Janet Finlay

Dr Janet Finlay is an Animal Centred Education (ACE) Instructor, an accredited dog trainer and qualified coach for people. She specialises in working with the guardians of reactive dogs, using a holistic approach that goes beyond training and addresses the problem of reactivity from both ends of the lead. Janet teaches internationally and runs a number of successful online programmes, which have helped hundreds of guardians and their dogs change their lives for the better.

In a previous existence, she was a successful academic author. She has a PhD in Computer Science and is the co-author of best-selling textbooks on Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence which have been translated into numerous languages. Note: both of these are in the process of being updated by her co-authors as they were first written over 20 years ago! She is also an expert in online learning, heading up a university-wide technology-enhanced learning team at one point, and leading numerous nationally- and internationally-funded research projects.

After a life-changing health scare, she left academia for good in 2013 to pursue her first love – working with dogs – and has since built her then very part-time canine business into a successful full-time venture, providing support and guidance for dog guardians around the globe. She is now continuing her writing but with a canine focus!