Testimonials
“I have had to utilize every skill Joyce taught me to help move my direct reports from a collection of individuals to high performing teams. I have moved across the department, managing many different teams. I have developed a repeatable process that is very successful. I will be eternally grateful. Our department is undergoing a major business transformation. This can be distracting and unsettling times for a team. Using Joyce’s techniques, I have been able to empower my team and help them to see that they are still in charge of their destinies. I attribute much of my success as a people manager and team leader to the training and insights I received from Joyce.”
— IS Manager (team leader), Major National Retail Sales Corporation
”Sometimes I think Joyce knows me better than I know myself. She listens. She challenges. She supports. And she pushes me—to think through issues, find organizational solutions and to be the most effective strategic leader I can be. Joyce continues to play a key role in helping me achieve my goals—both in and out of the office—and I’m so grateful.”
— Lisa Swatland, Global Director, External Communications, Towers Watson
“After a few years of struggle to lead a company with little training, I found Joyce Bader and she helped me find my way. It was Joyce’s experience, insight and guidance that led me into the light. Wow! What a change! For nine years now I have benefited from Joyce’s leadership and executive coaching as well as her clear vision in organization strategy and development. She has gained the trust and confidence of my entire management team, providing sage coaching to bring internal and external conflicts to successful outcomes. Joyce Bader brings positive change to my life, personally and professionally, and has helped my company grow and prosper. She excels at what she does.”
— Jean Whiddon, President and CEO, Fixation Marketing
“As a senior executive leading our international development organization’s strategic planning efforts, I partnered with Joyce over a two-year period. Joyce advised us on every aspect of the process, which we kicked off by having her design and facilitate three days of strategic planning at an annual retreat attended by more than 100 domestic and international staff. The entire group worked on articulating a vision and mission and identifying organization-wide goals. She then helped us convert these somewhat lofty, big picture ideas and concepts into practical action items that permeated all aspects of our work. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Joyce earned the trust and admiration of every member of the organization, from our most junior staff to our senior staff. That’s awfully hard to do. Doing it well and with such grace and professionalism is even harder. I am already looking forward to working with Joyce again, as I learned so much from her.”
— Past Deputy Director, International Development and Democracy Organization
“What does our company look like three years after we started working with Joyce Bader? Our teams work better together, our clients receive better service, our internal processes and training systems function without a hitch, and our business has grown.”
— Tiffany Neill and Lisa Maska, Partners and Co-Owners, Lautman Maska Neill & Company
“After several years of rapid change in our customer’s priorities and requirements, we needed to hone in on our department’s structure, roles and work process. Joyce worked with us on an organizational restructuring and on follow-up executive coaching for key people in their evolving positions. Our organization is now starting another project with Joyce. She is very effective at what she does—I highly recommend her.”
— Susan Newman, Senior Vice President, Conferences, National Retail Federation
“I’ve had the privilege of working with Joyce on numerous occasions over the past 15 years on the design and delivery of organizational development and learning sessions. In each and every case, the offering that Joyce prepared was perfectly targeted to our particular needs. But Joyce goes above and beyond that. One highlight for me came in the debrief after one of these learning sessions, in which Joyce shared observations and feedback for me personally. To this day I carry that feedback with me, and appreciate how significantly it added to the enduring value of the engagement.”
—Senior Manager, IS Operational Planning and Project Management Office
“By going through executive coaching with Joyce, I broadened my understanding of what strategic leadership means for myself, my team and my organization. It led to greater success for me as a leader, for my team—both in and across their areas of work—and for our organization as a whole.”
— Melody McCoy, Vice President of External Relations and Communications, JHPIEGO
“With a unique combination of warmth, acceptance, and friendship, Joyce helped me navigate a dramatic series of career and life changes during the past two years, including a family move to a new city and a new career direction! She knows exactly when to challenge my current thinking and opinions and when to accept them as my current truth. She is a master at achieving the overall impact of empowering me to understand I’m in charge of my current situation, and my feelings about it. Joyce has so much experience with careerists at high levels in many industries, and helps me connect the dots among shared experiences and commonalities so that I don’t feel so alone, and that there is hope for both success and feeling great. I continue to be grateful for Joyce and her coaching.”
— Jaya Koilpillai Bohlmann, MA, APR, Corporate Communication and Public Relations
“Joyce is an extraordinary executive coach who has been instrumental in facilitating my growth as a leader over the past six years. Her holistic approach in addressing the many facets of leadership has helped me successfully understand and navigate them, including the most important one—the human dimension. I can honestly say that I would not have achieved success to this degree had I not had Joyce’s guidance. I feel privileged to be working with someone as talented as Joyce with her uncanny insights, never-ending solutions, and eternal optimism.”
— Chief Financial Officer, Nonprofit Organization