Jan O'Brien

100x132 Jan O'Brien, IAC-CC is President/Owner of Culture Conscious International LLC and a senior facilitator with Personal Leadership Seminars LLC. She offers coaching services, intercultural business briefings and Personal Leadership coaching and training for clients living and working across cultures.  Currently based in Houston, Texas, Jan is a US/UK dual national and has lived and traveled extensively overseas, working with clients from many cultural backgrounds, in particular Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand.

She has worked as a core instructor with the University of Houston, Executive Coaching Institute teaching Personal Leadership-based classes on Coaching in a Multicultural Workplace and Conflict Resolution.  Her passion for coaching continually inspires her vision for “making a world of difference”.    

Jan is a certified coach with the IAC (International Association of Coaching). She has held board positions with SIETAR USA (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research) and is a member of the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and the Asia Society.

Personal Leadership: Making a World of Difference

The Personal Leadership framework is based on the understanding that intercultural knowledge and intercultural competence are two very different things, especially when our deeply held values or sense of identity are affronted by cultural difference.

This program introduces a transformative methodology to those who wish to examine the directions and commitments they are making in their own development as they live and work across cultures, both internationally and in their multicultural communities. Based on the principles of mindfulness and creativity, the practice of Personal Leadership helps us attend to our automatic "default" reactions; we learn to remain open and inspired, and thus to respond to people, places and situations in effective and productive ways, even when we feel personally or professionally challenged.

Personal Leadership offers the opportunity to significantly enhance our lives, inside and out, and inspires us to be more fully present when coaching across cultures. In other words "Personal Leadership is a state of mind, of heart, and of body." (Ramsey, Schaetti, Watanabe, founders Personal Leadership Seminars)