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Executive Coach | Leadership Consultant | Organizational Development Strategist

Meet Jannette

Leadership has been a thread through nearly every chapter of my career — as a business owner, CFO, consultant, mentor and coach.

Jannette Cano Schenk outdoors among sunlit trees, wearing a white shirt
Beams of sunlight breaking through a deep green forest

My story

Cima Software Corporation

I joined as Office Manager and part owner, and later became Chief Financial Officer and part owner. I led financial management, budgeting and investment-related matters, strategic planning, corporate governance, board management and office administration.

Coaching and leadership development

Over time it became clear to me that the hardest problems I watched leaders face were rarely technical. They were problems of self-knowledge: what we protect, what we avoid, what we've outgrown but still carry.

Lapin International (2017–present)

As an Executive Coach and Consultant, I've coached more than 500 individual clients and co-led more than 50 multi-week consulting workshops across the United States and the Caribbean — leadership and management development, group coaching, and multicultural international work delivered in both English and Spanish.

CS Pathways (2021–present)

CS Pathways, LLC is an independent leadership and management development firm delivering individualized and business leadership programs across U.S. and Latin American markets.

What I bring to the room

Self-awareness is the starting point, not the destination
You can't lead around a pattern you can't see. The first work is always to see honestly — including the parts you'd rather not name.
Authenticity and accountability belong together
Being yourself is not a pass on responsibility. The leaders I admire most are recognizably themselves and unmistakably accountable.
Curiosity outperforms certainty
Assumptions harden quietly with seniority. Asking better questions is a discipline, and it can be rebuilt.
Leadership is a human endeavor
Strategy matters, but organizations move through people — their trust, their friction, their sense of purpose.
Looking upward through a canopy of tall trees toward bright sky
Coaching with me is an exploration back to your core — reconnecting with your true self, examining what thrives and what needs to be released, then deliberately designing who's next.

Professional credentials

  • Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
  • Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, CTI
  • Lead by Greatness

Education

  • Master of Science, Information Systems Management

    Duquesne University

  • Master of Business Administration

    Duquesne University

  • Bachelor of Science, Health Care Management

    Robert Morris University

Languages

Spanish (Native) · English (Fluent) · German (Level 2)

Beyond the work

Mentoring young adults at Urban Promise, and time outdoors — nature, education and the environment keep this work human.

Let's start a conversation

No pitch. One honest conversation about where you are and what you want next.

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