Jan Triplett

Adjunct Faculty

Jan Triplett is CEO of the Business Success Center, uses her proven growth structures and models to build profitable, efficient businesses from accounting firms to private zoos throughout the US and abroad. She is an entrepreneur, speaker, author and advocate. Her company has won national awards from the Small Business Administration and was recognized as a top Management Consulting Company by the Austin Business Journal. Triplett has special expertise in family-run businesses and has developed special programs and processes for businesses whose owners and/or employees are family members. She runs one herself with her husband.

Triplett is a national and international keynote speaker. She has been a speaker for SXSW as well as a mentor for their Startup Village program, the Nikkei Entrepreneur & Venture Capital Summit, the Governor’s Conference on Small Business, and various chambers and professional trade associations nationwide. She has also delivered webinars for Pragmatic Marketing, Journyx, TeamNFP, and TrainHR.

Her Ph.D. degree is in Communication from the University of Texas at Austin and a paper on her dissertation was selected as a Top 10 paper by ICA, a professional organization for communications experts. She has an under graduate degree from Mary Baldwin and an MA from the University of Denver. She studied in England as a student of the Graduate Institute, St. Anne’s College, Oxford — a Mary Baldwin international program.