Bizen Consulting, Inc., is a management consulting firm that provides extra energy and expertise to business projects. We love getting things done and can help move your company’s project forward in an efficient and effective way.
Why work with us?
We have know how and plenty of energy to get the job done.
We’ve done the research AND the experimentation.
As a bonus, we are a lot of fun to work with.
Meet Our Staff
John Underwood, Software Development & Team Management
John loves digging into a new problem, whether the solution is novel or has components that can be solved using tools from his toolbox of experience. He also enjoys seeing the breadth of ways teams solve problems, organize, and collaborate to achieve a goal.
John’s depth of experience comes from helping teams succeed. Goals like creating a new ledger system for a finance team, building a search engine using mood as filters, or breaking down multi-level jurisdictional information to create a compliance solution. He enjoys discovering a clear model and abstraction to solve a problem.
On a personal level, John enjoys finding approaches and tools to create solutions. To that end, he has been cultivating attentional skills actively applying various systems and techniques while working for over a decade now. With a focus on honing in the skills of concentration, clarity and resilience, he now uses the UM system to share how to practically and effectively cultivate these skills with others.
John strives to better balance work activity and recuperation to improve sustainability in his life. He enjoys learning new languages, both computer and human, and experiencing different cultures and ways of thinking by traveling through western Europe.
Janis Underwood, Project Catalyst & UX Design
Janis spent her engineering career breaking upper management’s vision into actionable steps. No matter where she worked, she always helped her team find more efficient and effective ways of getting the job done.
She became a touchstone for peers when project attention got scattered and joked once that she should get a couch in her office so people would be more comfortable during their one on one conversations with her. At one of her jobs, someone replied, “There’s one downstairs, I can bring it up for you.”
As she became better at coaching and guiding others at work, it felt natural to branch out on her own. In 2013, she left her engineering career to start a coaching practice. She began coaching local business owners who were stuck and wanted to move forward and has been coaching ever since.
Last year, Janis felt the tug of creativity and decided to try a new direction. Standing on a firm foundation of experience, she embarked on a new era, and has completed her Diploma in UX Design from UX Design Institute.
I feel like everything I've done in my professional life has led me to UX Design. I love playing at the intersection of psychology, technology, and design and I want to try to make the world a better place with it.