Wisepreneurs Podcast

Janine Garner

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Business Mentor | Bestselling Author, It’s Who You Know | Former Group Marketing Director, Oroton Group

Janine Garner is a business mentor, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of three books who has spent 15 years helping professional women commercialise decades of accumulated expertise into independent consulting practices.

Based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Janine arrived in Australia from England at 29 with a backpack, a resume, and a permanent residency visa, rebuilding her career from scratch.

She rose through corporate marketing to become group marketing director for the Oroton Group, overseeing the Oroton and Ralph Lauren brands across Australia and Asia. Her career began in London’s fashion industry, where she launched a 250,000-member loyalty program and managed international marketing for brands including Jaeger and Viola.

In her independent practice, Janine combines marketing fundamentals with direct commercial mentoring. Her books From Me to We, It’s Who You Know (translated into multiple languages), and Be Brilliant codify her approach to collaboration, strategic networking, and professional brilliance. She is a member of the International Women’s Forum and has studied leadership at Harvard. She invests 20 per cent of her income in personal development and mentoring annually.

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April 23, 2026

Janine Garner Expertise Monetisation: How Women Build Independent Consulting Practices

Janine Garner arrived in Australia at 29 with a backpack, a resume, and a permanent residency visa — and rebuilt her career from nothing. After 20 years as Group Marketing Director for Oroton and Ralph Lauren, she walked away because, as she puts it, she had lost herself despite being awesome at her job. What started as dinner conversations with women she admired became the LBD Group, a women's network, then five bestselling books tracing a single thread: From Me to We (real collaboration), It's Who You Know (intentional networking over transactional networking), and Be Brilliant (the four laws that shift you from striving to thriving). Janine now mentors women consultants and advisors in their 40s and beyond — many exiting corporate through redundancy or burnout — to turn decades of experience into commercial businesses of their own. She believes that when women become financially independent, they give back to their teams, their communities, and the world. The conversation covers …
Guest: Janine Garner