Joan has 385 hours of coach training and over 1000 hours of coaching, with a focus on employment transition. Whether one is getting into a new job, moving into the next opportunity within the organization, grappling with management and leadership transition role, or planning on exiting, Joan enjoys facilitating the conversations. Joan has trained in coaching up to the highest level of coaching (Mastery), and wholly believes in the need for people to experience professional coaching. She is also certified as a Team Coach. Joan is the Founding president of the International Coaching Federation Uganda Charter Chapter
Joan has vast experience working with executive leaders in the NGO sector in close to 30 countries. She provided technical oversight in World Vision International health programmes covering 25 countries in East, West and Southern Africa. She has been in the motivational and coaching space for eight years, and engaged teams across various sectors in the corporate and public sectors including: Banking and Financial Services, Fund managers, Local and International NGOs, Academia, Private sector and Government Parastatals.
Joan currently serves as an Executive Coach for the Strathmore University Business School in Uganda (for the CEO Apprenticeship Programme); she is a Career Coach for the Women in News (WIN) programme, an Executive Coach for the VillageReach Global Management Team spread across Europe, the US, Subsaharan Africa and has most recently been appointed to offer team coaching in Uganda to USAID’s Policy Link project focused on growing leaders (Permanent Secretary level and equivalent) across Africa for the Agricultural sector
Joan holds a Masters degree in Public Health Leadership from Uganda Christian University and prides herself in focusing on the health of the mind. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Makerere University, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Media Management from Uganda Management Institute. Joan is an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach; serves on the Coach Masters Academy global faculty spread in over 40 countries. Joan is also a Jack Canfield Success Principles Trainer; Jack is America’s success coach and Fortune 500 business coach for over 40 years whose success principles are applicable across any sector.
• News anchor fast tracked her career on NBS. She wanted to become a news anchor in five years and achieved the goal in four months
• An executive at Total New Energies (Total Uganda) realized he was stuck in a management mindset failing to embrace his new positioning as a leader for nearly six years. With only two conversations, he improved his delegation and learnt to let go
• A Stanbic bank team involved in team coaching realized new energy levels and better performance for the team
• A large agency struggling with decision making across various layers in its organization was able to identify barriers and mapped meaningful solutions over a nine months period • Co-facilitator for the UNILEVER team to embrace coaching as a core competence and their profits doubled in a year when Uganda experienced the first Lockdown (MD openly discusses this at various fora
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