JAN F. TRIPLETT, Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer
Business Success Center
Her firm was just selected as one of
Austin's top Management Consulting firms
by the Austin Business Journal

• Co-author of Think Big, Stay Small, a four-year pioneering study for International Association of Business Communicators on best practices in communication in small organizations
• Author of A Networker’s Guide to Success
• Co-developer of the BSC's systematic business ownership program, the Owners MBA, with over 1000 graduates
• NCRC Certified Technical Advisor
• Former moderator for "The Next 200 Years" carried on over forty stations nationwide.
• SBA 1991 Small Business Advocate for the State of Texas
• 2005 Finalist, Profiles in Power Award

Listed in:
• Personalities of the South
• Who’s Who in the Southwest

Nominee:
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Awards:
• Austin's Top 20 Management Consulting firms, Austin Business Journal 2005
• Austin Business Journal's 2001 Book of Lists of dynamic Austin companies
• Austin Chamber of Commerce, 1987 Woman Business Owner of the Year and Service Award
• Austin Quality Council, Level 1 Award
• Black Arts Alliance Phoenix Award
• City of Austin Commendation
• International Hospitality Council of Austin Service Award
• SCORE chapter of the SBA Service Award
• TX Association for Community Service & Continuing Education, Programs of Excellence
• TX Senate Resolution #714 (Personal commendation) and #1187

Articles in Publications:
• Texas Restaurant Association trade publications
• Texas Retail Grocers Association trade publications
• Texas Retailer Association trade publications
• Austin American-Statesman
• Austin Business Journal
• Bootstrappin’ Entrepreneur
• International Resource Guide
• International Television Association publication
• Practical Supervision
• Women in American Theatre
• Venture Forum (Japan)
• Publisher/Editor Natural Foods Buyers Guide
• Publisher/Editor of The Networker

Appointments:
• By Gov. Ann Richards to 1995 White House Conference on Small Business
• By Mayor Kirk Watson to Mayor's Taskforce on International Infrastructure
• National Federation of Independent Business State Delegate to the Congressional Summit on Small Business in 1998 and 2000.

Expert Testimony:
• Texas State Senate on small business issues
• SBA on proposed changes to small business size standards

Research Work:
• Children and Commercials, top 10 paper
• State of Small Business, yearly
• Models of Excellence in Communication in Small Businesses, Government Agencies & Non-Profits, Commissioned Study for the International Association of Business Communicators

Serves as:
• Volunteer Counselor for the Small Business Administration (SBA) since 1986
• Board Member, Students Involved in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
• Charter Member of the Texas ADA Business Leaders Network
• Member, Business Leadership Network, Presidents Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities
• Board of Advisors, American Center for Entrepreneurship
• Board of Advisors, STET Corporation

Served as:
• 1st Vice President and one of three original founders of Women's Chamber of Commerce of Texas
• Vice President, Austin Literacy Council
• Board Member, International Hospitality Council of Austin
• Member, Mayor's Task Force on International Infrastructure
• Member, Economic Review Board, Office of the Comptroller
• Parliamentarian and Secretary, Greater Austin International Coalition
• Facilitator and Board Member, Texas Capital Access Forum Conference
• Facilitator and Board Member, Texas Conference on Small Business
• Board Member, Communications Committee, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
• Panelist and expert on access to capital for Lt. Gov. Rick Perry’s "Texas Summit"
• Guest Expert for the Oregon Graduate Institute of Business’ "International Benchmarking" symposium
• Marketing Expert, Camp Enterprise, Rotary of Austin

Jan Triplett, Ph.D.is the Chief Operating Officer of the Business Success Center, Texas largest private small business improvement center.

Her systematic networking approach is the cornerstone of the BSC's facilitated networking program and of the guided accelerator business growth program for new businesses and those in transition, called the Success Hatchery.

She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Communication and studied at the Graduate Institute, St. Anne's College, Oxford.

She has been a networking, marketing and public relations researcher, analyst, consultant and implementer since 1973 for both the public and private sectors. She is the co-developer and co-instructor for several award-winning entrepreneurial and "intrapreneurial" programs.

She speaks and reads Spanish and French and some limited Japanese. In 1996, she and partner Daniel Diener presented a venture capital and entrepreneurship program at the request of the Nikkei Corporation in Japan. She was asked to provide a program on entrepreneurship for the Center for Citizen Initiatives for a Russian Radio and TV owners delegation in 2000.

Dr. Triplett has frequently testified before the Texas legislature on small business issues. She frequently quoted in publications ranging from Entrepreneur and Income Opportunities, to Female Executive, Home Office Computing, and other national publications, radio and TV.

You may contact Jan Triplett through email at triplett@bscusa.com