About Joanne’s Organizational Work

 Joanne Lescher has dedicated her life to practicing and teaching the skills for facing and moving through conflict and 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.  As a business communications expert, a mediator in private practice, an educator and an executive coach she specializes in working with organizations and individuals where key relationships are in conflict. 

Ms. Lescher conducts business trainings in interpersonal skills, in conflict resolution skills and 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.  She also draws on the work of Steven Covey, Harville Hendrix, Gary Smalley. David Deida, John Gray, John Gotham and Gary Chapman.  Using this synthesized approach, she applies this unique blend of principles to the workplace.  She has worked with a number of organizations to successfully resolve departmental conflicts that had seemed impossible.

Over the past ten years, Joanne has impacted the lives of over 5,000 people through her 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’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.

Joanne has presented at professional national conferences in Tennesse and Washington and an international conference in Pennsylvania.  She has a degree in Psychology and advanced training in mediation, personal effectiveness and in intensive communication. 

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.”