Center for Energy and Sustainability
The Center for Energy and Sustainability, located at California State University, Los Angeles, has recently engaged Janine Mcdonald to help facilitate a planning session for 50 members of faculty, students, and other staff. With the support of a National Science Foundation grant, the Center for Energy and Sustainability dedicates its resources to finding new ways to make […]
Taller San Jose
Taller San Jose, based in Orange County, has recently engaged Janine McDonald in affiliation with OneOC to facilitate a series of leadership workshops for their management team. Taller San Jose is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to giving troubled young adults a way out of poverty by providing training classes and valuable life skills.\n\nThrough […]
Community SeniorServ
J9 Leading Solutions is excited to begin work this summer with the employees of Community Senior Serv, an Orange County nonprofit-organization that is dedicated to improving the quality of life for older adults and their families by providing a multitude of programs and services that are designed to enrich and supplement the daily life of […]
Explore The Future, CACM 20th Annual Statewide Expo & Conference
J9 Leading Solutions’, Janine McDonald has been invited to deliver a keynote speech on “Leadership and Coalition Building” at the 20th Annual California Association of Community Managers Statewide Expo and Conference. Janine will be discussing the key characteristics of effective leadership and how to best engage a board of directors. Speaking from personal and professional […]
Be Aware Foundation
The Be Aware Foundation has engaged Janine McDonald through her affiliation with OneOC to lead and facilitate a strategic board retreat. Be Aware is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving women’s lives by ensuring that breast cancer is diagnosed at its earliest stages.\n\nIt is estimated that 3 million women in the U.S. are living with breast […]
Client Success Story
Mari Kurtz, chief executive of Santa-Ana based OC Metals and Cal Pac Sheet Metal, Inc. a supplier of sheet metal and solar hardware was honored along with five others at the Business Journal’s 10th annual Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards in Irvine. \n With the majority of their business from new residential production, Kurtz had to […]
Be the VP of “Go!”
No one gives you initiative. You have to take it. This was core to best-selling author Seth Godin message in his new book Poke the Box. Seth shared this message with a crowd of 700 members at Segerstrom Hall in Orange County, California, hosted by Bryan Elliott Founder of LinkedOrangeCounty.\n\nHe called it the “revolution” of […]
Think Differently
For the second time in two years, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, announced his medical leave. His absence is a big loss for Apple. Or is it? \nBy taking himself from the day-to-day operations at Apple, Steve can think bigger-picture and longer-term about gadgets, technology, and how humans will use them in the future.\n\nI heard this news on […]
Think Outside Yourself
“Good happens” is the motto for the Center for Living Peace in Irvine, California, an organization which is taking a proactive approach to the future by reaching out to the community with classes and programs designed to promote conflict resolution and an appreciation for the arts, culture and environment.\n\nUniversity of California, Irvine in partnership with […]
Needle in a Haystack
Truly a miracle. Words can hardly describe what took place in Chile earlier this week as miners trapped for 70 days, buried more than a half mile underground safely reached the surface.\n\nAs I watched the Nightline special this week, I cried and I pondered the many lessons for humanity and the world. Unlike the […]