Janice Manzi Sabatine, PhD, is president of Avanti Strategies, a firm specializing in leadership development coaching for academic physicians and biomedical scientists. She is also co-director of training in the Professional Coach Certification Program in the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh PA.

In 2015, Dr. Sabatine and Dr. Steven Wendell were recipients of an Institute of Coaching research grant to study the impact of a coaching-based career course supplemented with external coaching entitled “The Impact of Developmental Coaching on Career Adaptability Capacity and Moderators of Sustained Career Development among Graduate Students”.