Joanne Lescher has dedicated her life to mediation, practicing and teaching the skills for facing and resolving conflict while communicating compassionately. She is renowned for her ability to help people make effective business decisions in high stake situations while improving the quality of their relationships at work.
Ms. Lescher facilitates workplace trainings in interpersonal skills and conflict resolution. She also mediates high conflict situations. She has been trained and certified by Marshall Rosenberg, founder of the Center for Nonviolent Communication and has brought his work to Southern Oregon. Using a synthesized approach, she applies a unique blend of principles to the workplace. She has mediated for a number of organizations to successfully resolve departmental conflicts that had reached a crisis level.
Over the past two decades, Joanne has impacted the lives of thousands of people through her facilitations of seminars and workshops and in one-on one coaching – all customized to meet the needs of the organization or individual situation. As a professional mediator, Joanne has mediated family, community and workplace situations.
Joanne has presented at national and international professional conferences. She has a degree in Psychology and advanced training in mediation, personal effectiveness and intensive communication.
Joanne’s expertise in communicating effectively grew out of her experience as a counselor and coordinator in group homes for adjudicated adolescents and later as a couples’ group facilitator. As a teacher specializing in working with teens at risk, and a group leader with Crisis Intervention Services, she taught classes on building self esteem, problem solving, behavior management and child development to parents. For several years she was employed by Mediation Works to facilitate meetings between victims and their juvenile offenders. In addition to her programs in the workplace, Joanne coaches couples in bringing their relationship back to life; inviting joy, laughter, intimacy, meaning, awareness, and a new depth to their lives together.
For more information on relationship counseling and private sessions please visit:
www.SpeakingFromTheHeart.com
Joanne models her outstanding interpersonal skills and her ability to “speak from the heart” in all her personal and professional communications. Her superb listening and intuitive abilities, her outstanding facilitative skills and her powerful leadership qualities have given her the reputation of being able to “tame lions”.
“Joanne is a skillful practitioner and teacher. Her work has profoundly changed my life!"
– William Cerf.