Jane Firth advises executives and their teams, and provides deep expertise in the areas of leadership, performance, and executive presence. For her outstanding work Jane was awarded the Philadelphia Business Journal’s Women of Distinction Award.

As an industry innovator and thought leader, Jane has created state of the art leadership development programs and tools. Her studies in human behavior, executive performance, and organizational culture combined with her expertise as an executive coach led to the development of concepts and models now revealed in Grit, Grace and Gravitas, the Three Keys to Transforming Leadership, Presence and Impact, co-written with Andrea Zintz. Jane’s other programs include The Inspiritor Generative Leadership Program, Mastering the Complexities of Change Leadership, The Executive Empowerment Program: Leadership, Identity and Executive Presence.

In addition to her work with executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, consultants and philanthropists, Jane has been a champion for women executives and advancing women’s roles on executive teams and corporate boards. A member of the Forum of Executive Women, Jane chaired 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 and Women in Leadership A Status Report: Women in Boardrooms, Executive Suites and Elected Offices. 

Jane has an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania and has completed extensive studies in Leadership, the Psychology of Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Human Potential, Human Behavior and Development, Educational Psychology, Art Therapy, 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 the 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 and the Board of the Forum of Executive Women. She currently serves on the Board of Governors of The Pyramid Club. Jane is a Founder of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Organizational Dynamics and a Founder of the Psychoanalytic Coaches Association.