As managing director of Leadership Forum, Inc., Jane Cox brings a wealth of real-world experience to the areas of general management consulting and leadership development to help clients strategically position themselves for improved performance and aggressive growth in an increasingly competitive marketplace. She focuses on the areas of organizational change, leadership, and chief executive and executive team development.  Her academic background in public speaking, gender communication and small group dynamics has served as a solid platform for building teams, and successfully growing the investment of internal and external stakeholders.

Jane most recently served as the President/CEO of the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, a $55 million dollar not-for-profit corporation that increased its distribution of food by nearly 400% and the revenue stream to support that function by over 600% in her nine-year tenure.  Jane was inducted into Triangle Women in Business in 2002 and became an Eisenhower Fellow in 2003.  The year she was selected as an Eisenhower Fellow, Jane traveled to Australia and New Zealand with the Fellowship for two months to examine among other issues how collaboration between the private sector, government, and non-governmental organizations lessen gaps in communities, regions, states and nations.  Jane holds a BA and an MPA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.