Janice Bryant Howroyd makes evident her enthusiasm for work, people, and life with ease, even as she conducts a radio interview about her book, The Art of Work: How to Make Work Work for You. The book ...

Photo Courtesy of Janice Bryant Howroyd (right) and Roz A. Gee Let’s face it. It can be quite challenging, even downright daunting to focus on future growth when we’re seemingly caught in the thicket ...

Janice Bryant Howroyd is a multimillionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist. As the CEO and founder of the largest woman-owned workforce management company, ACT-1 Group, and the first black woman to ...

Janice Bryant Howroyd, 65, is founder and chief executive of Act 1 Group, an employment agency that also provides consulting and business services, including background checks and screening. She’s the ...

For more than four decades, Janice Bryant Howroyd has been in the business of people. After founding the workforce management and staffing company ActOne Group in 1976 with only a few hundred dollars, ...

A North Carolina native, Janice Bryant Howroyd left her hometown in 1976 and got a temp job in California, which introduced her to the need for job placement services. Then her entrepreneurial spirit ...

It didn’t take long after her arrival from North Carolina for Janice Bryant Howroyd to realize she wasn’t a natural fit in Southern California. “When I came to California from the East Coast, I really ...

Let’s face it: It can be quite challenging—even downright daunting—to focus on future growth when we’re seemingly caught in the thicket of small beginnings. There’s an ancient inquiry that still ...

In a world where many of the billionaires are still men, and definitely not women of color, Janice Bryan Howroyd defies the odds. Howroyd started from very humble beginnings as one of 11 children ...

ACT-1 Group founder Janice Bryant Howroyd is a multimillionaire entrepreneur at the helm of the largest woman-owned workforce management company in the U.S. With $1.1 billion in net sales, her company ...

Sarah Howroyd suffered the first blow on the way to Home Depot 12 years ago when a pickup struck her car at 55 miles per hour. The second came days after the accident, when her doctor handed her a ...

theGRIO REPORT - Janice Bryant Howroyd started out with $900 in her pocket when she left her home in North Carolina in 1976, and now she is the first African-American woman to own a business worth ...