, Northwoods Wildlife: A Watchers Guide to Habitats, The Secret Language & Remarkable Behavior of Animals, Christmas... read full bio
Janice Dickinson is an American model, fashion photographer, actress, author and agent. By the 1980s, she was considered a supermodel in the fashion industry, and later expanded her profession to reality television by judging for four cycles on America's Next Top Model. She subsequently opened her own modeling agency, which was documented as The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. In 2002,... read full bio
Janice Bryant Howroyd is an American entrepreneur, educator, ambassador, businesswoman, author, mentor, Presidential Special Appointee, founder and Chief Executive Officer of The ActOne Group. The ActOne Group is the largest private woman owned workforce solutions company founded in the US. They are an award winning enterprise that provide talent management solutions. Howroyd herself has been featured on Forbes list of... read full bio
Janet Yellen is an American economist at the Brookings Institution who has served as the Chair of the Federal Reserve and as Vice Chair. She has previously been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton; and a business professor at the... read full bio
Before beginning her journalistic career in her early twenties, Janet Street-Porter studied architecture. She later moved into television and radio as a presenter and senior executive. She is a writer, broadcaster and former editor of The Independent on Sunday. Among the many honors Janet has received are the Prix Italia for arts programming, the BAFTA for creativity, and Columnist of the Year. For... read full bio
At the NeuroLeadership Institute, a global think tank, consultancy and research institution that employs neuroscience to enhance corporate performance, Janet Stovall serves as the Global Head of DEI. Janet works with organizations and executives who genuinely value diversity as an asset because she firmly believes that action over aspiration, intent over impact and objectivity over subjectivity are all superior. Through accountable inclusion and... read full bio
American politician, attorney, and university administrator Janet Ann Napolitano has a distinguished background in public service. From 2003 to 2009, she was the 21st governor of Arizona. From 2009 to 2013, she was the third Secretary of Homeland Security for the United States, serving under President Barack Obama. Throughout her tenure, her efforts to national security received widespread recognition. President of... read full bio
Janet Mock is an American author, writer, television host, founder of #GirlsLikeUs, and transgender rights activist. She is best known for being the writer, producer, and director of the hit FX television series, “Pose”. She has been a contributing writer for outlets like Marie Claire, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Allure, and People magazine. She has released a... read full bio
Janet Langhart Cohen is an Emmy-nominated journalist, author and playwright, and president of Langhart Communications. Over her twenty-five year career, Langhart has appeared on CBS in Chicago, hosted ABC's Good Day in Boston, and made appearances on NBC and BET. Langhart was a mentee of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ad was an active proponent of the Civil... read full bio
Janet Guthrie is the first woman to earn a starting spot in the Indianapolis 500 (1977) and the Daytona 500 (1977), where she was Top Rookie. Her ninth-place finish in the Indianapolis 500 (1978), with a team she formed and managed herself, was the best by a woman until 2005. She set fastest time of day at Indianapolis on... read full bio
Janet Crawford is CEO of Cascadance, Inc., a Bay Area firm supporting leaders in building brain-friendly organizations. A scientist and pioneer in the application of social neuroscience to corporate culture, Janet helps companies uncover and address the hidden biological roots of inequity. She speaks internationally on unconscious bias, stereotype threat and the biology of power, including a 2014 address... read full bio
Janelle Shane is an American optics research scientist, AI researcher, writer, and speaker, who is best known for her blog, AI Weirdness. She is also known for her debut book, “You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place.” Shane has previously studied electrical engineering at Michigan State... read full bio
Janeane Garofalo is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. She gained attention after becoming a cast member on comedy television series such as “The Larry Sanders Show”, “Saturday Night Live” and “The Ben Stiller Show”. As a stand-up comedian, Garofalo has also done an HBO comedy half-hour special and has released a stand-up special entitled “If You Will”. As... read full bio
Jane West is CEO of Jane West, which is a cannabis lifestyle brand, and she is also the founder of Women Grow. She has been said to be the most known women in the cannabis world and has been called the Martha Stewart of pot. West has been featured in Forbes, International Business Times, TIME, The Guardian, and Inc. Magazine.... read full bio
Jane Wagner is an Emmy-, Peabody- and Drama Desk Award-winning playwright, Jane is best known for her Broadway success, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, as well as The Incredible Shrinking Woman.... read full bio
Jane Smiley turned fifty just in time for the new millennium. Jane moved to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, as an infant, and lived there through grammar school and high school . After getting her BA at Vassar College in 1971, she traveled in Europe for a year, working on an archeological dig and sight-seeing, then returned to... read full bio
Jane Pratt, has become the quintessential voice of today's young women - first as the Founding Editor of Sassy; then as the host of two television shows; and now with JANE, her signature magazine for women (18-34). JANE marks Pratt's return to her publishing roots with a lifestyle magazine for a generation of women who have grown up with... read full bio
One of the most respected figures in American broadcast journalism, Jane Pauley served as co-host of NBC’s TODAY for thirteen years, anchored the Weekend Edition of NBC News, appeared as a regular substitute for Tom Brokaw on Nightly News, and hosted both “Time and Again,” a retrospective news program on MSNBC, and “Real Life with Jane Pauley,” a weekly newsmagazine.... read full bio
Jane McGonigal is today's leading speaker on the engagement economy and the application of game-design to the real world. Her work includes designing alternate reality games for organizations such as the World Bank, the Olympic Games, the American Heart Association, and the New York Public Library. The goal of her creations is for user to take the skills used to... read full bio
