Jane Connell

With over 30 years of experience leading business and digital transformations, Jane most recently oversaw strategic portfolios for enterprise capabilities, aligning strategy and transformation within Verizon’s Global Services organization prior to her retirement. Throughout her career, she developed deep expertise in creating new business models, delivering service management solutions, and leveraging cloud and SaaS technologies to enhance quality, cost efficiency, reliability, and compliance across large, complex value chains. She has been a passionate advocate for enabling business growth and advancing diversity and inclusion, with a proven track record of partnering with senior stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams to achieve critical industry and organizational goals.

Jane held senior executive roles at State Street, Johnson & Johnson, and Verizon, where she built a reputation for transforming organizations, solving complex business challenges, and improving both customer and employee experiences across multiple industries.

Now retired from her corporate career, Jane remains actively engaged in community service. She has served on numerous private, public, and nonprofit boards and continues to partner with leading universities to support initiatives focused on the workforce of the future.  Jane has now parlayed that into her own Brand, JM Perspectives, LLC and is engaged in speaking, executive mentoring and strategic advising for her clients.  Her expertise and dedication have earned her national recognition from a variety of industry organizations.