Jann Freed is a Leadership Development and Change Management Consultant with The Genysys Group. She primarily works with individuals and businesses in the Midwest to transition-- to get from where they are to where they want to be.   She has worked with companies such as Wells Fargo, Principal Financial Group, Vermeer Manufacturing, and Meredith Corporation. 

She is professor emerita of business management and the former Mark and Kay De Cook Endowed Chair in Leadership and Character Development at Central College in Pella, Iowa where she joined the faculty in 1981. She earned her Ph.D. from Iowa State University, M.B.A. at Drake University, and undergraduate degree in business management from Central College.

She is the co-author of four books--two on continuous improvement in higher education and a book on learner-centered assessment on college campuses. Her last book was on Mexican women leaders that evolved out of a cross-cultural research and teaching experience.