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Joanne Foreman grew up playing golf in Southern California and after winning many junior titles, including the Junior World championship, attended Stanford University on a full scholarship. She was a collegiate All American, Pac 10 Conference Champion and a Pre-med/Biology major. She graduated in 1983 at the age of 20 and went on to be the 1983 U.S Women’s Amateur Champion, 1984 Western Amateur Champion and 1984 Curtis Cup Team member.
She qualified for the LPGA Tour on her first attempt and competed for the next five years on the LPGA Tour, European Tour and Japanese Tour. In 1990, she expanded her LPGA affiliation as a Teaching and Club Professional Member and began her coaching career at Sahalee C.C. in 1991.
A decade later, Joanne founded Pure Impact a performance coaching company passionate about helping clients put the pieces together for peak performance in sports, business, and life.
Having successfully navigated the road from gifted junior to professional golfer, Joanne understands the rigors of competition and the strong inner game required to consistently step up to the next level. |
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Putting the pieces together for peak performance in sports, business and life. |
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Her experience as a world-class competitor and elite athlete has given her unique insight into the many facets of peak performance including competitive drive, commitment to excellence, perseverance and the ability to perform under pressure. Her understanding of the subtleties that distinguish top performers have become the basis for her breakthrough success with clients as well as the foundation for the peak performance principles and programs she has developed.
Over the years, Joanne has integrated her experience and expertise in the physical, emotional and mental aspects of sports performance into an innovative approach to emotional intelligence skills development within a business leadership environment. A certified NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner, Joanne aims to empower individuals of all ages with the tools and strategies essential for achieving breakthrough performance whether it be on the playing field or in the boardroom!
Joanne lives and works in Bellevue, WA. As a mother of two boys in sports, she has now come full circle as she once again lives out the road to the NCAA, this time as a parent/coach. She enjoys playing golf, tennis, drums, dance and everything her boys play including football, basketball and baseball. She is passionate about fitness and nutrition, preparing youth athletes for college and professional sports, accelerated learning and human potential studies and is a student of leading edge performance and resilience methodologies such as NLP, Heart Math and Brain Gym.
Experience
Joanne is able to draw on more than two decades of experience as a world class amateur and professional athlete. She has over 17 years of coaching experience in golf, sports, business and leadership. Joanne’s unique “Cross Training” model of EI (emotional intelligence) across both sports and business coaching, brings the best of both coaching models together in one powerful process. This has enabled her to achieve breakthrough results with a variety of clients from top companies including: Accenture, Boeing, Merrill Lynch, New York Life, Great American Insurance Company, Royal Bank of Canada, Johnson and Johnson, ClubCorp, Windermere, Icos, Seattle Mortgage, Concur and Microsoft
Expertise
Joanne completed her pre-med curriculum and graduated with a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University in 1983. In addition to becoming an LPGA Class A Teaching Professional and LPGA NEP Instructor (National Education Program), she completed over 130 hours of training as part of the Advanced Corporate Coaching Program (ACCP) through Corporate Coach U, one of the nations leading coach training institutes. After being introduced to NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), a branch of applied psychology widely used by elite athletes and coaches, Joanne decided this was the boost she needed to develop her coaching and training methodologies. She spent over 430 hours training to become a certified NLP Practitioner and believes this has provided the powerful language, structure and awareness to enable her to coach clients to APPLY and LEVERAGE their training to achieve transformational results in both sports and business performance.
Over the years Joanne has pursued extensive, independent study of emotional intelligence, accelerated learning and whole brain performance models, methodologies and best practices. She has done extensive research into performance nutrition and fitness. She is able to customize coaching using appropriate assessments and feedback. Her assessment and management tool box consists of the following : Managerial Style, Competency, Situation checklist- Hay/ McBer EQ Map, Essi Systems, EI skill assessment Kolb Learning Style and Skills Learning Style and Working Style Assessments- Creative Learning Center DISC PCSI –Personal Coaching Style Inventory (CCU) Strengthsfinder (Gallup) Steven Covey – 7 Habits HeartMath – Stress reduction and mental/emotional coherence techniques and feedback
Energy
Leadership and coaching presence is energized and fueled by the vision, inspiration and passion of a coach/leader. Joanne specializes in a unique form of “team building” that involves coaching clients to bring all of their internal Stakeholders (team members) to their game on a daily basis. She believes that self leadership ALWAYS precedes team leadership and that each individual is coach, player and team in one — and each of these roles need to be fulfilled with confidence and competence!
“We all have education, experience, knowledge and unique strengths that we bring to our game. Ultimately, though, it is our energy, our VIP presence, that determines how much of our Champion game we actually demonstrate in our sport, business and life. I am committed to showing up everyday, ready to play and coach and leave NOTHING on the playing field. I don’t know any other way. I champion my clients to do the same.” Joanne Foreman
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Joanne Foreman Peak Performance and Leadership Coach Founder Pure Impact Certified NLP Practitioner LPGA Professional |
