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Jan Phillips
 Jan Phillips is a visionary thought leader, award-winning author and dynamic speaker. She teaches individuals and organizations to ignite their original thinking and capitalize on their diverse strengths to achieve success while being a force for good in the world.
Jan is known worldwide for her keynote speaking, workshops and multimedia video presentations. She creates a unique multi-sensory experience, weaving humor, storytelling, captivating imagery, and music to inspire and ignite insights for life-changing action. Jan shows people how to access their wisdom, activate their own creative energy and communicate with passion and power.
Jan is one of the founders and principal members of the 9th Element Group, an organization dedicated to promoting thought leadership by providing compelling keynote speakers, educational programs, products, workshops and seminars. Her own quest has led her into and out of a religious community, across the U.S. on a Honda motorcycle, and around the world on a one-woman peace pilgrimage. Blending east and west, art and activism, reflection and ritual, Jan’s transformational presentations inspire consciousness and commitment.
Jan is the author of the forthcoming The Art of Original Thinking—The Making of a Thought Leader
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(9th Element Press, Summer 2006) Divining the Body (Skylight Paths, 2005), God Is at Eye Level—Photography as a Healing Art (Quest Books, 2000), Marry Your Muse— Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (Quest Books, 1997), Making Peace: One Woman's Journey Around the World (Friendship Press, 1990), and editor of A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind (Breakthrough Press, 2000). Jan teaches annually at the International Women’s Writing Guild Summer Conference (http://www.iwwg.com) and conducts workshops throughout the year. She has taught in over 23 countries and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Ms., Newsday, People, Christian Science Monitor, New Age Journal, National Catholic Reporter and Utne Reader.
Marry Your Muse won the 1998 Ben Franklin Award presented by the Publishers Marketing Association and the 1998 Athena Award presented by Mentor/Protégé Magazine. Making Peace was placed on the recommended reading list for United Methodist Women. Jan has a CD of original music, All the Way to Heaven, and Sounds True Audio has released a 6 tape program of her work, The Marry Your Muse Workshop.
Her photographs have been exhibited at the National Women's Hall of Frame, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Los Angeles County Museum, Tyler Art Gallery, the Children's Museum, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery and in several international venues.
She is a co-founder of Syracuse Cultural Workers publishers and distributors of socially-conscious artwork, and was the editor of their Women Artists Datebook, In Praise of the Muse, for three years. She has won awards for outstanding writing and photography from the New York Press Association, the National Organization for Women, the National Catholic Press Association, the National Federation of Press Women, the National Religious Press Association and the Syracuse Press Club.
As an artist/activist, Jan's commitment to spiritual healing and social justice resonates in her work and her workshops are vibrant with that passion and sensibility.
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The Art of Original Thinking –
The Making of a Thought Leader
A hands-on guide to becoming a Thought Leader. This book is a brilliant guide to original thinking, inspired living,and visionary leadership.
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Sounds True Audio has released a 6
tape program of her work, The Marry
Your Muse Workshop
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Making Peace was placed on the recommended reading list for United Methodist Women
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