Jane Stojak

Before theater became her life, Jane Stojak (formerly Janet Stojak Caplan) worked as an independent consultant in organizational development. She (with colleague Robert Kelley at Carnegie-Mellon University) developed a program, called "Breakthrough," for the former Bell Laboratories to train engineers and scientists to be more productive. The development, delivery and evaluation of the program occupied 6 years and resulted in the publication in 1993 of "How Bell Labs Creates Star Performers" in the Harvard Business Review (Robert Kelley and Janet Caplan). Subsequently the training program was successfully delivered at several companies including 3M. In 1995, Breakthrough was licensed to Development Dimensions International.

After receiving her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at City University of New York, Jane Stojak spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychology Department of Yale University and then taught psychology at Williams College and at the graduate program of the New School for Social Research in New York.Jane received an M.A. in Journalism from Columbia University in 1987 and worked as a freelance science writer for several publications including The St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Post.

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