JOANNA DAVIS

A Compassionate Coach Trainer in the Field of Professional Coaching

• An extensive background in Neuroscience of Human Communication, Business Networking, Entrepreneurship, Mind-Body Connection, Manifesting, and Compassion
• Based in the United States, Joanna has an extensive business background from Fortune 50 financial and data companies to starting and running two successful companies. Her coaching practice supports entrepreneurs, executives, and corporate founders wherever compassion is called for
• Facilitated Part II – Creating a Coaching Practice – Coach For Life Institute since 2015
• Facilitated Part III – Certified Life & Leadership Coach Program – Coach For Life Institute since 2014

What I Love in Training Coaches

I believe that coaches are the healthiest support system a healthy society can have. Facilitating training for coaches gives me the great opportunity and honor of being an integral part of that highly rewarding system. I am directly involved in elevating each individual's level of awareness of the impact they have on their clients, and how to make that impact in the most connected and compassionate way possible. It gives me great joy to facilitate learners’ discoveries of the foundational aspects of coaching, and then watch as they grasp the many nuances inherent to coaching mastery. As each skill level builds on the one before, joy builds on joy in my heart.

I believe that holding a compassionate space for learning, free of criticism and judgment, is key to this inspirational learning process.

How I Approach Training

I rarely use the term, 'Trainer' with regard to what I do. I much prefer, 'Facilitator.' The root of the word is ‘facile,’ meaning ‘easy.’ I love to support learning in a way that makes it easy for the learners (including myself) to grasp concepts and deepen the meaning, impact, and application, no matter what is being studied.

Learning with, rather than teaching to, means we all learn together in a supportive environment that is free of criticism. It also encourages the learners to bring what they already know into play, and build from there. I have yet to meet a coaching student who didn’t have foundational knowledge of how to support others in a way that is compassionate, accepting, kind, open, and encouraging. It is my greatest pleasure and honor to build on that!

Compassionate Coach

I have learned that the greatest way for me to have an impact on the world is to go to the source. When working in organizations, I begin with the founder or top executive. We work together for 3 to 6 months, then evaluate the best way to expand learnings throughout the organization. In my experience, it must begin at the head, and it must begin with compassion. A compassionate organization is healthier and more profitable in the long run.