Bio

Strategic and results-oriented leader with experience in leading teams in both start-ups and in large, global corporations. Over the past two decades, has helped launch several consumer-facing businesses as well as worked as a senior executive at PricewaterhouseCoopers and JPMorgan, and with over a dozen client corporations, including Delta Air Lines, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Philips, Lucent, Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, and Occidental Petroleum. Johanna's career has led her to work in Canada, China, Indonesia, France, The Netherlands, Mexico and across the USA. She continues to coach senior executives and their top teams and has a passion for supporting personal change in making large business changes stick. Most recently, she launched Gender Fair, a public benefit corporation, which independently certifies companies with a real and substantial commitment to women’s equality. Gender Fair informs consumers which companies demonstrate a real and substantial commitment to women as employees, consumers, and citizens. Prior to Gender Fair, Johanna co-founded GiveBack, an innovative platform that makes it easy for companies to build authentic and impactful cause marketing, workplace giving and other social responsibility initiatives. GiveBack was launched on the Oprah Winfrey Show in April, 2011. Johanna is originally from the Netherlands, was educated in Canada where she earned an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a Masters degree in Business Administration.