Janine Hamner Holman
Workforces are exhausted, disengaged, and increasingly cynical about culture programmes that promise change and deliver slogans. Leaders know engagement scores, attrition, and incivility are connected to commercial performance, but most interventions sit at the level of policy rather than behaviour. The gap between stated culture and lived experience is now a measurable cost on the P&L.
Janine Hamner Holman is a culture and conscious-leadership specialist who helps organisations convert engagement, belonging, and psychological safety into measurable commercial outcomes.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Janine Hamner Holman
- She translates neuroscience into HR-grade interventions, drawing on more than a decade studying brain science alongside a SHRM-CP and SHRM Inclusive Cultures certification, which gives operational HR teams a usable language rather than a TED-style abstraction.
- Her Mind The Gap: A Thought Leader’s Guide to 21st Century Conscious Leadership gives buyers a defined thesis on the distance between stated values and observed leadership behaviour, useful for boards trying to diagnose culture programmes that stall.
- She speaks credibly to both nonprofit and Fortune 200 contexts, having spent twenty years in nonprofit leadership followed by close to a decade inside a Fortune 200, which makes her unusual in audiences that mix public-sector, mission-driven, and corporate buyers.
- Her Cost of Not Paying Attention podcast and signature talk on civility give her a sustained body of public material on workplace incivility as a P&L line, not as a tone-of-voice issue.
Biography highlights
- CEO, J&J Consulting Group; 30+ years as executive and consultant.
- Author, Mind The Gap: A Thought Leader’s Guide to 21st Century Conscious Leadership; contributing author, On The Shoulders of Mighty Women.
- Host, The Cost of Not Paying Attention podcast.
- Named a USA Today Keynote Speaker to Watch in 2024 and LA Weekly Top 10 Trailblazing Entrepreneur in 2023.
- Winner of the CXO 2.0 Leadership Award.
- Certified in the Psychology of Leadership (Cornell); SHRM-CP and SHRM Inclusive Cultures certified; Certified Practitioner in Emotional Intelligence.
Biography
Workplace culture is now a measurable variable on the P&L. Engagement, attrition, and incivility numbers move customer outcomes, and senior leaders increasingly want interventions that change behaviour, not posters. The cost of getting it wrong has stopped being soft.
J&J Consulting Group, the firm Janine Hamner Holman leads as CEO, sits in that gap. Her professional history runs across twenty years of nonprofit leadership and almost a decade inside a Fortune 200, with close work alongside the public sector. That mix lets her talk to mission-driven and commercial audiences without flattening either.
The intellectual spine of the work is applied neurobiology. More than a decade studying brain science, plus a Cornell certification in the Psychology of Leadership, sits underneath her practice on psychological safety, belonging, and conscious leadership. Her book Mind The Gap sets out the thesis: the distance between stated leadership values and observed leadership behaviour is where culture programmes fail.
Public recognition tracks the same content. USA Today named her a Keynote Speaker to Watch in 2024, LA Weekly placed her in its 2023 Top 10 Trailblazing Entrepreneurs, and she won the CXO 2.0 Leadership Award at the CXO2 Conference in Las Vegas. Her podcast, The Cost of Not Paying Attention, gives buyers a sustained sense of the argument before they book the room.
Key speaking topics
- Conscious leadership
- Organisational culture change
- Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
- Psychological safety at work
- Employee engagement and retention
- Workplace incivility and its commercial cost
- Change management and neurobiology
- Emotional intelligence
Ideal for
- CHROs and Heads of People wrestling with engagement, attrition, and DEIB delivery
- Executive teams running culture transformation programmes that have stalled at policy level
- Boards and CEOs treating culture as a commercial variable rather than a values statement
- Nonprofit and mission-driven leadership teams managing growth and professionalisation
Audience outcomes
- A working definition of psychological safety that HR and line managers can operationalise
- A practical view of how incivility shows up on the P&L through retention, customer experience, and productivity
- A neuroscience-grounded model for why change resistance is predictable, and what to do about it
- A clearer separation between DEIB as compliance theatre and DEIB as belonging that affects performance
- A diagnostic for the gap between stated leadership values and observed leadership behaviour
Talks
A talk on building organisational resilience in workforces fatigued by constant change.
Key takeaways:
- A working definition of resilience that goes beyond personal coping
- The link between belonging and resilience at team level
- Practical assessment tools leaders can apply in their own organisations
A talk on how leadership adapts when the operating context is permanently unstable.
Key takeaways:
- What 21st-century leadership requires that 20th-century leadership did not
- How leaders support teams through repeated organisational change without burning them out
- The role of conscious leadership in stabilising decision-making under pressure
A talk on workplace incivility as a measurable cost, not a tone problem.
Key takeaways:
- The commercial cost of incivility through attrition, customer outcomes, and lost productivity
- Practical behavioural interventions that move incivility numbers
- How leaders model the culture they say they want
A talk repositioning DEIB around belonging rather than compliance.
Key takeaways:
- Why belonging is the operational outcome DEIB programmes should be measured against
- The neuroscience of inclusion and exclusion at work
- How to move DEIB from policy artefact to behavioural practice