Joan is currently coaching on leadership, decision-making, structure and balance, career development, life goals, productivity, project and program management, and relationships. As well, I mentor clients and mentor project and program managers for PMI (Project Management Institute). A typical client wants to move their career forwards.
She also teaches Leadership and International Project Management for the School of Business at Centennial College.
Joan has worked with clients to implement projects, manage multi-vendor/multi-business group assignments and deploy and lead teams. She specialized in client satisfaction and team building. My clients include RBC, BMO, CIBC, etc., spanning North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
While working for IBM, she managed project managers and IT consultants. Also for IBM, she ran a consulting practice in New York City. A sample of NYC clients includes New York Life, Citigroup, MetLife, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, BMW, etc. Post IBM, I built a project management/business analysis competency centre for TD and managed the recruiting for TDCT IT. She has managed budgets up to 20 million.
Joan has an Honours B.A. from the University of Waterloo, a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and act as a career development coach. She trained as a coach with the Adler Faculty of Professional Coaching and am certified through the International Coach Federation (ICF).
She was a Big Sister with Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), and a volunteer with Save the Children.