About

Jane Dundes is a Master Coach, certified by the International Coach Federation.  As a results-oriented executive, leadership and team coach with more than 20 years experience, she collaborates as a thought partner, sounding board, facilitator and culture architect, empowering clients as they navigate journeys of integrative mastery and leadershp excellence.

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Known for a fluid, direct and laser-like intuitive style, Jane brings fierce commitment and heightened compassion to every client engagement.

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An advocate of leadership artistry in any field, Jane fosters leadership climates and team organizational cultures where agility, commitment to excellence and mindful self-mastery thrive. Clients are empowered to successfully navigate change, to hard-wire trust, psychological safety, synergistic teamwork and individual agency.

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Initially designed to serve executives, talent and professionals in the entertainment industry, Jane brings extensive experience championing professionals, talent and teams who require the ability to excel individually while staying true to a vision and working collaboratively. Increasing agility in oneself and

then in professional environments, clients gain the necessary altitude, resilience and energy to embrace

fresh perspectives, so as to breathe inspiration back into their messages, projects and people.

Encouraging leaders to embrace environmental sustainability on the individual and corporate levels,

her approach includes emphasis  on mitigating conflicts and increasing social impact. Grounded in neuroscience-evidence based tools, practices in social, emotional and conversational awareness lead to shifts in perspective and adaptability; incremental pivots lead to insightful action and fresh outcomes.

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Clients have included leaders from entertainment studios, award-winning architecture and design firms and universities. including Paramount Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, ABC, Tubi, USC, USC Keck and Norris Hospitals, and individual writers, producers and directors.

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Jane draws upon a background in entertainment and the creative arts, (dance, television, documentary and video production) where she had the privilege of working in various capacities (choreographer, story consultant, writer, producer /production executive) on projects helmed by up and coming and award-winning writers, directors and producers. Her laboratory for collaboration is informed by sweat equity in the creative and production realms, and the decades of experience in on-the-court, creative collaboration, bridging the gaps and creative tensions between corporate and creative. Among the companies where she contributed to projects and/or was trained in creative disciplines include Angeles Entertainment Film Financing, Orion Television, Motown Productions, ITC, Platypus/Think Entertainment, Kushner-Locke, Lorimar, NBC-PAX Television, Pacific Ocean Post, Visualize Productions, Pioneer Corporations/Pioneer LDC Tokyo, CBS Records, et.al.

Jane is:

 ~ a designated Master Certified Coach (ICF)

~ certified in delivering the Korn-Ferry/Hay Group's ESCI 360

~ certified in delivering the Changewise Leadership Agility 360

~certified in the Barrett Values Centre 360 and culture assessments. 

~ an associate member of the Institute of Coaching @ McClean, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate. (IOC)

~pursuing Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) Facilitator Certification

~ a former Dance Camera West advisory board and screening committee member

~ an International Documentary Association member (IDA)

~ A member of the International Coach Federation (global and LA chapters)

~ a lifelong dancer & meditation practicioner

~ University of Massachusetts Amherst, BA  Summa Cum Laude: social consciousness and story-telling

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