She went on to be Co-Founder and President of Partnerships for Progress, a US based non-profit organization whose mission was to bring together international public-private partnerships, through networking and community based outreach between the U.S. and Mexico She launched a multimedia production company “Smiling Winter Productions”, for the production of bilingual television and developing new media content. She was President of the Board of Directors for MATT FOR EDUCATION, a US based non-profit organization which researched and developed education programs to serve families in the U.S. and Mexico. She served on the Board of Directors of CityDance Ensemble, renowned modern dance ensemble that worked with leadership and dance in inner city D.C., She is on the Advisory Board for PostClassical Ensemble in Washington DC, a classical musical ensemble. Janet also served on the Advisory Board of iMallsglobal.com, a start-up initiative to create an eCommerce solution for linking consumers in secondary cities and small businesses in Latin America with vendors, industrial and medical supplies, off the paved roads and away from broad band communities. She was a founding Board member of CEMEFI, Centro Mexicano para la Filantropia, Janet has spoken at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington DC, has presented a discussion on competition in Mexico at the Woodrow Wilson International center for Scholars, Mexico Institute, among her many conferences, workshops and publications.
Janet transcended beyond the multilayered geo-political and socio-cultural boundaries, from an Alaskan hometown girl to an international participant who derives her strong spirituality from intuitive Kabbalistic practices, her Judeo-Zen-Buddhist foundation and her relationship with nature. She is an explorer and learner, still active and engaged in the arduous task of personal growth and expansion. Janet’s analytical-observational capabilities, communication skills, sense of intuition and perception, are among her many traits. She is an adventurist, philosopher, interpreter, a humanist and conceptualist by nature. Her strength in mentoring and coaching is in her ability to see the emerging future self of her trainee, to see beyond the limitation of one’s own limitations. Alongside her diverse nature she is a mentor, coach, guide, writer, filmmaker, adviser and consolidator of ideas and thoughts. With Black Diamond, Janet’s role as inspirational leader and service is to carry our clients towards a healthy life of meaningful purpose and to enlighten the spirit of their human potential where anything is possible. Janet’s primary inspiration are her three grown children, 5 grand-children. They are the future.
