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.
Mark Britton
COO Business Development & Growth
"The aspect about my work that most inspires me is seeing our organization make a positive difference in our clients’ lives."
Michael Huvane
Global Account Manager
"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."
Stephen Portner
Chief Executive Officer
"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."
David Ash
Global IT Manager
"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."
Rick Bair
Senior Partner
"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. "
Don Smeltzer
Business Development Manager
"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."
Steve Knisely
Senior Partner
"My work at JMJ inspires me because of the lasting relationships forged during the extraordinary accomplishments that result from our engagements throughout the world."
Emile Aboumrad
Senior Consultant
"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."
Simon Giffin
Director Middle East
"I have spent many years in consulting, helping businesses deliver breakthroughs in performance…There is something very special and unique about working for JMJ however. Not only do we make a difference in terms of the bottom line but we genuinely do alter the lives of the people we work with whether it is the senior leader who learns a new and better way to lead or the worker on the construction site who otherwise may not have gone home safely to his family."
Gil Judson
Global Account Manager
"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."
Miles Protter
Director Australia
"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."
Jay Greenspan
Founder & Chairman
"Through unleashing the human spirit in our clients’ companies—in service of accomplishing that which previously seemed impossible—JMJ is at the forefront of continually setting new benchmark PERFORMANCE in business."
Mark Guest
Business Unit Leader, Americas
"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."
Mike Goddu
Global Client Manager, Co-Founder
"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."
Simon Marshall
Director Europe
"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."
Bob Allbright
Senior Business Development Director, Americas
"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."
Deborah Doherty
Chief Financial Officer
"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."
Rick Strycker
Global Director of Development
"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."
Carol Rhodes
Global Human Resources Director
"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."
Karthi Govender
Director Africa
"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."
John Ptasznik
Director Asia
"Safety should not be taken for granted in the workplace—or at home—but unfortunately many people do so. Culture and attitude play an important role in how one relates to safety. My goal is to promote safety to top-of-mind for business leaders and their teams, so that each individual takes personal responsibility for their actions."
Team Directory
- Emile Aboumrad,
Senior Consultant - Bob Allbright,
Senior Business Development Director, Americas - David Ash,
Global IT Manager - Rick Bair,
Senior Partner - Mark Britton,
COO Business Development & Growth - Deborah Doherty,
Chief Financial Officer - Simon Giffin,
Director Middle East - Mike Goddu,
Global Client Manager, Co-Founder - Karthi Govender,
Director Africa - Jay Greenspan,
Founder & Chairman - Mark Guest,
Business Unit Leader, Americas - Michael Huvane,
Global Account Manager - Gil Judson,
Global Account Manager - Steve Knisely,
Senior Partner - Simon Marshall,
Director Europe - Stephen Portner,
Chief Executive Officer - Miles Protter,
Director Australia - John Ptasznik,
Director Asia - Carol Rhodes,
Global Human Resources Director - Don Smeltzer,
Business Development Manager - Rick Strycker,
Global Director of Development