About Janet

Janet FitzGerald helps organizations, professionals, young adults and students gain greater impact and influence through their communications of every kind. Her current offerings include small group programs and coaching for persuasive and informational presentations, voice and diction enhancement and accent improvement. Approaches begin with identifying communication priorities through assessments, then developing pragmatic strategic plans by blending the science of communication with the realities of her client’s professional or academic life.

In her role as the Director of the Curriculum for Multicultural Speakers at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, Janet created a full-service, award-winning communication skills program that helped multicultural professionals advance their careers via: Presentation Skills for Multinationals, American-Style Speech & Vocal Skills, Interpersonal & Intercultural Communication Skills, American Business & Social Customs, and the on-demand, Communication Help Desk.  After providing public relations services for 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; and created a self-study accent modification audio program for multicultural science TA’s via the NYU Library. Her facilitation and instruction for the American Management Association included: Strategies for Developing Effective Presentation Skills, Business Writing, and Business Conversations When English is a Second Language.  Other clients have included: IBM Research, AMA, Bayer Corporation, NYU, Fed-Ex, CNBC, Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry.

Janet’s degrees (MS, BS) in Communication Disorders from Marquette University were enhanced by an academic year at Loyola University’s Rome Center, an ESL program through Cambridge University CELTA (ESL) in San Francisco and a certification in DISC, for communication-behavioral style adaptation methods (based on Jungian principles.) 

Pro Bono work has included PR for US Speedskating, social skills programs for children and teens, pet therapy for New Rochelle Medical Center, creative idea generation to reduce the administrative load on the chronically ill at Greenwich Hospital, and advocating for “safer tech environmentalism” in a world with ever-increasing EMF radiation over-exposures.

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