Janet Fogarty
Janet Fogarty’s vast experience of chairing CEO boards for the last 27 years, strategic governance mastery, and deep institutional savvy allows public and corporate boards a skilled director, ideal for audit and nominating/governance committees.
Janet Fogarty brings 27 years of CEO advisory experience to the boardroom, having facilitated over 4,000 strategic sessions with business leaders navigating growth, transitions, and market disruption.
As a Vistage Chair, Fogarty worked directly with companies on peer advisory boards that achieved measurably superior outcomes: higher exit multiples, successful pivots during volatility, and accelerated growth against economic headwinds. She guided executives through enterprise value creation, M&A transactions, crisis management, and leadership succession, earning Vistage Worldwide's Master Chair certification and multiple Chair Excellence Awards and is now awarded Chair Emeritus.
Fogarty's operating experience includes leading a $65M enterprise through multi-state expansion and a successful exit as President, overseeing 50+ branches and 200 employees.
Through FogartyConnect, she advises PE-backed executives and growth-stage companies on the strategy-culture-execution alignment that drives institutional value. She specializes in organizational transitions, helping founder-led companies scale to professional governance, bridging management teams with investor expectations, and elevating C-suite effectiveness. Fogarty has been engaged by more than 30 companies navigating PE partnerships, pre-IPO readiness, and complex organizational design challenges.
She facilitates board and executive team strategy sessions, bringing clarity to complexity and candid perspective to the boardroom.