E94: Janice Lintz - The Changemaker

Janice Schacter Lintz is a passionate, accomplished hearing loss
consultant and advocate. She is well known and respected for her
ability to assess situations, identify areas for improvement,
recommend solutions, and implement programs that help
organizations improve customer service and grow profits. Her
ability to break down issues and do what is needed to affect
change has earned her unprecedented access to business leaders,
government officials, political leaders, and respected academians
around the world.


Since 2002, Janice has become the global “go-to” person on all
matters related to access for people who are deaf or hard of
hearing. Equipped with an undergraduate degree in business, a law
degree, and experience as a successful litigator, Janice
leverages her broad background to articulate compelling business
cases for organizations in both the for-profit and not-for-profit
worlds to improve hearing access for customers with hearing
loss. 


See http://www.hearingaccess.com


A culture lover, Janice felt her heart sink whenever her daughter
– diagnosed with hearing loss at 2 ½ – struggled to understand
museum guides and actors on stage, even with hearing aids. Not
one to wait, Janice plunged into the research and learned that
cultural venues could provide better hearing access with
relatively standard technology, such as the induction loop, a
coil placed around a room that wirelessly transmits amplified
sound to a hearing aid.


Janice works with domestic and international organizations to
benchmark best practices and helps clients leverage the most
effective solutions for their situations. Working with multiple
organizations, she helped the NYC Transit recommend that
induction loops be included in all NYC subway information booths
and call boxes as part of President Obama’s $13.5 million
Stimulus Package. She also worked with the NYC Taxi and Limousine
Commission to implement this same technology in all taxis. New
York City is the first United States city to offer this
technology in its transit systems.


The New York City resident and mother of two is 2020 WBENC
WeTHRIVE Program in Partnership with IBM Attendee, 2018 The
Points Guy + Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers
Partnership Travel Grant Recipient, 2016 Aspen Institute
Spotlight Health Scholar, and a 2016 United State of Women Summit
‘Nominated Changemaker.’ New York State Governor David Paterson
appointed her to the Interagency Council for Services to the
Deaf, Deaf-Blind, and Hard of Hearing twice. Federal
Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin J. Martin appointed
her twice to represent the interests of people with hearing loss
for two terms on the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee. The New
York City Mayor’s Office appointed her to the Taxi of Tomorrow
Stakeholder Committee. The US Access Board appointed Janice to
both the Rail Committee and the Passenger Vessel Emergency Alarms
Advisory Committee.


Janice is an Advisory Board member of The Burton Blatt Institute
at Syracuse University. She is a former member of The Lower East
Side Tenement Museum’s Advisory Committee. She has participated
in six Renaissance Weekend retreats for leaders in business and
finance, government, the media, religion, medicine, science,
technology, and the arts.


Janice is also a Consumer Education/Travel/Food writer. Thrive
Global, The Outdoor
Journal, Forbes/Lifestyle, Forbes Woman
Africa, Yahoo Travel, Huffington Post, Johnny
Jet, and Consumer Mojo published her articles.
Condé Nast Traveler, Departures, Travel +
Leisure, Good Housekeeping, Skift, Southern
Living, Fox Business, NPR, MSN.com, and Reader’s
Digest have quoted her and included her recommendations. She
has traveled to 139+3 UN countries and 194 Travelers’ Century
Club destinations and is on a quest to visit every country in the
world.


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