Ms Jan Elsner Psychologist

Jan is an executive and personal coach with a special ability to deeply connect with senior people and people with complex and demanding real lives, comprehend the complexity of their professional and personal situations, and support them in their challenges and goals. Jan has a focus on ‘performance, potential and purpose’ and ‘success and satisfaction’. Jan’s approach is ‘strengths-based’, helping clients to identify and maximise their strengths to stretch performance, to ignite ambition, to achieve confidence and satisfaction, to set their own career and life agenda and to fulfil their potential, as distinct from simply identifying and fixing problems and barriers to performance and satisfaction. Her fascination with neuroscience, and in particular the field of interpersonal neurobiology, help her to explain to clients how their own and others’ minds are working and how to train their own mind to have the most positive impact on themselves and others. Jan’s career has focused on leadership, talent, wellbeing and performance. Since 1997 Jan has coached and consulted independently and has pioneered the application and teaching of Coaching, Strengths, Positive Organisational Scholarship, Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry in Australia. With a personal professional working background in professional and financial services and partnerships, many of Jan's coaching clients are Partners and Senior Executives in these industries as well as from major international and Australian professional services firms, mining, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and property companies, and federal and state government departments. Jan also works directly with high achievement and high potential individuals in corporate, sports and arts professions. She is studying Interpersonal Neurobiology at Portland State University with a focus on leadership. Jan’s approach is ‘strengths-based’, helping clients to identify and maximise their strengths to stretch performance, to ignite ambition, to achieve confidence and satisfaction, to set their own career and life agenda and to fulfil their potential, as distinct from simply identifying and fixing problems and barriers to performance and satisfaction. Her fascination with neuroscience, and in particular the field of interpersonal neurobiology, help her to explain to clients how their own and others’ minds are working and how to train their own mind to have the most positive impact on themselves and others.Jan has hosted and taught in Australia with local and international thought leading academics: Prof. Martin Seligman and Dr Tal Ben Shahar (Positive Psychology), Prof Ron Fry (Appreciative Inquiry), and Dr Craig Hassed (Neuroscience and Mindfulness). Jan and has been an invited and selected speaker at numerous International and Australian Academic, Professional and Women’s Leadership conferences :- -Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, Deauville, France, 2010  led an invited Australian delegation  presented to an invited corporate audience in Paris for the Women’s Forum -Academy of Management, Montreal, 2010 -International Positive Psychology Summit (Washington, 2006) -WIN (Women’s International Network) Conference: Barcelona 2008, Prague 2009, Paris 2010 -European Positive Psychology Conference (Braga, Portugal 2006) -World Conference on Gifted Education (Australia, 2003) Jan has been an invited presenter for many organisations and events including the Australian Institute of Company Directors (Australia, 2003), Women Chiefs of Enterprise (Australia 2003), All A’Board, Melbourne, 2010), PriceWaterhouse Coopers Symmetry functions for women (Sydney 2008, Canberra 2012). PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT AND AFFILIATIONS Jan has been an early leader in relation to professionalisation of executive coaching and the understanding of the rigour and science in the Positive Psychology field. Jan co-hosted the initial international meeting in Sydney Australia to launch the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) with Prof. Martin Seligman (2006), was appointed to the Advisory Committees of the two Australian Positive Psychology Conferences (2008, 2010) and appointed as a Committee Member for the Australian Psychological Society inaugural National and State Committees for Coaching Psychology (2003/4). Jan has actively attended the Academy of Management international meetings for many years.