Who I Serve

I excel in partnering with leaders within growth focused companies.

LEADERSHIP TEAMS

EXECUTIVES

HIGH POTENTIAL LEADERS

Hello! I'm Joan Hobbs.

I combine over 25 years of experience in some of the most highly regarded companies in the United States,
where my focus was on increasing
​leadership and team effectiveness,
with
the rigor of the Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Certificate Program.

My life’s work has been dedicated to helping              people reach their highest potential.   It’s my joy and passion.

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​Hobbs Leadership Coaching and Consulting offers:  ​

Leadership Coaching
​Executive Onboarding and Transitions
Leadership Team Development

                            Learn more about my customized services where I take a                                   strengths-based and results-oriented approach. 

I've Coached Leaders in the following companies:

• Bose Corporation
• WGI
• Marriott
• Fidelity Investments
• Verizon Wireless
• Office Depot
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• National Association of Broadcasters
• StrongMinds
  
• ​Oxfam America
  

• AstraZeneca
  
• MedImmune
  
• American Institutes for Research
  
• United Therapeutics
  
• Barracuda
  
• National Institutes of Health
  
• Baltimore City Schools
• State of Michigan- Health, Education & Family Services Division

What Leaders say about Joan Hobbs

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​Joan is very business focused, listens to her clients, determines what is needed, gets alignment from the leaders, and delivers. Every project Joan led exceeded expectations. Joan’s leadership, partnership, creativity, and drive for results made us better leaders, created a stronger organization and improved the culture.
I recommend Joan without reservation.
- Chief Information Officer

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I had the pleasure of having Joan as my HR and OD Partner during three+ years of transformation in the organization. Her collaborative approach along with her focus and commitment to enhance overall capabilities made a significant difference to the success of the organization. She provided the direction to develop and implement an exceptional program of work to enhance leadership and management capabilities and senior leadership team effectiveness. Her work with the senior leadership team around trust, communications, decision making, productive conflict, and change management paid dividends toward developing a high performing team. The true measure of success has been the business’s affirmation of the value that the IT organization brings to the company and the group’s positive response in the company’s engagement scores with remarkable double-digit increases in many categories. I am pleased to recommend Joan. 
She will be an asset to any organization.
- Chief Information Officer

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Joan established a safe, trusting atmosphere from the beginning to allow me to discuss the issues I was dealing with and develop goals to work on over the planned sessions. After establishing goals, she kept me on track and motivated me to choose a goal to focus on. She helped me determine the true issue behind my challenges and asked me questions to help solve them. I made progress toward my goals and found myself repeating things that Joan would say to me during a coaching session. I also found that
I was less stressed by challenges as I was starting to develop a new vocabulary to dealing with issues. I’ve become more proactive about issues I see developing and continue work on improving my communication and consensus building skills to effect outcomes. 
- Senior Vice President

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Joan did a fantastic job of helping me find my own answers to my questions or concerns. I felt that throughout the sessions even if I wandered away from the original objective by the end I did get the outcome I was looking for. She was very flexible and ensured my needs were met in all sessions. I believe I grew significantly during our time together and continue to implement the techniques and tools we identified to continue my growth. ​
- Director

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It was a unique time for to work with Joan. The tremendous amount of organizational and cultural changes within my organization brought opportunities for Joan to aid me in understanding what the changes meant for me and, ultimately, how I would want to leverage them. Every coaching session was valuable though often the thing that I needed to focus on wasn’t revealed upfront – thus making the journey of the session a key driver for positive outcomes.  I understand the triggers that prevent me from achieving my maximum potential both as a contributor to my organization and as a leader.
Ultimately, what I realized through leadership coaching is that the answer to how to achieve my goals is really a conversation about continuous improvement.  ​
​- Director

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