Jane Horan is the founder of the Horan Group, a strategic consulting practice focusing on accelerating the development of women, cross cultural leadership, and innovation. Previously, the Director of Management & Organizational Development for Kraft Foods Asia in Singapore responsible for leading the formulation and implementation of Kraft's employee development, talent management and innovation workshops.
Prior to Kraft, Jane was the Executive Director of Organizational Development for The Walt Disney Company (Asia Pacific) based in Hong Kong. Whilst at Disney Jane was accountable to lead all talent Management, Cross Cultural Leadership Development, and Organization and Culture Change initiatives across Asia Pacific. During her tenure with Disney, Jane designed and implemented business driven action learning programs for high potential talents driving innovation and entrepreneurship across business segments. Jane facilitated workshops in organizational politics and provided executive coaching to senior women leaders across multiple business segments.
Jane has extensive background in cross cultural development, transformational leadership and working with virtual, diverse teams. Jane has published articles and is a frequent speaker on Transformational Women Leaders, High Integrity Politics, Action Learning and Innovation. Of late, Jane provides coaching for executive women in positive politics with integrity for career and business success. Leveraging on her business experience and research on women leaders, Jane now works with multiple Fortune 100 companies, NGO's and academic institutions in the Asia Pacific Region and across Europe.
Jane holds a board position as 1st Vice President with PrimeTime, a business and professional women's network in Singapore. She speaks on culture, gender and diversity, presented at WIN in Prague and IODA in India and published articles for the 20-first, Business Week and The daily Leader on women in leadership.
Jane is a PhD candidate in Education with Bristol University, focusing on Cross Cultural Narrative Inquiry to understand leadership lessons with Asian Women Leaders. Jane has a Masters Degree in Organizational Design and Effectiveness from The Fielding Institute - California, studied International Relations and Chinese Language with the Monterey Institute - California and Hunan Technical University in Changsha, China, and a BA in Social Ecology and Spanish from the University of California at Irvine. Jane moved to Changsha, China in 1985 to study Chinese and teach English, she has lived, worked and studied in Asia for over 18 years is conversant in Mandarin and Spanish. |
Jane Horan