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About Janet Schieferdecker

Janet is a trainer, coach, and consultant.  She holds an MBA from London Business School and has worked in many different management roles for different sized companies all over the world.  Janet heads Quantum Growth, a business and personal development training company, and works on the training staff at NLP Marin.  Janet specializes in working with self employed professionals on the “inner game” of becoming a recognized expert, attracting more and better clients, and owning a business that runs like a well tuned engine.

From Janet:

They say the human brain is not fully developed until a person’s late twenties.  I know this to be true.   I know this for sure as I reflect on some of the riskier episodes of my own life.  For example, when I was 24, I planned a trip to go trekking in Nepal with a friend, but at the last minute my friend couldn’t go.  After a lot of inner debate (go alone or maybe never get another chance) I went.  With 24 year old optimism, I figured I would meet people to trek with en route.

After two false trekking starts, one in Kathmandu, then one later in Pokhara, with some would-be fellow companions, I found myself once again debating internally, “c’mon, just go anyway,” or “be safe and sane and stay with the other tourists,” …. and miss the opportunity forever … well after all, I was there, I was in Nepal for goodness sake.  I decided to go forward.  The excitement of the journey was more persuasive than my safe keeping self.

So off I went early in the morning to the mini bus stand, got into the ancient van that takes you away from the known, tourist-filled village, to the place in the middle of the mountains where roads for cars end, and trekking begins.  After several hours of trundling up and down, I was put down in the middle of nothing, waved good bye to the incredulous driver (who, to his credit, really did not want to leave a young woman alone there), and set off walking into the Himalayas.  I had a back pack with a sleeping bag, a rented parka, no food, and a kind of cartoon map for tourists of trekking routes.  I was 24 year old preppie from Connecticult and I was alone in the Himalayas.

Some years older, and hopefully wiser, while parts of me are appalled and think “what an idiot I was,” parts of me take some pride remembering my 24 year old self.  Turned out I only walked alone that first day, but I was stepping out into the unknown with only a dream…and while some (including my 45 year old self) may say “what were you thinking?” I am glad I did it.

Today, something of the 24 year old self remains.  I am still willing to put my career at risk to follow a dream.  My clients know that if they want to go walking off into the wilds, they do not go alone.  They find out I will gladly go with them, and stand behind their dream no matter what awaits.   For me, the juice in my work, is being able to help someone, who has a really awesome service, learn how to master enough business skills and how to have true rapport with all parts of themselves, to make their dream come true.

In 1997, after many years as a business professional working for several multinational companies in various corners of the world (Japan, Singapore, Holland and the United Kingdom), I began intensively studying personal growth and development. Motivated by the idea that you can only take your clients as deep as you are willing to go yourself, I have trained extensively in several personal change modalities and worked to synthesize my business management expertise with my abilities and passion for personal growth. I am an NLP Master Practitioner and ran my own personal coaching and training practice for five years before launching Quantum Growth. I enjoy managing, coaching and facilitating the behavioral change and identity development that can precede startling success.

As I age and grow, I find my trust in life increases and I know that it is in accepting the adventure that we truly live.

Warm regards,

Janet

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