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About Joanne
With more
than 15 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 now has her own coaching practice- New
Perspective Coaching (www.newperspectivecoaching.com).
Currently Joanne also enjoys training other life coaches
as a Teleclass Leader for International Coach Academy
and serves as the Director of Training for Retirement
Options, training coaches to use a non-financial
retirement assessment that looks at the 15 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 and
the St. Louis Post Dispatch on career and transition
issues. The Post Dispatch has published many of her
articles on career and work/life transition. In July
2002, Joanne started writing a coaching column for the
St. Louis Post Dispatch, which is published every other
month in West County Trends, she writes monthly for the
Post Employment Section and authors a quarterly article
for them as well on retirement coaching. 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. Joanne recently earned her teleclass
leader certification through TeleclassInternational and
also through Coachville.
Joanne was honored as an Outstanding Young Women of
America, is 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. Currently, Joanne is a member of Zonta, an
international business and professional women's
organization and serves on their Woman's Another Chance
Scholarship Board. Recently, Joanne agreed to serve on
the Board for Radio Information Service an organization
for the visually handicapped. Joanne lives in St. Louis,
Missouri with her husband Michael and their
elementary-aged daughter.
These are some of the schools with whom Joanne Waldman is affiliated:
