Guest Profile

Janaki Severy

Janaki Severy is committed to supporting her clients to reach their goals. She creates an atmosphere of trust, which allows for proactive intervention and change and encourages possibility thinking. Her energy and spontaneous sense of humor are evident in all the work she does. Janaki assesses training and development needs so clients align training with business strategies and receive a return on investment. She excels at executive coaching, training design and delivery, group facilitation and public speaking.


For over 25 years Janaki has successfully created learning environments that facilitate honest group interaction. She was a lead trainer with Malandro Communication, Inc. where she provided sales, negotiations, leadership, and teambuilding training, as well as executive coaching. She is a former VP of client services with the Seattle Office Right Management Consultants, where she sold and delivered career transition and organizational development services to biotech, public utilities and Fortune 500 companies. Janaki founded Managing Dynamics LLC in 1999. Formerly known as Management Dynamics


Janaki earned a BA in Drama/Education from the University of Washington and an M.Ed. in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Arizona. She also participated in Ph.D. level coursework in Transformational Learning at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She's certified in many tools that assist her and her clients to understand human dynamics and leadership style. These tools are the MBTI, the DISC, the EQ Map, the Lifestyle Inventory, and the Leadership Impact, to name a few. She is also certified in Neuro-linguistic Programming, which is a system that studies patterns and practices of human interaction. Janaki is a past member of the National Speaker's Association.