Strategic Partners, Inc. is a woman-owned small business with an outstanding record of accomplishment in building effective organizations, developing leaders and delighting our customers. Meet our leaders.
Jan Boxer, Senior Partner and Executive Coaching Practice Leader
Jan Boxer is an expert in the areas of executive coaching, organizational change, and career management. In addition to personally coaching hundreds of leaders over the last 20 years she has been a trusted advisor to those involved with leading wide-scale change, building leadership development programs, conducting organizational assessments, managing sensitive personnel issues or spearheading employee engagement and retention initiatives. This extraordinary exposure has provided Jan with the ability to create a meaningful context for coaching that reflects current organizational realities and priorities in both government agencies and private sector corporations.
Locally, Ms. Boxer is well known and recognized as a “coach’s coach,” evidenced by her appointment to Georgetown University’s adjunct faculty where she served as a co-creator of the Advanced Certificate Program for Leadership Coaching. Similarly, in her role as Executive Coaching Practice Leader with Strategic Partners, Inc., Jan guides a team of 15+ highly experienced coaches and consultants in providing services to senior and executive level leaders, new or high potential managers, and newly forming or struggling teams interested in expanding capabilities and improving performance.
Ms. Boxer is routinely sought out by organizations building coaching programs from the ground up and provides on-going oversight to the coaching programs that have been outsourced directly to SPI. In this role, Ms. Boxer has worked within the hospitality industry, international finance, the United States Intelligence Community, scientific organizations, manufacturing environments and a variety of government agencies.
Prior to joining SPI as a managing partner, Jan built a coaching and consulting firm specializing in career development and executive transition services. In this capacity, she established and operated outplacement programs for publically held companies including Marriott International, and oversaw coaching/counseling services provided by 22 coaches. She sold her interest in 2002; the firm is now known as the White Hawk Group. Earlier in her career Jan was integral in establishing career centers and programs for Manor Health Care Services Corp, Crown Central Petroleum, McCormick and Company, U.S. Postal Service, National Geographic Society, Bell Atlantic, AT&T and others.
Ms. Boxer is highly experienced in using dozens of assessment tools including Lominger’s “Voices”, The Leadership Circle Profile, and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Jan earned her Master’s Degree from George Washington University and is a graduate of the Institute of Life Coach Training, Fort Collins, Colorado, an International Coach Federation accredited coach training institution. In 2009 and 2010, Jan participated in the prestigious invitation-only coaching conference “Conversation among Masters”. She is an active member of the International Association of Coaching (IAC), The International Federation of Coaches (ICF) and the International Consortium of Coaching Organizations (ICCO).
Ken Boxer, Founder and President
Ken Boxer, President of Strategic Partners, Inc., regularly consults with senior managers on the design and implementation of business plans and strategies to recruit, retain, and develop employees. Throughout the years, he has worked with such organizations as Blockbuster Entertainment, Comsat Corporation, Crown Central Petroleum, Frito-Lay, Inc., Marriott Corporation, McCormick Spice, Texas Instruments, and numerous federal government agencies, including the U.S. Departments of Health & Human Services, Agriculture, and Commerce.
Prior to forming Strategic Partners, Ken was Vice-President of Management Partners, Inc., a human resources consulting firm in Alexandria, VA, where he worked with corporate and government clients to design and implement organizational change and employee development efforts. His clients included Baltimore Gas Electric, Texas Instruments, International Family Entertainment, Huntsman Chemical, Bell Atlantic, Philip Morris, and CSX.
Ken has also been a Senior Account Manager with Organizational Dynamics, Inc. (ODI). While there, he assisted clients such as W.R. Grace, NASA, Black and Decker, and Howard University Hospital to implement their Total Quality Management (TQM) process. Before joining ODI, Ken marketed and delivered sales and management programs for Sterling Institute. During his tenure with Sterling Institute, his clients included Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., Mobil Oil, CSX, Wheat First Securities, Continental Insurance, and DDB Needham. As Vice President with Technology Centers, International, Ken consulted across the country on the development of business incubators – facilities for start-up companies – and developed the first such facility in Virginia.
Ken began his career as a presidential management intern with the U.S. Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C. He holds an MA and a BA from the George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Jefferson Kellogg, Principal & Consulting Practice Leader
As a Senior Consultant with Strategic Partners, Inc., Mr. Kellogg has over 25 years of experience in the professional services arena. His work reflects a combination of internal human resource and external consulting experience that provides a broad understanding of the dynamics of successful human capital management. After beginning his consulting career with Sterling Institute and managing his own consulting practice for several years, Mr. Kellogg joined Cooper & Lybrand’s Management Consulting Services unit where he managed a range of projects designed to strengthen client organization performance. His work led to his being named Director of the practice’s human resource survey center, a new consulting unit that specialized in the design and implementation of survey methodologies to support large-scale change initiatives for a wide array of commercial and federal clients. In addition to supporting external client engagements, he developed an internal leadership survey and consulted with many of the firm’s consulting practices to strengthen their internal management practices.
Following a two-year overseas experience, Mr. Kellogg is working as an independent consultant, primarily with Watson Wyatt Worldwide and Strategic Partners, Inc. Mr. Kellogg has an undergraduate degree from the College of Wooster and graduate degrees from Kent State University and George Washington University and is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources from the Society of Human Resource Management.
