Combining business growth expertise
with cutting-edge personal change techniques.

Janet Schieferdecker 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 currently works as Training Staff for NLP Marin and heads Artemis Consulting Partners. She specializes in working with professionals who provide unconventional, unique, or innovative services and who want  to exponentially grow their business.

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..." and after all I was there, I was in Nepal.  I decided to go forward.  The voice of my comfort zone was out-argued.

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, and set off walking into the Himalayas.  I had a back pack with a sleeping bag, no food, and a kind of cartoon map for tourists of trekking routes.  I was alone.

Some years older, and hopefully wiser, I take some pride remembering my 24 year old self - even if a little appalled.  Turned out I only walked alone that first day, but really, what was I thinking.

And yet 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 useful service, learn how to master enough business skills to make their dream come true. 

In 1997, after years as a business professional, 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 change coaching. I am an NLP Master Practitioner and developed my own personal coaching practice for five years before launching Artemis Consulting Partners. 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.