Janet M. Neal, Executive Director
Janet M. Neal founded The Professional Women's Center to address the needs she saw while facilitating women's networking groups: a desire on the part of women to connect and no facility designed to allow it. It is her vision that Centers across the country dedicated to the addressing the needs of the professional woman will be the catalyst for exponential personal and professional growth for the women who are members.
Trained initially as an educator, Ms. Neal brought these skills to her successful careers in sales, marketing, training, and coaching. Ms. Neal spent 19 years at IBM, holding a variety of sales and marketing positions there, as well as spearheading quality and work/life balance initiatives. She left IBM to become Vice President, Sales and Marketing, at a small start-up services company before launching her own training, coaching and consulting business, Productivity Resource Group, in 2002. Ms. Neal utilizes her experiences in these ventures today as an inspirational and motivational speaker, with clients ranging from IBM, Kraft Foods, The State of California, and Microsoft Corporation and as a contributing writer to numerous publications and on Writing from the Heart on Sirius radio.
Ms. Neal graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Education from Central Michigan University and a Masters in Spiritual Psychology from The University of Santa Monica, as well as completing coursework at The University of Vermont and Harvard Business School. She is a certified Life and Empowerment Coach, receiving training through iPEC Coaching. Ms. Neal is the mother of three children and enjoys family activities, travel, writing, and personal growth activities.