Janice Reals Ellig - CEO - Ellig Group

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As the CEO of the Ellig Group, Janice is dedicated to increasing the placement of women and underrepresented executives on corporate boards and in C-suites. Before her career in executive search, Janice spent 20 years in corporate America at Pfizer, Citi, and Ambac Financial Group, an IPO from Citibank, where she was responsible for Marketing, Human Resources, and Administration.
 

Named one of “The World’s Most Influential Headhunters,” according to Bloomberg Businessweek, Janice’s pioneering executive search work has accelerated what she describes as the “glacial rate of change” in corporations, led her to focus on the firm’s placement of women and underrepresented executives in senior management and board roles. Her commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace is well-established, far-reaching, and enduring. This native New Yorker is far from finished in her push to advance women more quickly, using her influence and disruptive insights to shape how companies reimagine and diversity their talent ranks and corporate and board leadership.
 

Janice is a media guest on gender parity, inclusion, and diversity and has written multiple articles for the Financial Times, Directors & Boards, Directorship, Corporate Director, and Forbes.com. She also co-authored two books: Driving The Career Highway and What Every Successful Woman Knows, which Bloomberg Businessweek acknowledged as “the best of its genre.”

Janice is the Past President of the Women’s Forum of New York, and Founder of the Women’s Forum of New York’s Corporate Board Initiative and its signature event, Breakfast of Corporate Champions, which she has chaired for over a decade, honoring those companies leading board diversity and to encourage CEOs to sponsor board-ready women for the Women’s Forum database. (LINK: www.womensforumny.org).