Janine Dawson is the Owner/CEO of Well Traveled With Janine, a travel advisory company. She most recently served as Sr. Director, Learning and Development, Learning Solutions at Comcast, where she led a Program Management team responsible for operationalization and strategic planning for enterprise-wide talent and employee engagement initiatives for approximately 80,000 learners. Her daily practices involved consulting with learning engagement leaders, colleagues, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment of business strategy and portfolio team’s learning assets. She also devised a portfolio learning strategy and framework to communicate and drive portfolio expansion, sustainability, innovation, and course engagement across three critical business units.
Janine served in (4) additional learning leadership roles while at Comcast, focused on Marketing Communications and Branding, Product Knowledge, Business Services and Program Management. In each role, Janine was responsible for designing and developing innovative curricula for Comcast University for the top two revenue-generating units - Comcast Business and Xfinity.
Janine's work in the instructional design space at Comcast afforded her the company's 2020 Circle of Success Award, and a nomination for the same award in 2019.
Before joining Comcast, Janine worked in the Pharmaceutical industry for 14 years in Sales-based roles, including Sales Representative, Senior Trainer and District Sales Manager. Throughout her tenure, Janine won the “Pinnacle” and "Regional Star" Award for top sales performance, a District Leadership Award for mentoring and onboarding efforts, and a Commercial Excellence award for Creativity and Innovation at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.
Janine holds an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.A. in Mass Media Arts from Hampton University, and a Graduate Certificate in Training and Educational Technology from George Washington University.
She is a member of several professional and social organizations, including the ATD Greater Philadelphia Chapter, The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Incorporated, the National Hampton Alumni Association, Philadelphia Chapter, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, where she currently serves as the 2nd Vice President for Membership for the Phi Beta Omega Chapter in North Wales, PA. She is also a charter member of this chapter.
