Dr. Janice Presser's Biography

Janice Presser is Chief Executive Officer and a principal of The Gabriel Institute. Throughout her career, Janice has been focused on team performance: how healthcare teams service those in need; how families ‘team’ with each other, and how organizations enable (or inhibit) positive human synergy in the workplace. All of these pursuits have had, at their core, the desire to understand what really happens between people during group activities, and to create a reliable way to structure and support coherent, productive teams.

Dr. Presser and her longtime collaborator, Dr. Jack Gerber, spent over 25 years in research, development, and testing of "a completely new way to predict how people will perform in teams," which is now known as TGI Teamability™. Together, they launched The Gabriel Institute as a vehicle for bringing this visionary technology to business users and to the general public. Since its late-2009 launch as an online 'technology of teaming,' Teamability has impacted over 100 corporate, government, and non-profit organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice, the State of Montana, Independence Blue Cross, and Hitachi Electronics, as well as Angel/VC/Private Equity investors, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and supporters of the innovation economy.

Dr. Presser has served on SHRM’s Human Capital Assessment/Metrics Special Expertise Panel, its Taskforce on Workforce Planning, and currently serves on its Taskforce on Metrics and Measurements. She is Contributing Editor for Selection in ELLA®, the Employment Labor Law Audit. Her writings consistently appear in the ‘Top 5’ most-viewed articles list of ‘InnovationDAILY’, which has readers in 140 countries. She has authored five books and dozens of articles, tweets as @DrJanice, networks on LinkedIn, and blogs at Teamability.blogspot.com. She leads TGI's technology strategy and deployment, in addition to her more traditional CEO and expert advisory duties. Dr. Presser's new book, slated for release in November of 2012, will explore the theoretical and physical foundations of 'teaming,' and their profound impact on the structure, development, and leadership of teams.