Janice Lierz spent 20 years as an executive in the consumer products industry with Johnson & Johnson, Heublein, Pillsbury, Frito-Lay/PepsiCo and Whole Foods Market and rose to become President/ CEO of several subsidiaries. As a Fortune 500 strategist and for the past five years, she has been sharing Fortune 500 insider secrets with entrepreneurs and business owners around the globe. She brings Fortune 500 best practices to their businesses, to explode sales and profit and help them market, grow and prosper in ways they never imagined.

As a strategist, she grows people and organizations. She built her reputation on identifying key target and growth areas, building brands and sales, and magnifying strengths. With laser-focus, she pinpoints exactly what needs to be done.

She has been called a "turnaround artist," returning distressed companies to profitability and balance, from Fortune 500s to small businesses.

She prides herself on creating superstars. "Businesses," she says, "you wish you had thought of, and ones you wish you hadn't ignored."

She has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions. She has led the charge for innumerable, historical Fortune 500 mergers & acquisitions, including Old El Paso, Cocktails for Two, Martha White, Cracker Jack, and Whole Foods Market's vitamin companies.

Janice has marketed and sold millions of consumer products from soup to nuts, from tea to coffee. Along the way, there have been cookies, pizzas, potato chips, spirits, and pain relievers. She has sold vitamins and herbs and vegetables. She has presented at, and sold into the headquarters of every major national mass merchandising, grocery store, drug chain, mini-mart, and specialty chain in the United States, and many in Australia. She’s been from Albertsons to Wal-Mart, from AARP to Z.

She has marketed with the giants—The Jolly Green Giant, the Pillsbury Doughboy, and Chester Cheetah.  She has marketed directly to consumers at grocery stores, shopping malls, doctors’ offices, and retail stores, personally and through advertisements, the internet, mail, telephone and on delivery trucks. She has walked aisles and aisles of Texas, across the United Sates, Europe, Costa Rica, Peru and Australia. She has introduced countless new products from Toaster Strudel to children’s Tylenol cold products. She has worked with distributors, brokers, and wholesalers.  She has been the Whole way. She has helped companies start-up and close down. She was there during the “Tylenol scare” and the internet bust.

She has sold images and multi-million dollar companies.

She has led over a hundred thousand people.

Janice Lierz is a sought-after international speaker and consultant, a published poet and writer.

Her work has been published around the world. She is a 2009 North Carolina Poetry Society Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Selection.  Her work has been published or is forthcoming in many literary journals, including Tar River Poetry, Del Sol Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Tightrope, Eclipse, Hiram Poetry Review, The Evansville Review, Querkus Review, The Griffin,  The Louisville Review, and Wisconsin Review, among others. 

She has given thousands of talks, speeches and presentations from audiences of 5,000 to Board of Directors, at conferences and trade shows, to investment bankers and manufacturing workers, and poetry readings. She has trained and motivated hundreds of thousands of salespeople, managers and marketers. She has conducted countless hours of seminars and workshops. She has taught courses at local colleges. She has mentored hundreds of women and men.

Janice Lierz consults for small businesses to Fortune 500s. She has helped businesses uncover millions of dollars in sales and profits.

As a writer, poet, and consultant and in her practice, based on her twenty-five plus years experience as a Fortune 500 executive, president/CEO and consultant, she helps organizations cultivate growth through strategic and creative approaches. In her craft, she brings her experiences to life through her novels, poetry, and business books.
 
She is the CEO of Zreil Global Marketing in Asheville, North Carolina. She is also the founder of a not-for-profit organization that offers fellowships to artists, from poets to painters to writers.

Janice Lierz lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her husband and their three children. 

She’s interested in speaking with you to see if she can be of assistance. From consulting to giving talks and seminars, she designs programs specifically suited to your organization's needs.  Click here to send her a note or call (828) 687-2996.