Biosketch

Janet Bickel partners with individuals to build their careers and their executive skills and with organizations to improve leadership development. Widely respected as an expert in these areas, she has spoken and consulted at over 105 academic health centers and universities and over 30 professional societies and other organizations. Recent activities include Visiting Associate Dean of Faculty at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, design of a Leadership Development Curriculum for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, coaching in a new US Department of Health and Human Services Leadership Development program, and teaching Leadership and Innovation at the National Reconnaissance Office in DC. Janet is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Education at George Washington University School of Medicine and a member of the ELAM Consultation Alliance. She is certified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Center for Creative Leadership's multi-rater feedback instruments, and EQ In Relationship profiles. In 2006-7, she completed the the Relationship Centered Health Care’s Courage to Lead program.

During the 25 years prior to creating her own business, she held positions of increasing national leadership at the Association of American Medical Colleges, including Associate Vice President for Medical School Affairs. She established an Office of Women in Medicine of national repute, creating a series of professional development seminars attended by over 4000 women faculty. She also led AAMC’s first faculty management and development programs. Since the 1994 initation of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Fellowship Program, she has served on its Faculty and Advisory and Selection Committees and now also as Learning Community Advisor. Janet has published broadly, with over 45 peer-reviewed articles, including the widely cited “Generation X: Implications for Faculty Recruitment and Development in Academic Health Centers” (Academic Medicine, March 2005). Her two books have also garnered high praise: Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education (with D. Wear; U. of Iowa Press, 2000) and Women in Medicine: Getting in, Growing and Advancing (Sage, 2000). Between 1972-76, Janet served as admissions, financial aid and student affairs officer for the then new Brown University Medical School. She holds a M.A. in sociology from Brown University and an A.B. in English from University of Missouri-Columbia.