As the CEO of the Ellig Group, Janice is dedicated to accelerating the pace of change with the placement of women and underrepresented executives on corporate boards and in C-suites. Prior to her career in executive search, Janice was in corporate America at Pfizer, Citi and Ambac Financial Group, an IPO from Citibank, where she was responsible for Marketing, Human Resources, and Administration.

Named one of “The World’s Most Influential Headhunters,” according to Bloomberg Businessweek, the “glacial rate of change” in corporations led Janice to achieve an 80% placement rate of women and underrepresented executives in senior management and board roles over the past decade. Her commitment to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace is well established, far-reaching and enduring. Based on each company’s strategy, she and her team present creative solutions to enhance cultures including presenting the most outstanding executives.

Janice is a media guest on gender parity, inclusion, and diversity, and penned multiple articles for the Financial Times, Directors & Boards, Directorship, Corporate Director, and Forbes.com. Janice also co-authored two books: Driving The Career Highway and What Every Successful Woman Knows, acknowledged by Bloomberg Businessweek as “the best of its genre.”

As a Past President of the Women’s Forum of New York, Janice is the Founder of the Women’s Forum of New York’s Corporate Board Initiative and its signature event, Breakfast of Corporate Champions, which she has chaired for over a decade. She launched the event in 2011 to honor CEO leaders and their companies for being above the S&P national average for women on their boards, and to encourage CEOs to sponsor board-ready women for the Women’s Forum database. (LINK: www.womensforumny.org).

A leader of NFP organizations: She is the immediate past Board Chair of the University of Iowa Center for Advancement (UICA); Past Director of the National YMCA and Past Chair of the YMCA Board of Greater New York; Director of Girls, Inc.; Trustee, Committee For Economic Development (CED); member of The Economic Club of New York; and Trustee Emeritus of the Actors Fund.

In addition to being the 2022 Tippie Business School, University of Iowa, Alum of the Year, and receiving the University of Iowa Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011, she was recently honored in 2022 by Girls Inc, receiving the “Strong, Smart, Bold” Award, and in 2020 the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) “Award of Excellence.”