The Core Team

Joan has over 700 hours of coaching, with a special focus on employment transition, executive and leadership coaching. Whether one is getting into a new job, moving into the next opportunity within an organisation, grappling with management and a leadership transition role, or planning on exiting, Joan enjoys facilitating the conversations.

Joan is credentialed by the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) has trained in coaching up to the highest level of coaching (Mastery), and wholly believes in the need for people to experience professional coaching. She is the Founding and current president of the International Coaching Federation Uganda Chapter.

Joan has vast experience working with executive leaders in the NGO sector in close to 30 countries. She provided technical oversight in World Vision International health programmes covering 25 countries in East, West and Southern Africa. She has been in the motivational and coaching space for eight years, and engaged teams across various sectors in the corporate and public sectors

In 2018, I signed up for a business class to understand how to run business. I had never run even a tomato stall, so I desired to learn how to run business, especially now that I had stepped out of employment the previous year. I needed to grow.
“There are no barriers to entry in the personal development space,” our lecturer said during our fourth module. This was disturbing. What kind of business runs with anything.

Well, it sounds fancy for everyone to call themselves a coach. My concern was, how do you get the genuine ones. How does one create barriers? Although I had trained as Jack Canfield Success Principles Coach, and possibly the only certified one in Uganda at a time could not nail it. It would be a lonely journey.

I went on a search for a coach training programme I could do, and chanced on Coach Masters Academy. A class with six Ugandans, and two foreign students from Kenya and Nigeria respectively.
In this class I spoke to the host of the programme, and told him, we better figure out how to grow a professional coaching community in Uganda. After qualifying as a professional coach, I signed up for membership with the International Coaching Federation (ICF); I wanted to figure out how to go about creating a coaching community.

I am happy that the conversation grew and met with like-minded coaches from Strathmore Business School in Uganda, this culminated into the ICF Uganda Chapter.
Having this tribe has given me the confidence to operate knowing that as I engage, there are many speaking the same language.

I am a motivational trainer and an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), with over 650 hours of professional coaching. I have done coach training up to the highest level and hold a certification from Coach Masters Academy as a Transformational Master Coach.
With over 20 years of global experience, training and facilitating audiences in 30 countries (including East Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America), experience gained while working with World Vision International, a humanitarian Christian international NGO operating in about 100 countries and consultancy with various organisations, I endeavour to create world class programmes that will enable you achieve yours and your organisational goals.

At Imagine Me Africa, we offer Employment Transition Coaching services, where we passionately love serving people  who are trying to answer the question: What Next?
I work with various professionals in Uganda and across the globe. I am currently involved with two global entities, one as a career coach for female journalists with WAN-IFRA’s Women in News Programme, and together with two other coaches we offer external Executive Coaching services for VillageReach’s Global Management Team spread across Europe, Sub Saharan Africa and the USA.
As a coach I believe every person is DUE. DUE is simply an acronym that is embedded in the understanding that each person can only blossom when they Discover who they are truly meant to be, hence live a purposeful life; Uncover what their true values, perceptions about life, assumptions, limiting beliefs are and then, Evolve into who they are truly meant to be. I believe that in each individual is hidden potential waiting to be tapped. The inmost desire is only expressed through words, and only through engaging in conversations with a professional coach can people figure out what has been standing in their way and therefore boldly step out.
When I am doing Imagine Me Africa work, I spend a significant amount of time advocating for the coaching profession ensuring its growth and visibility in Uganda and the rest of Africa using different platforms. I am the Founding President of ICF Uganda, a chapter that was formed in a record two months (a record not experienced in the history of ICF, and also grew the chapter to Charter Chapter status (50 members) within a period of one year and nine months against a globally set target of three years.

I am also part of Coach Masters Academy as a Director of Training for Uganda where I train, supervise and mentor coaches preparing for credentialing at Associate Certified Coach and Professional Certified Coach levels.

I hold a Masters degree in Public Health leadership (pride in providing health for the mind!), and a post graduate diploma in Journalism and Media management.

I am the author of the book, Corporates At A Crossroads, a book that focuses on supporting individuals to think beyond their jobs and pay cheque.