A skilled, yet entertaining conference personality, Janet Oberndorfer’s career has been devoted to enhanced communications whether explaining new uses for a consumer product, sharing customer perceptions and insights with executive management, or conducting training seminars,  

            Her flair/ease with platform assignments means that your attendees and audience members will quickly become partners in a learning experience furnishing resources with which they can return to the office to use immediately.  Janet’s interest in drama and theatre, invests her presentations with smiles, with talent, but foremost with substance.  Unlike the theatre, however, it is no act.

            Tangible effective strategies to convey one’s intent, to garner the response one wants – in short to get whatever job it is, done – are just some of the means participants will have at their disposal, when attending Janet’s workshops. 

Many people think communications is just choosing the best words; in Janet’s view, to be successful, it means we need focus; we need to listen carefully to our team/dialogue partners and employ the wisest mechanisms to induce cooperative/collaborative execution.  “We’ll never make any progress in business, in families, in industry – anywhere -- unless we say what we mean….   And we mean what we say – and we absolutely do what we say we are going to do.”

We hear about working leaner and meaner, doing more with less, yet the process Oberndorfer describes, produces associates who have broadened their technical training with communications skills, equipping them, and likewise their organizations, with greater tangible value.  It isn’t leaner…. It surely isn’t meaner -- but it is better!  It is more valuable!

It is while performing a daily agenda, that one’s new proficiencies may emerge to be cultivated, enabling the individual to grow and to excel.  How gratifying to exceed one’s highest expectations, or even surpass one’s wildest dreams.

Turn down the rhetoric and turn up the intensity! For a unique and sensational event, invite Janet to share her singular perspective.  Take your organization from merely breathing to being alive!   Janet Oberndorfer. She’s the one.

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            Janet Oberndorfer, a scintillating communicator, has fulfilled assignments in marketing communications and public relations. As a nutrition/food professional, she conceived and created sales support promotions for both the consumer and institutional food sectors.  As well, she has worked closely with advertising and public relations agency personnel.  When the consumer communications movement was just getting underway, Janet saw the importance of serving as a conduit to exchange information.  Over time this led to a focus at broader communications and the process by which all information is exchanged and transmitted.

Simultaneously, thinking she would exercise greater control of her personal destiny, Oberndorfer conceived and established LADY RESOURCEFUL, a multi-faceted entrepreneurship. Formed to offer creative product planning and media relations, LADY “R,” quickly added Grow & Go^® the educational component furnishing communications training and practice exercises. LADY RESOURCEFUL business is now comprised largely of platform presentations, writing assignments, career management consultations and public relations.  Also an Adjunct Instructor of Communications and Business for the Brooklyn College Professional Advancement and Continuing Education program, she has authored articles for Advertising Age and Working Mother Magazine and is a contributing writer for the Monster Career web site. 

Active in numerous organizations, she has served a wide variety of both elective and appointive roles alike, for professional, trade and philanthropic organizations alike including Program Chair for Home Economists in Business, New York City Group, Secretary, Vice President Cooperative Relations, and President (respectively) of the Long Island District, New York State Home Economics Association and two terms as Vice President, Finance, for New York Women in Communications, NY City Professional Chapter.

            While a member of the Board of Directors of the NY State Home Economics Association, she directed its Public Relations and Communications activities, restoring a nearly moribund career organization to a thriving, recognized professional association.

            Oberndorfer holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Rhode Island, which, in 1983, named her to the Advisory Council to the College of Human Science & Services.  An honors graduate of the Advertising & Marketing education program sponsored by Advertising Club of New York, she has pursued further studies at New York University and elsewhere.  Listed in consecutive editions of Who’s Who in the East and Who’s Who of American Women, articles about her have appeared in Working Woman, Forecast for the Home Economist, The Women’s Record and What’s New in Home Economics. 

            Oberndorfer, a widow to cancers and currently a resident of Nassau County, shares a home with an adorable tiger stripe feline, Bentley Taupe Paws.

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            “Thank you for this excellent presentation.  You gave the students much to think about. You presented a realistic picture of the work world and the professional responsibilities that are to be faced by the job applicant and the new employee.  The handouts you distributed were informative, a resource to be referred to.”

Venus Melonas, Deputy Chair Queens College of the City of New York

            “Thank you for the excellent job planning, preparing and implementing the 3-day Entrepreneurship Trainer’s Workshop. The high quality presentations and excellent resources you provided will most certainly be helpful to teachers as they start to teach this Fall.”

Marilyn Klink, The State Education Department, The University of the State of New York  

            “Thank you for the presentation you prepared and conducted on ‘Getting Business & Getting Paid: Skills for Entrepreneurs.’  On their evaluations, many said they would have liked even more time devoted to your presentation.”

Kathleen Rau, Vice-President for Programs, The New York State Home Economics Association

            “Your teleconference presented to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo was highly successful.  I was truly impressed by the versatility and creativeness of your career roles.  We appreciated the tips for success liberally injected throughout the presentation. Your humor, preparedness, and organizational style were a pleasure to behold.  Thank you for providing a unique learning experience.”

Professor Francis J. Parker Ph.D., California Polytechnic State University

             “Thank you for your participation in the Group Affiliates’ Seminar. Your advice, guidance and suggestions have inspired these groups to reach for higher goals.  I am grateful for your invaluable participation.”

Cindy Funk, Assistant Executive Director, The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center