Janice Bryant Howroyd
Founder & CEO, ACT•1 Group

Janice Bryant Howroyd heads the ACT•1 Group, a global organization that is leading the human resources industry with innovative services and tools to partner with firms in optimizing human resource talent management.

The ACT•1 Group is a conglomerate offering services matching the growth of today’s future-focused industry needs. The Group has three major components: the staffing brands, the business services brands and the group’s flagship, Agile•1 Workforce Solutions. AppleOne Staffing Services provides temporary, direct hire and contract employees as well as staffing solutions through AppleOne and industry-specific brands AT-TECH, Accounting Advantage, All’s Well, Pro Travel and BilingualOne. Also within the Act•1 Group are the business services brands which include A-Check America, CNU, DSSI, CTA and AppleOne Payroll.

A vital part of Janice’s conglomerate is Agile•1 Workforce Solutions, which provides technology and management systems for human capital and vendor management to create streamlined and efficient contingent staffing and project based processes.

Founded in 1978, the Act•1 Group services businesses throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, India and the United Kingdom. The Group plans to be operable in Brazil and Germany before Q2 2009.

Janice grew up in North Carolina, where she learned strong work ethics and saw the need for a full-scope approach to defining how people work and how companies hire. Her trek to California was one intended as a vacation, which thirty-plus years later, she says she is still on! She and her husband, Bernard, have two adult children, both graduates of the University of Southern California. They maintain homes in Rolling Hills, California and Tarboro, North Carolina, and Yorkshire, England.

Janice is a strong advocate for Women Owned Businesses and Diversity and inclusion. Her visionary and expert leadership are sought by many organizations, both as a lecturer and in member-leadership roles. Ever enthusiastic about sharing her work/life balance experiences and know-how, Janice wrote a book entitled, ‘The Art of Work—How to Make Your Work, Work for You’, which will be available within the year.