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Firth Leadership Partners
Strategic Leadership Resources LLC
Jane Firth advises executives and their teams and is an innovator in the areas of leadership performance and executive presence.
She provides critical transformational knowledge and skills empowering men and women to excel in their roles as executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, educators and philanthropists.
She has been a champion for women executives and advancing women’s roles on executive teams and corporate boards.
As an industry innovator Jane has created state of the art transformational programs and tools including:
The Generative Leadership Program, Mastering the Complexities of Change Leadership, and Transforming Leadership and Executive Presence. These programs facilitate advancement, stature, and recognition of women within their organizations, industries, and communities.
Jane’s clients and projects have been in the United States, Europe and Asia. For her outstanding work, Jane was awarded the Philadelphia Business Journal’s Women of Distinction Award.
A member of the Forum of Executive Women, Jane chairs the Women in Executive Leadership and Governance Committee of the Forum of Executive Women dedicated to increasing women’s participation on public, private, and not for profit Boards, and in the executive suites of regional companies. She has been a strategic partner in developing the Forum’s ‘Within the Boardroom’ program series.
Jane has an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania and has completed extensive studies in Leadership, Human Potential, Transformational Technologies, Human Behavior and Development, Educational Psychology, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Eastern Philosophies.
Jane is a co-founding partner of Globalislocal, a collaborative funding partnership investing in solutions to poverty in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Also a founder of Beyond Our Differences Foundation, Jane was a strategic advisor in the creation of the award-winning documentary film of the same name, which premiered on PBS on Bill Moyers Journal. Jane served on the Board of Advisors of the National Disease Research Interchange. She currently serves on the Board of Governors of The Pyramid Club and the Board of the Forum of Executive Women. Jane is the Founder
of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Organizational Dynamics and Founder of the Psychoanalytic
Coaches Association.
As President of Strategic Leadership Resources LLC (SLR), Andrea specializes in executive and high potential leadership strategy, succession and development. She has over 30 years experience in Leadership Development, Change Management, Human Resources Development and Training. Prior to joining SLR, Andrea was Sr VP of PulvermacherFirth, VP of Hudson Talent Management, and co-founder of the Center for Inquiring Leadership, a training company for leadership effectiveness. During this time she designed and executed landmark work in the development of internal coaches within major companies.
Andrea cultivated her experiences as an executive coach, the development of executives and hi-potential leaders, and in talent and change management within the diversified healthcare and pharmaceutical, defense, and retail industries. As VP of Human Resources and Management Board member of the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, Ortho Biotech, Inc., Andrea helped lead the growth of the company from $40 million to $500 million in a 6-year period, and launched 2 breakthrough biotech products that lead the market today. She also led executive leadership development for North America from J&J Corporate. During her tenure at J&J she was highly awarded for her work in cultural, HR and leadership development, where her special interests included executive women advancement, diversity, and mentoring. She has been trained as a Black Belt at part of the J&J Process Excellence effort and is an examiner and team leader for the Competitive Assessment Process at J&J.
She is also a recipient of the YWCA Tribute to Women in Industry Award. A special expertise is in the area of mentoring in which she focused her doctoral dissertation and has designed and implemented various programs.
Andrea currently works primarily with senior leaders and leadership teams in business units of Fortune 500 corporations to develop high potential and senior leaders through team alignment/development strategies and coaching. Her strategic focus in this work is the development of a strong leadership pipeline. She has deep expertise in training Human Resources and line leaders to coach, teach and mentor others.
Andrea earned her PhD at Fielding Graduate University and is a member of the National OD Networks.
