Executive Coaching
"the right balance between support and accountability"
Jeanan is an exceptional professional coach and someone I have sought out for leadership development, navigating complex workplace dynamics, and leading through periods of growth and transition.
Jeanan listens without judgment, asks thoughtful and targeted questions, and challenges her clients to think objectively rather than simply talk through problems. She is deeply focused on what her clients want to accomplish, making every session purposeful and productive. She helps leaders challenge assumptions, broaden their perspective, gain clarity, and identify practical next steps.
What sets Jeanan apart is her ability to strike the right balance between support and accountability. She knows when to challenge conventional thinking, when to provide perspective and when to simply create the space leaders need to arrive at their own best decisions. She creates an environment where leaders can think more strategically, work through complex situations with confidence, and leave every conversation with meaningful insight and a clear path forward.
Jeanan has had a tremendous impact on my growth as a leader, and I highly recommend her to any executive or leader looking to navigate complexity, gain perspective, strengthen their leadership, and move forward with clarity.
Christy Mokrohisky
Market President, Nevada, Alignment Health
"She turned overwhelm into action"
After my role was eliminated in a restructuring, I faced the most complex job transition of my career — and at times, a lonely one. Jeanan helped me get clear on my next step and build the path to get there, challenging, guiding, coaching, and cheering me on the whole way. She turned overwhelm into action, and I came out the other side with a VP offer in hand. I'll always be grateful.
"with real, lasting impact on how I lead"
Jeanan is an exceptional executive coach who helps leaders navigate complex workplace dynamics and periods of growth and transition. She challenges assumptions, broadens perspective, and creates the space leaders need to arrive at their own best decisions — with real, lasting impact on how I lead.
Jeanan has had a tremendous impact on my growth as a leader, and I highly recommend her to any executive or leader looking to navigate complexity, gain perspective, strengthen their leadership, and move forward with clarity.
"turn vague thoughts into clear next steps"
As my executive coach, Jeanan asks the right questions at the right moments. She listens closely, challenges me directly when it counts, and helps me see angles I'd have missed on my own. Our sessions consistently turn vague thoughts into clear next steps — better decisions, and more confidence in how I take actions. She's improved how I lead, decide, and communicate, and I look forward to every conversation.
"asks the questions that cut through the noise"
What sets Jeanan apart is her gift for coaching: she asks the questions that cut through the noise and helps you see your own thinking more clearly. I am a better leader and entrepreneur because of her guidance.
"the kind of person you want in your corner"
Jeanan is one of those people who just gets it. She leads with empathy in every conversation, and you can tell she genuinely cares about you, not just about solving your problem. Whether the topic is strategy, relationship building, advocating for yourself or simply getting 'unstuck,' I always leave our conversations feeling like she genuinely wants me to win. There's a reason Jeanan gets tapped to help with complex problems or lead big initiatives — she shows up for her community, is eager to uplift others, and delivers impact. With the trust of her whole community behind her, she's exactly the kind of person you want in your corner.
Molly Schumacher
Director of Resource Development,
United Way of Dane County
"strengthened both my executive presence and confidence"
Working with Jeanan has been instrumental in my growth as a leader. She has a unique ability to ask thoughtful questions, challenge my thinking, and provide practical guidance that has strengthened both my executive presence and confidence in navigating my professional growth. Our conversations have helped me become a more intentional, strategic leader, and I would highly recommend her to anyone looking to accelerate their professional growth through executive coaching.
Strategic Advising
"a person of the utmost courage, judgment, and diplomacy"
I have been fortunate to be Jeanan's colleague while serving in a variety of public and private sector roles. She is a person of the utmost courage, judgment, and diplomacy. Among her superpowers is her ability to set aside the volatility of a highly visible problem to provide clear insight and direction to other senior leaders when it is needed most. Jeanan is a person you want on your team to fully realize opportunities and mitigate the most vexing challenges.
Karen Timberlake
former secretary
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
"a strong and continuing capability in consolidating complex concepts"
It was my pleasure to work with Jeanan over three years (2013 - 2015) as she led the senior management and Board of Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (to which I was a consulting advisor) in strategically planning GHC-SCW's long range opportunities in the midst of federal and state health care reform. She displayed a strong and continuing capability in consolidating complex concepts and multiple options into concise, core pathways for her organization to consider. Jeanan blended strategic thinking and her facilitation skills to help management colleagues and the Board navigate through a fast changing, if not turbulent marketplace that was rippled with multiple considerations. She is adept at change management and uses her excellent communications skills to keep teams on task and meeting important mileposts of progress. I can highly recommend Jeanan for those most challenging situations that are comprised of multiple inputs while requiring thoughtful, strategically oriented outcomes.
"uniquely skilled at organizing projects and professional events"
Successfully accomplishing complex projects requires effective vehicles for diverse groups to express their hopes and dreams as well as their concerns. Jeanan understands the value proposition that focused input is an important success factor to any worthwhile undertaking. She is uniquely skilled at organizing projects and professional events that require excellent planning, flawless execution and effective facilitation that produce great results.
Program Development
"dedication and innovation were keys to the success"
I had the pleasure of working with Jeanan on the planning and execution of the inaugural Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp (WEB). Her dedication and innovation were keys to the success of this first-time program. Given the very tight timeline we would not have been able to pull it off without her energy and detailed organization. She is clearly a person you want on your team and she can be counted on to successfully deliver on all facets of a program.
"placed Dean Health System in the national spotlight"
Jeanan developed more than 20 program areas for Dean Health System that not only garnered extensive community accolades as innovative models in providing care, but also placed Dean Health System in the national spotlight. She designed and executed economically sound models of care for a growing group of challenged patients. All the while she was exceptional at keeping our physicians and staff engaged in the process. I am pleased to recommend Jeanan for any project that can use her ability to facilitate change, build teams, manage difficult scenarios or develop innovative program efforts. In including Jeanan you will be including a woman of exceptional integrity, poise and intelligence.
"insightful, prepared, and able to 'think on her feet'"
When Dean Health Systems realized that significant change would be required to continue to thrive, several initiatives were advanced to stimulate this necessity. As part of this change management effort, I chaired a Practice Management Task Force and worked closely with Jeanan Yasiri as my co-chair on the daunting task of engaging the organization in improving patient access, physician productivity, and practice capacity.
Jeanan was responsible for organizing and developing the various analyses and ultimately the solutions the Task Force required. This was successful in large part due to the true 'physician-administrator' team concept employed by the Task Force. During this often challenging discussion of physician change, I found Jeanan to be insightful, prepared, and able to 'think on her feet'. Jeanan made excellent use of the staff available to the Task Force.
Ultimately, the Task Force developed innovative benchmarking tools to assess access, performance, and capacity. While controversial, all were eventually unanimously approved by the Board of Directors. Much of the credit for this again must be directed Jeanan's way. Her willingness to broadly understand these difficult issues, come up with creative solutions, and make them understandable to her physician colleagues on the Task Force was impressive. Jeanan Yasiri certainly has shown her exceptional ability at engaging a physician-administrator group and developing a sound, creative, solution while working with the DHS Practice management Task Force. I would highly recommend Jeanan to any organization seeking thoroughness, organization, and creativity in their problem solving.
Paul Huepenbecker, MD
Surgeon and
Chair, Practice Management Task Force
Dean Health Systems