Johnston Consulting Group

Germaine specializes in working with organizations to produce performance breakthroughs in productivity and leadership. Her 15-years consulting experience is in coaching executives, individuals and groups at all levels to deliver high-impact business results. Germaine is a resourceful and innovative designer of consulting interventions. She is a dynamic deliverer of training programs that incorporate clients' specific developmental needs, such as work redesign, productivity breakthroughs, time transformation , coaching and communication skills. Germaine's consulting work has been multicultural including work in Europe, Indonesia, Israel and Canada. She is President & co-founder of Eagle's View Consulting, an international coaching and management consultancy. Germaine is co-author of COACH ANYONE ABOUT ANYTHING: How to Help People Succeed in Business and Life , listed #3 in Amazon.com's Top 100 Business Books for 2003 .

Germaine's coaching and consulting career has included work in the real estate, insurance, sales, forest products, law, manufacturing, mining, and energy industries. She has also coached teams of labor and management personnel to produce breakthrough results. Some of the results Germaine's clients have achieved are:

• A copper mining company reduced maintenance costs by $800,000 (27%) in a four-month period.

• Trained 3 internal consultants for a major oilfield supplier who facilitated high-impact Reengineering teams to produce breakthrough results throughout the organization.

• Co-trained and coached joint union/management project teams in a British Columbia forest products company, dramatically reducing costs and increasing productivity enabling the re-opening of a mill formerly shut down.

• Consulted in the establishment of a national Estate Planning practice, headquartered in Florida, offering legal and insurance services under one roof. Co-designed unique marketing, organizational mission and innovative business structure. This start-up organization ranked #1 in sales representing the eleventh largest US life insurance company their first and second years in existence.

As a senior manager for one of the world's largest training and development organizations, Germaine created and led an effort that doubled business performance in her region within four months.

Germaine holds a B.A. in Management from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas and an M.S. degree in Organization Development from American University and the NTL Institute (National Training Laboratories). She is an accredited Insights Discovery practitioner (behavioral styles profile) and is a certified Birkman consultant. Germaine is a Life Member of CoachLab International - Society of Professional Coaches and serves on the Advisory Board. She is a frequent keynote speaker on a variety of subjects including Time Transformation and Coaching.

Germaine lives in Kingwood, Texas with her husband and enjoys the outdoors including bicycling, running and volunteering for Big Brothers and Big Sisters. She ran her first marathon, the Houston Marathon, in January 2003. The American Business Women's Association (ABWA) presented Germaine with the 2003 Board Award , for outstanding service to the Artesian Chapter.