Success Coach
Joan’s background reveals her passion for evoking greatness – a constant in her
life. Joan began her academic career, teaching all the college chemistry courses
at an all girls college in New Orleans, convinced that everyone can tap into its
secrets. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Neurosciences and Physiological Psychology
from Tulane University in 1972, Joan took postdoctoral training at the
University of Iowa Medical School, then at Tulane University, joined the faculty
at Tulane University and, in 1979, joined the faculty of Tufts University
Schools of Medicine. During her 20-year tenure at Tufts, Joan directed her
research lab and taught medical student Neuroscience, committed to their
learning. Joan was appointed Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cellular
Biology at Tufts Medical School in 1992 and Director of a Research Center.
Having served as Chair and Center Director for 5 years Joan decided to leave
academia. Her decision emerged from her passion for a larger playing field and
her desire to help many more people evoke their greatness, in addition to those
she encountered in an academic setting. Immediately upon leaving academia, Joan
commenced a two-year study with Jean Houston, a leader in the human potential
movement and began her coach training.
In 1999 Joan was awarded the distinguished title Professor Emerita by Tufts
University School of Medicine, reserved for those who make significant
contributions to the University.
Leaving academia, Joan reflected on her scientific knowledge and re-envisioned
her extensive knowledge of cells and systems from a novel perspective. She
articulated original ways of viewing scientific principles -- as metaphors and
tools to expand consciousness. Joan took 1˝ years to write her book Cellular
Wisdom, published in 2004. In it Joan explores our bodies as teachers of how we
can live exuberantly, individually and in relationships from intimate to
corporate. Coaching exercises appear in each chapter.
Her coaching philosophy is that life emerges from an individual’s core beliefs
and the focus of their thinking. She integrates her analytical skills honed by
her scientific training and practice with her coaching expertise to help people
simultaneously achieve success and go beyond success to self-actualization as
leaders and entrepreneurs,. She does this by helping clients recognize and
uncover their strengths, unfold aspects of their authentic self, unmask limiting
core beliefs and recast them as actualizing principles, integrate deep
understandings, claim their creativity, in a process that leads to full,
authentic self-expression. Her training, experience and coaching philosophy make
Joan a uniquely qualified coach to help people evoke their greatness.
Joan is certified as a Master Certified Coach by the International Coach
Federation (ICF), a Success Unlimited Network™ certified coach and coach
trainer, and representative of the SUN coaching program to the Association of
Coach Training Organizations.
Married for 27 years, Joan and her husband, also a Neuroscientist, live in the
foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northern Colorado on 40 acres of land with
two cats. While at Tufts, she and her husband lived in Boston and New Hampshire.
Contact Joan at joanking@beyond-success.com
or via her website at
www.beyond-success.com. |
