Our Team

Our team comes from around the world, bringing valuable experience and rich, diverse perspective to our clients. We are a highly collaborative, trusted partner and advisor to some of the world’s most high-performing companies.

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<p><strong>“The aspect about my work at JMJ that most inspires me is bringing alive the potential in senior client leaders and teams to enable them to achieve what they previously thought was impossible and then partnering them in their stand to achieve breakthrough results.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Greg Baker</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Business Unit Leader</h3>
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<p><strong>“The aspect about my work that most inspires me is seeing our organization make a positive difference in our clients' lives.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Mark Britton</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Chief Operating Officer</h3>
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<p><strong>“My work at JMJ inspires me because of the lasting relationships forged during the extraordinary accomplishments that result from our engagements throughout the world.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Steve Knisely</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Director Marketing and Business Development</h3>
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<p><strong>“I have spent many years in consulting, helping businesses deliver breakthroughs in performance”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Simon Giffin</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Business Unit Leader </h3>
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<p><strong>“At the heart of JMJ's work is the possibility that people can become the authors of their own lives, be self-determined and fully self-expressed. Everything else the firm does, which is considerable, pales in comparison to that.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Rick Strycker</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Director of Research and Organizational Development</h3>
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<h2 class='inherit'>Doug Mowle</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Global Client Manager</h3>
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<p><strong>“Delivering on the promise to transform people's lives in a meaningful way around the globe is a real privilege. I have conversations with JMJ's clients every day that have the potential to impact thousands of people through the realization of that promise.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Don Smeltzer</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Business Development Manager</h3>
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<p><strong>“People commonly think that through my safety work at JMJ, I must see poor management and backwards thinking. The opposite is true: the leaders who retain JMJ are typically forward-looking, compassionate, even visionaries who care about their colleagues and co-workers. Partnering with these leaders is a joy.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Mike Goddu</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Lead Consultant-Australia; Co-Founder</h3>
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<p><strong>“The affect JMJ's work can have on people, and how we can enable them to achieve extraordinary things inspires me. I love partnering our talented people with leaders of major organizations in service of accomplishing breakthrough results. Doing this we all expand our understanding of how we as human beings understand, relate to and intervene in the world. I particularly enjoy doing this to address world-class challenges.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Simon Marshall</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Business Unit Leader </h3>
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<p><strong>“I am inspired by the opportunity to help our clients achieve results beyond what is predictable by helping them realize the potential of the people within their organizations. I am energized by the ability to make a difference in people’s lives and by having them see the contribution they can make.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Dick Hoover</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Business Integration Manager</h3>
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<p><strong>“My work at JMJ inspires me because I know I'm helping people and organizations see a new possibility for individual and organizational performance and fulfillment that they did not see before, and then leading them to boldly step into that possibility.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Bob Allbright</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Senior Business Development Director</h3>
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<p><strong>“working at an international level, in partnership with some of the best companies in the world, to evolve how human beings engage with each other, the organizations and communities in which they work, and the planet that we all share, to improve our collective quality of life.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Billy Gibbons</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Global Client Manager</h3>
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<p><strong>“In JMJ's work with our clients, whether it be engaging in mega-projects, managing large-scale safety engagements or developing executive development programs, I feel an overwhelming desire to produce exceptional and sustainable business and people results.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Gil Judson</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Global Client Manager</h3>
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<p><strong>“Through unleashing the human spirit in our clients' companies”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Jay Greenspan</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Founder & Chairman</h3>
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<p><strong>“The aspect about my work at JMJ that most inspires me is the privilege to work with and support our employees around the world who are passionate about the impact we make in the world.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Carol Rhodes</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Global Human Resources Director</h3>
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<p><strong>“At the core of our clients' success is a concerted effort by individuals to be and act consistently with their most deeply held values. For over twenty years, JMJ has helped initiate values based leadership in hundreds of organizations, in many different cultures and industries around the world, leading to enterprise transformation.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Miles Protter</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Business Unit Leader </h3>
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<p><strong>“At JMJ we transform the lives of the thousands of workers around the world, enabling them to be confident, energized and empowered in determining their own futures.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Karthi Govender</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Business Unit Leader </h3>
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<p><strong>“The opportunity and ability to help our clients create working environments in which no one gets hurt is what inspires me most about working at JMJ.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Mark Guest</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Business Unit Leader </h3>
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<p><strong>“The aspect of JMJ's work that inspires me the most is the difference that we make in people's lives when we do our best work. When I was JMJ's client, my organization realized that kind of difference, and I am now committed to enabling those at JMJ to make a meaningful contribution to our clients.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Stephen Portner</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Chief Executive Officer</h3>
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<p><strong>“The aspect about my work at JMJ that most inspires me is the ability to engender creativity, inspiration and the unleashing of the human spirit in the workplace in order to successfully address real, values-based challenges, such as safety, the environment, healthcare and sustainability.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Michael Huvane</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Global Client Manager</h3>
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<p><strong>“The aspect about my work at JMJ that most inspires me is making a difference in people's lives and seeing every worker go home safe to their families.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Rick Bair</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Senior Partner</h3>
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<p><strong>“The aspect of my work at JMJ that most inspires me is the privilege to work with people—employees and clients—who treasure life, creative expression and seize every opportunity to improve the well-being of others.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Laura Pankonien</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Director, Practice Development </h3>
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<p><strong>“JMJ's ability to reach and impact the lives of people around the world is astonishing, and this inspires me to create and introduce new technological advances to increase the capacity to affect more lives.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>David Ash</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Global IT Manager</h3>
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<p><strong>“The ability to make a difference in people's lives by allowing them to discover new possibilities for themselves and others around them is the aspect of my work with JMJ's clients that most inspires and motivates me.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Emile Aboumrad</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Senior Consultant</h3>
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<p><strong>“The aspect about my work at JMJ that most inspires me the people who I get to work with”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Joseph Friedman</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Director, JMJ Academy</h3>
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<p><strong>“What inspires me the most in my work is building extraordinary relationships with our senior clients that enable their leadership to deliver sustainable breakthrough performance in the business and in people’s lives.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Sally Caruana</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Global Client Manager</h3>
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<p><strong>“I am passionate about my work at JMJ as it not only represents who I am as a leader and as a contributor to the company's future, but I am also continually inspired by the work we do. To know that I am part of an organization that transforms people and organizations, ultimately making a difference in their individual lives as well as the world we live in, is a rare opportunity that I value greatly.”</strong></p> <h2 class='inherit'>Deborah Doherty</h2>
<h3 class='inherit'>Chief Financial Officer and member of Board of Directors</h3>
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Board of Directors

General

Corporate Leadership

General

Business Unit Leadership

Americas
America's Chevron
- Don Smeltzer
  Business Development Manager
Europe
- Simon Marshall
  Business Unit Leader
Middle East
- Simon Giffin
  Business Unit Leader
Africa
- Karthi Govender
  Business Unit Leader
Australia
- Miles Protter
  Business Unit Leader
- Mike Goddu
  Lead Consultant-Australia; Co-Founder
Asia
- Greg Baker
  Business Unit Leader
- Rick Strycker
  Director of Research and Organizational Development

Global Client Managers

General