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Jana Kemp founded Meeting & Management Essentials in Minnesota in 1993 and moved the company to Idaho in 1994. The company focuses on improving meeting, time, and decision-management skills for individuals and organizations.

Named one of Idaho\'s Business Women of the Year in 2006, one of Idaho\'s Accomplished under 40 (years of age) business owners in 2001, and the Better Business Bureau\'s 1999 Integrity Counts small business award winner, Jana has worked to bring the power of productivity, morale and profit to day-to-day business meetings and activities since 1986.

Jana Kemp entered elected public service for the first time in 2004 after being elected to the Idaho House of Representatives in District 16, which includes all of Garden City and parts of Northwest Boise. Her focal points were Transportation, Education, and Responsible Budgeting. She served one two-year term.

Author of the book Moving Meetings (McGraw Hill, 1994 and released in Italian in 1999) and publisher of the quarterly online newsletter Better Meetings for Everyone, Jana has also served as a business columnist for the Idaho Press Tribune and Idaho Business Review newspapers. In January of 2005, her next book titled “No! – How One Simple Word Can Transform Your Life” was released by the publishing arm of the American Management Association. The book NO! has been translated into Polish, Turkish, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese.

Jana’s additional books in 2007 include: Building Community in Buildings; Moving Out of the Box; and in 2008: Prepared Not Paranoid.

Jana actively brings business management topics to broadcasting. For four years, she originated and hosted business-radio talk show Momentum and interviewed business people from across the country. Jana has also provided business segments on NBC\'s Boise Affiliate KTVB Channel 7\'s Sunrise Program.

Jana Kemp\'s clients include a variety of organizations such as: Fortune 100 companies, non-profits, associations and government agencies. Jana’s community involvement includes volunteering for the Learning Lab for 9 years, serving on the State Bar Association Public Information Committee; serving on the boards of such groups as the Idaho State Association of Parliamentarians, the American Society of Training and Development, Easter Seals Goodwill, Senior Solutions and the Learning Lab; and participating in the Citizen Law Academy in 2000, the Citizen Police Academy in 1999, and the POST Police Academy class 136 in 2002. 

More about the books by

Jana M. Kemp

Prepared Not Paranoid: Lessons from Law Enforcement for Living Every Day more Safely

by Jana M. Kemp and Doug Graves. Praeger/Greenwood, 2008. www.praeger.com

Moving Out of the Box: Tools for Team Decision Making

by Jana Kemp. Praeger/Greenwood, 2007. www.praeger.com

Building Community in Buildings

by Jana M. Kemp and Ken Baker. Praeger/Greenwood, 2007. www.praeger.com

NO! How One Simple Word Can Transform Your Life

by Jana Kemp. AMACOM, 2005.

English, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, Arabic, Chinese www.amazon.com

Moving Meetings

by Jana M. Kemp. McGraw-Hill, 1994. (Out of Print 2007). English, Italian

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