Principal, Joanne Brem & Company, Leadership Development and Executive Coaching
San Francisco Bay Area
Principal, Joanne Brem & Company, Leadership Development and Executive Coaching
San Francisco Bay Area
I work with both Fortune 1000 and entrepreneurial leaders to develop the winning mindset, skills and strategies needed to sustain optimal levels of creativity, innovation and productivity. This leads to my clients producing high impact, sustainable results, both for themselves and in leading their teams, while experiencing professional and personal success and fulfillment.
My areas of specialization:
- Cultivating executive presence
- Executive transition
- Developing effective interpersonal skills including communication and conflict resolution skills
- Coaching to effectively optimize team performance and results
- Strategic planning and execution
- Cultivating long-term strategic partnerships and stakeholder relationships
- Navigating the political landscape
- Facilitation of strategic planning processes with executive teams
I also custom design and deliver workshops/programs on topics relating to organizational leadership excellence, both in-house within organizations and to independent business groups. Topics include:
- Cultivating the mindset of effective leadership and leadership mastery
- Leading high-impact sustainable change
- Inspiring passion and meaning at work
- Building successful mentoring relationships
- Creating in-house mentoring programs
I am the Chapter Chair of the SF Bay Area Golden Gate Chapter of the Women Presidents’ Organization, a membership organization for women CEO’s and/or owners of second-stage entrepreneurial companies (revenues of $2-50M). In this role, I facilitate a monthly CEO business advisory roundtable. See http://womenpresidentsorg.com
I also serve on the executive coaching faculty for the annual Global Institute for Leadership Development (GILD), an accelerated six-day intensive experience geared toward Fortune 500 emerging and senior leaders and their teams produced by Linkage, Inc.
See http://gild.linkageinc.com
Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Sales Consulting, Team Strategic Facilitation, Keynote Presentations
(Non-Profit; Think Tanks industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)
As an executive coach, I engage my clients in extraordinary conversations and experiences that empower their leadership, leading to their producing high impact sustainable results and deepening their sense of fulfillment and success in their careers.
Clients include:
Juniper Networks
Intel
Informatica
Hitachi Global Storage Technology
IBM
Align Technology
Anritsu
PeopleSoft
Spirit AeroSystems
Kaiser
Robert Half Management Resources
Pacific Gas & Electric
Citizens Financial Group
Wyndham Vacation Resorts
(Public Company; AMD; Semiconductors industry)
January 1991 — April 1992 (1 year 4 months)
In this position, I became the USOPS representative (sales, not service) to Amdahl's Corporate Quality Council, after our company was selected as a finalist for the 1990 Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award. I also taught and facilitated trainings in TQM and workplace diversity awareness, and created and implemented employee communication and development initiatives in USOPS.
(Public Company; AMD; Semiconductors industry)
March 1982 — December 1990 (8 years 10 months)
In my ten years with Amdahl, selling in the IBM plug-compatible mainframe computer and peripherals market, I was a consistent Summit Award winner for exceeding quota by 200+%.
In my last year, I was rated #2 in the country with over $30M in sales.
As a consistent top-performer in this extremely high-paced, competitive environment, I learned and integrated into practice the principles, dynamics and skills of sustainable high-impact performance and collaborative teamwork, which intrinsically informs my coaching process.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1980 — March 1982 (2 years 3 months)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
September 1975 — January 1980 (4 years 5 months)