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Jane Forbes Saltonstall

Dr. Saltonstall has been providing facilitation and consulting services since 1990.  Prior to that she served as Director of Corporate Projects for Forum Corporation, designing and teaching programs that helped employees learn quality methods and tools and facilitating quality teams.  Most recently she has focused her work on helping companies and executives re-evaluate their management and leadership in response to the compelling need for change in the business environment.

She has designed and conducted in-depth research and analysis of organizational culture and management and leadership competencies.  She has developed, designed and/or facilitated competence-based management and executive training programs that help participants evaluate their actions and behaviors in the context of the changing business environment.

In addition, she has conducted leadership programs throughout the world and is skilled at working in diverse cultures.  International deliveries include such companies as Export Development Corporation Canada, ExxonMobil Southeast Asia and South America, Irving Oil Canada, ITT Sheraton Europe, Merck Europe and Southeast Asia, Mobil Oil Indonesia, and Mobil Producing Nigeria.  These leadership programs were designed to align executives globally around critical strategic objectives and then help them develop the leadership behaviors to ensure execution and change.  Each required significant cross-cultural understanding.  For instance, the programs for ExxonMobil in Singapore usually had over fifteen countries and as many languages represented in a room of 25 participants. 

In her most recent project with Irving Oil, she and two other faculty members facilitated and individually coached Irving Oil’s top 350 managers.  Results were statistically significant for increased understanding and alignment with the new strategy as well as marked improvement in the critical leadership practices necessary to execute the strategy and culture change.

Dr. Saltonstall received a B.A. from Northwestern University, an M.A. from Boston University and an Ed.D. in human development and psychology from Harvard University.  She published a chapter on leadership in the book Making Connections and has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Harvard University and Lesley College. 

Dr. Saltonstall has been a trustee of The Boston Ballet and The Pine Street Inn and is former Chair of the Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education.  She is presently a member of the Advisory Council to the Arts at Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Co-chair of Art Acquisition for the Palm Springs Museum’s ArtRageous Art Auction.

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