About Strategic Partners Inc.'s Principals

Kenneth M. Boxer,
President, Strategic Partners, Inc.

Ken Boxer, President of Strategic Partners, Inc., regularly consults with senior managers on the design and implementation of business plans and strategies to recruit, retain, and develop employees. Throughout the years, he has worked with such organizations as Blockbuster Entertainment, Comsat Corporation, Crown Central Petroleum, Frito-Lay, Inc., Marriott Corporation, McCormick Spice, Texas Instruments, and numerous federal government agencies, including the U.S. Departments of Health & Human Services, Agriculture, and Commerce.

Prior to forming Strategic Partners, Ken was Vice-President of Management Partners, Inc., a human resources consulting firm in Alexandria, VA, where he worked with corporate and government clients to design and implement organizational change and employee development efforts. His clients included Baltimore Gas Electric, Texas Instruments, International Family Entertainment, Huntsman Chemical, Bell Atlantic, Philip Morris, and CSX.

Ken has also been a Senior Account Manager with Organizational Dynamics, Inc. (ODI). While there, he assisted clients such as W.R. Grace, NASA, Black and Decker, and Howard University Hospital to implement their Total Quality Management (TQM) process.

Before joining ODI, Ken marketed and delivered sales and management programs for Sterling Institute. During his tenure with Sterling Institute, his clients included Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., Mobil Oil, CSX, Wheat First Securities, Continental Insurance, and DDB Needham.

As Vice President with Technology Centers, International, Ken consulted across the country on the development of business incubators - facilities for start-up companies - and developed the first such facility in Virginia.

Ken began his career as a presidential management intern with the U.S. Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C. He holds an MA and a BA from the George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Jan Boxer,
Senior Partner and Executive Coaching Practice Leader

Jan Boxer is an expert in the areas of executive coaching, career management, and organizational change. In addition to personally coaching senior leaders she provides advice to organizations on the business issues related to developing and retaining top talent.

As Strategic Partners’ Executive Coaching Practice Leader, Ms. Boxer oversees the work of 20 highly experienced coaches and organizational consultants who work with executives, leadership teams, new or high potential managers, and newly forming or struggling teams interested in accelerating learning, expanding their leadership skills or entering into growth opportunities necessary to advance professionally.

Jan Boxer consults to organizations building coaching programs from the ground up and leads SPI’s efforts in providing these organizations with ongoing coaching program oversight. In this role Ms. Boxer has worked within the hospitality industry, international finance, the United States Intelligence Community, scientific organizations, manufacturing environments and a variety of government agencies.

To many in the Washington, DC area Jan Boxer is known as the “go to” person for all matters related to career management. Ms. Boxer previously directed nation-wide career transition services for Marriott International, and was integral in establishing career centers or outplacement programs for Manor Health Care Services Corp, McCormick and Company, U.S. Postal Service, National Geographic Society, Bell Atlantic, AT&T and others.

In the course of her coaching and counseling career Jan has overseen the redeployment of tens of thousands of individuals, taught dozens of well-established coaches how to provide career planning and executive transition guidance, and trained managers in numerous organizations to more comfortably handle the counseling and advising responsibilities required by their roles.

In 1999, Ms. Boxer was honored to be invited to join Georgetown University’s adjunct faculty. She served as a co-creator of the Advanced Certificate Program for Leadership Coaching. She is a qualified administrator of numerous assessment tools, among them Career Architect’s “Voices”, a 360° multi-rater feedback instrument and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator a personality preference inventory.

Jan holds a Masters degree from George Washington University and is a graduate of the Institute for Life Coach Training, Fort Collins, Colorado.