Dr. Janet L. Walsh is the CEO and president of Birchtree Global, LLC. Birchtree globalizes business strategy, operations, and employees. She provides overarching management for the firm. In the course of her career Janet has established business operations in 81 countries, directing teams of lawyers, CPAs, and HR leaders. She is noted for delivering significant increases in financial productivity by leveraging effective tax and HR strategies. She is the architect of the World Trade Center Atlanta's global market entry training program. Prior to working for Birchtree Global Janet was the VP and Director Global HR in billion-dollar multinationals and the US Head of Human Resources for S.W.I.F.T. the global financial telecommunications provider headquartered in Brussels. Her area of expertise lies in global startups, finance, infrastructure, and human capital performance. In addition, she has headed private/public partnership initiatives in Asia, Latin America, and Egypt. She was a leading member of the Women in Packaging US delegation’s historic state visit to China. While president of Birchtree she served as the host of the “Human Capital Show” interviewing distinguished business thought leaders such as Dan Ariely, David Maister, Dave Ulrich, and Marshall Goldsmith. Her thought leadership has been used as the foundation for Keller Graduate School of Business (one of the largest, accredited MBA schools in the US) capstone courses in HR and global HR management. Her work has appeared in books such as The Cuba U.S. Bilateral Relationship, and Contemporary Economics for Managers; professional and academic journals such as the Journal of Global Business Research, Cuba in Transition, International Human Resources Conference Proceedings, Review of Business and Finance Studies, and Global Finance Magazine. She is a member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Management and Marketing Research. She is a frequent speaker at professional conferences. In 2019 she and her team won the Global Leadership Award, Outstanding Research Award, and Best in Session Award, at the Global Conference on Business and Finance. Their work on managing the high-performance bully was published in the Global Journal of Business Research. Her board service has included Manhattanville College Corporate Educational Advisory Board, The Explorers Club, Rotary Means Business, Devry University, The World Trade Center Association, Bucknell University Alumni Board, the French-American Chamber of Commerce, the Bedford Film Board, and Dumbarton Concerts. She is an adjunct professor of global business in the graduate MBA and MA programs at the New York Institute of Technology. Manhattanville College, and Southern New Hampshire University. She has been elected a member of the Explorers Club for her archaeological discovery and excavation of a mid-Archaic period settlement on Pumpkinvine creek in Georgia. Janet is also a champion equestrian in cross-country, and pleasure division competitions. An avid artist, her western horse pictures have been exhibited in the Booth Museum of Western Art in Cartersville, GA, the largest western art museum in the United States. Janet holds a BA degree in Economics from Bucknell University with a concentration in Japanese, an MBA from Loyola University, and a Doctorate in Business from the University of Phoenix.
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