Janet Swaysland, Senior Consultant, Bridging Distance

Janet Swaysland

Janet provides deep expertise in workplace culture, employee communication and engagement strategy, helping organizations attract and keep the best talent, move through change with minimal disruption, navigate urgent issues, and serve customers better. She has served in corporate marketing and communications leadership positions and has extensive consulting experience, most recently as EVP in Weber Shandwick’s global employee engagement and change management practice.

Earlier assignments include senior communications leadership roles at Iron Mountain and Monster, as well as Research Working Group Program Director for The Conference Board and project leader for a social trust study with the authors of The Hyper-Social Organization and the Great Place to Work Institute. She has also held senior positions at global marketing/public relations agencies, building corporate reputation, social responsibility, influencer relations and public relations programs for brands including Timberland, Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Frito-Lay as well as numerous early stage companies.

Janet is a graduate of Wake Forest University, studied in Venice and lived in Switzerland upon graduation. She lives in Marblehead, MA and is grateful every day for a view of the sea. Her other home is North Carolina, where she is building a cabin in the mountains.

Senior Consultant