Strategic Insight Meets Human-Centered Design

Consulting that brings clarity, alignment, and momentum to your most complex workplace challenges.

With a PhD in organizational communication, 10+ years leading UX teams, and 15 years advising leaders across industries, Dr. Janel Anderson brings a rare combination of analytical rigor, design thinking, and business pragmatism to every consulting engagement.

Strategic Insight Meets Human-Centered Design

Consulting that brings clarity, alignment, and momentum to your most complex workplace challenges.

Let’s Redesign How Work Works

Whether you’re navigating rapid change, improving cross-functional collaboration, or designing for the future of leadership, my consulting services help you move from insight to action.

I partner with executives, leadership teams, and human resource leaders to:

Decode what’s really getting in the way of performance
Design systems that align communication, behavior, and values
Build leaders who are clear, credible, and deeply human

Every engagement is customized—grounded in research, driven by outcomes, and designed with your people in mind.

Let’s Redesign How Work Works

Whether you’re navigating rapid change, improving cross-functional collaboration, or designing for the future of leadership, my consulting services help you move from insight to action.

I partner with executives, leadership teams, and human resource leaders to:

Decode what’s really getting in the way of performance
Design systems that align communication, behavior, and values
Build leaders who are clear, credible, and deeply human

Every engagement is customized—grounded in research, driven by outcomes, and designed with your people in mind.

What I Help Clients Do

Here are a few ways organizations have worked with me:

What I Help Clients Do

Here are a few ways organizations have worked with me:

Make Sense of Change

Facilitate strategic offsites, visioning sessions, and change readiness conversations that get people aligned—and bought in.

Fix Broken Communication

Untangle cross-functional misalignment, eliminate communication gridlock, and introduce shared language that gets people moving in the same direction.

Retain Your
Best People

Apply UX thinking to your employee experience to understand what matters most—and redesign culture, leadership, and systems to support it.

Design for the Future of Work

Adapt to AI, hybrid work, and generational change without losing your core identity—or your top talent.

Plenty of Ways to Work Together

Consulting isn’t one-size-fits-all—and neither are your challenges. Whether you need a one-time strategic partner or ongoing thought partnership, there are lots of ways we can collaborate:

Quarterly Advisory Retainer
- Ongoing consulting support for senior leaders who want an outside perspective, a sounding board, and a strategist they can count on.
Designed to Stay™: Applying UX Thinking for Retention
- A keynote and learning program that applies UX Thinking to leadership, equipping managers to reduce turnover, improve retention, and create a culture employees rave about.
Strategic Communication Deep Dive
- Get to the root of what's stalling alignment across teams, departments, or geographies—and design a shared language that gets everyone rowing in the same direction.
Change Readiness & Culture Design
- Facilitated visioning, culture mapping, and stakeholder alignment to help your people not just survive change—but lead it..
Team Offsites & Retreats
- Design and facilitation for leadership offsites, strategy sessions, and innovation sprints that generate clarity, commitment, and action.
Keynote + Consulting Combo
- Turn a keynote into a catalyst. Pair a keynote with follow-on consulting or workshops to embed the ideas into your culture and leadership practices.
Custom Engagements
- Have something else in mind? Let’s design it together. If it involves leadership, communication, or the future of work—I’m in.

Not Just Insights. Impact.

My approach isn’t about handing you a report and walking away. It’s about co-creating lasting solutions, making tough conversations easier, and helping your organization become more human—by design.

Not Just Insights. Impact.

Let’s talk about your current challenge—and what’s possible when you apply design thinking to leadership.

Schedule a Call

Strategic Insight Meets Human-Centered Design

Consulting that brings clarity, alignment, and momentum to your most complex workplace challenges.

Strategic Insight Meets Human-Centered Design

Consulting that brings clarity, alignment, and momentum to your most complex workplace challenges.

Let’s Redesign How Work Works

Every engagement is customized—grounded in research, driven by outcomes, and designed with your people in mind.

Let’s Redesign How Work Works

Every engagement is customized—grounded in research, driven by outcomes, and designed with your people in mind.

What I Help Clients Do

What I Help Clients Do

Make Sense of Change

Fix Broken Communication

Retain Your Best People

Design for the Future of Work

Plenty of Ways to Work Together

Not Just Insights. Impact.

Not Just Insights. Impact.

Let’s talk about your current challenge—and what’s possible when you apply design thinking to leadership.

The Working Conversations Podcast

Retain Your
Best People