Who we are

For each of our engagements, JL Advisors considers carefully the precise skills and capacities that are necessary to achieve the client’s objectives, then mobilizes a team of professionals who is uniquely tailored and precisely adapted to ensure successful achievement of those goals.

Mme. Jean-Louis is the former Director General and Board Member of Haiti’s Central Bank. In that capacity, she served as one of five members of its Board of Directors with responsibility to formulate, direct and supervise monetary policy; ensure the stability of the financial system; ensure the efficiency, development and integrity of the payment system; and serve as banker of the State. In her particular role as Director General, Mme. Jean-Louis monitored the bank’s operations and coordinated the activities of all administrative units of the institution, maintaining responsibility for overseeing the bank’s more than 1,200 employees and a budget of more than USD $150 million.

Currently, Mme. Jean-Louis is Managing Partner of JL Advisors (formerly JLBA Conseils), bringing over thirty years of diverse experience in management, reorganization and restructuring of enterprises; regulation and banking supervision; financial inclusion; microfinance; and corporate audit. She has worked extensively in external audit, particularly in the banking industry, non-governmental organizations, autonomous government organizations, and in the private commercial sector. She has worked closely with bilateral donors and also has led various missions to certain multilateral organizations in the fields of financial management and banking regulation and supervision.

Prior to her appointment to Haiti’s Central Bank, Mme. Jean-Louis served in numerous financial leadership positions, including COO / CFO of Sèvis Finansye Fonkoze, Haiti’s largest alternative bank, offering financial services to people in poverty including both traditional loans and microloans. Before joining Fonkoze, Mme. Jean-Louis was the Director of Banking Supervision at the Central Bank of Haiti, overseeing regulations and the supervision of the Haitian financial system. She also coordinated the development and implementation of prudential standards for the Haitian banking system, the establishment of a structure that can control and prevent money laundering. 

Mme. Jean-Louis also was an auditor at Mérové-Pierre Cabinet-d’Experts Comptables, a member firm of KPMG international. In that role, she was responsible for verifying several banks operating in Haiti, numerous NGOs, autonomous and non-autonomous governmental organizations, several private commercial enterprises, setting up the control structures of several institutions, and also for the evaluation the administrative and financial management system.

Mme. Jean-Louis currently serves on the Board of Directors of l’Ecole de Choix, a leadership development education program in Haiti’s Central Plateau.  Mme. Jean-Louis is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago (USA), and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with specialization in accounting.

In addition to her role at JL Advisors, Prof. Hartman is the Executive Director of the School of Choice Education Organization, an international non-profit, which oversees a high quality leadership development-based elementary school located in Mirebalais, in Haiti. Previously, she served as Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics at DePaul University (now Professor Emerita), also has expertise in compliance, leadership, strategy and human resources, and has founded and managed several successful non-profit ventures. She was instrumental in the hands-on design and implementation of Zafèn, a micro-development, finance and education system for Haitians living in poverty.

Prior to her current roles, Prof. Hartman served as the inaugural Director of the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy and Clinical Professor of Business Ethics Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.  Hartman also has served as an Associated Professor at the Kedge Business School (Marseille, France) and has taught at INSEAD (France), HEC (France), the Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III, the University of Toulouse, and at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business. A highly respected author in leadership and ethical decision-making, Hartman’s work has resulted in the publication of more than 80 articles, cases and books.  She was awarded the Microsoft CreateGOOD award at Cannes Lions (2015), named one of one of Ethisphere’s 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics, and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business (2014), as well as being named to Fast Company’s “League of Extraordinary Woman.”  

Prof. Hartman has consulted on, designed and implemented: ethics, integrity and compliance programs, risk and needs assessments at Fortune 500 firms, comprehensive metrics, evaluation and reporting structures (incl. log frames), social media strategies (for-profit / non-profit sectors), corporate board governance strategies, ethics policies and procedures, director communication plans, and broad social strategies for CSR.  Her expertise includes business ethics and leadership decision-making with a focus on governance; global employment issues; corporate communication strategies; corporate social responsibility programs (incl. creating social value); reporting and evaluation; significant experience in implementation of social media strategies (incl. those designed toward non-profit contributions); and the strategic management of non-profits.

Prof. Hartman graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University (Boston) and received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.