Joanna Howard

Joanna Howard has been working with managers for 20 years. From Senior Lecturer at University of Greenwich she moved to Roffey Park Management Institute where she was involved in the design, validation and running of the MBA in Applied General Management (which runs on Self-managed Learning principles) While at Roffey Park she also designed and ran a Self Development Programme for pharmaceutical company Boehringer Mannheim, including the design of a Self-Development Workbook and an online programme for the company. As Research Co-ordinator at Roffey she was involved in research on “Managing the Flexible Workforce” and “Managing in the Inner City”. Much of her consultancy and development work was with international companies such as Volvo. She has done significant work for the British Council in Eastern Europe, both in English and with interpreters.

After leaving Roffey Park, Joanna developed her own freelance business, focussing on team development, coaching and mentoring. She has mentored senior managers and Chief Executives in the pharmaceutical industry, Social Housing Organisations, Professional bodies and NGOs

She has begun to add e-learning to her portfolio and has hosted at a number of online conferences, most recently “Online Community Networks 2005” http://socialnets.org/index.html)

She was a moderator for FT.com (http://forums.ft.com/2/OpenTopic) and currently works with HealthTalk.com (http://www.healthtalk.com/) as a moderator, and with Knowplace. (http://knowplace.ca/) and New Curiosity Shop (http://www.newcurioshop.com/) as a course designer and facilitator.

Special interests

Joanna specialises in coaching and mentoring managers and senior teams going through transitions, and in online work. She is currently a tutor on the Sheffield College online programme on e-mentoring.
Improving appraisal systems has been a long-term interest (see http://www.betterappraisals.net) and providing accessible management materials online (http://learntomanage.blogspot.com).
She also enjoys writing and editing, and is working on an update of her book "Managing more with less: handling multiple priorities" (Butterworth Heinemann 1998)