About Janet

Janet FitzGerald brings in-depth communication analyses and strategies to organizations and professionals who want to have greater impact with their communication. Her experience spans the realms of talent development, speech-language pathology, Healthcare PR, and marketing messaging. Janet provides highly customized programs in public speaking, voice & diction enhancement, accent modification and interpersonal & intercultural skills. She also helps her clients add more zing to their existing written content. Janet’s client roster includes: IBM Research, AMA, Bayer Corporation, NYU, Fed-Ex, CNBC, Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry (NGO.)

In her role as the Director of the Curriculum for Multicultural Speakers at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, Janet created a comprehensive award-winning program that advanced inter-cultural communication strategies for professionals through such courses as: Presentation Skills for Multinationals, American-Style Vocal Skills, Interpersonal & Intercultural Communication Skills, American Business & Social Customs, and the on-demand Communication Help Desk.  After providing public relations and media training services for New York’s Burson-Marsteller's Health Care Division, and later, persuasive speaking skills for The Executive Technique in New York, where she won the New Sales Account Success Award, Janet served as an adjunct faculty member for New York University’s School of Continuing Studies. There she taught Improving Your Speaking Voice for Business, and Acculturation for Multinational Science TA’s. She also created the self-study audio program, “American Accent Improvement for Science TA’s” for the NYU Library. Her facilitation and instruction for the American Management Association has included: Strategies for Developing Effective Presentation Skills, Business Writing, and Business Conversations When English is a Second Language. 

Janet’s degrees (MS, BS) in Communication Disorders from Marquette University were enhanced by a Junior Year program at Loyola University’s Rome Center, the Cambridge University CELTA program in San Francisco, and a certification in DISC, an instrumented behavioral and communication style adaptation method (based on Jungian principles.) 

Pro Bono work has included PR for US Speedskating, social skill programs for schools, presentation skills for the Junior League, consulting for Greenwich Hospital to help create a compassionate billing system for the chronically ill, Pet Therapy for New Rochelle Medical Center, and advocating for “safer tech environmentalism” in a world with ever-increasing wireless radiation health risks.

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