Janice Fischer

Janice Fischer

Freelance Interim Executive, Board Director & Chair

Janice Fischer is a Fortune 500 trained transformational executive who drives stepfunction improvement in revenue, profit, and customer benefits in each role. With a BSc and a post-graduate Diploma of Business, she has over 20 years of global leadership experience in multi-billion-dollar business units across Consulting, Technology Services, Sales, and Cloud at IBM. Her expertise includes Profit & Loss management, Strategy and Transformation, Complex Initiative Leadership, and effective relationship stewardship. She also has deep Risk, Cyber-security, and Compliance experience through IBM roles, such as implementing industry-first controls for global Financial Institutions in a public cloud; serving as the CISO for a public cloud; leading IT operations for an outsourcing portfolio that covered nation-critical capabilities for the majority of financial institutions, governments, airlines, railways and telcos; and leading all international delivery for Technology Services, growing capacity by 30%, to a final team size of 45,000 talented professionals in Asia, Eastern Europe, South America and Africa. In addition, she created IBM Cloud’s Multi Zone Regions, an infrastructure model dedicated to performance, resilience, and security, and deployed them in Europe, Asia Pacific, North and South America. Janice is recognized as an energetic and engaging leader, respected for effectively leading diverse global teams of 4 to +40,000, to achieve business goals, while attaining pace-setting employee engagement results. She has also held multiple board member, committee chair and chair roles for over a decade. She now splits her time between Interim Management & Consulting, and Not for Profit, applying her experience and passion for creating and renewing businesses.