One of the “Worlds Most Influential Headhunters.” — Business Week 2008. Business Week considered a number of factors in selecting these 100, including their individual reputations, their years of headhunting experience, the global scope of their recruiting practices, their accessibility and responsiveness, their high visibility within the client markets they serve, the recognition they enjoy within their firms and/or global executive search communities."
Janice Reals Ellig has been honored as recipient of the 2008 Eleanor Raynolds Award at the annual conference of the Association of Executive Search Consultants. This annual award recognizes excellence in executive search with a strong commitment to volunteerism.
Janice Reals Ellig
Co-CEO
Janice is Co-CEO of Chadick Ellig. With over 20 years of experience as a senior-level corporate executive, Janice has worked extensively with CEOs and Boards of Directors on talent management and succession planning.
Previously, Janice was SVP with Ambac Financial Group, responsible for Marketing, Human Resource and Administration. As a member of Ambac’s Executive Committee, she helped take the company public after a spin-off from Citibank in 1991. Earlier in her career, Janice held HR positions at Citigroup in the Global Insurance Division and the Card Products Group, and at Pfizer in their Consumer Products Division.
Janice has co-authored two books: Driving The Career Highway, 20 Road Signs You Can’t Afford To Miss (2007) and What Every Successful Woman Knows: 12 Breakthrough Strategies to Get the Power and Ignite Your Career (2001), acknowledged by Business Week as “the best of its genre.”
Janice is a frequent speaker at company and association sponsored symposiums on women’s initiatives and career management issues. She also moderates panels such as the University of Wisconsin’s Directors Institute on “Building Stronger Corporate Boards.”
Recently hailed by Business Week as one of the “Worlds Most Influential Headhunters,” Janice was also named one of 2007’s “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by Women’s eNews (Read the article or See the video). She is a recipient of the Channel 21 Award In Excellence for her contribution to “Excellence in the Economic Development for Women” and the 2008 Eleanor Raynolds AESC Award for Volunteerism.
Chair of the YMCA Board of Greater NY and Executive Committee and Board Director of the University of Iowa Foundation, Janice also serves on the Simmons College, School of Management Advisory Board, the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Women’s Forum and The Economic Club of NY. A native New Yorker, Janice resides in New York City with her husband, Bruce Ellig.