Jane Horan

Founder of The Horan Group

Founder

Doctor of Education (EdD), Asian Women Leaders, University of Bristol

MA, The Fielding Institute

BA Social Ecology, UC Irvine

Hogan Certified Coach (HCC)

Areas of Expertise
Political Savvy; Conscious Decision Making [Unconscious Bias]; Leadership, Team & Career Purpose; On-boarding & Leadership Transition

How Jane Can Help You 
Coaching; Facilitating Workshops; Seminars; Speaking

Languages
English, Spanish, Mandarin

Dr. Jane Horan is an expert in career transitions, unconscious bias and cross-cultural leadership.

An internationally-recognized speaker, she is the author of I Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career: The Power of Positive Workplace Politics published by John Wiley & Sons, a business book used by corporate universities globally, and How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global Corporations to show new perspectives on leadership and careers.

Her latest book on career purpose, published in 2018, is titled Now It’s Clear: The Career You Own. It is an accumulation of over 25-years of work and research working with individuals to find purpose at work.

Dr. Horan has written numerous articles on women leaders, office politics and career transitions for Bloomberg Business Week, Human Resource Review, Quartz, The Economist Intelligence Unit, South China Morning Post, The Straits Times and other publications.

With over 20 years of work experience with companies such as Kraft, Disney and GE, Jane uses her work knowledge to help organisations build inclusive and engaged workplaces. Her consulting work includes Fortune 100 firms such as: BP, Barclays, Credit Suisse, HSBC, KKR, Unilver, Covidien, HP, McDonalds, Microsoft, Monsanto, Jones Lang LaSalle, Syngenta, SingTel, Toshiba, AEON, VMWare, Globis, Hogan & Lovells, Simmons & Simmons and others. Through her advisory work, coaching and workshops, she provides both sound advice and practical tools to help organisations retain and engage global talent.

Dr. Horan has lectured in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently a Senior Fellow with the Conference Board, a Senior Researcher on gender education at Hong Kong University and Adjunct Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

She served for four years on the Board of Directors for the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO) and for two years on the Board of Governors for the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore .

Dr. Horan has lived, worked and studied in the US, China and Hong Kong, holds an Educational Doctorate from Bristol University and resides in Singapore. In 2008, she founded The Horan Group, a Singapore-based strategic consulting firm building inclusive work environments, emphasising leadership acceleration and workplace politics.

Do you want growth and sustainability in your organisation?

Speak to Jane about how she can help you to build purpose driven leaders, teams and individuals.

Jane regularly speaks on Diversity and Inclusion, Political Savvy and Career Purpose at live events.

She is also the author of 3 books and regularly writes articles and research papers on various topics.

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