With more than 30 years progressive experience in the career transition field encompassing career development, coaching, counseling, relocation, and work/life areas, Joanne has coached many individuals to change their careers, plan their retirement, or achieve personal goals. She has her own coaching practice- New Perspective Coaching (www.newperspectivecoaching.com). Currently Joanne serves as the Director of Training for Retirement Options, training coaches to use non-financial retirement assessments that look at the factors necessary for a successful retirement. In addition, Joanne offers training courses and mentoring for coaches in the career and retirement niches.

Joanne worked as a Senior Consultant for The Impact Group, a leading career/life consulting firm. Over the years, Joanne has served as a consultant to many companies in the process of downsizing and /or relocating and worked with professionals at a number of Fortune 500 companies including Monsanto, AT&T, General Motors, McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) and Chrysler Corporation.

Joanne has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Kiplinger’s and Where To Retire magazine on career and retirement issues. The Post Dispatch published over 60 of her articles on career, work/life and retirement transitions. A history of designing and presenting seminars and workshops on coaching, assertiveness training, job search, career development, work/life, retirement and relocation, enhances her broad depth of experience.

Joanne has a Masters of Education in counseling and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, both from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She graduated cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with an Honors Certificate, and was elected to Who’s Who both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student.

A Licensed Professional Counselor with national certification in general counseling, Joanne also serves as one of only 230 Nationally Certified Gerontological Counselors and was selected as one of 35 to participate in the Geriatric Scholar Fellowship Program through St. Louis University. She is a Professional Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation and a Board-Certified Coach via the Center for Credentialing and Education. She is a Certified Retirement Coach through Retirement Options.

Joanne was honored as an Outstanding Young Women of America, was one of the Past Presidents of the Missouri Career Development Association and was recognized as a corporate honoree with a Certificate of Leadership from the YWCA. In 2006, she was awarded the Citation of Merit for outstanding achievement and meritorious service from the University of Missouri Alumni Association and in 2009 she was honored as the Career Practitioner of the Year from the National Career Development Association. For many years, Joanne volunteered with Zonta, an international business and professional women’s organization and served on their Woman’s Another Chance Scholarship Board. She also served on the Board for Radio Information Service an organization for the visually impaired. For two years Joanne served on the board for the career counseling master’s program at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Currently Joanne serves on the board of the Retirement Coaches Association and will be speaking for the third year at their national conference. Joanne is now a member at the Griffiths Leadership Society at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Joanne can be reached at joanne@newperspectivecoaching.com or (314)469-3288.