Leadership is the ability to move people, including oneself, in a desired direction toward significant goals. Leaders become leaders by setting the right course and staying on it with focus.

Why Clients Come to Joelle
People hire Joelle when they are…
• Facing a new challenge such as a recent promotion, a new direction, a problem that requires a different kind of thinking (e.g. strategic thinking, visioning, or a future orientation), or a situation that calls for sophisticated management skills.

• Taking on a new venture, like responding to changes in the market or serving their clients in new ways.

• Looking to the future and defining a new vision for the company, or creating a strategic plan.

• Aligning the organization with a vision, which means having to restructure roles and processes to get better results or meet new goals.

Results
Through coaching, consulting, speaking, and other special services, Joelle’s clients…
• Achieve personal, professional, and organizational goals.
• Get better results for their efforts, energy, and endeavors.
• Reach the goals they set for themselves.
• Realize they can achieve balance in their life and still be successful.
• Define and move in the direction of a clear vision or focus.
• Increase their awareness of what to do and why as a leader.

Becoming a True Leader
Mary Elizabeth

Mary Elizabeth, the COO of a large corporation, had recently been promoted when she met Joelle. She was comfortable with the industry but suddenly felt a tremendous responsibility to succeed at her new level—one that would demand tremendous energy, commitment, and a wide variety of skills.

Mary Elizabeth initially hired Joelle to develop the vision for her organization. As they got to work on this project, however, a number of other critical issues surfaced. Despite having incredibly high energy, Mary Elizabeth found herself longing for some time for herself. And although she was highly accomplished, Mary Elizabeth also realized she was seeing herself as the rookie in her new role—a perspective that was holding her back. She was even harboring secret questions about whether she would make it as an executive leader, or whether she ought maybe to return to the technical position she had left.

Mary Elizabeth found the greatest value in coaching to be the ongoing development of ideas. She benefited greatly from talking through future plans with Joelle, so that her innovative ideas took shape as an actual vision. Most of all, Mary Elizabeth appreciated the hands-on problem solving that coaching provided, which allowed her to plan and strategize with the advantage of another perspective.

Through coaching, Mary Elizabeth resolved the issues that were confronting her. She not only discovered how much she loved her new position, she also learned a host of new skills to make it as fun as she had hoped it would be. She gained an ability to juggle a busy schedule with a minimum of stress. She learned to say no in the service of her own sanity and the greater good. She realized that she could achieve balance in her life and still be successful. She put to rest any thoughts of going back to work at a lower level, having realized that she had grown into a job that met her need for diversity and challenge. Her confidence regained, Mary Elizabeth became a regular feature in the business magazines throughout the nation. Furthermore, she started seeing some of her biggest goals and most imaginative ideas come to fruition.