Joanne Vitali
Joanne Vitali, Founder of Vitali Workshops & Coaching, provides customized workshop experiences, meeting facilitation and coaching. She loves to help techie women (Geek Girls) attain and retain their rightful leadership roles. Her ideal clients are women who want to disrupt the patriarchy and increase the percentage of women in power by becoming influential leaders themselves.
Graduating from Georgetown with a degree in Physics, a stint as a nuclear engineer and Space Shuttle astronaut trainer, she has been doing workshops and coaching for the past 18 years. Her experience includes teaching for the Wharton MBA program on persuasion and presentation skills for 8 years. Her clients include names like Astra Zeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Siemens. Her articles have appeared in Huffington Post, Thrive Global and Medium. Joanne has served as both President and VP-Corporate Affairs for the International Coach Federation Philadelphia chapter and is a professional certified coach (PCC).
She specializes in coaching women like herself who hold STEM degrees or work male dominated industries like IT, pharma or engineering. Joanne recently conducted original research interviewing 100 women working in STEM positions throughout the United States to learn what they love and what they believe needs changing. Her mission is to achieve gender parity with 50% female senior leadership an everyday thing for corporations. She believes that if more women held leadership positions, the world would be a better place. She looks forward to helping all Geek Girls own their brilliance.