Jane is a human resources leader with more than thirty years of experience creating healthy and engaged workplaces, identifying workforce risks and opportunities, and implementing technological and data-driven solutions. She recently established JCD Advisory which specializes in helping leaders understand and analyze workforce trends and organizational needs, and create strategic workforce plans for ensuring they have talent for near-term and future missions. Jane is also a senior fellow for human capital with The Conference Board, serving on their steering committee for the Federal Government Council. In 2023 Jane retired from NASA as the chief human capital officer where she was responsible for building the talent for supporting the agency’s mission, delivering out-of-this-world human resources services, and shaping NASA’s culture to maintain high employee engagement. Jane embraces that “we are people leaders in the people business” which guided her oversight of NASA’s human capital policies, practices, and operations. One of her most rewarding achievements at NASA was overseeing the transformation of decentralized human capital services across ten centers to a centralized line of business. Prior to NASA, Jane was a human resources consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, and held multiple human resources roles at United Technologies Corporation. Jane holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a BA in music from Yale University. She was a 2022 Presidential Rank Award recipient – Meritorious Executive, the highest award for federal government employees, bestowed on a select group of the Senior Executive Service for exceptional performance.