JoAnne Barnes has a passion for transforming lives through the arena of self esteem and self development, her ability to connect produces immediate and powerful results. She is more than just a motivational speaker – JoAnne is a “Master Builder” of people!
JoAnne’s personal success story began at the age of 38 after 19 years in Corporate America in the legal field. She has been a million dollar producer for a direct sales organization, where she consistently broke company records and exceeded her sales goals.
Today she is the Founder of the Institute for Innovative Excellence where she is a transformational teacher and business coach specializing in Leadership and Personal Development, Spiritual Response Therapy and several healing modalities. Her background as a Spiritual Entrepreneur has helped her assist people in applying spiritual principles to create significant and lasting change in the area of Health, Money, Relationships and Creative Self Expression.
At the Institute for Innovative Excellence, the mission is to teach people how to align their thoughts, emotions and actions with the highest part of themselves (Soul Self), to find their purpose and gift they are here to bring to the world. This is the meaning of life. This is what it means to experience authentic power.
To express and live from authentic power is not a quick fix. It is a lifetime process of letting go of the past, discovering the new in order to live from the highest potential of who we are. What shows up is who we truly are born to be. It is a Journey of Self Discovery – finding out the truth of who we are.
The mission to serve is enhanced by working in creative ways to inspire others to go on this profound journey of discovering the self, to clean up their past, to forgive themselves for their flaws and shortcomings, and to make peace with themselves. Training people to go beyond the Limited Self, to transcend limitations, overcome challenges and to get in touch with the deep longing of their soul is at the core of the work.
The relevance of this work in today’s climate is underscored as we prepare for a new world unlike the past – as the consciousness of many is now being raised exponentially. Now is the time to design your life in ways only you can imagine. Now is the time to reinvent yourself, your business and create your place solidly in a new world order. We would love to be a part of your design team.
Ms. Barnes attended Virginia Commonwealth University where she studied English and Psychology. She is a graduate of The Entrepreneurial Edge and has done work through Landmark Education as well as The Generative Leadership Group on Women, Vision and The Future. Currently writing her first book, she enjoys reading, traveling, yoga, meditation and Pilates.