Joanne was formerly a contributing editor at Forbes, where she worked as a staff writer and reporter for five years. She has written and collaborated on four non-fiction books, and most recently contributed columns to Conde Nast's Portfolio.com and MSN.com.
Her next book, "Closing the Engagement Gap: How Great Companies Unleash Employee Potential for Superior Results," is a collaboration with leading human resource experts from Towers Perrin and will be published by Penguin Portfolio in January 2009.
Since 1991, Joanne's writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Crain's Chicago Business, Working Mother, CosmoGIRL!, Seventeen, Boston Magazine, PINK, For Me, The Wall Street Journal's National Business Employment Weekly, and Sales & Marketing Management.
Joanne's media appearances include the Weekend Today Show, Forbes on Fox, CNNfn, Good Day New York, Chicago Tonight, the Martha Stewart Living Channel, and Fox News in the Morning.
Prior to her writing career, Joanne worked in business-to-business marketing and public relations. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where she received the G.D. and Rance Crain Publishing Management Award. Joanne also holds a bachelor's in journalism from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Joanne grew up near Chicago, lived in New York City for ten years, and currently resides in Seattle with her husband and son.